Airbnb Host Fee Calculator
What guests pay, what Airbnb takes, what you keep
Enter a nightly price, nights and cleaning fee. See what the guest pays, what Airbnb's 15.5% host fee takes and what you keep, or work backwards from the payout you want.
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Calculate your Airbnb payout
3 nights × $200.00 + $100.00 cleaning
Guest pays $700.00. Airbnb takes $108.50. You keep $591.50.
- Guest pays
- $700.00
- Subtotal $700.00
- Airbnb takes
- −$108.50
- 15.5% host fee on $700.00
- You keep
- $591.50
- Your payout: $197.17 a night
You keep 84.5%Airbnb 15.5%
- Effective take rate
- 15.5%
- Airbnb's share of what the guest pays, before taxes
- Payout per night
- $197.17
- Cleaning and other fees included
The same booking under each fee model
15.5% host-only (selected)
- You keep
- $591.50
- Guest pays
- $700.00
- vs 3% split fee
- −$87.50
16% host-only
- You keep
- $588.00
- Guest pays
- $700.00
- vs 4% split fee
- −$84.00
Old split fee
- You keep
- $679.00
- Guest pays
- $798.70
- vs split fee
- Baseline
Airbnb's 15.5% host-only fee: what the calculator applies
Airbnb replaced its split fee, about 3% from the host plus a guest service fee of 14.1% to 16.5%, with a single 15.5% host fee on September 15, 2026 for hosts outside the EEA. Hosts in the EEA and Switzerland switch on October 13, 2026. The fee is taken from the booking subtotal, so your payout is the subtotal × 0.845. Listings in Brazil and Mexico pay 16%.
“To simplify pricing, we’re combining both fees into a single 15.5% service fee paid by hosts.”
Airbnb says the 15.5% rate is based on its global average service fees. The single fee applies to new bookings only: bookings made before your listing switched keep the fees they were booked with. Airbnb's Help Center already lists a single host-only fee as mandatory for hotels, serviced apartments and hosts who connect through property management software, so if you're one of them the structure is not new to you. Check the rate on your own payouts: Airbnb says most hosts pay 15.5% and the rest typically pay 14% to 16%.
In countries that charge VAT or GST on service fees, hosts who aren't VAT-registered also pay that tax on the fee. At 20% VAT, the 15.5% fee costs 18.6% of the subtotal. The calculator shows the fee before any VAT.
Switch dates by region
Airbnb set the deadline to adjust prices by where you live, and the single fee applies to reservations made after your listing switches. If you keep your prices as they were, a $100 night pays out $84.50 after the switch, down from $97.00 under the split fee.
September 15, 2026Passed
Hosts outside the EEA
Airbnb's deadline to adjust prices has passed for hosts who live outside the European Economic Area. Their new reservations carry the single fee.
October 13, 2026Upcoming
Hosts in the EEA and Switzerland
The deadline for hosts who live in the European Economic Area or in Switzerland. Until they switch, their new reservations keep the split fee.
What the 15.5% is charged on
In Airbnb's words: “The single fee applies to your nightly price and any fees you add, like a cleaning, pet, or extra guest fee.” Taxes sit outside that base, so the calculator adds them to the guest total only.
| Part of the booking | In the fee base? | What it means for your payout |
|---|---|---|
| Nightly price × nights | Included | In the base: every $100 of room revenue pays out $84.50. |
| Cleaning fee | Included | In the base: a $100 cleaning fee pays out $84.50. |
| Pet fee | Included | In the base, like any fee you add to the listing. |
| Extra-guest fee | Included | In the base, like any fee you add to the listing. |
| Occupancy and lodging taxes | Excluded | Outside the base, so no fee is charged on them. In some places Airbnb collects and remits them for you. |
| Guest service fee (old split fee) | Excluded | Charged on top of the subtotal under the split fee, and gone under the host-only fee. |
Want the whole fee picture?
For the full breakdown of what Airbnb charges hosts and guests, read how much Airbnb charges hosts. For how hosts are pricing around the change, see how markets are repricing for the 15.5% fee.
Price for the payout you want
Work backwards from the payout: divide it by 0.845 to get the subtotal you need, take off the cleaning and other fees, and divide by the nights. To keep a $679 payout on a 3-night stay with a $100 cleaning fee, charge $234.52 a night.
Nightly price = (target payout ÷ 0.845 − cleaning − other fees) ÷ nights
Target payout
$679.00
What you want to keep
÷ 0.845
$803.55
The subtotal that pays it out
− $100 cleaning, ÷ 3 nights
$234.52
Your nightly price
Why the neutral reprice is +14.8%, not +18.3%
Under the split fee you kept 97% of the subtotal; under the host-only fee you keep 84.5%. To keep the same payout, multiply your nightly price and cleaning fee by 0.97 ÷ 0.845 = 1.148: +14.8%. Adding 18.3% (1 ÷ 0.845) holds your old gross, not your old payout, so on this booking you'd keep $700 instead of $679. Adding 15.5% overshoots too, by less: you'd keep $683.18.
