Host fee calculator

What is changing

Airbnb: under the split fee, Airbnb says most hosts pay 3% and guests pay a service fee of 14.1% to 16.5% of the booking subtotal. Under the single fee, most hosts pay 15.5% and the whole fee comes out of the payout (help 1857). Airbnb's Q2 2026 shareholder letter says it announced plans in July to move most remaining hosts to the single 15.5% fee this year (shareholder letter). Smoobu reports the deadline as 15 September 2026 outside the European Economic Area and 13 October 2026 inside it.

Vrbo: its help page now describes "a flat, all-in 12% commission fee" on the rental amount and fees such as cleaning (Vrbo help). Skift reports that Vrbo told hosts the change starts on 29 October 2026, and that hosts not connected to a property management system paid 8% before, and connected ones 5%.

Booking.com: the commission depends on your own contract, so the calculator leaves it blank for you to fill in.

The sum this calculator does

First it works out what you take home today: your nightly price times one minus today's fee taken from you. With a 3% fee, a price of 100 leaves 97.

Then it divides that take-home by what is left after the new fee. With 15.5%, that is 0.845. So 97 divided by 0.845 gives a new nightly price of about 114.79, which leaves you 97 again after the fee. For Vrbo, with an old rate of 8% and the new 12%, 100 becomes about 104.55.

The same sum is applied to your cleaning fee, because the fee is usually worked out on the nightly price and the cleaning fee together. Vrbo's help page says its commission is charged on the rental amount and fees such as cleaning. If your statement shows no fee taken from the cleaning fee, leave that box blank.

About the presets

Each preset fills the fee boxes with figures read on the platform's own help page on the date shown under the boxes. They are there to be changed. Airbnb's own page says some hosts pay more than 3% under the split fee, and 14% to 16% under the single fee, and Vrbo's guest fee varies with the booking amount.

Check your own fee in your earnings page. On Airbnb, help article 3632 explains that you can download a report from Earnings with your earnings, host service fees and cleaning fees. Divide the host service fee on a few recent bookings by the booking amount and you have your real share.

Why the guest's total matters

Airbnb's 2022 hosting article says the algorithm prioritizes the total price of a listing before taxes (resource 460). Help article 39 says price is compared with other listings in the area for the given dates. So the number that matters is what a guest pays for the whole stay.

That is why the table shows the guest's total before and after. On Airbnb, a higher nightly price under the host-only fee can land close to what the guest paid before, because no service fee is added on top any more. On Vrbo, the guest fee stays, so a higher nightly price usually means a higher guest total.

You don't have to raise your price

Keeping your take-home is one choice, not the only one. If you were losing bookings on price, leaving your price alone means you accept a smaller take-home per night. Many hosts go part of the way. The calculator shows the full-protection number so you can decide on purpose rather than by accident.

What this calculator leaves out

It ignores taxes, payment processing fees, currency conversion and rounding by the platform, so the result can differ from your payout by a few cents. It is arithmetic to help you set a price, not tax or financial advice, and it doesn't promise bookings. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.