Shopify Plus costs less than Advanced from US$800,400 a month
Monthly cost of Advanced (billed yearly) and Plus (3-year term) with Shopify Payments online card rates, by monthly online sales
By Martin DejnickiUpdated Data through October 13, 2026
Short answer
Shopify Plus on a 3-year term costs less than Advanced billed yearly above $800,400 a month in US online sales and C$1,204,400 in Canada. Below those levels Advanced costs less because its monthly price is lower. The comparison uses Shopify Payments online card rates and leaves out apps, taxes and any variable platform fee.
Shopify Plus costs less than Advanced from US$800,400 a month
Monthly cost of Advanced (billed yearly) and Plus (3-year term) with Shopify Payments online card rates, by monthly online sales
United States (USD)
Canada (CAD)
- Monthly cost is the plan's monthly price plus its online card rate times monthly sales. The 30 cent fee per transaction is the same on both plans and is left out.
- The break-even equals $9,604,800 a year in US sales and C$14,452,800 in Canada.
- Advanced is billed yearly (US$299 and C$389 a month, card rates 2.5% and 2.4%). Plus is on a 3-year term (US$2,300 and C$3,400 a month, card rates 2.25% and 2.15%).
- Excludes taxes, apps, themes, extra stores and the variable platform fee some Plus merchants pay. Shopify does not publish that fee.
Source: Shopify's price pages for the United States and Canada, and its Plus page. Break-even computed by Deploi. Read on .
The data
Each chart on this page is drawn from the numbers below. Units are in the column headers.
Shopify Plus costs less than Advanced from US$800,400 a month
| Monthly online sales (USD) | Advanced plan: monthly cost (USD) | Plus plan: monthly cost (USD) | Lower cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $299 | $2,300 | Advanced |
| $200,000 | $5,299 | $6,800 | Advanced |
| $400,000 | $10,299 | $11,300 | Advanced |
| $600,000 | $15,299 | $15,800 | Advanced |
| $800,000 | $20,299 | $20,300 | Advanced |
| $800,400 (break-even) | $20,309 | $20,309 | Equal |
| $1,000,000 | $25,299 | $24,800 | Plus |
| $1,200,000 | $30,299 | $29,300 | Plus |
| $1,400,000 | $35,299 | $33,800 | Plus |
| $1,600,000 | $40,299 | $38,300 | Plus |
Monthly cost = fixed fee + rate x monthly sales. Advanced: $299 + 2.5% of sales. Plus: $2,300 + 2.25% of sales.
| Monthly online sales (CAD) | Advanced plan: monthly cost (CAD) | Plus plan: monthly cost (CAD) | Lower cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| C$0 | C$389 | C$3,400 | Advanced |
| C$300,000 | C$7,589 | C$9,850 | Advanced |
| C$600,000 | C$14,789 | C$16,300 | Advanced |
| C$900,000 | C$21,989 | C$22,750 | Advanced |
| C$1,200,000 | C$29,189 | C$29,200 | Advanced |
| C$1,204,400 (break-even) | C$29,295 | C$29,295 | Equal |
| C$1,500,000 | C$36,389 | C$35,650 | Plus |
| C$1,800,000 | C$43,589 | C$42,100 | Plus |
| C$2,100,000 | C$50,789 | C$48,550 | Plus |
| C$2,400,000 | C$57,989 | C$55,000 | Plus |
Monthly cost = fixed fee + rate x monthly sales. Advanced: C$389 + 2.4% of sales. Plus: C$3,400 + 2.15% of sales.
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Methodology
Reading the chart: Shopify Plus costs less than Advanced from US$800,400 a month
- Monthly cost is the plan's monthly price plus its online card rate times monthly sales. The 30 cent fee per transaction is the same on both plans and is left out.
- The break-even equals $9,604,800 a year in US sales and C$14,452,800 in Canada.
- Advanced is billed yearly (US$299 and C$389 a month, card rates 2.5% and 2.4%). Plus is on a 3-year term (US$2,300 and C$3,400 a month, card rates 2.25% and 2.15%).
- Excludes taxes, apps, themes, extra stores and the variable platform fee some Plus merchants pay. Shopify does not publish that fee.
