Amazon's 2027 FBA fees: 19 cents more a unit, and storage reset

Amazon announced its 2027 US fee changes on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The headline number is an average increase of $0.19 per unit sold in Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) fulfillment fees, which Amazon puts at about 0.8% of the average item's selling price. Most of the changes take effect January 15, 2027.

That's more than double the 2026 increase. For 2026, Amazon raised FBA fees by an average of $0.08 a unit, under 0.5% of an average selling price, after no increase in 2025.

The more interesting change is storage. From February 1, 2027, Amazon drops the storage utilization surcharge and rolls the aged inventory surcharge into one monthly storage rate that rises with inventory age. A catalog that turns quickly comes out about even. A catalog with slow tails pays more.

What Amazon changed for 2027#

Amazon published the update on its Selling Partners blog under the byline of Sunny Jain, Vice President, Worldwide Fulfillment by Amazon, in a post titled Update to US Referral and Fulfillment by Amazon fees for 2027. It opens with an acknowledgment you don't often see in a fee notice: "Fee changes are never easy."

There are four parts to it.

Fulfillment fees. FBA fulfillment fees rise by an average of $0.19 per unit sold. Amazon says the effect depends on size, type and price, and that some products will see decreases. The post lists changes for small and large standard-size items, items priced above $50, "Buy X, Get Y" promotions, Multi-Channel Fulfillment and Amazon Warehousing and Distribution, and sends sellers to a separate fee summary for the detail. That summary sits on a Seller Central help page that needs a login, and we couldn't read it for this piece, so we're not quoting tier-level rates here.

Storage fees. From February 1, 2027, Amazon will "eliminate the storage utilization surcharge," remove the aged inventory surcharge and "combine it with monthly storage fees into a single, age-based rate." Amazon says that means "flat or lower fees for inventory that turns in under six months," and higher fees for aged inventory.

Low-inventory-level fee. Until then, the fee is assessed using trailing 30-day and 90-day sales. From February 1, 2027, Amazon says it will apply only when inventory falls below 28 days of supply, judged on actual shipments in the four weeks before and after the assessment date.

Fuel and logistics surcharge. Unchanged. Amazon introduced it in April 2026 and says it will keep reviewing it.

The post's title also names referral fees, but its body doesn't describe any referral fee change. If there is one, it's in the logged-in fee summary.

How the increase compares with recent years#

Measured by Amazon's own averages, 2027 is the largest per-unit FBA increase of the last three fee cycles.

Averages hide a lot. A brand selling small, light, high-priced items might see less than $0.19. A brand with bulky standard-size items near a tier boundary might see more. The only way to know is to open the Fee Change Comparison dashboard and look at your own ASINs.

To put the average in scale, the arithmetic is simple and it's ours, not Amazon's: at exactly $0.19 a unit, a brand shipping 500,000 FBA units a year would pay about $95,000 more in fulfillment fees in 2027, before any storage change. Swap in your own units and your dashboard figure.

Our read: the storage change matters more than the 19 cents#

Amazon's post makes its case around delivery speed. It says moving a delivery promise from more than four days to two lifts purchase conversion rates by more than 20%, and that going from two days to hours can add "another 15% or more." That's the argument for paying the fulfillment fee at all, and for most brands we work with, it holds.

The storage change is where the 2027 update actually rewards or punishes how you run the account. With the utilization surcharge gone and aged inventory folded into one age-based rate, inventory age becomes the main thing that sets your storage bill. Amazon's own framing is that inventory turning in under six months pays the same or less.

So the question for 2027 isn't really "how much more is FBA?" It's "how much of my catalog sits for more than six months?" In our experience it's rarely the hero ASINs. It's the long tail: the variation nobody buys, the seasonal SKU that missed its window, the bundle that made sense in a planning meeting. Those units will cost more to keep from February 1, 2027.

The low-inventory-level fee change goes the other way. Measuring days of supply on actual shipments around the assessment date, rather than trailing 30- and 90-day sales, should make the fee easier to predict for brands with lumpy demand. We'd still plan replenishment to keep fast movers above 28 days, because that's now the stated line.

This is also the second cost change to land on sellers' P&Ls in fall 2026, after the $1 million liability insurance requirement took effect on November 2, 2026. For consumables brands, where repeat purchase carries the economics, the fee change belongs in the same model we describe in why ROAS is the wrong number for a consumables brand.

What to do before January 15, 2027#

None of this needs a strategy offsite. It needs someone to pull three reports and make a list of the ASINs that will cost you more in 2027. That's most of what good Amazon account management is. We track Amazon's published fees and seller figures on our Amazon seller statistics page.