Acquire.com pricing, read firsthand August 2026

Acquire.com fees: seller pricing, the 6% to 8% closing fee, and what buyer membership actually costs

Acquire.com charges sellers two things: a monthly listing fee and a closing fee taken when the business sells. The listing fee is $25 a month if you are asking under $250,000, $50 a month from $250,000 to $1M, and $100 a month above $1M. The closing fee runs the other way, 8% under $250,000, 7% from $250,000 to $1M, and 6% above $1M. Escrow is included at no extra charge. Those figures were read on Acquire.com's own seller pricing page in August 2026.

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The buyer side is where their pricing gets harder to pin down, and it is worth spelling out. Acquire.com's pricing page says paid membership starts at $390 and names two tiers, Premium and Platinum, without attaching a price to either. A help center article we read on 11 August 2026 did publish the numbers, putting Premium at $390 per year and Platinum at $780 per year, billed annually, with refunds unavailable after seven days and no proration on cancellation. That article now returns a 404 to automated requests and the pricing page still showed only the starting-at figure when we rechecked it on 3 September 2026, so treat $780 as previously published rather than currently confirmed. Premium covers startups asking up to $250,000; Platinum covers every size. The tables below work the seller cost out in dollars at ten sale prices and compare it against Flippa and against us. Buyouts is a competing marketplace, so read the comparison with that in mind: at most deal sizes Acquire.com is cheaper than Empire Flippers and cheaper than Flippa, and we say so.

Sellers pay a small monthly listing fee plus a closing fee of 6% to 8% by asking price. Buyers can browse free, but seeing financials and contacting founders starts at $390 a year, and the higher tier is not priced on the pricing page at all.

Every tier, worked out in dollars

What Acquire.com actually costs a seller at ten sale prices

The published listing and closing fees applied to real sale prices, assuming a three-month listing, with the effective percentage and what reaches the seller. Escrow is included by Acquire.com, so there is no separate rail cost to add.

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Sale price	Listing plan	Closing fee	Listing cost, 3 months	Total cost	Effective rate	Seller receives
$20,000	$25 a month	8%, $1,600	$75	$1,675	8.4%	$18,325
$30,000	$25 a month	8%, $2,400	$75	$2,475	8.3%	$27,525
$50,000	$25 a month	8%, $4,000	$75	$4,075	8.2%	$45,925
$100,000	$25 a month	8%, $8,000	$75	$8,075	8.1%	$91,925
$150,000	$25 a month	8%, $12,000	$75	$12,075	8.1%	$137,925
$250,000	$50 a month	7%, $17,500	$150	$17,650	7.1%	$232,350
$500,000	$50 a month	7%, $35,000	$150	$35,150	7.0%	$464,850
$1,000,000	$50 a month	7%, $70,000	$150	$70,150	7.0%	$929,850
$2,000,000	$100 a month	6%, $120,000	$300	$120,300	6.0%	$1,879,700
$5,000,000	$100 a month	6%, $300,000	$300	$300,300	6.0%	$4,699,700

Listing and closing fees read firsthand on acquire.com/seller-pricing in August 2026. The listing fee is charged monthly, so the three-month assumption is ours, not theirs: list for longer and the fee grows by $25, $50 or $100 a month. Tier boundaries are published as ranges that touch, so the $250,000 and $1,000,000 rows sit exactly on a boundary and are shown at the lower closing rate; confirm which side of the line you fall on before you list. Figures exclude legal fees and tax, which Acquire.com does not publish.

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What a $150,000 SaaS sale costs on each platform

A fair look at what each does well. Both are useful. Here is where they differ.

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Feature	Buyouts	Acquire.com	Flippa
Upfront or recurring listing fee	$149, $499 or $1,500 one-off by tier	$25, $50 or $100 a month while listed, by asking price	$29 to $699 one-off by band and package, non-refundable
Fee at close	5%, 4% or 3% depending on listing tier	8% under $250k, 7% to $1M, 6% above $1M	10% across every published band
Total on a $150,000 sale	About $6,499 on the $499 tier at 4%	About $12,075 with a three-month listing	About $16,929 with Standard plus Escrow.com at 1.2%
Total on a $30,000 sale	About $1,649 on the $149 tier at 5%	About $2,475 with a three-month listing	About $3,409 with the Standard package
Cost if it never sells	The listing tier fee only	The monthly fee for every month you stay listed	The full listing fee, non-refundable
Escrow	Escrow-backed close included	Included free, stated on their seller pricing page	FlippaPay from 1% or Escrow.com from 1.2%, billed separately
What buyers pay	$99, $299 or $899 a month by membership tier	Free to browse; from $390 a year to see financials and contact founders	Free to browse; Premium $49 a month or $388 a year
Exclusivity required	None. List where you like	None published	None
What the platform verifies	MRR, ARR, growth and churn verified before listing	Metrics synced from connected accounts; buyers are vetted	Vets stated financials above $50,000
Asset focus	AI SaaS only	Startups and SaaS, mostly small and bootstrapped	Websites, domains, apps, ecommerce and SaaS
Guided or brokered option	Self-serve with verified listings	Guided by Acquire, for $100k+ revenue only; price not published	Not offered

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The closing fee falls as the price rises

Acquire.com runs its percentages the opposite way to most brokers: the bigger the deal, the lower the rate. Eight percent under $250,000, seven percent to $1M, six percent above that. Because the listing fee is only $25 to $100 a month, it barely moves the total, so the effective rate lands within a tenth of a point of the headline percentage at every size we modeled. That predictability is the honest strength of their pricing, and it is unusual.

