Topic
Rates Apple charges on app and in-app purchases, including commissions on sales completed outside its own store.
Epic Games says Apple has scarcely produced documents nearly two months past the deadline behind its proposed 5% to 15% link commission. Apple disputes it, and the fee stays undecided while two courts each hold part of the case.
Reality
Apple's EU terms from October 1, 2026 set a 10% commission on qualifying alternative in-app payments, against 15% through In-App Purchase. That five-point gap has to cover the processing, refunds, tax and support work Apple does under IAP, a dev.to guide to the terms shows.
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The Core Technology Fee's 50 cents per install becomes a 5 percent Core Technology Commission on October 1, and link-out commission drops to 15 percent.
Perspective Coverage
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Apple's zero commission on external purchase links exists because a district court held the company in civil contempt, and the case that could remove that finding is now at the Supreme Court with the federal government on Apple's side.
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The justices agreed to review the contempt finding that followed Apple's compliance plan, the plan that allowed outside payment links and charged up to 27% on purchases made through them.
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The £260m deal arrives a month before trial with no admission of liability. Of that total, £100m pays the lawyers and funders who built the case, not the developers who paid the commission.
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A filing quoted by the Financial Times says Apple "may not earn a commission at all" on external purchases. That puts a documented floor under developer models that never had one.
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