Amazon FBA Fee Changes 2027: What Goes Up, What Goes Away, and What to Do First

Amazon's 2027 FBA fee changes add $0.19 per unit on average, about 0.8% of the average selling price. That average hides the part that matters. If you sell small, light products priced above $50, your fulfillment fee goes up about $0.70 a unit. If you sell low-priced auto parts or musical instrument accessories, you can lose your low-price rate entirely and pay over a dollar more. And if any of your stock is sitting past six months, the new storage rates hit it harder than the old surcharge did.

Timeline: Amazon announced these changes on November 5, 2026. Most fulfillment fee changes start January 15, 2027. Storage, the low-inventory-level fee, AWD processing and most returns changes follow on February 1, and AWD age-based storage on March 1. Current as of November 2026.

How much are Amazon FBA fees going up in 2027?

On average, $0.19 per unit. In its 2027 fee summary, Amazon says some fees go up and some go down "so that each fee more closely matches our cost of fulfilling that product." Here is how Amazon breaks the average down for standard-size items:

Two things to keep straight when you run the math. First, compare 2027 rates to the 2026 non-peak rates, not to what you are paying right now. Holiday peak fees run from October 15, 2026 to January 14, 2027, so January 15 is a drop back to non-peak plus the 2027 increase. Second, none of these numbers include the fuel and logistics surcharge, which comes next.

Which products get hit hardest?

Small standard-size items priced above $50 take the biggest jump. On Amazon's 2027 fulfillment fee rate card, every small standard weight tier above $50 rises between $0.66 and $0.76 a unit. A 2 oz item goes from $3.58 to $4.31. A 14 to 16 oz item goes from $4.22 to $4.88.

The other group to check is products losing low-price rates. Starting January 15, low-price FBA rates only apply to a narrower set of fee categories. Products in these five categories will pay the $10 to $50 rate even when priced under $10:

• Automotive and Powersports

• Compact Appliances

• Computers

• Musical Instruments and AV Production

• Media (Books, DVD, Music, Software, Video)

Compared with 2026 non-peak low-price rates, that works out to $1.29 to $1.38 more per small standard unit and $0.88 to $1.01 more per large standard unit. On a $7.99 accessory, that can be most of the margin.

Why do the $10 and $50 price points matter more now?

Amazon prices fulfillment in three bands: below $10, $10 to $50, and above $50. An item priced at exactly $10 or $50 gets the $10 to $50 rate. In 2027 the jump between bands gets bigger.

At $50, the step between the middle and top band doubles, from a flat $0.26 in 2026 to $0.55 to $0.57 in 2027. At $10, the step for small standard items widens from $0.88 to $1.01 today to $1.06 to $1.34.

Here is what that means for a real pricing decision. Take a pair of hiking socks, flat-packed, that ships at 6 to 8 oz in small standard size. At $50.49 the 2027 fee is $4.53. At $49.99 it is $3.97. Dropping the price 50 cents costs you $0.50 in revenue, saves about $0.08 in referral fee in a 15% category, and saves $0.56 in fulfillment. You come out about 14 cents a unit ahead before the surcharge, and you have a sharper price on the page.

Drop it a full dollar from $50.99 and the math flips. You give up $1.00, get back about $0.71, and lose 29 cents a unit unless conversion improves. So the rule is narrow: if you are priced a little above a threshold, moving just under it can pay. If you are well above it, the fee alone is not a reason to cut price.

Is the Amazon fuel surcharge going away?

No. Amazon says the FBA fuel and logistics surcharge "remains unchanged." It has been 3.5% of fulfillment fees since April 17, 2026, and it also applies to Buy with Prime and Multichannel Fulfillment. Because it is a percentage, it grows with every fee increase above.

It also spreads. From January 15 it applies to PanAmericas US to Canada fees. From February 1 it applies to AWD transportation fees and Multichannel Distribution fees.

How are Amazon FBA storage fees changing?

