NFT Profit Calculator
Find your true profit on an NFT flip before you list. Enter the purchase price, sale price, gas paid on the buy and on the sale, the marketplace fee and the creator royalty: the calculator shows the fee and royalty amounts, your total cost, net profit and ROI, with the full formula printed under the result so every figure can be audited. Marketplace preset buttons fill the fee field in one tap, but read the fee section below before trusting them: marketplace fees have changed since those presets were set, and the fee field is yours to overwrite. The worked example is pre-filled: a $1,000 buy sold at $1,500.
Planning estimate only. Taxes on NFT sales vary by jurisdiction; consult a tax professional. Not financial advice.
Quick Answer
On the pre-filled flip, buy $1,000 and sell $1,500 with $20 buy gas, $30 sell gas, a 2.5% marketplace fee and a 5% royalty, the fee takes $37.50, the royalty $75.00, total cost is $1,162.50, and the true net profit is $337.50, an ROI of 29.03%. The headline $500 price gap overstates the flip by nearly half once the five costs are counted.
Key takeaways
- Fees and royalties are charged on the sale price, not on your profit, so they bite hardest on thin flips: at a $100 sale price the same percentages would take $7.50 of a much smaller margin.
- The preset fee buttons load the rates marketplaces published for years (OpenSea 2.5%, Blur 0.5%, Magic Eden 1.5%). Those rates have since changed, OpenSea’s help center now lists 1%, so check the fee on your actual listing and type it in.
- ROI here is profit divided by total cost, sell-side costs included. Tools that divide by the purchase price alone print a bigger number for the same trade.
- A result of exactly $0.00 profit is labelled “Profitable flip.” by the tool’s verdict line. Read the figure, not just the label.
- Quick Answer
- How to use the NFT profit calculator
- The NFT profit formula, and this tool’s ROI definition
- Worked example: a $1,000 to $1,500 flip, checked against this tool
- The five costs that decide an NFT flip
- Marketplace fees compared, and why the presets need checking
- Buy gas vs sell gas: why they are separate fields
- What this calculator leaves out: tax, currency moves and failed transactions
- What competing calculators miss
- Frequently asked questions
- Add This Calculator to Your Website
- References
How to use the NFT profit calculator
Fill in what you paid and what you expect to receive, add the two gas figures and the two percentages, then click Calculate. The results stay hidden until you calculate.
- Enter the purchase and sale prices in dollars: both are required, and a blank or negative entry stops with a specific message (“Enter the purchase price.”, “Sale price cannot be negative.”). If you trade in ETH or SOL, convert both prices to dollars at consistent rates so the profit figure means something.
- Add gas twice: once for the buy, once for the sale. Either field can be left blank and counts as zero, as can the fee and royalty fields. Non-numeric entries in those four optional fields are also read as zero, silently, so glance at the printed formula line after calculating to confirm the zeros are the ones you intended.
- Set the percentages: type the marketplace fee and creator royalty, or tap a preset to load one. A fee above 100% is accepted by the tool (it will simply produce a loss), so a stray extra digit shows up as a huge fee line rather than an error: check the fee amount in the results against your expectation.
- Read all five result lines: fee amount, royalty amount, total cost, net profit in large type, and ROI, followed by a green “Profitable flip.” or red “Loss on this flip.” verdict and the full formula with your numbers substituted in. Copy or share the result set from the buttons underneath.
The NFT profit formula, and this tool’s ROI definition
Net profit = sale price minus total cost, where total cost adds the purchase price, both gas figures, the marketplace fee and the creator royalty, and the two percentage costs are charged on the sale price. ROI divides that profit by total cost, all costs included.
Total cost = purchase + buy gas + sell gas + fee + royalty
Net profit = sale price − total cost | ROI = net profit ÷ total cost × 100
The ROI denominator is a genuine choice, and tools differ on it. Dividing by total cost, as this calculator does, treats the sell-side costs as part of the capital the flip ties up, which is the conservative reading: $337.50 of profit on $1,162.50 of total cost is 29.03%. Dividing by the purchase price alone gives 33.75% for the identical trade, and some calculators print that larger number without saying which definition they used. Neither is magic; what matters is comparing flips on one definition. The same discipline applies outside NFTs: the affiliate marketing ROI calculator likewise charges every campaign cost against the return before calling anything profit.