The monthly listing fee is the number to watch

A closing fee only bites if you sell. The listing fee bills every month whether you sell or not, and Acquire.com states you stop it by permanently unlisting the business. Three months at $25 is trivial. A year at $100 while a $1.5M asking price finds no buyer is $1,200 of pure sunk cost. Price realistically, or the recurring line quietly becomes the expensive part of a listing that never closes.

Buyer membership prices are published, just not on the pricing page

Acquire.com's pricing page names Premium and Platinum but says only that paid membership starts at $390, which was still true when we rechecked it on 3 September 2026. A help center article read on 11 August 2026 was more specific, putting Premium at $390 per year and Platinum at $780 per year, both billed annually, but that article now 404s to automated requests, so the $780 is previously published rather than currently confirmed. Premium reaches startups asking up to $250,000 and Platinum reaches every size. Refunds stop after seven days and cancellations are not prorated, so decide before the eighth day.

Good questions

Acquire.com vs Buyouts, answered

Sellers pay a monthly listing fee plus a closing fee when the business sells. The listing fee is $25 a month under a $250,000 asking price, $50 a month from $250,000 to $1M, and $100 a month above $1M. The closing fee is 8%, 7% and 6% across those same bands. Escrow is included.

Eight percent on businesses asking under $250,000, seven percent from $250,000 to $1M, and six percent above $1M. The rate falls as the deal grows, which is the reverse of most broker schedules. It is charged only when the sale completes, and Acquire.com includes escrow at no extra cost.

Yes, and it is recurring rather than one-off. You are billed $25, $50 or $100 every month the business stays listed, set by your asking price. Their help center says you stop the charge by permanently unlisting. That differs from Flippa, which takes a single non-refundable fee up front.

Free to browse, not free to use. Buyers can see public listings on the Basic plan at no cost, but seeing detailed financials and contacting founders requires a paid membership. Sellers pay from the first month they list, so there is no version of a seller account that costs nothing.

Their pricing page says only that paid membership starts at $390 a year, and it names Premium and Platinum without pricing either. We rechecked it on 2 September 2026 and that is still all it shows. A help center article read on 11 August 2026 put Premium at $390 and Platinum at $780 per year, both billed annually, but that article now returns a 404 to automated requests, so treat $780 as previously published rather than currently confirmed. Basic browsing stays free.

Price and deal size. Premium, published at $390 a year, unlocks startups asking up to $250,000. Platinum, published at $780 a year when we last reached their help center in August 2026, unlocks all sizes and adds priority support. Both include the detailed financial, customer and traffic metrics, the closing tools and Acquire Academy. If you are shopping above $250,000, Premium will not show you the listing.

About $8,075. The closing fee is 8% of $100,000, which is $8,000, plus $75 for three months of the $25 listing plan. The seller receives roughly $91,925. Escrow is included, so nothing further is deducted for the payment rail, though legal fees and tax sit outside these figures.

About $70,150 if the asking price puts you in the $250,000 to $1M band: 7% of $1,000,000 is $70,000, plus $150 for three months at $50. The seller receives roughly $929,850. One dollar higher and the 6% band applies instead, so confirm which side of the boundary your asking price sits on.

Acquire.com, at most sizes. On a $150,000 sale Acquire.com costs roughly $12,075 against about $16,929 on Flippa once escrow is added, because Flippa charges 10% at every band and bills the payment rail separately. Flippa can win on a listing you expect to sell fast, since its fee is one-off rather than monthly.

Acquire.com, decisively, on small deals. Empire Flippers takes a flat $10,000 minimum commission, so a $30,000 sale costs $10,000 there against about $2,475 on Acquire.com. Above roughly $700,000 the gap narrows, but Acquire.com stays cheaper on every size we modeled. Empire Flippers charges nothing if the business never sells.

No. Their seller pricing page lists free and secure escrow among what is included, so there is no separate rail percentage to budget. That is a real cost difference against Flippa, where FlippaPay starts at 1% and Escrow.com at 1.2%, which on a $150,000 sale is $1,500 to $1,800 of extra cost.

Only inside the first seven days. Their subscription terms state refunds are not given once you have been a subscriber longer than seven days, and that cancelled subscriptions are not prorated. You can appeal to support for extenuating circumstances. Cancel through Account, then Billing, then Cancel membership, on or before the payment due date.

Acquire.com does not publish a price for it. The service pairs you with M&A specialists and their page states it is available for businesses with $100,000 or more in revenue. If you are considering it, ask for the fee schedule in writing and compare it against the standard self-serve closing fee before committing.

No, and the two get confused constantly. Acquire.com is the marketplace formerly called MicroAcquire, founded by Andrew Gazdecki, where startups are listed and sold. Acquisition.com is Alex Hormozi's education and investment company. The fees on this page apply only to Acquire.com.

Every figure here was read on acquire.com and its help center in August 2026. Acquire.com publishes its seller rates openly, which many brokers do not, and the buyer tier prices came from their own subscription terms rather than a third party. Marketplace pricing changes, so check the source before you list.

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