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What Airbnb actually takes on one booking

Enter a nightly rate, the number of nights and your cleaning fee. You get the host service fee, the occupancy tax passing through, the payout that lands in your account, and the same stay priced on Vrbo and Booking.com.

Airbnb charges most hosts a single host-only fee of 15.5%. The older split fee, 3% on your side and 14.1% to 16.5% on the guest's, is being withdrawn host by host, and Airbnb publishes no consolidated calendar. Rates read on Airbnb's help center on September 10, 2026.

Your fee structure

Nightly rate

Before any discount, before the cleaning fee.

Nights

Cleaning fee

Airbnb charges its service fee on the cleaning fee too, so it belongs in the calculation.

Host service fee15.5%

Occupancy tax12%

Collected from the guest. Where Airbnb remits it for your city, it never touches your payout.

An estimate. Percentages come from Airbnb's help center, read September 10, 2026. Your own payout statement is the authority.

Your payout per stay

$633.75

Booking subtotal$750.00

3 nights plus cleaning$600.00 + $150.00

Airbnb guest service fee$0.00

Occupancy tax$90.00

Guest pays in total$840.00

Airbnb host fee-$116.25

Effective platform take15.5%

Gap between what the guest pays and what you keep$206.25

What the 15.5% covers, and how the split fee compares

The same stay on Vrbo and Booking.com

Same nightly rate, same nights, same cleaning fee, three channels. Only Airbnb and Vrbo publish their host rates, so the Booking.com line is yours to set.

Your Booking.com commission15%

Booking.com publishes no rate. Yours is in the accommodation agreement you signed, and it goes up if you joined Preferred Partner or Visibility Booster.

Channel	Guest pays	You receive	Platform take
Airbnb, host-only fee	$840.00	$633.75	15.5%
Vrbo, pay-per-booking	$840.00	$687.30	8.4%
Booking.com	$840.00	$637.50	15.0%

* Vrbo takes 5% of the rent and the fees you charge, plus 3% of everything it collects, taxes included. It also charges the traveler a service fee that varies with the reservation size and that Vrbo does not publish, so the Vrbo line understates what your guest actually pays.
The 5% and 3% are the US rates. Vrbo prices differently in Australia, Japan, New Zealand and parts of Europe, and differently again for hosts connected through property management software, so a listing outside the US needs the rate on its own payment details page.
Booking.com sets commission by country, property type and contract, and publishes no figure. The 15% starting point is a common reference, not a quote.
Occupancy tax is added on the guest side and passed through on all three. Vrbo charges its payment fee on it; Airbnb and Booking.com do not take commission on local taxes.

How it works

Three numbers off your own listing

Nightly rate and nights

Use a real booking rather than an average. Fee percentages are flat, but the cleaning fee weighs much more on a two-night stay.

Your cleaning fee

Airbnb applies the service fee to the cleaning fee as well. Hosts who leave it out of their math are short by 15.5% of it every stay.

Check which fee you are on

Open any past payout. A 3% line means split fee. A 15.5% line means host-only. That single choice moves your net by twelve points.

Why the same booking pays two different fees

Airbnb has run two fee structures side by side for years. Under the split fee the host pays 3% and the guest pays a separate 14.1% to 16.5% at checkout. Under the host-only fee the host pays 15.5% and the guest pays nothing on top. Same booking, same money leaving the guest's card, a very different line on your statement.

The migration is not optional. Airbnb moved hosts connected to property management software first, then began moving everyone else market by market. If your payouts still show 3%, treat it as temporary and model the 15.5% case before you set next season's rates.

The switch is close to neutral for the guest and expensive for the host who does not react. Under the split fee a $200 night reaches the guest at roughly $228. Under host-only, keeping the same $228 in the guest's basket means listing at about $228 and absorbing 15.5% of it. Most hosts who lose money on the change simply never re-priced.

Questions

Airbnb host fees, answered

How much does Airbnb take from hosts?

Most hosts now pay a single host-only service fee of 15.5% of the booking subtotal, deducted from the payout. Hosts still on the split fee pay 3%, while the guest pays 14.1% to 16.5% at checkout. Listings in Brazil and Mexico carry different rates.

Does Airbnb charge its fee on the cleaning fee?

Yes. The service fee applies to the booking subtotal, and the cleaning fee is part of the subtotal. On a $150 cleaning fee at 15.5%, that is $23.25 of the cleaning fee going to Airbnb on every single stay.

Is occupancy tax taken out of my payout?

Not where Airbnb collects and remits it. The tax is added to what the guest pays and sent to the jurisdiction directly. In counties where Airbnb does not remit, you collect it and you owe it, which is a very different cash position.

Which fee structure am I on?

Open a past payout in your transaction history. A service fee line at about 3% of the subtotal means split fee. A line at about 15.5% means host-only. If you connect a property management system, expect host-only.

Should I raise my nightly rate when I move to host-only?

Run both models here with the same nightly rate and look at the guest total. Under the split fee the guest was already paying the extra 14% or so. Matching that number under host-only means listing higher, and the guest sees the same price at checkout.

Do Vrbo and Booking.com charge the same way?

No, and neither charges the way Airbnb does. Vrbo splits its take in two: 5% commission on the rent and the fees you charge the traveler, then 3% payment processing on everything it collects, taxes and refundable deposits included. Booking.com sets its rate by country, property type and the agreement you signed, and publishes no figure anywhere. The table on this page prices the same stay on all three, which is the only comparison that means anything: what reaches your account, not the headline percentage.

Sources

Airbnb Help Center, Service fees: host 3% and guest 14.1% to 16.5% on the split fee, 15.5% for most hosts on the single fee, 16% for Brazil and Mexico. Read September 10, 2026.
Airbnb Help Center, same page: the split-fee structure is being withdrawn for certain hosts, who migrate to the single fee. Airbnb publishes no consolidated calendar.
Vrbo help center, About pay-per-booking fees: 5% commission on the rental amount and the fees charged to the traveler, plus 3% payment processing on the total collected, taxes and refundable deposits included. Regional rates differ in Australia, Japan, New Zealand and parts of Europe. Read September 10, 2026.
Vrbo help center, About Vrbo's service fee: the traveler pays a service fee calculated on the reservation total before taxes and refundable fees, lower on larger reservations. Vrbo publishes no percentage. Read September 10, 2026.
Booking.com partner help, Understanding your commission: the rate depends on country, property type and the accommodation agreement, and Booking.com publishes no figure. Commission applies to the rate and to added fees such as cleaning, not to local taxes. Marketing programs such as Preferred Partner and Visibility Booster raise it. Read September 10, 2026.

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