- Published 2026 estimates put Amazon CPC near $1.07 to $1.22 and ACoS near 28% to 38%, depending on the source.
- No 2027 benchmark data exists yet as of November 2026, so every figure here is a 2026 estimate.
- Most benchmarks come from tool vendors and agencies measuring their own customers, which is one reason they conflict.
- Your break-even ACoS equals your margin before advertising, and your target ACoS sits below it by the profit you want per ad sale.
- Your TACoS ceiling is margin before ads, minus overhead, minus your net profit goal.
- Amazon's own benchmarks report covers CPC and click-through rate against category peers, but its metric list omits ACoS and TACoS.
Is there any Amazon PPC benchmark data for 2027 yet?
No. As of November 2026, every published Amazon PPC benchmark describes 2026 or earlier, and the first full quarter of 2027 will not exist until spring. Treat the figures on this page as the starting line going into 2027, and be wary of any report that labels 2026 numbers as 2027 ones.
Nearly all the public numbers come from companies selling PPC software or management. Ad Badger, Autron and Ryze AI sell tools or automation. Eva Commerce and SellerPlex are agencies reporting on their own clients. SellerVine is an agency too, so read us with the same suspicion. We publish no benchmark dataset of our own here, and every figure below belongs to the source named beside it.
Amazon's position is different. It has published its own definition of ACoS, and since May 18, 2026 it has offered benchmarks reporting in 18 marketplaces, including the US, UK and India.
What do the latest Amazon PPC benchmarks say?
The sources we could read directly put cost per click between $1.07 and $1.22 and ACoS between 28.4% and 38% in 2026. Conversion rates run from 8.3% to 11.2%. Only two publish account-level TACoS, at 10.6% and 15%. All of these are vendor estimates covering different accounts and different months.
| Source and what it sells | Sample, as stated | Period | CPC | ACoS | Conversion | TACoS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ad Badger (PPC tool) | A subset of campaigns on its platform; size not disclosed | Jan to Aug 2026 | $1.22 | 29.6% | 11.1% | Not published |
| Eva Commerce (agency) | 150 US brand accounts it works with, $1M to $20M a year | Jul 27 to Oct 24, 2026 | $1.07 | 28.4% | 11.2% | 10.6% |
| SellerPlex (agency) | 38 US accounts it manages; TACoS on 36 | Jan to Jun 2026 | $1.07 | 38% | 8.3% | 15% |
| Autron (PPC software) | Size not stated; compiled industry data checked against accounts it manages | 2026, window not stated; page updated June 29 | $1.13 | 34% | 10.5% | Not published |
| Triple Whale (ecommerce analytics), as reported by Trellis | 2,800+ brands | August 2025 to July 2026 | Not reported | ROAS 3.08, which works out near 32.5% | 10.77% | Not published |
| Jungle Scout (seller tools), as reported by Eightx | Unknown to us; the report sits behind a form | Report covers 2025 performance | $1.34 (unconfirmed) | 28.4% (unconfirmed) | 11 to 12% (unconfirmed) | Not published |
Eva and SellerPlex report medians across accounts. Ad Badger reports averages. Autron gives cross-category averages and category medians. Eva's and SellerPlex's blended figures span more than one ad type, so they will not match a Sponsored Products table line for line.
Jungle Scout's report page confirms 14 categories and says CPCs are rising, but we could not read the numbers. Eightx attributes these figures to public summaries of the report. Eva's 28.4% is a separate measurement that happens to match. Check the report itself before quoting this row.
Two other reports give direction without a platform average. Karooya's summary of Tinuiti's Q2 2026 report has Sponsored Products spend up 38%, clicks up 37% and CPC up only 1% year over year. Trellis notes that Tinuiti puts part of the quarter's lift down to Prime Day moving into June, so read any Q2 growth figure with that in mind.
How much do category benchmarks disagree?
