TL;DR: For ordinary used furniture in the United States, Facebook Marketplace sells the most, fastest, for free, and is the correct default. Craigslist and OfferUp are worth cross-posting to. Nextdoor works well for neighbors and badly for volume. Chairish and 1stDibs get real money for designer and antique pieces but take months and charge 20 to 30%. If you are selling a whole house rather than one couch, none of these are the right shape, because they all make you run a separate conversation per item.
I have sold furniture on five of these and watched friends fail on the other two, so this is a comparison written from the annoying end rather than from a features table.
The short answer is that the platform matters much less than people think. Where you list changes how many people see it. Whether it sells is decided by your price, your measurements, and whether your photos were taken in daylight. I have watched an identical dresser sit dead on Craigslist and sell in two days on Facebook, and I have watched the same dresser sit dead on both because it was priced at what the owner paid for it in 2019.
With that said, the platforms are genuinely different, and the differences matter more the bigger and more valuable the piece is.
Facebook Marketplace
The default, and the correct one for most people.
It has the largest local buyer pool in the US by a wide margin, listing is free, and pickup sales carry no fee. Buyers have profiles with photos and mutual friends, which is not real identity verification but is enough to make most people behave slightly better than they would anonymously.
The cost is the messages. You will get "is this still available" fifteen times and hear back from four of those people. You will get lowballs sent as an automated offer button. You will arrange three pickups and have one person actually arrive.
Best for: sofas, dressers, dining sets, anything between about $30 and $400.
Worst for: anything where you need the buyer to be reliable, because there is no consequence at all for not showing up.
Craigslist
Still alive, much quieter than it was, and still oddly good for two specific things.
Large cheap items move here because the remaining audience skews toward people who own trucks and are actively looking for a deal. Free listings under "free stuff" also clear items off your curb faster than any other channel in existence.
The downsides are real. No profiles, no ratings, no way to judge who is emailing you, and a higher share of obvious scam replies asking to send a cashier's check.
Best for: cheap and heavy, or genuinely free.
Worst for: anything where you would like to know who is coming to your house.
OfferUp
Sits between the two. Real ratings on buyers and sellers, an app built for local pickup, and a somewhat more transaction-minded audience than Facebook.
Volume is much lower in most metros, so a listing that would get twenty views on Facebook might get three here. It is a good second post and a poor only post.
Best for: mid-priced items where the buyer rating helps you filter.
Worst for: being your primary channel outside a handful of large cities.
Nextdoor
Your actual neighbors, which changes the whole dynamic.
People show up, because they will see you at the grocery store. Flake rates are noticeably lower than Facebook. Prices tend to come in a little softer, and the audience is small enough that a niche item may never find its buyer.
Best for: anything you want gone this weekend to someone who lives four streets away.
Worst for: volume, and for anything where the pool of interested buyers is genuinely small.
AptDeco
Handles the part everybody hates, which is moving a sofa down a staircase.
It arranges pickup and delivery, so the buyer is not required to own a truck or recruit a friend. That opens up a much larger buyer pool for exactly the items that are otherwise hardest to sell.
The tradeoff is a commission in the region of a quarter to a third of the sale price, and limited coverage. It serves a set of metros rather than the whole country, so it is either the perfect answer for you or completely unavailable, with nothing in between.
Best for: good-condition brand-name furniture in a city it covers.
Worst for: anywhere outside its service area, and anything cheap enough that the commission eats the sale.
Chairish and 1stDibs
Curated, vetted, and slow, aimed at design buyers rather than at your neighborhood.
These are the sites where a real mid-century piece or a recognizable designer chair gets a price that reflects what it is. They are also where listings sit for months, submissions get rejected, and commissions run 20 to 30%.
Best for: genuine designer, vintage, and antique pieces where the brand carries the price.
Worst for: a normal dining table, which will be declined or ignored.
Local consignment
A physical shop takes your furniture, displays it, and splits the sale.
It is the least work you can do while still getting paid. It is also 40 to 50% to the shop in a lot of cases, a wait of one to three months, and a requirement that you can get the item to them.
Best for: people who value not dealing with any of this above getting the most money.
Worst for: a deadline.
The problem all of them share
Every option on this list is built around one item and one buyer.
That is fine when you are selling a couch. It falls apart when you are moving, because you are not selling a couch. You are selling a couch, a dining set, two dressers, a bike, a grill, and eleven boxes of kitchen equipment, in five weeks, while also packing.
At that point the work is not the listing. It is the coordination. Thirty listings means thirty photo sessions, thirty descriptions, thirty message threads, and a mental spreadsheet of who said they wanted the bookshelf. That is the wall people hit around week three, and it is why perfectly good furniture ends up donated by default.
This is the problem ClearList exists for, and I built it because I hit that wall myself. You photograph everything, the AI writes the listings, and you share one link instead of thirty. Buyers browse the whole sale in one place and reserve what they want, so you are answering one thread instead of running a switchboard. It does not replace Facebook Marketplace for a single couch, and I would not pretend otherwise. It replaces the spreadsheet.
More on that split in how to sell a ton of stuff without separate listings.
What I would actually do
Selling one or two pieces: Facebook Marketplace, cross-posted to OfferUp and Nextdoor. Free.
Selling a designer or antique piece: Chairish, and be patient, or a local consignment shop if the wait is worse than the commission.
Selling a whole household on a moving deadline: one sale page with everything on it, plus Facebook Marketplace for the two or three items most likely to draw a crowd.
And regardless of which one you pick, the thing that decides whether it sells is the price and the measurements. Read how to price used furniture without guessing before you post, because the best platform in the world will not move a dresser priced at what you paid for it.