Amazon FBA Fee Changes 2027: What Rises, the New Storage Rules and What to Do Before January

Amazon announced its 2027 US fee changes on 5 November 2026. The headline, in Amazon's words: "On average, FBA fulfillment fees will increase by $0.19 per unit sold," which is "approximately 0.8% of the average item's selling price." Most of the changes take effect on 15 January 2027. The storage changes follow on 1 February 2027, and for many sellers they matter more.

An average hides a lot. Amazon itself says "Fees for some products will increase, and others will decrease," and "The impact will vary by product, size, and price." This guide separates what Amazon has said publicly from what has been reported from its fuller summary in Seller Central, and ends with what to do in the ten weeks before the changes start.

Amazon's letter, from its Vice President of Worldwide Fulfillment by Amazon, gives the reason as "We're adjusting fulfillment fees to better match our cost of serving different products, and simplifying storage fees based on direct feedback from sellers." It was published with more than two months' notice so sellers can plan before 15 January.

A year ago the picture was gentler. Amazon's 2026 letter, published on 15 October 2025, said "In 2026, FBA fees will increase by an average of $0.08 per unit sold, or less than 0.5% of an average item's selling price." So 2027 was announced three weeks later in the year, starts on the same date, and the average rise is more than twice as large.

One thing does not change: Amazon says "The FBA fuel and logistics surcharge remains unchanged." It was introduced in April 2026, and Amazon says it will keep reviewing it as costs change.

If you want the full list of Amazon's fees and how each is worked out, our reference to Amazon's seller fees covers them one by one. This article is about what moves in 2027.

Amazon's public letter does not list the new rates. They are in its Seller Central summary, which needs a sign in. PPC Land, a trade publication that reviewed that summary, reported these averages from 15 January, and an agency's published reading of the same summary agrees:

Small standard items priced $10 to $50 rise by about $0.40 on average, above $50 by about $0.70, and under $10 by about $0.20.

Large standard items priced $10 to $50 rise by about $0.12, above $50 by about $0.47, and under $10 they stay as they are for non-apparel and rise by about $0.08 for apparel.

So the products that pay most are small items at higher prices. Amazon's own examples, as reported, show both directions: a phone case under $10 goes from $2.49 to $2.72, while the fee for a 65-inch television box falls from $48.57 to $36.55. Items priced at exactly $10.00 and $50.00 are reported to take the $10 to $50 rates, so a product priced right on a boundary is worth a second look.

Low-Price FBA is also reported to narrow. From 15 January, five categories lose the low-price rates and pay the $10 to $50 rates even under $10: Automotive and Powersports, Compact Appliances, Computers, Musical Instruments and AV Production, and Media. If you sell cheap items in those categories, your fee rise is larger than the average suggests.

This is the bigger change. Amazon writes "You've told us that storage fees are hard to predict, and we want to change that." From 1 February 2027, "we'll eliminate the storage utilization surcharge," and "We'll also remove the aged inventory surcharge and combine it with monthly storage fees into a single, age-based rate."

Amazon says what that means for most sellers: "These changes will result in flat or lower fees for inventory that turns in under six months," with "higher fees for aged inventory, and a new age-based rate that will make your storage costs easier to predict." In short, fast-moving stock should cost the same or less to store, and stock that sits for more than six months costs more.

The rates themselves are where to be careful. Amazon's public letter gives no age bands and no rates per cubic foot. PPC Land reported that the storage rate card was not among the materials it reviewed, and while one agency has published a full table, it names no Amazon source for it. We are not printing those figures. Read the storage fee page in Seller Central before you plan around a number, because your aged stock decisions depend on it.

The utilization surcharge going is good news for anyone who holds a lot of stock for their sales rate. PPC Land quotes Amazon's summary as saying it "will make it easier to stock up ahead of high-demand events."

The fee for running too low on stock changes too. Amazon says "Today, the fee is assessed using trailing 30- and 90-day sales." From 1 February, "the fee will apply only when your inventory falls below 28 days of supply," "based on actual shipments in both the four weeks before and after the assessment date." Amazon says this "will target SKUs that need replenishment."

