Ontario Small Claims Court Fee Calculator

This page does not compute a fee from a formula. It itemises the prescribed clerk fees you select, multiplies each by the quantity you enter, and adds them. Every amount comes from the fee schedule in O. Reg. 332/16, and each line keeps its quantity, unit fee and subtotal visible so the total can be checked against the regulation item by item.

Two rate columns exist for some starting-stage items, so the tool asks whether the claimant is a frequent claimant for the filing in question and applies the matching amount. Everything else is a flat or per-unit charge.

For this filing, ask how many claims the claimant has already filed in the same Small Claims Court office since January 1. If 10 or more were already filed, the claimant is a frequent claimant for this filing.

The count is per calendar year and per court office, and it is assessed at the moment of the filing you are pricing. A claimant can be infrequent in January and frequent later in the same year, and infrequent in one office while frequent in another.

• The prescribed clerk fees you select, each shown with its quantity, unit fee and subtotal.
• Both rate columns where the schedule provides an infrequent and a frequent amount.
• Per-unit items such as summonses, copy pages, file inspections and additional recording days.
• A separate line for amounts you enter yourself, such as service costs, bailiff amounts and witness attendance money, so they are never mistaken for clerk fees.
• A running total you can copy into a budget or a costs schedule.

Where the same applicable fee has already been paid for a document filed electronically, it is not charged again when a paper copy of that document is later filed. Select the item once, at the point the fee was actually paid.

• Pricing a claim at the infrequent rate without checking the claimant's filings in that office since January 1.
• Paying attention only to the claim fee. The request to fix a trial or assessment date is usually the largest single clerk fee in a defended case.
• Treating enforcement as a single charge. Each process issued, and each renewal, carries its own fee.
• Assuming a fee already paid on an electronic filing must be paid again when a paper copy of the same document is filed. The same applicable fee is not charged twice.
• Budgeting garnishment or seizure as the clerk fee alone, and leaving out the bailiff's attempt fee and necessary expenses, which can be incurred even if nothing is collected.
• Confusing the summons fee with what the witness must be paid to attend. They are different amounts, and both may be payable.
• Adding HST to court fees. Fees paid to the Ministry are not charged with HST.
• Assuming a paid fee is money you will get back. Recovery depends on a costs award.

• Confirm each amount against the fee schedule in O. Reg. 332/16 and the Ontario fee page before you file.
• Confirm the claimant's frequent-claimant status for the specific office and calendar year.
• Check with the court office how the fee must be paid and what payment methods it accepts.
• Check whether the step can be filed online, because the same applicable fee is not charged twice on a later paper copy.
• Ask the enforcement office what bailiff attempt fees and expenses to expect before choosing an enforcement route.
• If cost is a barrier, ask the court about the fee-waiver process before filing rather than after.
• Re-check the schedule after any scheduled adjustment. Amounts here are current as of 21 August 2026 and an automatic adjustment is scheduled for 1 January 2027.

Legal information reviewed: 21 August 2026. Checked against the official sources listed on this page. Rates, fees and rules change; confirm anything you rely on.

• Price only the steps you have taken or are about to take, then revisit the total as the case moves on.
• Keep receipts for every fee paid: paid court fees are the part of a costs claim most easily proved.
• If you may qualify for a fee waiver, start that process before the filing deadline you are working to.
• Before enforcement, compare the fee for each process against what it is realistically likely to recover.
• Read the companion guide for what each fee is for and where each amount comes from.

Checked on 21 August 2026 against O. Reg. 332/16 on e-Laws (consolidation period beginning 19 December 2025, last amendment O. Reg. 394/25) and Ontario's published fee page for the Small Claims Court, together with the fee-waiver and online-filing guidance. The amounts shown are the continuing schedule, not a new 2026 increase.

At this review the claimant-rate input was changed from a manual choice to a derived result based on the number of claims already filed in the same office this year, three worked examples were added, and a fixed-rules table and revision note were added. The arithmetic is unchanged: each selected item is multiplied by its quantity and summed, with user-entered costs kept on a separate line.