This is the biggest structural change in the announcement. From February 1, 2027, Amazon removes the storage utilization surcharge and the aged inventory surcharge and folds them into one unified monthly storage fee that rises with the age of each unit.

For standard-size, non-dangerous goods in the off-peak months (January to September), the new rates per cubic foot are:

The old column leaves out the utilization surcharge, which only applied to some accounts, so your old cost may have been higher than shown.

Two things stand out. Stock under six months old pays the same base rate as before with no utilization surcharge on top, which is why Amazon says it is now easier to stock up ahead of big sales events. And stock in the 181 to 270 day window gets hit hard: at 181 days the rate more than doubles. That is the bracket where a lot of slow seasonal inventory sits.

Apparel, shoes, bags, jewelry and watches get a softer middle tier ($1.78 from 181 to 270 days), but those categories were exempt from the aged surcharge in that window before, so they still pay more. From October to December, add $1.62 per cubic foot for standard-size and $0.84 for bulky and oversize, which keeps the standard-size peak rate for young inventory at $2.40, the same as today. Dangerous goods add a surcharge on top.

What changes with the low-inventory fee?

Starting February 1, the low-inventory-level fee only applies when a product has under 28 days of supply, measured against actual units shipped in the four weeks before and the four weeks after the weekly inventory check. Today it looks at trailing 30- and 90-day sales. Amazon says the change should cut charges caused by sudden demand spikes and by end-of-season or end-of-life products.

The catch is timing. Because Amazon waits to see the following four weeks, the charge lands four weeks after the inventory check. The fee will also show as its own line on the Payment view report instead of being folded into fulfillment fees, and it now applies to every oversize tier.

The exemptions stay useful. Products that shipped fewer than 20 units in the past seven days are exempt, as are new Professional sellers for their first 365 days, eligible New Selection products, grocery, and SKUs where AWD auto-replenished at least 70% of inventory over the prior 90 days.

What about size tiers, AWD, and Multichannel Fulfillment?

Bulky and oversize. The two bulky tiers become four (small, medium, large and extra-large bulky), and extra-large becomes six oversize tiers. Amazon says smaller, lighter products will pay less and larger, heavier ones more. The overmax handling fee goes away, and new flat product and overhang handling fees come in. Returns processing fees follow the new tiers: January 15 for apparel and shoes, February 1 for other high-return categories.

AWD. From February 1, processing is $1.55 per box and transportation $1.58 per cubic foot, with 40% off inbound processing for single-SKU pallets. From March 1, AWD storage is age-based too, and inventory over 12 months pays 2.5 times the standard rate.

Multichannel Fulfillment and Buy with Prime. Standard-speed fees rise 3.5% on average, expedited stays flat on average, and size tiers align with FBA.

Inbound placement. The rate card does not change, but standard-size inbound drops from three regions to two, with Central folded into East.

Promotions. Buy X, Get Y promotions pick up a $5 upfront fee plus 2% of sales, capped at $2,000. From February all promotions bill monthly, and fees that would have hit in January move to the first February cycle.

What to do before January 15 and February 1

1. Find aged stock now. Pull anything that will be at or past 180 days by February 1. Decide whether to sell it through, remove it, or liquidate it before the new rates apply.

2. Check prices just above $10 and $50. Use the math above. A small move under the threshold can pay; a big one usually doesn't.

3. Flag SKUs in the five categories losing low-price rates. Reprice anything under $10 in those categories, or check whether fulfilling it yourself beats FBA at the new rate.

4. Remap bulky and oversize SKUs to the new tiers and check the new rate for each.

5. Rebuild promotion math for Buy X, Get Y before you plan Q1 promotions.

6. Revisit inventory targets. No utilization surcharge makes it cheaper to hold stock that sells within six months. Past six months it costs more, so buy for sell-through, not just for capacity.

To see the impact by SKU, Amazon's Fee Change Comparison dashboard in Profit Analytics shows your account and product-level changes, and the Revenue Calculator models individual items. If you want the bigger picture on whether FBA still pays for your catalog, our FBA fees breakdown and the numbers every seller should track are good places to start.