Etsy alternatives for artists
Sell your art from a Brushly portfolio at 0% commission, with no listing fees and no Offsite Ads fees. Then post it everywhere and keep every buyer as your collector.
7 days free. No card needed.
Choose Brushly over Etsy if you want
Commission calculator
Move the slider to your yearly sales and see what Etsy's commission costs next to a Brushly plan.
Both charge card processing (Etsy's is 3% + $0.25 in the US; Brushly sales use Stripe's standard rate), so it's left out. Not counted either: Etsy's $0.20 listing fees, and Offsite Ads fees of 12–15% on sales that come from its ads. The Brushly figure is the Foundation plan billed yearly.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Brushly | Etsy |
|---|---|---|
| Selling | ||
| Commission or transaction fee | 0% | 6.5% of the price plus shipping |
| Listing fees | None | $0.20 per listing, again each time it sells |
| Ad fees on sales | None | Offsite Ads: 12–15%, compulsory once a shop passes $10,000 a year |
| Card processing (US) | Stripe's standard fees | 3% + $0.25 |
| Shop with only your work on it | Yes | Your listings sit beside other sellers' |
| Marketing | ||
| One-click posts to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X and Pinterest | Yes | No |
| AI Etsy titles, descriptions and tags | Yes | No |
| Branded emails to your collectors | Add-on, $14.99 a month | No |
| Wall-art mockups | Yes | No |
| Running your studio | ||
| Inventory with locations and statuses | Yes | No |
| Invoices for sales made anywhere | Yes | No |
| Certificates of authenticity with QR verification | Yes | No |
| Print orders shipped to you or a collector | US plans | No |
Etsy details checked against their own website in September 2026. A cross means it isn't offered on their pricing or feature pages. Prices and terms change, so check theirs before you decide.
What it costs
Etsy is cheap to start and gets more expensive as you sell more. A Brushly plan stays the same, so past a few thousand dollars a year you keep more of every sale.
Brushly
From$14.39/ month
Billed yearly
Etsy (US seller)
Why artists switch
Keep the fees
No transaction fee, no listing fee, no ad fee: 0% commission on every portfolio sale.
No lookalikes next to your work
Your portfolio shows your art only, not a page of similar listings.
Buyers you can reach again
Every portfolio buyer joins your collector list, ready for your next launch.
Still selling on Etsy?
Brushly's AI writes Etsy titles, descriptions and tags, so you can run both.
Switching
Start your free trial
Seven days, no card. Import your artworks from a spreadsheet or add them one by one.
Connect Stripe and set shipping
Payments go straight to your own Stripe account. Set a shipping price for the countries you ship to.
Share your portfolio
Your page lives at brushly.art/artists/your-name. Post a piece to every platform in one click with the link.
Questions
It depends on what you sell. For originals and building your own collector base: your own portfolio, such as Brushly at 0% commission. For discovery through an art marketplace: Saatchi Art, which keeps 40%. For print on demand: Fine Art America. For a general online store: Shopify.
In the US: $0.20 per listing, a 6.5% transaction fee, and 3% + $0.25 payment processing. Sales that come from Etsy's Offsite Ads cost another 15%, or 12% once a shop has made $10,000 in a year, up to $100 per order.
Yes, from your own portfolio. On Brushly, collectors check out through your own Stripe account and Brushly takes 0% commission. You pay a flat plan and Stripe's standard card fees.
Yes. Brushly's AI tools write Etsy titles, descriptions and tags, and its inventory keeps track of what has sold wherever it sold.
Brushly brings them to it: one-click posts to five platforms with a link to your work, comments sorted so you can answer buyers first, and emails to your collectors. Every artist portfolio also has its own search-friendly page.
Set up your portfolio, list your work and post it everywhere today.
7 days free. No card needed.
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