Cleaning is in the fee base, so decide whether to raise it too. Holding cleaning at $100 puts the whole increase on the nightly price ($234.52); scaling both gives $229.59 a night and $114.79 cleaning. Either way the guest pays $803.55 and you keep $679. For what the cleaning line itself should be, see how much to charge for cleaning.
| Pricing | Nightly | Cleaning | Guest pays | You keep | Payout vs split fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old split fee (3% host, 14.1% guest) | $200.00 | $100.00 | $798.70 | $679.00 | Baseline |
| 15.5%, no price change | $200.00 | $100.00 | $700.00 | $591.50 | −$87.50 (−12.9%) |
| 15.5%, nightly price raised, cleaning held | $234.52 | $100.00 | $803.55 | $679.00 | Same payout |
| 15.5%, both raised +14.8% | $229.59 | $114.79 | $803.55 | $679.00 | Same payout |
| 15.5%, both raised +18.3% | $236.69 | $118.34 | $828.40 | $700.00 | +$21.00 (+3.1%) |
What the guest sees
Under the split fee, the guest paid the $700 subtotal plus a guest service fee of 14.1% to 16.5%: $798.70 to $815.50 for this stay. Repriced to keep your $679 payout, the host-only total is $803.55, inside that range, because the guest fee line disappears as your price rises. Without a reprice, your listing shows $700 and you absorb the whole change.
Not every market absorbs +14.8% on the nightly price: our analysis of how markets are repricing for the 15.5% fee looks at where demand holds. Direct bookings avoid Airbnb's fee but carry their own costs; the direct booking math works out what you really recapture. On a lease, the fee comes out of a thin margin, so run it through the rental arbitrage calculator too.
Where every $100 of bookings goes
Out of every $100 a guest books, Airbnb's host fee takes $15.50 before any other cost. On the example booking it is the largest single line, ahead of cleaning at $14.29. After AirROI's planning assumptions for supplies, utilities, repairs, insurance and software, about $53.21 is left before mortgage, property tax and capex. Edit the assumptions to match your costs.
| Line | Per $100 | A year |
|---|---|---|
Airbnb host fee | $15.50 | $9,734 |
Cleaning (the example's $100 fee, paid to your cleaner) | $14.29 | $8,971 |
| AirROI planning assumptions (edit to match yours) | ||
Supplies and consumables | $1,884 | |
Utilities and internet | $3,768 | |
Repairs and maintenance | $3,140 | |
Short-term rental insurance | $1,256 | |
Software and other | $628 | |
Left before mortgage, property tax and capex | $53.21 | $33,417 |
15.5% of $62,797 is $9,734 a year in host fees, leaving $53,063 in payouts before running costs.
With a manager, the host fee and management together take $35.50 of every $100, more than a third of the booking before cleaning or any other cost.
A net figure needs the full picture: estimate your gross revenue, then see what you keep after fees for an address, or add the purchase price and mortgage in the Airbnb ROI calculator.
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking.com host fees
On the same $700 booking, Airbnb's 15.5% host-only fee leaves $591.50. Vrbo's pay-per-booking model, a 5% commission plus 3% payment processing, leaves $644 when no taxes are collected. Booking.com doesn't publish one commission rate: it depends on your country, property type and agreement.
| Fee detail | Airbnb | Vrbo | Booking.com |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host fee | 15.5% host-only service fee (16% for listings in Brazil and Mexico) | 5% commission plus a 3% payment processing fee (pay-per-booking) | A commission percentage that depends on your country, property type and agreement |
| Charged on | Nightly price plus cleaning, pet and extra-guest fees | Commission: the rental amount plus fees you charge, such as cleaning, pet and boat fees. Processing: the total payment | The total booking amount, including the room rate and fees you charge, such as cleaning |
| Taxes | Outside the fee base | No commission on taxes or refundable damage deposits; the processing fee includes both | No commission on local taxes such as city tax; in most countries it is charged on VAT or GST |
| Payment processing | Covered by the service fee, which Airbnb says helps pay for payment processing, marketing and customer service | 3% of the total payment | Payments by Booking.com has no setup fee; bank-transfer payouts carry a percentage fee set by your location, and virtual-card payouts carry your bank's fees |
| Other options | Most hosts pay 15.5%; the rest typically pay 14% to 16% | The annual subscription is closed to new opt-ins | Programs such as Preferred Partner and Visibility Booster add to the commission |
| Payout on the $700 example | $591.50 | $644.00 (no taxes collected) | Varies with your commission rate; see Booking.com's commission page |
Each platform sets its fee base differently, so compare payouts on the same booking rather than headline rates. If you rent out a vacation home on Vrbo as well, the vacation rental income calculator estimates income around the weeks you use it yourself.
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