Amazon announced its 2027 US fulfillment fees on November 5, 2026: an average increase of $0.19 per unit from January 15, 2027, roughly 0.8% of the average item's selling price. The headline is also misleading. The average hides a spread that runs from a 25% cut on some large items to a 52% increase on a $9.99 DVD, and the sellers who get hurt are the ones who read the average and move on.
The announcement came as a letter from Sunny Jain, Amazon's VP of Worldwide Fulfillment by Amazon, plus seven Seller Central help pages with rate cards and worked examples. Most changes take effect January 15, 2027, the day after the holiday peak fee period ends. A second group follows February 1: the new storage structure, the revised low-inventory-level fee, and higher Multichannel Distribution fees. Note that fees are charged on the ship date, not the order date, so December orders shipped after January 15 pay 2027 rates.
The spread behind the average
For standard-size goods, the increases fall hardest on small, light items priced above $50. Small standard-size fees rise by $0.70 per unit on average above $50, and by $0.40 in the $10 to $50 band. A product weighing 4 to 6 ounces and priced above $50 moves from $3.71 to $4.47, a 20.5% increase, the steepest percentage rise on the standard card. Large standard-size items get off lighter in the middle, up $0.12 on average between $10 and $50, but still rise $0.47 above $50. Below $10, small standard-size rises $0.20 on average while large standard-size non-apparel stays unchanged.
The most consistent change on the card is the price of crossing $50. In 2026, every standard-size row priced above $50 cost exactly $0.26 more than the same row priced between $10 and $50. In 2027, that premium sits between $0.55 and $0.57 on every row. An item priced at exactly $50.00 takes the lower rate, while the same item at $50.01 pays $0.56 more per unit. There is also no relief when peak ends: for small standard-size goods priced at $10 and above, the 2027 rates exceed the current holiday peak rates by $0.14 to $0.56 per unit.
Low-price FBA loses five categories
The biggest single hit in the schedule is not a rate increase, it is an eligibility loss. Low-price FBA rates, the reduced fees for products under $10, will be restricted to a narrower set of fee categories from January 15. Five categories lose the discount entirely and will be charged the same rates as products priced from $10 to $50: Automotive and Powersports, Compact Appliances, Musical Instruments and AV Production, Media (Books, DVD, Music, Software, and Video), and Computers.
The worked examples show what that means. A $9.99 DVD in a case moves from $2.49 to $3.78 per unit, a 51.8% increase, which is almost 40 cents of every dollar of the price for fulfillment alone, before any referral fee. An iron in Compact Appliances moves from $6.31 to $7.32. If you sell under-$10 products in any of the five categories, your 2027 margin model needs to be rebuilt from the $10 to $50 rate card, not adjusted at the edges.
Big products get a new system
For anything larger than standard-size, 2027 is a rewrite rather than an adjustment. Two bulky tiers become four, four weight-based extra-large tiers become six oversize tiers defined largely by length, and the overmax handling fee disappears, replaced by two new handling fees: a flat product fee for thin, wide items, and an overhang fee when the median side exceeds 43 inches.
The results split sharply by shape. Heavy, moderately long items get cheaper: a 65-inch television box falls from $48.57 to $36.55. Long, flat items pay much more: a 97-inch bulletin board rises from $50.93 to $69.75, and a tabletop panel that triggers all three new conditions rises from $70.32 to $97.48. Dimensional weight matters more than ever, since Amazon charges the greater of unit weight and dimensional weight (length times width times height, divided by 139) for most tiers above standard-size.
Storage gets simpler, and stricter for slow stock
From February 1, 2027, Amazon removes both the storage utilization surcharge and the aged inventory surcharge, folding them into a single age-based monthly storage rate. Amazon says the change means flat or lower fees for inventory that turns in under six months and higher fees for aged inventory. The low-inventory-level fee changes the same day, and the new test is fairer: it applies only when inventory falls below 28 days of supply based on actual shipments in both the four weeks before and the four weeks after the assessment date.
What to do before January 15
Open the new Fee Change Comparison dashboard inside Profit Analytics, which Amazon says shows the effect at the account and product level, and run your top 20 ASINs through the Revenue Calculator. Check every product priced just above $50 and every under-$10 product in the five excluded categories, because those are the two places the schedule produces step changes rather than gradual ones. Measure your bulky and oversize products against the new size tiers, including dimensional weight, and flag anything long or flat. Clear aged inventory before February 1, when the age-based storage rate takes over.
