How to set an Airbnb cleaning fee

Set the cleaning fee from the cost of one turnover, then read the guest total and your payout before you save it.

Airbnb’s additional-fees help page describes the cleaning fee as a flat fixed fee per booking for general cleanup after checkout. It sits outside the nightly price. Airbnb’s service-fee help page says the service fee is a percentage of the nightly price and any fees you charge, excluding the guest service fee and taxes. The cleaning fee is one of those host-charged fees, so it is part of the base that percentage applies to. Under the split fee, the guest pays a separate service fee on that base and you pay a host percentage. Under the single fee, which this site’s calculator calls the host-only fee, the whole percentage comes out of your payout (service fees). Airbnb says no guest service fee is charged once a host has moved to that structure (guest price breakdown).

Use the two calculators in that order:

1. Enter the turnover costs in the cleaning fee calculator.
2. Treat the rounded result as a cost floor for one turnover.
3. Enter that fee, the nightly rate, and the stay length in the Airbnb fee calculator.
4. Read Guest pays and Host payout on both the split fee and the host-only fee.
5. Replace the starting percentages with the percentages in your Airbnb account, then confirm the service fee on a reservation.

Airbnb host service fees explained collects the published percentages and the move from the split fee to the single fee. The help-center pages linked here were checked on 26 October 2026. Airbnb says it can change service fees at any time, in line with its Terms of Service. This is a planning estimate. It is not tax or legal advice, and it is not Airbnb’s calculation for a reservation.

Start from the turnover cost

The cleaning fee calculator adds the amounts you type:

cost basis = cleaner + laundry + supplies + hours × hourly rate
cost-plus fee = cost basis × (1 + operating margin)
recommended fee = cost-plus fee, rounded up to the next five-unit increment

The currency control changes labels and number formatting. It does not convert one currency into another. Enter every amount in the same currency.

That recommended fee is a starting point for one turnover. How to Build a Sustainable Cleaning Fee walks through the same cost categories. A flat fee is a larger share of a one-night total than of a week, so run the guest total for the shortest stay you accept and for a longer stay before you pick the amount.

What Airbnb says the fee covers

These points come from Airbnb’s help center:

• The cleaning fee is a flat fee, fixed per booking, for general cleanup after checkout. Guests see a higher price when you add it. Hosts should not impose fees, charges, or penalties for a guest failing to perform a specific cleaning or checkout task (additional fees).
• The fee typically pays for the housekeeping you expect to do after a stay. The cleaning-fee page says AirCover offers $3 million USD in damage protection for unexpected cleaning costs, such as removing smoke odors (cleaning fees).
• A pet fee is a separate charge. Service animals stay for free (additional fees, guest fees).
• Professional hosting tools can add a linens fee, a resort fee, a management fee, and a community fee as further charges (additional fees). If you already charge a linens fee, keep that linen cost out of the cleaning fee you save on the listing. When the cleaning fee is where you recover linen cost, include it in the calculator’s cost basis.

What guests see

Airbnb says the cleaning fee is shown separately to guests, unless the feature to have your total price is turned on. Hosts also get a price breakdown in the payout report (additional fees).

While someone is searching and viewing listings, the price shown includes any fees. Depending on where that person is located, taxes may stay out of the shown price until checkout. The checkout page shows the total price, including fees and taxes. The price breakdown there lists the nightly price plus fees and taxes (guest fees).

For guests in the United States, Airbnb says the shown price is a fee-inclusive total before taxes, and the setting to turn total-price display on or off is disabled. Taxes Airbnb collects are displayed before booking. The checkout price breakdown still lists the details (price display for US guests).

This guide stops at those help pages. It does not say which taxes apply to a listing. In the Airbnb fee calculator, an amount you type in Taxes passed through is added to Guest pays only. It stays out of the booking subtotal, out of both service fees, and out of the host payout in that estimate.

What you keep under each fee

The service-fee page defines the base as the nightly price plus host-charged fees, excluding the guest service fee and taxes. The calculator calls that base the booking subtotal:

booking subtotal = nightly rate × nights + cleaning fee + other host fees

Under the split fee, Guest pays is the subtotal plus the guest percentage, and Host payout is the subtotal minus the host percentage. Under the host-only fee, the guest percentage in this estimate is zero, and Host payout is the subtotal minus the single-fee percentage. Airbnb host service fees explained quotes the percentages Airbnb publishes.

The rows below are the Airbnb fee calculator results for one example. Nightly rate 150, 2 nights, other host fees 0, taxes passed through 0. The percentages are the calculator’s starting values: a 3% split host fee, a 14.1% split guest fee, and a 15.5% host-only fee. Those host figures are the ones Airbnb states for most hosts. 14.1% is the low end of the published guest range, because the help page does not give one typical guest rate. The amounts are in whatever currency you select. The calculator does not convert them.