A lot in some categories and very little in others. Ad Badger, Autron and Eva put Beauty clicks at $1.18 or less, while Ryze AI says $2.47. Clothing ACoS runs from 29.9% to 57% depending on the source. Use a category figure only with its source and sample attached.
| Category (CPC / ACoS) | Ad Badger, Jan to Aug 2026 | Autron, 2026 medians | Ryze AI, 12 months, 850+ accounts | Eva, Jul to Oct 2026, 150 accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty and personal care | $1.18 / 24% | $1.18 / 31% | $2.47 / 36.0% | $0.80 / 28.5% |
| Health | $1.05 / 27% | $1.42 / 36% | $2.89 / 40.7% | $1.16 / 28.4% |
| Home | $0.88 / 31% | $0.74 / 32% | $1.52 / 27.7% | $1.28 / 27.4% |
| Pet supplies | $0.91 / 26% | $1.23 / 31% | $1.67 / 36.9% | $1.02 / 28.9% |
| Food and grocery | $0.58 / 21% | $0.56 / 23% | $1.98 / 34.8% | $1.01 / 26.6% |
| Clothing | $0.72 / 42% | $0.69 / 57% | $2.15 / 29.9% | Not split out |
The category labels differ too. Ryze says Health and Wellness, Ad Badger and Autron say Health and Household, and Eva's row is Supplements and Health. Eva's Home row is Home and Kitchen, while the others use Home and Garden, so those are different groups of products. Ryze filtered to US sellers above $25,000 in monthly revenue and says it manages 180 of the accounts, and it does not date its 12 months.
Pacvue adds a separate data point through beBOLD's summary: for Q2 2026 Sponsored Products, Health and Household was the priciest click at $2.18 and Clothing, Shoes and Jewelry the cheapest at $0.55. We have not seen Pacvue's full table.
SellerForge's comparison is worth reading if category numbers are your main interest. It puts Ad Badger, Autron and Ryze side by side and rates each category by how far they spread.
Why do the benchmarks disagree?
They measure different sellers over different months, and they do the arithmetic differently. A tool vendor's users, an agency's clients and a filtered group of larger sellers buy different keywords at different prices. Averages, medians and spend-weighted totals then give different answers from the very same accounts, so a gap of ten points is normal.
The arithmetic is the easiest part to see. SellerPlex's median account ran a 38% ACoS, yet the same accounts pooled by spend came to 30%, because big budgets carry more weight in a pooled figure. That eight-point gap comes from one dataset. Eva's gap is far smaller, 28.4% median against 27.6% pooled, on a sample with a narrower size range. Its middle half of accounts sits between 23.8% and 33.7%, while SellerPlex's runs from 25% to 53%.
Ad type moves the number as well. Eva's medians by format are 27.7% for Sponsored Products, 26.7% for Sponsored Brands and 38.3% for Sponsored Display, and DSP attribution usually counts view-through sales. An account heavy on Sponsored Display will look worse against a Sponsored Products table with no change in how well it is run.
The sample also shifts inside a single source. Ad Badger warns that its monthly trend is "largely influenced by the pool size" as its user base changes. Its current page shows two all-category ACoS figures, 30.67% in one section and 29.6% in the category table, and two conversion rates, 11.72% and 11.1%. An Eightx article dated May 29 quoted Ad Badger at 32.48%. Pick the version with a stated period, which here is the Jan to Aug table.
Every publisher also has something to sell, and each sample is made of its own customers. Eva says plainly that brands hiring an agency may advertise differently from those that do not, and that applies to SellerPlex and to us. None of these is a random sample of Amazon sellers.
How much does the time of year change CPC and ACoS?
Enough to make any single month misleading. Ad Badger's monthly CPC ran from $1.02 in October 2025 to $1.32 in June 2026, and its ACoS from 28.0% to 32.5% within a few months. SellerPlex's median CPC climbed through the first half of 2026, starting at $0.99 and reaching $1.36 by June. Compare like periods.
June 2026 stands out in both datasets because Prime Day fell in that month. SellerPlex's median ACoS reached 41% that month, and it describes the jump as largely seasonal and self-inflicted, since accounts spend hard into the event. Eva's 90-day window includes October's Prime Big Deal Days, and Eva expects Q4 holiday clicks to cost more than its figures show.