What has been reported about the detail: the check runs weekly, applies only when both the four weeks before and the four weeks after are under 28 days of supply, now covers every oversize tier, and has exemptions, among them new Professional sellers for their first 365 days and products that shipped fewer than 20 units in the past seven days. Amazon is also adding a report for it.

Looking at shipments after the check date is the important part. A product that was low last month but has stock arriving and selling steadily should be charged less often than under the old rule. A product that is genuinely short still pays, so the answer is the same as before: keep your best sellers above four weeks of supply, and plan inbound shipments early enough to get there.

Large products see the most structural change, all reported from Amazon's summary rather than stated in its public letter. The standard-size tiers stay as they are. The two bulky tiers become four, and the four extra-large tiers become six oversize tiers. The overmax handling fee ends on 15 January, replaced by two new handling fees: one for flat products whose shortest side is under 4 inches and median side at least 25 inches, and one for products whose median side is over 43 inches. A product that meets both conditions pays both.

If you sell furniture, sports equipment, rugs, frames or anything long and thin, measure your products against those thresholds now. A fee that applies because of an inch of packaging is one that better packaging can remove.

Amazon's letter says its full summary also covers "additional updates for small and large standard-size items, items priced above $50, "Buy X, Get Y" promotions, Multichannel Fulfillment, and Amazon Warehousing and Distribution." As reported from that summary:

Buy X, Get Y promotions carry a $5 upfront fee plus a 2% variable fee, capped at $2,000, and from February 2027 promotion fees are billed monthly.

Multi-Channel Fulfillment standard-speed fees rise about 3.5% on average, with expedited unchanged on average.

Amazon Warehousing and Distribution storage becomes age-based from 1 March 2027, with inventory stored over 12 months charged at a higher rate.

Inbound placement keeps its rate card, and standard-size inbound regions go from three to two.

Referral fees see two notes: a new rate for 3D printers, and a 10% promotional referral fee for Amazon Renewed through 18 October 2027. No other referral fee changes were reported.

New products get a larger incentive: the FBA New Selection offer is reported to rise to up to $600 per new product. How the programme works and what it asks of a new listing is in our guide to the New Selection Program.

The returns processing fee is moving to tiers that match the new sizes, but the sources disagree on whether its rates change, so we leave the numbers to Seller Central.

Amazon has given sellers two tools for this. Its letter points to "the new Fee Change Comparison dashboard" in Profit Analytics, which shows the effect of the 2027 changes on your own catalogue, and adds "You can also model fee scenarios with the Revenue Calculator." Start with the dashboard, sorted by the size of the change, because it turns an average into your list.

A fee change is only half the answer, though. What matters is what is left per unit once the product cost, the fees, storage, returns and advertising are all taken out. What Amazon's Profit Analytics shows, and what it leaves out explains where its numbers stop, and what it really costs to sell on Amazon walks through the full per-unit model.

This is the kind of question xRack, the analytics platform we built for the brands we manage, is for: it brings Amazon's Profit and Loss, Inventory Health and Cash and Payouts into one place, so the effect of a fee change shows up on the products it touches rather than in an average.

Find your exposed products. Open the Fee Change Comparison dashboard and list the products whose fee rises most, especially small items priced above $10 and anything in the five categories losing Low-Price FBA.

Recheck the margin, then the price. For each of them, work out what is left per unit at today's price with the new fee. Where the margin goes too thin, decide whether to raise the price, change the pack size or accept a lower margin, using how price affects margin and rank as the guide. Watch products priced right on $10 or $50.

Clear aged stock before 1 February. Stock older than about six months will cost more to store under the age-based rate. Decide now whether to discount it, remove it or liquidate it, rather than discovering the bill in March.

Plan inbound for the new low-inventory test. Keep fast sellers above 28 days of supply, and time shipments so they arrive before you fall below it.

Measure your large items. Check bulky and oversize products against the new tiers and the two handling fee thresholds, and see whether packaging changes move any of them.

Look again at the fulfilment choice. For low-margin, slow-selling or very large products, compare FBA with fulfilling them yourself, using our comparison of FBA and FBM.

None of this needs to wait for January: Amazon published the changes early so the work could be done now. If you would rather have the per-unit model built and kept up to date for your catalogue, that is our unit economics work.