Cleaning fee 0. Booking subtotal 300.00.

• Split fee: host service fee 9.00, guest service fee 42.30, guest pays 342.30, Airbnb keeps 51.30, host payout 291.00.
• Host-only fee: host service fee 46.50, guest service fee 0.00, guest pays 300.00, Airbnb keeps 46.50, host payout 253.50.

Cleaning fee 80. Booking subtotal 380.00.

• Split fee: host service fee 11.40, guest service fee 53.58, guest pays 433.58, Airbnb keeps 64.98, host payout 368.60.
• Host-only fee: host service fee 58.90, guest service fee 0.00, guest pays 380.00, Airbnb keeps 58.90, host payout 321.10.

Moving the cleaning fee from 0 to 80 in this example changes the stay by:

• Split fee, guest pays: 91.28 (the 80 fee plus 11.28, which is 14.1% of 80).
• Split fee, host payout: 77.60 (80 minus 2.40, which is 3% of 80).
• Host-only fee, guest pays: 80.00. The guest service fee stays 0.00.
• Host-only fee, host payout: 67.60 (80 minus 12.40, which is 15.5% of 80).

Replace 3%, 14.1%, and 15.5% with the percentages in your account before you treat these rows as your stay. The service-fee page says most hosts pay 3% under the split fee and 15.5% under the single fee. Listings in Brazil and Mexico pay 4% under the split fee, and they pay 16% under the single fee. Some split-fee hosts pay more than 3%. Under the single fee, remaining hosts typically pay 14% to 16%. The guest fee may be higher or lower than the stated range, depending on the booking. For a cross-currency booking, Airbnb says the guest service fee includes an additional amount, up to 16.5% of the booking subtotal.

The calculator rounds each money result half up, away from zero, to the nearest hundredth. It does not add VAT on top of the percentage you enter. Airbnb says VAT may apply and that the service fee shown to hosts and guests is VAT-inclusive where applicable.

Short stays, changes, and special offers

Airbnb’s cleaning-fee help page says you can opt into a short-term stay cleaning fee for guests who book 1 or 2 nights, lower than the standard fee. You can opt in and out. The standard fee is the amount for all stays, or for stays longer than 2 nights when the short-stay fee is on. The short-stay and standard amounts are determined at booking from the guest’s stay length. When a reservation is altered, Airbnb says the host should verify that the cleaning fee matches the final terms.

When you create a special offer, the cleaning fee is left out unless you factor it in. The help page says it is not added automatically.

Run both the short-stay amount and the standard amount through the Airbnb fee calculator with the number of nights each one applies to.

If a guest cancels

Airbnb’s cleaning-fees page for guests says the cleaning fee is a one-off charge and part of the total price. A cancellation during the free cancellation period, when that period applies, returns the full cleaning fee as part of the refund. Outside that period, Airbnb says the cleaning fee is treated as part of the nightly price, and any refund follows the host’s cancellation policy. For reservations booked before April 21, 2025, the same page says the cleaning fee is returned in full if the guest cancels before check-in.

The host cleaning-fee page says cleaning fees are not returned to guests once a trip is completed.

Those two pages are Airbnb’s description of the fee. This guide does not interpret a cancellation dispute.

Save the fee, then recheck the payout

Airbnb’s cleaning-fee page gives these desktop steps:

1. Click Calendar and select the listing you want to change.
2. Click Pricing, then click Fees.
3. Click Cleaning fee and add or edit the amount.
4. Click Save.

If you are moving from the split fee to the single fee, Airbnb’s price-adjustment help page describes a tool for home hosts who do not use property management software. The tool can adjust current prices and additional fees, including the cleaning fee. The page says the adjustment ratio considers applicable taxes, and that bookings, earnings, and payouts after the update vary with guest behavior and taxes. This guide does not reproduce that ratio. Read the help page before you use the tool, and compare your own percentages in the Airbnb fee calculator. The fee structures are spelled out in Airbnb host service fees explained.

Help center pages checked on 26 October 2026

• https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1857 for the split fee, the single fee, and the base the percentage applies to.
• https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2385 for the cleaning fee as a flat host charge, separate display, pet fees, and professional-host fees.
• https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/58 for the short-stay fee, editing steps, special offers, and completed trips.
• https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/125 for the guest total, the price breakdown, and the single fee having no guest service fee.
• https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3610 for the fee-inclusive price shown to guests in the United States.
• https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2812 for the cleaning fee when a guest cancels.
• https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/4095 for the one-time price adjustment during the fee-structure change.