For your own account, compare a quarter with the same quarter last year, and note when events moved. A 2026 Prime Day in June against a 2025 Prime Day in July will distort both Q2 and Q3 comparisons. If your CPC jumps in the fourth quarter, that alone says little about your campaigns. If you want the structural causes of a rising number, our post on reducing ACoS covers the fixes in order.
What can Amazon's own benchmarks report tell you?
Amazon's benchmarks report compares your campaigns with category peer brands on CPC, click-through rate, CPM, video metrics and new-to-brand purchase measures. Amazon's list of metrics does not include ACoS or TACoS. It is useful for checking what you pay for clicks, and it cannot give you a profit target.
Amazon lists eight metrics in its May 18, 2026 announcement, covering Sponsored Ads and DSP, with filters for ad format and campaign goal. Access runs through the ad console and API, and it requires a brand owner or representative in Brand Registry. For a registered brand, this is the first benchmark to check, because Amazon compares you with category peers and offers the report in each of those marketplaces. Third-party tables are weak for a UK or India account: Eva, SellerPlex and Ryze all report US accounts, and Ad Badger and Autron do not name a marketplace for their tables.
Amazon has not published details of how it builds peer groups beyond calling the matching "sophisticated", according to PPC Land. Keep that in mind if your brand straddles two categories.
How do you work out your break-even ACoS?
Break-even ACoS is the share of your selling price left once every cost except advertising is paid. Subtract product cost, Amazon fees, storage and the returns you absorb from the selling price, then divide what remains by the price. An ad-attributed sale above that percentage loses money on the sale itself.
Amazon's ACOS guide makes the same link: to keep a profit, ACOS has to stay under your margin. Here is an illustration with made-up numbers for a $40 product. Use your real fees from the FBA profit calculator.
| Line (illustration) | Per unit |
|---|---|
| Selling price | $40.00 |
| Product cost, landed | $10.00 |
| Referral fee, assumed at 15% | $6.00 |
| FBA fulfillment, assumed | $6.50 |
| Storage and returns, assumed | $1.50 |
| Left before ads | $16.00 |
| Break-even ACoS ($16 divided by $40) | 40% |
Now run three illustrative products against Ad Badger's 29.6% all-category average.
| Product (illustration) | Break-even ACoS | Left before ads | Ad cost at 29.6% | Result per ad sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $18 consumable | 22% | $3.96 | $5.33 | Loss of $1.37 |
| $40 home product | 40% | $16.00 | $11.84 | Profit of $4.16 |
| $65 premium item | 55% | $35.75 | $19.24 | Profit of $16.51 |
The $18 product is losing money at a number most benchmark tables call normal. The $65 product could probably afford to bid harder and take more of its market, and a seller aiming for the average would never find that out. You can test your own numbers in our ACoS and TACoS calculator.
Ad Badger's averages of $1.22 CPC and 11.1% conversion work out to $10.99 of ad cost per sale. On a $40 price that is a 27.5% ACoS. On a $20 price, the same click costs and conversion rate give 55%. Compare yourself with a benchmark only after checking your price sits near the sellers in it.
How do you turn break-even into a target ACoS and bid?
Subtract the profit you want per ad-attributed sale from break-even, and the result is your target ACoS. Then multiply price by conversion rate by target ACoS to get the most you can pay per click. Bids set this way follow your own economics, and you can check them against published CPCs afterward.
Continuing the $40 illustration, say you want 12 points of margin left after ads on mature keywords. Target ACoS is 40% minus 12, or 28%. That leaves $4.80 per ad sale.
Maximum CPC is $40 times your conversion rate times 28%. At a 10% conversion rate you can pay $1.12. At 8% it falls to $0.90, and at 14% it rises to $1.57. That spread is why a keyword-level conversion rate, measured on enough clicks, tells you more than any category table. If a term's real conversion rate puts your ceiling at $0.90 while the auction wants $1.60, you have a listing problem or a wrong keyword, and no bid setting fixes that.
