NFT Royalty Calculator

How to use the NFT royalty calculator

Pick a marketplace

OpenSea, Blur, Magic Eden, Tensor, LooksRare, X2Y2, Foundation, Rarible — each has its own fee and royalty enforcement policy baked in. The notes below the dropdown show the actual current behaviour: which marketplaces enforce royalties, which let buyers skip them, which charge minimum-floor royalties even when collections set higher.

Enter the sale price

In ETH, SOL, MATIC, or USD. The collection's royalty percentage (the rate set in the smart contract via EIP-2981 or similar) goes in the last field. Most collections set 5-10%; some art collections set up to 25%.

Optional: buyer-honored toggle

On OpenSea, Blur, Tensor, LooksRare, X2Y2 — royalties are optional. Buyers can choose to skip them. Toggle the checkbox to see what the seller receives in both scenarios. On Magic Eden (Solana), Rarible, Foundation — royalties are enforced and the toggle hides.

Read the breakdown

Three cards show marketplace fee, creator royalty, and seller's net receive — with optional USD value if you typed in the token price. The horizontal bar visualises proportions. Switch marketplaces to compare — the same NFT on Blur vs OpenSea Pro vs Foundation produces very different seller economics.

NFT royalties — promise, betrayal, and the new equilibrium

One of NFTs' founding promises was perpetual royalties — every time a digital artwork resold, on any marketplace, forever, the original creator would automatically receive a share. The standard for encoding this on-chain is EIP-2981 (finalised October 2021), which adds a royaltyInfo() function to a collection's smart contract telling any marketplace what royalty to pay and to whom. For 18 months the system mostly worked: OpenSea, then the dominant marketplace, honoured EIP-2981 by default, and creator royalties accounted for hundreds of millions in earnings for digital artists. Then the market changed.

The Blur war (2022-2023)

In October 2022, a new Ethereum NFT marketplace called Blur launched aimed at professional traders. Blur charged zero marketplace fees and made creator royalties optional — buyers could choose whether to pay them. Blur's volume exploded as traders rushed to the cheaper venue. To compete, OpenSea introduced a "creator-fee enforcement tool" that blocked sales to known royalty-skipping marketplaces — but Blur worked around it. After months of escalation, in February 2024, OpenSea capitulated entirely and made creator royalties optional. The era of enforced Ethereum NFT royalties effectively ended that day. Royalty revenue for top collections dropped 50-80% within months.

Bored Ape Yacht Club's monthly royalty revenue peaked at ~$12M in early 2022 and dropped to ~$1.5M by mid-2024 — a direct measure of what marketplace policy change cost a single collection.

The Solana counter-example

Solana NFTs took the opposite path. Magic Eden (the dominant Solana marketplace) enforces creator royalties on-chain via Metaplex's Token Metadata standard — which lets royalties be technically enforced rather than just requested. Tensor launched in 2023 with optional royalties and took 30%+ market share within months — but Magic Eden's enforced-royalty option remains live for collections that opt in. The Solana ecosystem demonstrated that royalty enforcement is technically possible on the right chain architecture, just unprofitable for any individual marketplace to enforce unilaterally on a chain like Ethereum where assets move freely.

The current equilibrium (2026)

Most active NFT marketplaces fall into one of three camps. Optional royalties + low or zero fees: Blur (0% fee, 0.5% min royalty), OpenSea (2.5% fee, optional royalty), Tensor (1.5% fee, optional royalty), LooksRare (0.5% fee), X2Y2 (0.5% fee). These dominate volume on Ethereum and Solana. Enforced royalties: Foundation (5% fee, 10% creator royalty), Rarible (1% fee, EIP-2981 enforced), Magic Eden Solana (2% fee, Metaplex-enforced). These appeal to artists but capture less trading volume. Marketplace aggregators: Reservoir, OpenSea Pro, Blur Pro — let traders route to whichever venue is cheapest for any given trade, further pressuring royalty enforcement.

The APAC NFT landscape

NFT activity across APAC mirrors broader crypto adoption but with distinct local flavours. South Korea has one of the highest retail NFT participation rates globally; Klaytn-based collections were huge through 2022-2023; Korean traders are major Ethereum NFT volume contributors on Blur and OpenSea. Japan approached NFTs through corporate channels — Sony, Square Enix, Bandai Namco launched proprietary platforms with fully enforced royalties; J-pop and anime IP collections (CryptoNinja, Aopanda) thrive. Singapore hosts a concentration of NFT infrastructure — including Coinhako, Coinhako's NFT arm, and many Web3 funds. Hong Kong licensed NFT marketplace operations in 2023. Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand were epicentres of the 2021-2022 play-to-earn boom (Axie Infinity originated in Vietnam, peaked in Philippines); the post-bubble NFT activity there is more modest but persistent. India has growing NFT collector communities but is constrained by the 30% capital gains + 1% TDS tax regime on crypto. China bans NFTs as financial instruments but tolerates "digital collectibles" on permissioned platforms (Alipay's Whale, JD.com's Lingxi) which strip out the royalty layer entirely. Australia, Taiwan have moderate adoption. Across APAC creator communities, the royalty-optional shift on Ethereum has been a real economic blow — and many creators are migrating to Solana, Base, or off-chain licensing for that reason.

