Does this nightly price come from similar Airbnb listings?

No. The nightly price calculator and the fee calculator use the costs, occupancy, margin, and fee percentages in the made-up example, or the numbers you type over them. Airbnb's price help page says you set the nightly price, and that Airbnb has an option to update pricing from guest demand for similar listings (https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/52). That option is separate from these calculators. A guest may not book at a calculated rate. The figures on this page are made up.

Which fee percentage changes the nightly rate?

The host fee. The calculator divides the cost per booked night by the share left after the host percentage you enter. On the service-fee help page checked on 27 October 2026, most hosts pay 15.5% under the single fee and 3% under the split fee (https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1857). The guest fee does not change either nightly rate. Where a host has moved to the single fee, Airbnb says no guest service fee is charged (https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/125).

Why is the cleaning fee zero in the example stay?

Turnover costs in the made-up example are inside the nightly rate. The fee calculator stay uses a cleaning fee of 0 so that cost is not also charged as a guest fee. A cleaning fee is a separate flat fee per booking when you choose to charge one (https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2385). How to set an Airbnb cleaning fee shows that fee on its own.

Are these figures a price to copy onto a listing?

No. Mortgage or rent of 950, the other costs, 50% occupancy, a 25% margin, and a two-night stay are made up so the arithmetic is visible. They are not a market rate, an average, or a benchmark, and they are not a promise of bookings or earnings. Replace them with your own costs and the fee percentages from your Airbnb account. The result is a planning estimate, not pricing, tax, or legal advice.

How to set an Airbnb nightly price from your costs

Set the nightly price from costs you pay, a margin you choose, and the host fee percent on your listing. The nightly price calculator does that arithmetic. The Airbnb fee calculator then shows what a guest would pay, and what you would receive, for one stay at a rate you type.

Both tools use numbers you enter. A guest may not book at the result. The worked figures on this page are a made-up example. They are not a suggested listing price, and they are not a promise of bookings or earnings. This is a planning estimate, not pricing, tax, or legal advice.

Airbnb’s price help page, checked on 27 October 2026, says you set the nightly price and you can change it. The price you set applies to future nights until you edit it. You can also set a custom price on a single night, choose a weekend adjustment, and use Airbnb’s option to update pricing from guest demand for similar listings. The calculators on this site do not use that option, and they do not request similar listings.

Cost, the margin, and the host fee

The nightly price calculator spreads monthly fixed costs across the booked nights you enter. It spreads the turnover cost you pay across the nights in a stay. It then raises the nightly rate so the share you keep, after the host fee, covers that cost. The break-even rate is the nightly rate at which operating profit is zero. The target rate is the nightly rate that also hits a margin or a monthly profit you type.

Margin here is operating profit divided by host payout. For a margin below 100%:

monthly fixed costs = mortgage or rent + utilities + insurance + software + other monthly fixed costs
per-stay cost = cleaning + laundry + supplies + other per-stay costs
booked nights per month = (365 ÷ 12) × occupancy rate
fixed cost per booked night = monthly fixed costs ÷ booked nights per month
per-stay cost per booked night = per-stay cost ÷ nights per stay
cost per booked night = fixed cost per booked night + per-stay cost per booked night
host keeps rate = 1 − host fee rate
break-even nightly rate = cost per booked night ÷ host keeps rate
target host payout per booked night = cost per booked night ÷ (1 − margin)
target nightly rate = target host payout per booked night ÷ host keeps rate

A month is 365 ÷ 12 days, the same month as the break-even calculator. The guest fee does not change either nightly rate, because the host payout depends on the host fee. The guest fee is used only to show what a guest would pay on top of the nightly rate, before the cent rounding the fee calculator applies to one stay. The solved rates themselves are exact. Money on the page is shown to the nearest hundredth. That display rounding is not part of the formula.

The host fee comes from the percentages you type. Airbnb’s service-fee help page, checked on 27 October 2026, describes two structures for stays. Under the split fee, most hosts pay 3%, listings in Brazil and Mexico pay 4%, and some hosts pay more. Guests pay a service fee of 14.1% to 16.5% of the booking subtotal, and the page says that guest fee may be higher or lower depending on the booking. Under the single fee, most hosts pay 15.5%, remaining hosts typically pay 14% to 16%, and listings in Brazil and Mexico pay 16%. This site’s calculator calls the single fee the host-only fee. Where a host has moved to the single fee, Airbnb says no guest service fee is charged (what guests pay).

