Free tool · Updated for the Oct 27, 2025 Airbnb fee change
The new host-only fee is quietly eating your margin.
Enter your nightly rate and how many nights you're booked each month. See exactly what the 15.5% fee takes — per month, per year — then compare four honest options for what to do about it. No email, no PDF, no pitch.
A $180/night host with 15 nights booked/month loses
$5,468/yr
…to Airbnb's 15.5% fee on every night, including cleaning.
01 — calculator
Your numbers, your math.
All three fields are pre-filled with a realistic default. Tweak them to match your listing — every number is visible on your Airbnb earnings page. Math updates live. Your inputs encode into the URL — share the link and friends see your numbers first.
Your annual loss to the 15.5% fee
$0/year
That's $456/month going straight to Airbnb.
Monthly breakdown
Monthly guest total (nightly × nights + cleaning)$2,940
Airbnb host-only fee — 15.5%−$456
↳ includes 15.5% on your $240/month cleaning−$37
You net per month$2,484
Before · Oct 2025
$88
Lost per month at the old 3% split-fee model.
Now · Post Oct 27, 2025
$456
Lost per month at 15.5% host-only.
Airbnb's fee on you went up ×5.2 overnight.
Who takes what, per month
Airbnb15.5% of your monthly total
$456
HostPage$144/yr ÷ 12 months
$12
Stripe2.9% + $0.30 — cost on any platform
$86
Math check: HostPage's $144/yr works out to $12/month — your direct savings cover it the first month. Everything after that stays in your pocket.
"Airbnb rolled this out as 'transparency for guests.' The guest sees one price. The host absorbs the fee."
02 — your options
Four paths, with honest math.
No single answer fits every host. Here are the four real options — with the numbers pulled from your inputs, not ours. We don't hide the cases where we're not the right choice.
i. Do nothing
Keep absorbing the fee
$16,405
cumulative loss over 3 years (flat rate assumption)
Year 1$5,468
Year 2$5,468
Year 3$5,468
The simplest choice. Also the most expensive one.
ii. Raise prices
Offset the fee by charging more
+20.0%
rate increase to net the same, before elasticity
New nightly$216
Likely bookings drop8–15%
Net vs. absorbing~same
Mathematically closes the gap. Practically, elasticity eats most of the gain.
iii. Partial shift
Send 25% of bookings direct
$1,223
recovered per year at 25% direct shift
Direct share25%
Breakevenmonth #1
Year 1 ROI9×
Realistic for year one. Keep Airbnb as your top-of-funnel; shift repeat guests to direct.
iv. Go fully direct
Recover the whole 15.5%
$5,468
max recovery per year (fees minus Stripe + $144/yr)
Annual gain$4,298
Transition window12–18 months
Breakevenmonth #1
Biggest upside, longest ramp. Most hosts stair-step here from Option iii.
Math is shown for every number. We don't hide our own costs.
From hosts, unedited
It doesn't appear that Airbnb will automatically adjust a host's pricing, so any host that doesn't follow the 'guide' will be losing about 12% until they adjust.Brian_R170 · airhostsforum.com · Sept 2025
If hosts don't raise prices fast, we'll be absorbing a double-digit hit every booking.RentalScaleUp, 2025
Assumptions
Airbnb host-only fee: 15.5% (effective Oct 27, 2025 for most hosts)
In 2026, Airbnb takes 15.5% of every booking from hosts under the host-only fee model. On a $100 booking, you keep $84.50 before payment processing (~3%) and local lodging tax. The legacy split model (3% host + 14% guest) is being phased out for most professional hosts. Use the calculator above to see your specific annual fee loss — and the section below explains every line of the breakdown.
Legacy split model vs new host-only model
Airbnb introduced the host-only model in 2020 and rolled it out globally through 2025. Until October 2025, most professional hosts still paid the legacy split: 3% host + roughly 14% guest, total platform take ~17%. As of October 27, 2025, the host-only model consolidates everything to a single 15.5% on the host side. The math is similar overall; only the visibility changed. Guests no longer see a separate Airbnb fee at checkout, which lifts conversion on the listing, but the entire weight of the fee now sits on the host's P&L.