What this calculator can't predict

Royalty enforcement is a moving target. OpenSea's policy could change tomorrow. Blur could enforce floor royalties more aggressively. Magic Eden could ease restrictions on Solana. The marketplace fees shown are current as of 2026 — verify on each marketplace's official site before signing a trade. Some marketplaces also charge variable fees for "Pro" tiers or feature trades — those edge cases aren't modelled here. The calculator gives a quick reality-check; for high-value sales (5+ ETH), always confirm fees with the marketplace directly.

10 Things You Didn't Know About NFT Royalties

01

EIP-2981 was finalised in October 2021 — the first standard for encoding creator royalty on-chain via a contract's royaltyInfo() function.

02

OpenSea's "Operator Filter Registry" tried to block known royalty-skipping marketplaces — Yuga Labs (BAYC creators) joined first, but the system was abandoned in 2024.

03

Blur paid out over $300M in BLUR token incentives to early users — fuelling its market-share rise from 0 to dominant Ethereum NFT marketplace in 18 months.

04

Magic Eden's switch to optional royalties on Polygon (Oct 2022) preceded OpenSea's Ethereum-wide change by 16 months — Solana stayed enforced longer.

05

Foundation's 5% marketplace fee + 10% creator royalty default is one of the highest on Ethereum — by design, to compensate for lower trading volume.

06

Axie Infinity, launched in Vietnam, was the largest NFT play-to-earn game globally — at peak, ~40% of Filipino crypto wallets held an Axie NFT.

07

Solana's Metaplex enforces royalties via on-chain token-extension mechanisms — technically harder to bypass than Ethereum's EIP-2981, which marketplaces could ignore.

08

Yuga Labs (BAYC, Mutant Apes, Otherside) reportedly earned $90M+ in royalties in 2022 — most of which evaporated when marketplace enforcement collapsed.

09

Japan's NFT-friendly tax law (effective 2023) treats NFT income as miscellaneous income, not capital gains — reducing tax for casual creators significantly.

10

Reservoir, a marketplace aggregator launched 2022, lets traders route through whichever marketplace offers best price — accelerating the race-to-zero on fees and royalties.

FAQ

Because no Ethereum marketplace could technically enforce them after Blur launched in 2022 with 0% fees and optional royalties. Market pressure forced OpenSea, LooksRare, X2Y2 to follow. Solana royalties remain mostly enforced because Metaplex's on-chain enforcement is harder to bypass.
The Ethereum standard (Oct 2021) for encoding royalty info in smart contracts. A compliant contract exposes royaltyInfo(tokenId, salePrice) returning the recipient address + amount. Marketplaces can read this to know what royalty to pay — but they aren't technically required to obey it.
On Ethereum: Foundation, Rarible. On Solana: Magic Eden's Solana side (via Metaplex). Optional: OpenSea, Blur, Tensor, LooksRare, X2Y2. Blur enforces a 0.5% minimum floor for opted-in collections.
On Etherscan, query the collection contract's royaltyInfo() function. On OpenSea, scroll to the collection's "Creator Earnings" section. Most collections set 5-10%, some art collections set higher (15-25%). Check before listing.
Yes — if you're the contract owner, just set the EIP-2981 return value to 0. Many collections have done this since 2023 to remove an unenforceable promise. Existing royalty contracts can usually be updated; some immutable contracts cannot.
No. The calculations run entirely in your browser. No wallet connection, no API calls. Token prices are typed in manually if you want USD conversion.
Gas isn't included here — it's separate from marketplace fee and royalty. The seller pays gas for the listing acceptance transaction. On Ethereum mainnet, that's typically 0.001-0.01 ETH depending on network congestion. Use our ETH Unit Converter to estimate.
Partially — Bitcoin Ordinals have no native royalty mechanism (Bitcoin doesn't support smart contracts the way Ethereum does). Magic Eden enforces optional royalties for Ordinals via off-chain marketplace policy. Pick "Magic Eden" and adjust to taste.
OpenSea Pro is the platform's aggregator product, charging 0% marketplace fee (vs 2.5% on regular OpenSea) to compete with Blur. Royalties remain optional. Many pro traders use OpenSea Pro for execution while creators continue listing on standard OpenSea.
Varies wildly: India 30% capital gains + 1% TDS on every transaction. Australia: capital gains as crypto. Singapore: generally exempt for individuals (treated as property gains). Japan: miscellaneous income at marginal rate. South Korea: 20% gains tax from 2025 onwards. Always check with a local tax professional.

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