
How Much Does Amazon PPC Cost? Real CPCs, Budgets and Benchmarks
Platform-average CPC is a bad planning number. Here are the sourced 2026 benchmarks, and the arithmetic that turns them into a budget floor for your catalog.

Founder & CEO
Nikolai Melnyk has been inside Amazon advertising since 2014 — long before "Amazon PPC" was a job title. He started with the first private-label brands and grew alongside the platform, launching and scaling 100+ products across dozens of categories. Every campaign type, every report, every algorithm shift — he's worked through them in real accounts, with real budgets on the line.
He doesn't run ads in a vacuum. Nikolai reads a brand end to end — margins, catalog, logistics, conversion — so every PPC decision serves the business, not just a dashboard metric. His clients hear "we grew your profit by 15%," not "we cut ACoS to 20%." Advertising is a lever on the P&L, and he treats it that way.
His model is partnership, not billable hours. "I don't sell hours — I join your team." He builds long-term relationships where his incentives are tied to the brand's growth, shares data openly, and turns down projects when the values don't match — because trust, not a contract, is what produces the result.
Where others chase formulas and quick wins, Nikolai looks for the logic that actually moves the numbers. Systems over chaos, clarity over noise, sustainable growth over spikes. He'd rather do fewer things better than spread a budget thin chasing every trend.
And he's not a one-man show. A vetted PPC team with proven processes stands behind him, so clients get first-person expertise with the care of a boutique agency — and the reliability of a company that doesn't disappear when things get busy.
He's on a mission to prove that good products shouldn't lose on Amazon because of mediocre marketing — and to help ambitious brands compete with far bigger players through smarter, data-driven advertising.

Platform-average CPC is a bad planning number. Here are the sourced 2026 benchmarks, and the arithmetic that turns them into a budget floor for your catalog.

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