Calculator: what DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub cost you
US delivery apps take between 15% and 30% of every delivery order, and 6% to 10% on pickup. For a pizzeria doing 150 orders a month at a $30 ticket, DoorDash’s 25% Plus plan comes to $13,500 a year: the price of a good deck oven, every single year.
Commission per year
$13,500
Per month
$1,125
Per order
$7.50
How the number is worked out
Commission is a percentage of the order subtotal, so the math is deliberately simple:
orders × ticket × rate = commission
Use your ticket before sales tax and tip; the apps calculate their fee on the food. What the figure leaves out, on purpose: promotions you fund yourself, refunds charged back to you, Grubhub’s order processing fee and extra fees for options such as Uber One participation. All of them push the real number up, none can be predicted from outside, and guessing them would make the result less trustworthy, not more.
US rates, October 2026
| Platform | Delivery | Pickup |
|---|---|---|
| DoorDash (Basic / Plus / Premier) | 15% / 25% / 30% | 6% |
| Uber Eats (Lite / Plus / Premium) | 20% (15% in some cities) / 25% / 30% | 7% or 10% |
| Uber Eats, you deliver | 15% | 7% or 10% |
| Grubhub (Basic / Plus / Premium) | 5% / 15% / 20%, plus from 10% if Grubhub delivers | Marketing fee only |
Published US merchant pricing from DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub, October 2026. Uber Eats pickup is 7% with validated in-store pricing, 10% without. New York City and San Francisco have passed 15% caps on delivery commissions. Your own contract is the number that counts.
What the comparison should be
Not “commission versus zero.” Taking orders yourself still costs card processing, roughly 2.9% plus 30¢ per order, so on a $30 order you keep about $28.83 instead of $22.50 at 25%. That gap, times every regular’s order, is the number worth acting on. Sales tax isn’t part of it: it is added on top of the menu price at checkout, varies by state and city, and is passed on to the state either way.
And the honest caveat: an app brings customers who have never heard of you. Commission on a genuinely new customer is an acquisition cost. Commission on the regular who orders every Friday is not.
Uber Eats: when leaving is right, and when it isn’t
DoorDash: keep the app, move the regulars