Break-even works the same way in reverse. The tool does not have a break-even button, but the sale price at which profit reads $0.00 follows from the formula: break-even sale = (purchase + buy gas + sell gas) ÷ (1 − fee % − royalty %). On the worked example that is $1,050 ÷ 0.925 = $1,135.14: list below that and the flip loses money however the headline prices look. You can confirm it in the tool by setting the sale price to 1135.14 and watching net profit land on $0.00 (the verdict label still says “Profitable flip.” at exactly zero, a quirk of the tool’s greater-than-or-equal test, disclosed in the FAQs). This after-fees reality check is the same one that decides whether a price gap is a real opportunity in the arbitrage profit calculator: the spread is never the profit.
Worked example: a $1,000 to $1,500 flip, checked against this tool
The pre-filled values are a complete flip: in at $1,000, out at $1,500, $20 of gas on the buy, $30 on the sale, a 2.5% marketplace fee and a 5% creator royalty. Every figure below is a real run of the calculator above.
| Scenario (all real runs) | Fee | Royalty | Total cost | Net profit | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worked example (2.5% fee preset) | $37.50 | $75.00 | $1,162.50 | $337.50 | 29.03% |
| Same flip, Blur preset (0.5% fee) | $7.50 | $75.00 | $1,132.50 | $367.50 | 32.45% |
| Loss: $2,000 buy sold at $1,500 | $37.50 | $75.00 | $2,162.50 | $-662.50 | -30.64% |
| Small flip: $99.99 to $149.95, 7.5% royalty | $3.75 | $11.25 | $118.56 | $31.39 | 26.48% |
Two formatting notes from those runs, both inherited from the tool and worth knowing: losses print as $-662.50, with the minus sign after the dollar sign, and the loss row’s total cost exceeds its sale price by exactly the loss, which is the quickest hand-check on any run.
The five costs that decide an NFT flip
Five costs decide the flip: the purchase price, buy gas, sell gas, the marketplace fee and the creator royalty. Most traders compare the buy and sell prices and call the difference profit; on the worked example that habit overstates the result by $162.50.
The percentages deserve the attention the stat cards give them. A royalty is not a tip: the ERC-2981 royalty standard lets marketplaces read a collection’s rate from its contract, and OpenSea’s documentation on creator earnings explains the two regimes sellers actually face, enforced earnings that are paid on every sale and optional earnings the seller can adjust, sometimes to nothing. Which regime your collection sits in changes the royalty field by more than any marketplace choice changes the fee field. Gas is the other cost traders misjudge by merging: buying usually costs one transaction, while selling can involve a one-time collection approval plus the settlement, and the two events happen at different network prices. OpenSea’s own guide to what gas fees are separates the one-time approvals from the recurring transaction fees, which is exactly the split the two gas fields on this page preserve. Current gas levels can be checked live on the Etherscan gas tracker before you commit to either figure.
Marketplace fees compared, and why the presets need checking
Where you list changes the math, but marketplace fees moved during 2025 and 2026 and this calculator’s preset buttons did not move with them. The presets still load the rates that were standard for years; the table puts them next to the standard fees the marketplaces’ own help pages listed in October 2026.
| Marketplace | Preset button loads | Published standard fee, Oct 2026 | Fee on a $10,000 sale at the current rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenSea | 2.5% | 1% | $100 |
| Blur | 0.5% | At or near 0% | $0 |
| Magic Eden | 1.5% | 2% (Solana marketplace) | $200 |
OpenSea charged 2.5% for years, cut its fee with the OS2 rebuild, and its help center page What fees do I pay on OpenSea? (updated May 2026) now documents the 1% standard fee the table uses. The practical rule costs nothing: tap a preset to get the shape of the calculation, then overwrite the fee field with the rate your listing page actually shows. On a $10,000 sale, using the stale OpenSea preset overstates the fee by $150, enough to kill a flip that is actually profitable, or to make a marketplace comparison worthless. Fees are also only half the venue decision: royalties are set per collection, liquidity differs, and a lower fee on a marketplace where your collection never trades is not a saving.
