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What does Airbnb actually cost you in a year?
Two numbers and you have your answer: what comes out of your payouts, and what Airbnb adds to your price before a guest ever sees it. Nothing is sent anywhere — this runs in your browser.
Advanced — set the exact rates
Airbnb’s fees vary by region, listing type and cancellation policy. These are the common rates — if your statements say something different, put your own numbers in and the sums follow.
On €18,000 of bookings a year
You pay Airbnb €540 per year
The 3% host service fee, taken out of every payout before it reaches you.
- You pay
- €540
- Your guests pay
- €2,520
- Total to Airbnb
- €3,060
Your guests pay Airbnb another €2,520
— money that could have been part of your price. It is added on top of what you charge, so the guest feels a €20,520 holiday while you are paid €18,000.
- Airbnb fees on those bookings
- €3,060
- Bookeba, whatever you book
- €228
Those fees are about 13× a year of Bookeba — and Bookeba never takes a cut of a booking, so that number does not move when you have a good year.
You will not move every booking to your own link, and you should not try — the platforms still find you guests who have never heard of you. This is what the ones who already know you are costing.
Which fee are you actually paying?
The split fee
The common setup. Airbnb takes about 3% from your payout, and adds roughly 14% on top of your price for the guest. You only feel the 3% — but the guest is comparing the bigger number to everywhere else they could stay.
The host-only fee
One fee of roughly 15%, taken entirely from you, with nothing added for the guest. It is mandatory for most hotels and software-connected listings, and common across the EU. Your listing looks cheaper next to a split-fee one; you are paying for that.
Why the rates are editable
They genuinely vary — by region, by listing type, and by cancellation policy, which can raise the host share. Your Airbnb payout statements have your real numbers. Put those in and the arithmetic follows.
Questions
What hosts ask about Airbnb’s fees.
What are Airbnb's host fees right now?+
Two structures. On the split fee — the common one — Airbnb takes about 3% out of your payout and adds roughly 14% to what the guest pays. On the host-only fee it is a single charge of around 15%, all of it yours, with nothing added for the guest; that one is mandatory for most hotels and software-connected listings and is common across Europe. Exact rates move with region, listing type and cancellation policy, which is why every percentage in the calculator above is yours to change.
Are Airbnb's fees negotiable?+
Not for an individual host. The percentages are set by structure and region rather than agreed listing by listing, and which structure you are on is usually decided by your property type and where you are rather than by choice. The lever that does exist is not the rate — it is how much of your business has to run through the platform at all.
Can I charge less on my own website than on Airbnb?+
Yes. Airbnb does not require price parity, so a lower direct rate is allowed, and it is the ordinary way hosts pass on a fee they are no longer paying. What you cannot do is advertise that price inside Airbnb: off-platform links and contact details are stripped from listings and messages, and pushing it puts the account at risk. Share your link with people who already have your details. If you also list on Booking.com, read that contract separately — it has historically used parity clauses.
How do I actually reduce what I pay Airbnb?+
Move the bookings the platform never really found. A guest who stayed last summer and books again did not need finding, and that repeat booking is the cheapest one to shift to your own link — keep the listing for genuine discovery. After that it is housekeeping: check whether a stricter cancellation policy is pushing your host share up, and if you are on the host-only fee remember guests are comparing your all-in price against split-fee listings, so the fee is shaping your visibility as well as your margin.
Related tools
Listed on Booking.com as well?
Their commission is not the rate on the contract either — Preferred Partner, payment fees and VAT all land on top of it.
Keep the guests who already know you.
A booking page for each of your places, kept in step with your Airbnb and Booking.com calendars, with no commission on anything booked through it. €19 a month for the first property, €14 for each after. From your 5th place onwards, €12 each.
€228 a year, flat · cancel any time