The percentage applies to the booking subtotal: the nightly price and any fees the host charges, excluding the guest service fee and taxes. Airbnb says it is transitioning all home hosts to a single service fee, and that the split fee is being phased out. Once you have switched, you cannot switch back. The single fee applies to new bookings after the switch. Airbnb also says VAT may apply, and that the service fee shown to hosts and guests is VAT-inclusive where it applies. These calculators do not add VAT on top of the percentage you enter. Airbnb host service fees explained keeps the rest of that help page in one place, including where to read the fee on a reservation. Type the percentages from your Airbnb account before you rely on a row.

A margin of 100% or more has no target rate. A margin of zero matches the break-even rate. There is no nightly rate when booked nights are zero, when a per-stay cost is paired with a stay length of zero, or when the host fee is 100% and the payout is zero at every rate. Amounts you type below zero are treated as zero.

A made-up example

Every amount in this section is made up. Replace it. The figures are here so the arithmetic can be checked. They are not a market rate, an average, or a benchmark.

The nightly price calculator run uses:

Mortgage or rent 950
Utilities 110
Insurance 75
Software 25
Other monthly fixed costs 40
Cleaning 85, laundry 20, supplies 12, and other per-stay costs 8, which you pay
Nights per stay 2
Occupancy 50%
A target margin of 25%
The host-only fee selected, at the starting 15.5%
The side-by-side split fee at the starting 3% host fee and the starting 14.1% guest fee

Monthly fixed costs are 950 + 110 + 75 + 25 + 40 = 1200. The per-stay cost is 85 + 20 + 12 + 8 = 125. Nights per stay is 2 in this example. That 2 is made up. It is the stay length you would type, not a published length of stay.

booked nights per month = (365 ÷ 12) × 50%
fixed cost per booked night = 1200 ÷ booked nights per month
per-stay cost per booked night = 125 ÷ 2
cost per booked night = fixed cost per booked night + per-stay cost per booked night
break-even nightly rate = cost per booked night ÷ (1 − host fee rate)
target nightly rate = (cost per booked night ÷ (1 − 25%)) ÷ (1 − host fee rate)

With USD selected, the page shows 15.21 booked nights per month. Fixed cost per booked night displays as $78.90. Per-stay cost per booked night displays as $62.50. Cost per booked night displays as $141.40. Monthly operating cost displays as $2,150.52. Whole cents on those lines are display rounding.

Under the host-only fee, the break-even nightly rate displays as $167.34 and the target nightly rate displays as $223.12. Target host payout per booked night displays as $188.54. Guest pays per night displays as $223.12, the same as the target rate, because the guest fee on this structure is zero in the estimate. Monthly host payout displays as $2,867.36. Monthly operating profit displays as $716.84. On the exact amounts, before that display rounding, the margin is the 25% that was entered.

Under the split fee, the same costs display a break-even nightly rate of $145.78 and a target nightly rate of $194.37. Target host payout per booked night still displays as $188.54, and monthly host payout and monthly operating profit still display as $2,867.36 and $716.84. The margin is defined on host payout, so the nightly rate moves until the payout matches. Guest pays per night displays as $221.78, because the 14.1% guest fee is added on top of the split target rate. The guest fee does not change either nightly rate.

The occupancy table on the nightly price page repeats these costs, this stay length, this 25% margin, and the selected host-only fee at 10 and 20 percentage points around 50%, inside 0 to 100 percent. In this example those rows are:

30% occupancy, 9.13 booked nights, break-even $229.59, target $306.13
40% occupancy, 12.17 booked nights, break-even $190.69, target $254.25
50% occupancy, 15.21 booked nights, break-even $167.34, target $223.12
60% occupancy, 18.25 booked nights, break-even $151.78, target $202.37
70% occupancy, 21.29 booked nights, break-even $140.66, target $187.55

Fewer booked nights give each night more of the 1200 in monthly fixed costs, so both rates rise. The per-stay cost stays 125 ÷ 2. These rows are the same made-up costs at other occupancies. They are not market occupancy, and the rates are not listing prices.