Buy gas vs sell gas: why they are separate fields
Buying and selling are two different transactions, often weeks apart at different network prices. The Ethereum documentation’s definition of gas, units of computational effort priced per unit (see the Ethereum.org gas documentation), means the dollar cost of the same action swings with congestion.
Three situations make the split matter. First, approvals: the first listing in a collection usually carries a one-time approval transaction on top of the sale itself, so sell gas legitimately exceeds buy gas. Second, timing: a buy executed in a quiet period and a sale settled during a hyped mint can differ by a factor of ten in dollar terms. Third, zero cases: if you acquired the piece through a bid the seller settled, or received it in a wallet transfer, your buy gas may genuinely be 0, and merging the fields would force you to invent an average that matches neither event. Enter what you actually paid, or expect to pay, on each side; if a transaction failed and still consumed gas, that cost is real too, and OpenSea’s gas guide is blunt that gas is non-refundable even when a transaction fails.
What this calculator leaves out: tax, currency moves and failed transactions
The profit shown is a pre-tax, single-currency, successful-trade figure. Three real-world items sit outside it, and honest planning names them.
Tax. Most jurisdictions tax NFT sales, and in the United States the IRS treats NFTs as digital assets, with specific guidance on when an NFT is treated as a collectible for tax purposes. Your tax bill depends on holding period, jurisdiction and what else you traded that year; no percentage typed into this page can stand in for that, which is why the tool prints its planning-estimate disclaimer under the calculator.
Currency movement. If you bought in ETH and the sale settles in ETH, the dollar profit also depends on the exchange rate at both ends, and this tool’s dollar fields assume you have already folded that in. The denomination effect is the same one measured on crypto markets by the bitcoin premium calculator: the asset’s own price move and your trading result are two different numbers, and only one of them is the flip.
Leverage and failed trades. This is unleveraged spot arithmetic: there is no margin, liquidation price or funding cost anywhere in it, unlike the positions modelled by the margin trading calculator. And a flip that never settles still burns its approval and failed-transaction gas, a cost no completed-sale calculator can see. The FTC’s guidance on cryptocurrency scams is worth a read before any of this: fake marketplaces and phishing approvals remain the most common way NFT traders lose the whole position rather than a percentage of it.
What competing calculators miss
NFT profit tools are plentiful, and most of them get the shape right: sale price in, costs out. The differences are in the details, and two of the best-known tools have genuine defects in those details:
- A worked example that contradicts its own inputs (Savvy Calculator): its NFT profit page works an example with a $1,000 purchase, $1,500 sale, $20 and $30 gas, a 2.5% platform fee and a 5% royalty, then reports net profit of $412.50 and ROI of 41.25%. Those figures are only reachable if the $75 royalty is never subtracted and the ROI is divided by the purchase price alone. Run the same inputs here, with the royalty actually counted, and the answer is $337.50 and 29.03%. A calculator whose own example does not survive its own formula is not a safe place to plan a listing.
- Token-denominated tools solve a different problem (MultiCalculators, WEEX): the strongest rival works entirely in tokens, converting at the token price on buy and sell days, and produces a break-even sale price in tokens: genuinely useful if you think in ETH, unusable for a fast dollar check. The WEEX “NFT profit” pages are token profit calculators for specific cryptocurrencies, not flip tools at all; they have no royalty field because the asset is not an NFT trade.
- One gas field, or none: several simple tools merge gas into a single input or skip it, which hides the approval-plus-settlement pattern on the sell side and the zero-buy-gas cases.
- Profit without ROI, or ROI without a stated definition: a $300 profit means different things on a $400 flip and a $40,000 flip. This page prints both figures and states its ROI definition in the formula section, denominator included.
- No audit trail: this calculator prints the full formula with your numbers substituted underneath every result, so the fee, royalty and total can be re-added by hand in seconds. A single unexplained profit number cannot be checked, and unchecked numbers are how the Savvy example above survived.
