Steam Market Fee Calculator

Why it is not 15%

Steam does not take a slice of the price the buyer pays. It takes the amount you asked to receive, works both fees out from that, and adds them on top — so the share that disappears is smaller than the rates suggest.

steam_fee = max(floor(you_receive × 0.05), $0.01)
game_fee = max(floor(you_receive × 0.10), $0.01)
buyer_pays = you_receive + steam_fee + game_fee

What the fee really costs at every price

Computed with the same code the calculator runs. Read the last column downwards: the rate is worst on the cheapest items by a distance, dips below 13% in the middle, and settles just above it on anything large.

The prices no listing can cost

A side effect of rounding both fees down, and the detail that convinced us to build this rather than use someone else's.

Because both fees are rounded down from the seller’s amount, the totals they produce skip values. 259 of the prices between $0.03 and $20.00 cannot be charged by any Counter-Strike 2 listing at all. These are the first twenty:

• $0.22
• $0.33
• $0.44
• $0.45
• $0.56
• $0.67
• $0.68
• $0.79
• $0.90
• $0.91
• $1.02
• $1.13
• $1.14
• $1.25
• $1.36
• $1.37
• $1.48
• $1.59
• $1.60
• $1.71

Type one into the calculator and it says so, and shows the nearest price that can exist. Steam’s own sell dialog adjusts silently.

Limits, and who is allowed to sell

The other things Valve's FAQ states plainly and most guides leave out.

What we found working the arithmetic out

How this calculator works

Questions about Steam Market fees

1. How much does Steam take from a Community Market sale?

   Less than the 15% you will read everywhere, and the difference is not rounding. Steam's fee is 5% and Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2 and Artifact each add 10%, but both are calculated from the amount you receive and added on top of it — not subtracted from what the buyer pays. So a buyer paying $10.00 means you asked for $8.70, Steam added $0.43 and the game added $0.87. The fees are 13% of the buyer's money, and on large sales they settle at 13.04%.

2. What do I get for a $100 item on the Steam Market?

   $86.97. Steam takes $4.34 and the game takes $8.69, leaving 13.03% of the sale price in fees. It lands in your Steam Wallet, not your bank: Valve's own FAQ says Market funds cannot be withdrawn or transferred to another account.

3. What is the minimum price on the Steam Market?

   $0.03 for a game with a 10% fee, and $0.02 for one with none. Both fees have a one-cent floor, so on a $0.03 sale the buyer's money splits into $0.01 for you and one cent for each fee — 66.67% of the sale, against 13.04% on a large one. Valve also notes that some currencies have their own minimum.

4. How do I work out what to list an item for?

   Enter the amount you want to receive and the calculator gives you the price to put on the listing, which is exactly what Steam's own sell dialog does. The arithmetic is worth knowing if you price in bulk: take your amount, add 5% rounded down, add the game's fee rounded down, and never let either fall below a cent. To receive $10.00 on a Counter-Strike 2 item, list it at $11.50.

5. Why will Steam not let the buyer pay the exact price I typed?

   Because both fees are rounded down from your side, there are prices no listing can cost. The first one is $0.22: the seller amount below it produces $0.21 and the next one jumps past it. Between $0.03 and $20.00 there are 259 such prices, including $0.22, $0.33, $0.44. Type one in and the calculator says so, and shows the nearest price that can exist.

6. Which games charge a 10% fee?

   Valve names four in the Community Market FAQ — Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, Artifact — and each is set at 10%. Every other game's fee is set by its own publisher and Valve does not publish a list, which is why this calculator lets you type the rate in rather than guessing. If you do not know it, list the item in Steam's own sell dialog and read the fee it quotes before confirming.

7. Can I withdraw Steam Market money to PayPal or a bank?

   No, and this is the part people discover too late. Valve is explicit: all Community Market sales and purchases are completed with the Steam Wallet, and the funds cannot be withdrawn or transferred to another Steam account or to a bank or third party. The money can only be spent on Steam. Sites offering to cash a Steam balance out are not doing so with Valve’s blessing.

8. What are the wallet and listing limits?

   Valve caps a Steam Wallet at about $2,000.00 and the price of a single listing at about $1,800.00, with equivalents in other currencies. You are also blocked from listing an item if your existing balance plus the sale price would push you over the wallet cap, and balances across all your accounts count together towards it.

9. Who is allowed to sell on the Community Market?

   Valve's requirements are: a purchase on the account older than 7 days, but not older than a year; steam Guard enabled for at least 15 days; the item itself must be marketable — some drops and recent purchases are not. Redeeming a gift does not count as the qualifying purchase — it has to be something bought on the account itself. A Steam wallet code does, which is the usual way people unlock the Market on a new account.

10. How up to date is this calculator?

    Both fees, the minimum, the limits and the eligibility rules were read from Valve's Community Market FAQ on 20 September 2026, and it is linked under Sources. Valve says of its own fee that it "may be increased or decreased in the future", so this is a page we re-check rather than set and forget. Figures are in US dollars; the arithmetic is the same in any currency, but the one-cent floors become one-unit floors.

Sources

Every figure the calculator uses was checked against these pages on 20 September 2026.

1. Steam SupportCommunity Market FAQ
2. ValveSteam Subscriber Agreement

Update history

1. 20 September 2026

   Published. Reproduces Steam's own arithmetic rather than approximating it: 5% and the game's fee, each computed from the seller's amount, rounded down, with a one-cent floor. Checked against known sales — a $10.00 listing pays $8.70 and a $100.00 listing $86.97. Flags buyer prices that no listing can produce, which no other calculator we could find does.