One stay at the displayed host-only rate

The Airbnb fee calculator run uses the displayed host-only target, 223.12, for 2 nights. The cleaning fee is 0. Other host fees are 0. Taxes passed through are 0. The percentages are the same starting values: split host 3%, split guest 14.1%, host-only 15.5%.

The cleaning fee is 0 on purpose. Turnover costs in the nightly rate above are costs you pay: 85, 20, 12, and 8. They are already inside the $223.12. A guest cleaning fee on this same stay would charge for that turnover a second time. When you do charge a separate cleaning fee, type that amount in the fee calculator. It is a flat fee per booking (additional fees). Build it from one turnover in the cleaning fee calculator. How to set an Airbnb cleaning fee shows how that flat fee moves the guest total and the payout. This example does not use one.

Typing 223.12 into the fee calculator is a separate rounding step. The nightly page’s target rate is exact, and $223.12 is that rate shown to the nearest hundredth. The fee calculator then rounds each money result half up, away from zero, to the nearest hundredth.

The booking subtotal is 446.24.

Split fee, applied to this same nightly price

Host service fee 13.39
Guest service fee 62.92
Guest pays 509.16
Airbnb keeps 76.31
Host payout 432.85

Host-only fee

Host service fee 69.17
Guest service fee 0.00
Guest pays 446.24
Airbnb keeps 69.17
Host payout 377.07

This stay uses 223.12 for both columns. The split column is not the split structure’s own target rate of $194.37. It is what the split percentages do if the nightly price you had set was the host-only result. The host-only payout for the stay is 377.07. The nightly page’s target host payout per booked night, $188.54, comes from the exact rate before this stay is rounded to the cent.

Enter the percentages from your account before you use the rows for a listing. Listings in Brazil and Mexico are the 4% split host fee and the 16% single fee on the help page. Some split-fee hosts pay more than 3%. Remaining single-fee hosts typically pay 14% to 16%. The guest percentage may sit somewhere else in the 14.1% to 16.5% range, or outside it. The calculator does not add a cross-currency amount on its own, and it does not add VAT on top of the percentage you enter.

What you type into Airbnb

Setting a price gives these desktop steps:

Click Calendar and select the listing calendar.
Click Price settings, then Per night price.
Enter the default nightly price and click Save.

The price you set applies to future nights until you edit it. A custom price on one night, a weekend adjustment, and pricing from guest demand for similar listings are controls on that page. If you turn on the similar-listings option, the nightly price is no longer only the cost-plus rate from this walkthrough. The calculators here still will not look those listings up for you.

Additional fees says the cleaning fee, the pet fee, and the extra guest fee are not included in the nightly price you set, and that guests see a higher price when you add one. The guest’s total on that page includes the nightly price, additional fees, Airbnb’s service fees, and taxes. The same page says hosts should not impose a fee or a penalty because a guest skipped a specific cleaning task, and that service animals always stay for free.

The price help page also says the nightly price display includes applicable taxes in countries with price-display requirements, and that the base price in your nightly price breakdown is your payout, which includes additional fees you charge and excludes the host service fee. Read that breakdown in your Airbnb account. The rate on this page is the per-night price the formula solves for. It is not that payout figure, and it does not add a tax.

Annual operating profit, cash-on-cash return, and the time to recover an upfront amount are a different question. How to estimate Airbnb ROI and break-even uses its own illustrative example for those. The New Airbnb host checklist is the short list for saving a nightly price before the first stay. The currency selector on both calculators changes labels and formatting only. This example is shown in USD. Enter every amount in one currency. The tools do not convert currencies.

What the estimate leaves out

The made-up stay has no guest cleaning fee, no pet fee, no extra guest fee, and no tax passed through. Income tax, depreciation, and a later change in a loan payment are outside the formula, unless a monthly amount you typed is the payment you want to count. The occupancy rows are not a forecast of how many nights will book. A guest may not book at $223.12, at $167.34, or at any other rate this page displays.

Help center pages checked on 27 October 2026

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/52 for the host setting the nightly price, the desktop steps, and Airbnb’s option to update pricing from demand for similar listings.
https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1857 for the split fee, the single fee, the published percentages, the booking subtotal, and VAT.
https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/125 for no guest service fee under the single fee, and for what the guest total includes.
https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2385 for the cleaning fee, the pet fee, and the extra guest fee as host-charged fees outside the nightly price.