Caveats: Shopify plan prices and payment fees, US and Canada
- Current list prices only. Shopify's pricing pages were read on October 13, 2026. Shopify changes prices without notice and no price history was captured. Promotional offers such as "Try 3 days free, then $1/month for 3 months" are not list prices and are excluded.
- Region and geolocation. Shopify serves the US price list (USD) at /pricing and the Canadian list (CAD) at /ca/pricing. The two are not one exchange rate applied to each other: the CAD to USD price ratio runs from 1.25 for Grow billed yearly to 1.48 for Plus on a 3-year term. Fetching /pricing with Accept-Language fr-CA, en-CA or en-US, or with a localization cookie set to CA, returned identical prices, and the page state reads geoPricingIsEnabled=false. All fetches left from a US network exit, so a Canadian visitor's view of /pricing was not observed directly.
- Card rates are "from" rates for Shopify Payments, which is available only in some countries. Shopify's Plus page says "Card rates vary by country". The Plus card rates used here (2.25% + 30 cents in the US, 2.15% + 30 cents in Canada) are those printed in the pricing table.
- Plus has two published prices (3-year term and 1-year term) and an unpublished alternative: "More complex, higher volume businesses switch to a variable platform fee based on their revenue and business model." Shopify publishes no percentage or threshold for that fee, so a business on it has a different break-even than any row here. Plus includes the main store and 9 expansion stores. Extra stores cost $300 USD (US page) or $450 CAD (Canada page) per month each, or a revenue share.
- Break-even method. Monthly cost is the monthly subscription plus the variable rate times monthly sales. Plus equals Advanced at x = (plusFixed minus advFixed) / (advRate minus plusRate), with rates stored as fractions (0.025 is 2.5%). The per-transaction fixed fee (30 cents on both plans in both countries) cancels. The result counts only the subscription and the card or third-party percentage, and it ignores international and premium-card surcharges, in-person and POS fees, apps, themes, taxes, extra stores and the variable platform fee. Scenarios (a) and (b) assume all sales are standard online cards through Shopify Payments. Scenarios (c) and (d) assume all sales go through a third-party gateway, where Shopify's third-party transaction fee applies (2%, 1%, 0.6% and 0.2% by plan) and the processor's own fees, equal under either plan, cancel.
- Advanced is priced billed yearly (US$299 and C$389 per month, paid yearly). Billed monthly it costs more (US$399 and C$517), which lowers the break-even, and those scenarios are not computed. Plus needs a 1-year or 3-year commitment: "you can cancel when your term commitment expires".
- Canadian specifics. In-person card rates for Plus (2.4% + 0 cents) equal Advanced's as printed. Canadian "Online international rates" are flat (3.5%, 3.4%, 3.3% and 3.15% + 30 cents CAD) where the US page shows "+ 1%" on top of the card rate, and Canada lists Amex rates where the US lists premium card rates. In the US comparison table the fixed part of a card fee prints as 30¢ without a currency code, but the plan cards name it ("Card rates from 2.9% + 30¢ USD"), so fixed fees are US dollars in US rows and Canadian dollars in Canadian rows.
- The Help Center page on third-party transaction fees could not be fetched by script (bot check, HTTP 403), so the rates used come from the pricing pages and the Plus page. A fifth plan, Agentic ($0 a month, "For selling in AI channels", card rates from 2.9% + 30¢ USD online and 2.8% + 30¢ CAD online), has no in-person or third-party fee rows and is not part of the break-even rows.
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Sources
Tier A sources are primary documents: filings, official releases and official price pages. How sources are ranked.
- Tier AShopify Pricing (United States, USD)
Shopify Inc. · HTML · Read on
- Tier AShopify Pricing (Canada, CAD)
Shopify Inc. · HTML · Read on
- Tier AShopify Plus pricing (USD)
Shopify Inc. · HTML · Read on
- Tier AShopify Plus pricing (CAD)
Shopify Inc. · HTML · Read on
- Tier AShopify Help Center: Shopify Plus plan (Localized Plus plan pricing)
Shopify Inc. · TEXT · Read on
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- · Shopify plan prices and payment fees, US and Canada
First release. US and Canada list prices and fees read from Shopify's pricing pages on October 13, 2026. Deploi computed the break-even rows and recorded its checks on which price list each country sees.