How Much Commission Does Uber Eats Take From Restaurants in the UK? (2026)

Uber Eats commission is the percentage of each order that Uber Eats deducts before paying a restaurant, plus VAT on top. The short answer: Uber Eats publishes its UK merchant rates, which makes it the easiest of the big three to cost. Where Uber’s couriers deliver, the fee is 30% of the order, 33% on orders from Uber One members. Where you deliver, or the customer collects, it is 13%. None of those figures include VAT, and there is a £650 activation fee (ex VAT) before your first order. All of that is from merchants.ubereats.com/gb/en/pricing, checked 26 October 2026. This guide, the third in our set with the Just Eat and Deliveroo breakdowns, works through the whole stack and what it adds up to over a year.

What are the Uber Eats commission rates in 2026?

Uber Eats runs three marketplace options for UK restaurants. On Uber Delivery, Uber’s delivery people bring the order to the door. On Self-Delivery, the order comes through the app but your own staff deliver it. On Pick-up, the customer collects. Each carries its own percentage, and the page is explicit that none includes VAT.

What else does Uber Eats charge on top of commission?

• VAT at 20% on the fee. The percentages exclude VAT, so a 30% fee costs 36% of the order if you are not VAT registered and cannot reclaim it; 13% becomes 15.6%.
• The activation fee: £650 excluding VAT, £780 with it, before your first order. It covers a tablet, a printer, menu creation, photography, a window sticker, a welcome pack and a training call. You can opt out of items such as photography or equipment and the fee "can be adjusted accordingly", but the reduced amounts are not published.
• Uber One. Member orders carry 33% rather than 30% on Uber Delivery. Uber Eats does not publish what share of orders come from members, so only the statement shows your blended rate.
• Promotions you fund. Discounts and sponsored placement are charged separately and come out of the same margin.
• Refunds. A refund charged back to you raises your effective rate in any week with a few disputes, and the pricing page does not set out the policy, so read your agreement.
• Menu price pressure. Many owners reprice their Uber Eats menu to recover the fee; the menu markup calculator shows what each dish must sell for to protect a chosen margin.

What 30% actually costs on a real order

Take a £22 order on Uber Delivery. The fee at 30% is £6.60, and VAT on it adds £1.32, so £7.92 leaves before you have bought a single ingredient. If that customer is an Uber One member the fee is 33%: £7.26 plus £1.45 VAT, which is £8.71. On Self-Delivery or Pick-up at 13%, the same order costs £2.86 plus 57p VAT, a total of £3.43, though on Self-Delivery you then pay your own driver.

Now scale it. A takeaway doing 150 Uber Eats orders a week at a £22 average puts £3,300 a week through the app. On Uber Delivery at 30% that is £990 a week before VAT, £51,480 a year, or £61,776 with VAT you cannot reclaim. If every order came from an Uber One member the ceiling is £1,089 a week, £56,628 a year before VAT; the real figure sits between the two.

The same 150 orders on Self-Delivery at 13% cost £429 a week before VAT, £22,308 a year, or £26,770 with VAT: a gap of around £29,000 a year, which is your budget for running your own drivers before Uber Delivery becomes the cheaper option.

The savings calculator above runs the same maths on your own weekly numbers, across Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo, in about ten seconds.

If you would rather work from the paperwork, the delivery statement decoder takes the lines off a real Uber Eats, Just Eat or Deliveroo remittance and shows what was actually kept, per order and as a share of revenue, and settles the subtotal-versus-total question above.

When is Self-Delivery at 13% worth it?

The difference between Uber Delivery and Self-Delivery is 17 percentage points: £3.74 on a £22 order before VAT, £4.49 after it. If your own driver costs you less than that per drop, counting wages, fuel and insurance, Self-Delivery is cheaper on every order and you keep the doorstep. If your drops are far apart, the £3.74 disappears quickly and Uber Delivery starts to look reasonable.

Does Uber Eats publish sign-up fees, payout timing and VAT?

Yes to all three, which is unusual among the platforms. Sign-up is the £650 activation fee above. Payout, according to the Uber Eats UK merchant FAQ (merchants.ubereats.com/gb/en/faq, checked 26 October 2026), is weekly by direct deposit: the remittance period runs from midnight on Monday to midnight the following Monday, deposits are initiated on Mondays and take one to two days to clear, so the money lands by midweek. VAT is stated as excluded from every percentage and from the activation fee.

Not published: whether the percentage applies to the item subtotal or the customer total, any ongoing tablet or hardware rental, the price of Uber Direct (the page says you pay "a fee for each delivery", with no figure) and how refunds are handled. For those, your agreement and statements are the only record.

How does Uber Eats compare with Just Eat and Deliveroo?

On the published figures Uber Eats is the cheapest of the three for shops that deliver their own orders, 13% against Just Eat’s 14% (just-eat.co.uk/partner/signup FAQ, checked 26 October 2026), and both charge 30% when their couriers deliver. The difference is at the start: Uber Eats charges £650 to activate, Just Eat publishes no joining fee, and Deliveroo publishes no UK rate at all. The breakdowns are in How much commission does Just Eat take? and How much commission does Deliveroo take?, and the three sit side by side in Just Eat vs Deliveroo vs Uber Eats: fees compared.

The comparison that matters more, though, is any of the three against a direct channel with no marketplace in the middle, where flat published pricing replaces the percentage with a monthly fee and card processing. Our Uber Eats alternative guide runs that comparison in full.

How can a takeaway reduce its Uber Eats bill?

1. Keep Uber Eats for discovery. Paying 30% on a genuinely new customer is a defensible acquisition cost.
2. Switch to Self-Delivery if you already run drivers. The published gap is 17 percentage points, and the listing is the same.
3. Move repeat orders to your own channel. A branded app and ordering website takes the full percentage off every regular who switches, for a flat monthly fee at published prices plus card processing.
4. Point every bag sticker, receipt insert and counter QR code at the direct channel. The order direct kit has ready-made versions.
5. Reward the switch. Loyalty stamps and push notification offers only exist on your own channel, and every Aexir app plan (Starter, Plus and Pro) includes both.

That hybrid pattern is covered step by step in the 30-day online ordering setup guide. None of it requires leaving Uber Eats; the aim is shrinking the fee base, not deleting the account.