Raise your price, then check it against your comp set
At the calculator’s price you keep your old payout, and your guest pays about the same total they did under the old fee. Airbnb’s price adjustment tool lets you adjust prices on all your listings at once: $100 becomes $115. The tool’s deadlines were September 15 outside the European Economic Area and October 13 inside it or in Switzerland.
A flat raise is the quick answer. But it treats a slow Tuesday the same as a holiday weekend. Hosts who keep their old prices under the single fee earn less per night, but their guests see a total about 13% lower than yours. Before you raise every night by 14.8%, check where your new prices land against similar listings in your market. With Dynamic Sets you build that comp set and see where your prices sit, and Dynamic Pricing prices each night separately. On the free plan you can link your listings, explore your market report and test settings before you change a price.
Does Wheelhouse change your prices for the fee?
Not right away. We won’t drop your prices 12% or 15% overnight just because one booking site changed its fee. If nobody in your market changes their prices, you likely shouldn’t either. We watch how your listings book against similar listings nearby and adjust your Base Price over time. How fast depends on how many bookings you and your competitors get.
You can also adjust it yourself. In your pricing settings, Asking Rate (+Est. Fees) previews your final price with your fees added. Turn on Auto-update fee percentage and we set your fee percentage each week from your recent bookings, or type in 15.5% yourself. If the final price looks too high, change your Base Price. If you use property management software, you can add an Airbnb markup in its channel overrides instead.
What are Airbnb’s host fees in 2026?
Airbnb moved from its old split fee to a single fee in 2026. Most hosts pay 15.5%, taken from the payout. Listings in Brazil and Mexico pay 16%, and other hosts typically pay between 14% and 16%.
If you run your listings through property management software, the single fee is mandatory for you, as it is for hotels, serviced apartments and most other hosts. Airbnb based the 15.5% on its global average service fees.
Under the old fee, most hosts paid 3% (4% in Brazil and Mexico), and guests paid 14.1% to 16.5% on top of the price. Airbnb is moving every home host to the single fee. Once you switch, you can’t go back. The new fee applies to bookings made after you switch. Anything booked before keeps the old fee, even if the stay comes later.
Where a guest’s money goes on one $100 night
You keep $97.00. Airbnb takes $3.00 from you and $15.00 from the guest.
You keep $84.50. Airbnb takes $15.50 from you.
You keep $97.17. Airbnb takes $17.83 from you.
How the calculator works
Your payout for a stay:
payout = (nightly price × nights + fees) × (1 − 15.5%)
You used to keep 97% of your price. Now you keep 84.5%. To earn the same, divide 0.97 by 0.845. That’s 1.148, so the price goes up 14.8%. At 16% it’s 0.96 ÷ 0.84, or 14.3%. Your cleaning fee goes up by the same percentage.
How much to raise prices to keep your old payout
Across a portfolio, the difference adds up fast. If your prices add up to $1 million a year on Airbnb, the single fee takes $155,000 where the old fee took $30,000 from you. Hold your prices and that $125,000 comes out of your payout. Raise them by 14.8% and your payout stays where it was. Then the number to watch is the gap between your prices and the market’s.
The calculator leaves out VAT or GST on the service fee. Where it applies, Airbnb’s price adjustment tool adds it to your price unless you’re VAT registered and self-assess VAT: with 20% VAT, its $100 example becomes $119. It also leaves out occupancy and other taxes and discounts. Fee rates as of November 2026.
Worked example: a three-night stay
Three nights at $200 plus a $90 cleaning fee comes to $690. The fee takes $106.95 and leaves you $583.05. Under the old fee you would have kept $669.30 on the same prices. Set $229.59 a night and a $103.31 cleaning fee, and the guest pays $792.08, Airbnb’s fee takes $122.77, and you’re back at $669.31.