How much should your nightly price go up?
Airbnb now charges most hosts a single 15.5% fee. Enter your current price to see the new one that keeps your payout the same, and what the same price pays on Vrbo and Booking.com.
Prices checked 15 November 2026.
15.5% for most hosts since the switch to a single host fee; 16% in Brazil and Mexico.
Most hosts paid about 3% under the old split fee.
Platforms in the EU and UK usually add VAT to their fee unless you’re VAT-registered and account for it yourself.
Your price on Airbnb at a 15.5% fee
New nightly price
118.43
same payout as before
Increase
18.43%
Your payout per night
96.40
The same 100.00 a night on each site
Airbnb at 15.5%81.40
Vrbo at 12%85.60
Booking.com at 15%82.00
Payout = price × (1 − fee × (1 + VAT)). Works in any currency. Source: Airbnb Help Centre, service fees, checked 14 Nov 2026.
The fee applies to reservations made after you switch; older bookings keep the split fee. Background and dates in our guide to the 15.5% fee.
Questions about Airbnb fees
Most hosts pay a single 15.5% host fee, taken from the payout. Guests no longer pay a separate Airbnb service fee on those bookings. Hosts in Brazil and Mexico pay 16%.
From a 3% split fee to 15.5% you need about 14.8% more per night to keep the same payout, or about 18.4% if Airbnb adds 20% VAT to its fee. Enter your own numbers above.
Not any more. Hosts connected through software were moved to the single fee on 13 October 2026, the same fee as everyone else.
In most EU countries and the UK, Airbnb adds VAT to its host fee unless you’re VAT-registered and account for it yourself. Switch VAT off above if that applies to you.