Set separate targets by campaign purpose. Branded terms should run well below target, because they are defending sales you are close to winning anyway. Competitor and broad discovery terms can run nearer break-even or above it for a planned test. Amazon's own guide notes that new campaigns tend to show a high ACOS simply because they are new, so give them enough clicks before judging. Our search term audit shows where spend is going before you change targets.
What TACoS should you target at each stage?
Start with a ceiling: margin before ads, minus overhead, minus the net profit you want. Then use stage ranges as a check. We use 20% or more at launch, 12 to 20% in growth, 8 to 13% once established, and under 8% for a brand defending its position. These are our working ranges, which no dataset measures directly.
| Stage | Our working TACoS range | What to judge it by |
|---|---|---|
| Launch, little organic rank yet | 20% or more, with a set spend limit and end date | Organic rank and sales gained on target terms |
| Growth, rank building | 12 to 20% | Total sales rising faster than ad spend |
| Established | 8 to 13% | Profit after ads, and TACoS holding as sales grow |
| Defending a mature position | Under 8% | Share of branded and top terms, so you notice lost ground |
Published figures give some context. Eva's median TACoS was 10.6% with the middle half at 8.1% to 12.8%, and brands at $1M to $3M a year ran 11.2% against 9.7% for those at $8M to $20M, though Eva calls that account-level link weak. SellerPlex's median was 15%, with the middle half at 10% to 21%. Neither sample is sorted by stage, so they locate the middle of the market and say nothing about what your launch should cost.
Your margin overrides the table. With a 40% margin, 8% overhead and a 15% net goal, the ceiling is 40 minus 8 minus 15, or 17%. With a 22% margin, 6% overhead and a 6% net goal, it is 10%. That second brand has no room for a 15% TACoS however healthy that looks in SellerPlex's data.
Here are two illustrative months for a brand with a 40% margin before ads:
| Illustration | Established | Launch |
|---|---|---|
| Total sales | $100,000 | $12,000 |
| Ad-attributed sales | $35,000 | $9,000 |
| Ad spend | $10,500 | $4,500 |
| ACoS | 30% | 50% |
| TACoS | 10.5% | 37.5% |
| Margin before ads, in dollars | $40,000 | $4,800 |
| Left after ads | $29,500 | $300 |
The launch month has a 50% ACoS, above its 40% break-even, and it still covers ad spend because organic sales carry part of the load. It will not cover overhead, so it needs that end date. For the reporting side, see TACoS vs ACoS, and for the full P&L, see profitability beyond ACoS.
What does good look like for an Amazon PPC account?
A good account has mature products running below their own break-even ACoS, a TACoS under its calculated ceiling and steady or falling while total sales grow, and click costs in line with Amazon's peer report. Any planned exceptions, such as a launch, have a spending limit and an end date.
Check those at the product level, since one strong hero product can hide three that lose money on every ad sale. Then look at the trend across at least two comparable quarters. A brand whose TACoS fell from 14% to 11% while sales grew is in better shape than one sitting at 9% with shrinking sales, whatever a table says about either number.
A benchmark earns attention when you sit far outside it and cannot explain why. If your Beauty CPC is double every source in the table above, look at your match types and placements. If your ACoS is ten points above the average and your margin covers it with room to spare, you may have no problem at all.
What mistakes do sellers make with PPC benchmarks?
The most common mistake is adopting a platform average as a target without checking margin. Others include comparing a median with an average, comparing a Prime Day month with a quiet one, and measuring a blended account against a Sponsored Products table. Each one can make a healthy account look broken, or the reverse.
- Cutting bids to reach 30% on a product with a 45% margin, which gives up profitable sales to hit someone else's figure.
- Celebrating a 30% ACoS on a product with a 22% margin. Our $18 illustration shows that loss on every ad sale.
- Reading a US table for a UK or India account. Use Amazon's peer report there, since the third-party samples above that name a marketplace are US.
