The self-publishing royalty calculator for KDP ebook, KDP paperback, ACX audiobook and IngramSpark print. Enter a list price and see your royalty per sale, then switch to monthly scenarios to model conservative, base and optimistic sales months, add Kindle Unlimited page reads, and see when the book earns back your editing and cover costs. Print the result or share it by link. Rates were verified on 13 July 2026 from the published KDP, ACX and IngramSpark rate cards, and two of them changed in 2026: KDP's 70% ebook band now runs to $12.99 and ACX pays 50% on new-model exclusive titles.
To recover your $500.00 production cost you need 153 sales.
Effective July 7, 2026 the 70% price band on Amazon.com is $2.99-$12.99, expanded from the previous $2.99-$9.99. Delivery: File size is rounded up to the nearest kilobyte.
Everything runs in your browser from rates baked into the page. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere; a share link carries the calculation in the link itself.
Your per-unit royalty depends on choices you make long before upload day. Draft your manuscript in a dedicated binder tool (see our Scrivener review) and run a tight self-edit with an automated checker (see our ProWritingAid review) before hiring a copyeditor. Clean copy cuts your upfront spend on publishing cost benchmarks so your book reaches break-even faster.
For print editions, interior layout directly controls your page count and print deduction. Use our words to pages converter to estimate your trim size, then typeset your EPUB and print PDF in dedicated software (read our Vellum review). Compressing interior images also keeps your eBook file size small, protecting your 70% KDP payout from heavy MB delivery fees. To compare book royalties against salaried writing roles, read our data report on how much writers make.
Every rate below was read from the platform's own published rate card on 13 July 2026, with a link to the exact page. Two of these cards changed in mid-2026, so most older guides (and most AI answers) still quote stale numbers. US marketplace figures only.
| 70% option | 0.70 x (list price minus delivery cost). List price must be $2.99 to $12.99 (band expanded from $9.99 effective 7 July 2026). Sales outside the 70% territories earn 35%. |
| 35% option | 0.35 x list price, no delivery cost deducted. US minimum list price $0.99 (under 3 MB), $1.99 (3 to 10 MB) or $2.99 (10 MB and up); maximum $200. |
| Delivery cost | $0.15 per MB on Amazon.com, file size rounded up to the nearest kilobyte, minimum $0.01. Applies to the 70% option only. |
| Specification | Flat band | Per-page band |
|---|---|---|
| Black ink, regular trim | 24-110 pages: $2.30 | 110-828 pages: $1.00 + $0.012/page |
| Black ink, large trim | 24-110 pages: $2.84 | 110-828 pages: $1.00 + $0.017/page |
| Premium color, regular trim | 24-40 pages: $3.60 | 42-828 pages: $1.00 + $0.065/page |
| Premium color, large trim | 24-40 pages: $4.20 | 42-828 pages: $1.00 + $0.08/page |
| Standard color, regular trim | none | 72-600 pages: $1.00 + $0.0255/page |
| Standard color, large trim | none | 72-600 pages: $1.00 + $0.0402/page |
Paperback royalty is 60% of list price minus printing cost at US list prices of $9.99 and above, and 50% at $9.98 and below; Expanded Distribution pays 40% minus printing. KDP's own worked example, which this calculator reproduces: a $15.00, 333-page black-ink paperback costs $5.00 to print, so (0.60 x $15.00) minus $5.00 = $4.00 per sale.
| Model | Exclusive | Non-exclusive |
|---|---|---|
| New model (effective 26 May 2026) | 50% | 30% |
| Legacy model (discontinued at year-end 2026) | 40% | 25% |
On a royalty share deal you split the royalty with your narrator. Note that Audible computes royalties on membership sales from member value rather than sticker price; the calculator models the straightforward a-la-carte case. For IngramSpark, compensation is list price x (1 minus your wholesale discount, 40% to 55% in the US) minus the unit print cost. IngramSpark does not publish its print-cost tables on an open page, so the calculator asks you to paste the print cost from IngramSpark's own tool, and its market access fee is not modelled.
KDP:eBook royalties,list price requirements,pricing page,paperback royalty andprinting cost. ACX: how royalties work andthe new royalty model. IngramSpark: discounting guide. All fetched 13 July 2026.
The Amazon KDP royalty calculator takes your list price, format, file size, and page count, then applies the official KDP rate card. For eBooks in the 70% tier, it deducts the $0.15 per MB delivery fee before multiplying by 0.70. For paperbacks and hardcovers, it multiplies your list price by the 60% or 50% royalty tier and subtracts the exact per-unit print cost.
Amazon KDP pays 70% royalties on eBooks priced between $2.99 and $9.99 across standard 70% territories (and up to $12.99 on Amazon.com following the July 2026 band update), minus a $0.15 per MB delivery fee. Books priced below $2.99 or above the upper band cap earn a flat 35% royalty with no delivery fee deducted.
In the US marketplace, a 200-page standard black-ink paperback (regular trim) costs $3.40 to print ($1.00 fixed cost plus 200 pages at $0.012 per page). On a $14.99 list price in the 60% royalty tier, your gross royalty is $8.99 minus the $3.40 print cost, leaving $5.59 net per copy sold.
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