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Airbnb's new 15.5% fee: how much to raise your price

Airbnb is moving US hosts to a single host-only service fee. This tool does one thing: the arithmetic. Enter your current numbers and see how far to raise your nightly rate and cleaning fee to hold your payout — nothing about occupancy, demand or revenue.

This is a calculator, not advice. It tells you the rate that keeps your take-home flat — not the "right" price for your listing. The rollout is host-by-host, so check your own Airbnb dashboard for your actual deadline.

The 30-second math
Two goals hosts keep confusing

"Raise your price 15.5%" is the advice going around — and it's wrong, because the new fee is charged on the new, higher price. Enter your numbers once and see both honest answers side by side.

Symbol only — no currency conversion. Enter the numbers exactly as they appear in your Airbnb pricing today.

Goal A · Like-for-like
"Hold my actual old take-home"
New nightly rate—
New cleaning fee—
Price increase+14.8%

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Goal B · Full-rate protect
"Make my listed rate survive the fee whole"
New nightly rate—
New cleaning fee—
Price increase+18.3%

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The trap everyone falls into

"Just add 12.5%" leaves you short — every night

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Don't forget the cleaning fee and extras. The 15.5% host-only fee applies to your cleaning fee, extra-guest fees and other charges too — not just the nightly rate. This calculator already raises the cleaning fee for you; apply the same increase to any other add-ons.
Straight about what this is
Arithmetic, not advice

This tool is deliberately narrow so you can trust it. Here's exactly what it does and doesn't tell you.

  • It's pure arithmetic. It claims nothing about occupancy, demand, revenue or bookings — only the rate that holds your payout under the new fee.
  • It is not the "right" price. It's your floor: the number that keeps your take-home flat. Whether the market will pay it is a separate question.
  • Holding the guest's total flat is different — and a much smaller change. Guests already paid roughly 14% on top under the old split fee, so a lot of that increase is just moving where the fee sits.
  • The rollout is host-by-host. Check your own Airbnb dashboard for your actual switch-over date — don't assume a single deadline applies to you.
  • Every figure is rounded to the nearest whole unit for readability.

The fee math gives you your floor.
Your local comps give you your ceiling.

You now know the rate that protects your payout. The next question is what comparable listings near you actually charge — so you don't leave money on the table, or price yourself out.

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