- Leaving returns out of margin. Autron blames apparel returns for that category's high ACoS, and returned units still cost you fees and handling.
- Quoting a number with no period, sample or publisher attached. If a report cannot tell you who it measured, keep it out of your planning.
- Judging an agency or tool only against the publisher's own table, when that publisher's customers make up the sample.
Setting a budget to reach those targets is a separate job. To check the logic here against your own account, run the calculator with one mature product and one new one. If you want a second opinion on the results, our Amazon PPC team works on a flat monthly fee.
Sources and data notes
Facts in this article were checked against the sources below on November 6, 2026. Amazon and agencies change programs and prices often, so confirm details before you act.
- Amazon Ads: Benchmarks reporting now generally available worldwide
- Amazon Ads: What is advertising cost of sales (ACOS)?
- Ad Badger: Amazon advertising benchmarks
- Eva Commerce: The State of Amazon Ads for $1M to $20M Brands
- SellerPlex: Amazon PPC Benchmarks 2026
- Autron: Amazon PPC Benchmarks by Category (2026)
- Ryze AI: Amazon Ads Benchmarks ACoS, ROAS and CPC by Category 2026
- Trellis: Amazon Advertising Benchmarks 2026
- Jungle Scout: The Amazon Benchmark Report (landing page)
- Eightx: Average Amazon ACoS by vertical 2026
- SellerForge: Amazon PPC Benchmarks by Category
- Karooya: Tinuiti Q2 2026 Digital Ads Benchmark Report highlights
- beBOLD Digital: Amazon Q2 2026 retail media benchmarks
- PPC Land: Amazon Ads benchmarks go global
Frequently Asked Questions
What ACoS is good on Amazon in 2026?
Anything below your own break-even, which equals your margin before ads. Published estimates for 2026 run from 28.4% at Eva Commerce to 38% at SellerPlex, and those are descriptions of other sellers. A 35% ACoS is healthy with a 50% margin and a money loser with a 25% margin.
What is the average CPC on Amazon?
Ad Badger reports a $1.22 average for January to August 2026, Autron $1.13, and Eva Commerce and SellerPlex each report a $1.07 median over their own periods. Eightx attributes $1.34 to Jungle Scout, which we could not confirm. All are estimates. Your category, marketplace and keyword mix will move your own number a long way.
What TACoS is good for an Amazon brand?
Eva Commerce found a 10.6% median among US brands with $1M to $20M in annual sales, and SellerPlex found 15% among its 38 managed accounts. Our working range for established brands is 8 to 13%. Your limit is margin before ads, minus overhead, minus your net profit goal, and that limit overrides any published figure.
How do I calculate break-even ACoS?
Take your selling price and subtract product cost, Amazon fees, storage and returns. Divide what remains by the price. A $40 product with $16 left before ads has a 40% break-even ACoS. At that level, ad cost uses up all of the margin on an ad-attributed sale, so your working target should sit below it.
Why are Amazon PPC benchmarks so different from each other?
Each publisher measures its own users or clients, over its own time period, using averages, medians or spend-weighted totals. SellerPlex's figures show the effect clearly: its accounts had a 38% median ACoS but a 30% ACoS when pooled by spend. Ad type mix, marketplace and seasonal events such as Prime Day widen the gaps further.
Does Amazon publish PPC benchmarks of its own?
Yes, for registered brands. Amazon opened benchmarks reporting to all 18 supported marketplaces on May 18, 2026, through the ad console and API. Amazon lists CPC, click-through rate, CPM, video metrics and new-to-brand purchase measures compared with category peers. ACoS and TACoS are absent from that list, and it is a private report without a public average.
Will Amazon CPCs go up in 2027?
Nobody can say yet, and we found no published 2027 data as of November 2026. The 2026 evidence is mixed. Tinuiti's Q2 2026 report, as summarized by Karooya, showed Sponsored Products CPC up only 1% year over year, while SellerPlex's median rose 37% from January to June. Build your plan on your own margin and conversion rate.
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