Uber Eats can flood your kitchen with orders and quietly take a third of sales too. Because its pricing is tiered, most operators aren’t sure whether they’re on Lite, Plus, or Premium, or what that actually costs them each month. This free calculator makes it concrete: enter your order value, monthly volume, and plan, and see exactly what Uber Eats charges, what you keep, and how much you’d need to raise delivery prices to break even against your dine-in margin.
Uber Eats commissions run roughly 15–30% of each order depending on your plan, so the fees add up fast on a busy month. Knowing the real number is the first step to pricing delivery so it makes money instead of quietly costing you.
Unlock your monthly fees, what you keep, and the markup to offset it.
Uber Eats charges a commission on each order that depends on your marketplace plan: roughly 20% on Lite, 25% on Plus, and 30% on Premium for delivery. Pickup orders are much cheaper, around 7% with validated in-store pricing. There’s also a small per-order processing fee, and rates can vary by region, so your effective cost sits somewhere in the 15–30% range for most delivery orders.It’s the share of a dish’s menu price that goes toward the ingredients to make it. You calculate it by dividing the plate’s ingredient cost by its selling price. A $5 plate that sells for $16 has a food cost of about 31%.
They trade commission for visibility. Lite is the cheapest commission but gives you the least exposure, you mostly appear when someone searches your name. Plus raises the commission in exchange for placement on the home screen and inclusion in Uber One perks. Premium charges the most but gives maximum exposure plus marketing support like ad-spend matching. The right tier depends on whether you need Uber Eats for discovery or just fulfillment.
Orders placed by Uber One members (Uber’s subscription customers) can carry an extra commission on some plans notably, Plus-tier orders from Uber One members are charged at a higher rate than standard Plus orders. Because Uber One members make up a large share of orders, this can push your blended, real-world commission higher than the headline plan rate. If most of your orders come from members, your effective rate may be closer to the Premium tier than you’d expect.
A few levers: choose the plan that matches how much you actually rely on Uber for discovery rather than defaulting to a higher tier; promote pickup orders, which carry a much lower commission; use self-delivery if you can staff it, which is cheaper than tapping Uber’s courier network; and validate your in-store pricing so pickup stays at the lower rate. Many operators also raise their Uber Eats menu prices to share the commission, and steer repeat customers to their own direct ordering.
Most restaurants do, because selling at your dine-in price on a 30% commission often means losing money after food and labor. Uber Eats lets you set delivery-specific menu pricing, so you can mark up to offset the commission without changing your in-house prices. This calculator shows the markup needed to fully offset the fee; many operators land between that figure and their dine-in price to stay competitive while protecting margin.
All three sit in a similar 15–30% commission range for delivery, with tiered plans that trade lower fees for less visibility. The differences are in the details, specific tier rates, surcharges like Uber One, and regional availability. The math in this calculator applies to any of them: just enter that platform’s rate to see your real monthly cost.