Frequently asked questions
Net profit = sale price − (purchase price + buy gas + sell gas + marketplace fee + creator royalty), where the fee and royalty are percentages of the sale price. On the worked example, $1,500 − $1,162.50 of total cost leaves $337.50 of net profit. The calculator prints the full formula line under every result so you can audit each figure.
There is no fixed benchmark. This calculator defines ROI as net profit ÷ total cost × 100, with total cost including the sell-side fees and gas, so the worked example reads 29.03%. Some rival tools divide by the purchase price alone, which inflates the figure: the same flip reads 33.75% that way. Compare ROI across your own flips using one definition, and remember fees punish small flips hardest.
Usually yes: once to buy (or to place and settle a bid) and once to list and settle the sale, and the two events rarely happen at the same gas price. That is why the calculator keeps buy gas and sell gas as separate fields. If the seller paid the gas on your purchase, enter 0 for buy gas.
A percentage of each secondary sale paid to the original creator or project. The ERC-2981 standard lets marketplaces read a collection’s royalty rate automatically, and many newer collections enforce their rate on every sale, while on older collections some marketplaces let the seller reduce it, in some cases to zero. Rates are commonly between 0% and 10%, so a royalty can cost more than the marketplace fee itself.
It changes often, so check the fee page on the day you list. In October 2026, OpenSea’s help center listed a 1% fee on NFT sales, Magic Eden’s listed 2% on its Solana marketplace, and trader-focused venues such as Blur competed at or near 0%. The preset buttons in this calculator still load the older long-published rates (OpenSea 2.5%, Blur 0.5%, Magic Eden 1.5%), so treat them as starting points and type the current fee over them when it differs.
For a true bottom line, yes: most jurisdictions tax NFT sales, and the IRS treats NFTs as digital assets, with specific guidance on when an NFT is taxed like a collectible. Tax rules vary widely, so this calculator shows pre-tax profit and the tax treatment is one to confirm with a professional before you rely on the number.
Yes. If total costs exceed the sale price, net profit and ROI go negative and the verdict line switches to “Loss on this flip.” in red. A $2,000 buy sold at $1,500 with the worked example’s gas and percentages loses $662.50, an ROI of −30.64%. One quirk to know: a break-even result of exactly $0.00 is labelled “Profitable flip.” by the tool, so read the figure, not just the label.
Enter 0. Some collections and marketplaces allow zero-royalty sales; the royalty line then reads $0.00 and the math simply skips that cost. Leaving the field blank does the same thing, because blank gas, fee and royalty fields are all treated as zero.
Yes, enter the totals: combined purchase cost, combined sale proceeds, total gas across the trades, and the blended fee and royalty percentages. The output is then the profit and ROI for the whole set rather than a single piece, which is how most flippers judge a collection play anyway.
No. It is an arithmetic planning tool that adds up the costs you enter; it cannot judge whether a flip is a good idea. NFT markets are volatile and illiquid, prices can gap down between listing and sale, and you should never trade money you cannot afford to lose.
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References
- Internal Revenue Service. Digital assets. Accessed October 22, 2026.
- Internal Revenue Service. Frequently asked questions on virtual currency transactions. Accessed October 22, 2026.
- OpenSea Help Center. What fees do I pay on OpenSea? Accessed October 22, 2026.
- OpenSea Help Center. How do I set creator earnings on OpenSea? Accessed October 22, 2026.
- OpenSea Help Center. What are gas fees? Accessed October 22, 2026.
- Ethereum Foundation. Gas and fees, Ethereum developer documentation. Accessed October 22, 2026.
- Ethereum Foundation. Non-fungible tokens (NFT). Accessed October 22, 2026.
- Ethereum Improvement Proposals. EIP-2981: NFT Royalty Standard. Accessed October 22, 2026.
- Federal Trade Commission. What to know about cryptocurrency and scams. Accessed October 22, 2026.
- Etherscan. Ethereum Gas Tracker. Accessed October 22, 2026.