NFT Royalty Calculator
Calculate creator royalty earnings and seller net proceeds per NFT sale from sale price, royalty percentage, and marketplace fee. Educational, not investment advice. Runs in your browser.
Set to 0 to ignore.
For the USD estimate.
Creator royalty is earned on each resale.
Creator royalty = sale price × royalty %, paid to the original creator on each secondary sale. The seller receives the sale price minus the royalty and the marketplace fee. Note that royalty enforcement is not universal — many marketplaces have made creator royalties optional, so on-chain earnings can be lower than the stated rate. Educational, not investment advice. Everything runs in your browser.
About this tool
One of the features that made NFTs appealing to digital creators is the royalty: a percentage of every secondary sale that flows back to the original creator automatically, in principle for the life of the asset. Unlike traditional art, where a painter sees nothing when their work is resold for a fortune years later, an NFT can be configured so that each time it changes hands the creator earns a cut. This calculator works out the numbers on a single sale: the creator royalty is simply the sale price multiplied by the royalty percentage, and the seller (the current owner reselling it) receives the sale price minus that royalty and minus the marketplace's fee. It also shows the result in US dollars at an ETH price you provide, and lets you project a creator's total royalty across multiple resales at the same price. There is an important real-world caveat the tool flags: NFT royalties are often not enforced at the protocol level. They are typically honored by marketplaces voluntarily, and during the market downturn many platforms made royalties optional or stopped enforcing them to compete on lower costs, meaning creators frequently receive less than the nominal royalty rate — sometimes nothing. Standards and on-chain enforcement mechanisms continue to evolve. So treat the royalty figure here as the amount due under the stated rate if fully honored, not a guarantee of what lands in the creator's wallet. This is educational and not investment or financial advice. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
How to use it
- Enter the NFT sale price in ETH.
- Enter the creator royalty percentage set on the collection.
- Enter the marketplace fee percentage (or 0 to ignore it).
- Optionally set the ETH price for a USD estimate and a number of resales to project cumulative creator earnings.
- Read the creator royalty, marketplace fee, and the seller's net proceeds.
Frequently asked questions
- How is an NFT royalty calculated?
- Creator royalty = sale price × royalty percentage. For a 10 ETH sale with a 5% royalty, the creator earns 0.5 ETH. It is paid on secondary (resale) transactions, not usually the primary mint sale.
- How much does the seller actually receive?
- The seller gets the sale price minus the creator royalty and minus the marketplace fee. For a 10 ETH sale with a 5% royalty and 2.5% marketplace fee, the seller nets 10 − 0.5 − 0.25 = 9.25 ETH.
- Are NFT royalties always paid?
- Not necessarily. Royalties are often enforced only voluntarily by marketplaces, not at the protocol level. Many platforms made them optional, so creators frequently receive less than the stated rate — or nothing — depending on where the NFT is sold.
- What is a typical NFT royalty percentage?
- Historically many collections set royalties between about 5% and 10%. There is no fixed standard, and the effective amount depends on whether the marketplace honors the royalty.
- Does the royalty apply to the first sale?
- Royalties are designed for secondary sales — resales after the initial mint. The creator typically receives the full primary sale proceeds (minus marketplace fees) and then a royalty on each subsequent resale.
- Is this investment advice?
- No. It is an educational calculator. NFT values are highly volatile and royalty enforcement varies. Nothing is uploaded; all math runs in your browser.