Selling NFTs: Fees, Royalties and Where to List

Buying guides get all the attention, but the numbers that matter are different when you're the one selling: you pay the marketplace's seller-side fee, the creator's royalty may come out of your proceeds, and the right venue depends on what you're selling — not where you bought it.

Every figure below comes from the same dated registry that powers the directory — check the linked profile for each venue's verification date before relying on a number.

1. What selling actually costs

Three separate costs apply to most secondary sales:

• Marketplace fee — taken out of your proceeds. Per our records: Blur 0%, Tensor 0% maker (2% if you take an existing bid), OKX NFT 0% as an aggregator (the underlying venue's fee still applies), LooksRare 0.5%, OpenSea 1%, Magic Eden and Immutable 2%, Rarible 2% on EVM / 1.5% on Solana (help-centre regressive tiers run wider), and SuperRare 15% — a curated gallery commission on primary sales, not a comparable secondary fee.
• Creator royalty — where enforced, it also comes out of the sale. Ranges from optional to a hard 10% (SuperRare); see the next section.
• Gas — approving a collection and listing each cost gas on most chains.
• Which side of the trade you're on — maker/taker pricing changes what you pay: on Tensor a seller listing at a fixed price is the maker (0%), while accepting a standing collection/trait bid is the taker side (2% per their official fee docs).

Run your own numbers: the net-proceeds calculator applies the six flat-fee venues’ verified figures to your sale price, royalty and gas estimate.

The fee explainer covers fee mechanics in more depth.

2. Royalties: what comes out of your proceeds

Royalty handling differs enough between venues that it's worth checking before you list — a venue with a low marketplace fee can cost more overall if it enforces royalties a rival treats as optional:

• Enforced at protocol/on-chain level: Immutable (a genuine differentiator for game-asset sellers), SuperRare (10% enforced), Blur (minimum 0.5% enforced where collections haven't blocked it).
• Configurable per collection: OpenSea, Magic Eden, Rarible — paid when the collection enforces it on-chain or the trader honours it.
• Optional or buyer's choice: LooksRare lets the buyer decide; Tensor enforces only for programmable NFTs (pNFTs); OKX NFT inherits the underlying venue's rule.

3. Where to list, by what you're selling

All ten venues in our registry are non-custodial — you keep the NFT until it sells. The meaningful differences are the buyer pool and the selling models:

• Ethereum general / art: OpenSea (fixed-price, offers, English auctions), SuperRare (curated 1/1 art — apply first, not open listing), Rarible (fixed-price, auctions).
• Pro trading / liquidity (ETH + Solana): Blur and Tensor add collection-bids and trait-bids — you can sell into standing offers instead of waiting for a buyer. Compare OpenSea vs Blur directly.
• Solana: Magic Eden and Tensor are the two real choices — see Magic Eden vs Tensor.
• Game assets: Immutable (enforced royalties, game-chain liquidity).
• Aggregated listings: OKX NFT surfaces listings from other venues — useful for price discovery, less useful as a primary venue.
• Zora is sunset as an NFT venue (creator-coin pivot) — don't list there.

4. If you're selling from Australia

Sale proceeds are crypto, not AUD — read using NFT marketplaces from Australia for the on/off-ramp picture, and keep records for the ATO from day one: NFTs and the ATO lists exactly what to record per sale.

Before you connect a wallet to any venue, run the legitimacy checklist — fake "buyer" and phishing dapps target sellers specifically. And if you're still deciding between two venues, every head-to-head lives under comparisons.

Last reviewed: September 2026.