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Airbnb Profit Calculator: Does Your Rental Make Money Each Month?

Bookings are not profit. Type your nightly rate, the nights you book in a month, your cleaning fee and cost, and your monthly fixed costs, and this page reads back your monthly profit, your margin, and your break-even occupancy: the nights you need just to cover your costs. The math runs in your browser; the numbers you type are never sent to us.

Your numbers

Your bookings

Nightly rate ($)

What a guest pays for one night, before fees. Use the rate you actually charge, not your best weekend rate.

Nights booked in a month

Whole nights, from 0 to 31. Zero is an honest answer for an empty month, and the result shows what an empty month costs.

Average stay length (nights)

At least 1 night. It sets how many stays, and how many cleans, your booked nights split into. A decimal average like 2.5 is fine.

Platform service fee (%)

The standard Airbnb host fee under the shared host and guest split is 3 percent. Airbnb charges it on the booking subtotal, rent plus your cleaning fee. Fee plans differ, so you can set it from 0 to 20 percent.

Cleaning, in and out

Cleaning fee you charge per stay ($)

What the guest pays you for cleaning, once per stay. It comes in, and the platform fee is charged on it too.

Cleaning cost you pay per stay ($)

What you pay the cleaner, once per stay. It goes out. If you clean the place yourself, you can still price your time here.

Your monthly fixed costs

Monthly fixed costs ($)

One figure for the month: your rent or mortgage share for the place, utilities, insurance, and supplies, added together.

Your monthly profit Your number is waiting

Type your numbers above to see your monthly profit.

Stays this month 0 stays Nights booked divided by your average stay length.

Money in $0 Rent plus the cleaning fees you charge.

Platform fee $0 Your fee percent of the money in, the booking subtotal.

Cleaning costs out $0 Your cleaning cost for each stay this month.

Break-even nights 0 nights Booked nights needed just to cover your fixed costs.

Break-even occupancy 0% Break-even nights as a share of a 30-day month.

Margin 0% Profit as a share of everything that came in.

Profit = rent plus cleaning fees, minus the platform fee on that subtotal, minus cleaning costs, minus fixed costs.

The formula in plain words: stays split your booked nights into bookings, and each stay brings one cleaning fee in and one cleaning cost out. The platform takes its percent of everything that comes in, not just the rent. What is left after cleaning and fixed costs is the month's profit.

Picture a month where every booked night adds up to a number you already know.

What this free calculator did not calculate. No income tax, and no local short-term rental taxes, permits, or rule checks for your city. No repairs, restocking beyond your fixed cost figure, or wear on furniture. No guest refunds, chargebacks, or damage claims. No pricing advice for slow weeks or peak weeks. This page prices one month, at one rate; running the place week by week, with pricing checks, guest messages, and a weekly report, is the paid kit below.

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How the Airbnb profit calculator works

Updated November 2026

What monthly profit means for a host

A busy calendar can still lose money. Profit is what is left after every cost of the month is paid: the platform fee, the cleaning, and the fixed costs of holding the place. This calculator counts them in that order, so a good month and a busy month stop looking the same.

The formula, in plain words and symbols

Four steps, and the calculator above runs exactly these:

Step 1: stays and money in. stays = nights booked / average stay length. Rental revenue = nights booked x nightly rate. Cleaning fees in = stays x cleaning fee charged. Money in = rental revenue + cleaning fees in. Money is worked out on the exact number of stays, even when it is a fraction; only the stay count on display is rounded.

Step 2: the platform fee. platform fee = fee percent x money in. Airbnb charges its host fee on the booking subtotal, the nightly price plus any fees charged by the host, so the cleaning fee is inside the base. Under the shared split, most hosts pay 3 percent. That is the default here, and the field is editable because fee plans differ.

Step 3: cleaning costs and fixed costs. cleaning costs out = stays x cleaning cost. Monthly profit = money in - platform fee - cleaning costs out - fixed costs. Margin = profit / money in.

Step 4: break-even. Each booked night adds a set amount toward the fixed costs: (nightly rate + cleaning fee / stay length) x (1 - fee percent) - cleaning cost / stay length. Break-even nights = fixed costs / that amount. Break-even occupancy = break-even nights / 30 x 100, using a 30-day month. If one night adds nothing or less than nothing, the place never breaks even at those prices, and the page says so plainly.

A worked example

Take the numbers this calculator opens with. A nightly rate of $120, 18 nights booked, an average stay of 3 nights, a cleaning fee of $60 charged and a cleaning cost of $45 paid, a platform fee of 3 percent, and fixed costs of $900.

Step 1: 18 / 3 gives 6.0 stays. Rent is 18 x $120, which is $2,160.00. Cleaning fees in are 6 x $60, which is $360.00. Money in is $2,520.00. Step 2: the platform fee is 3 percent of $2,520.00, which is $75.60. Step 3: cleaning costs out are 6 x $45, which is $270.00. Profit is $2,520.00 - $75.60 - $270.00 - $900, which is $1,274.40, a margin of 50.6 percent. Step 4: each night adds $120.80 toward the fixed costs, so break-even is $900 / $120.80, which is 7.5 nights, or 24.8 percent of a 30-day month. Change any one input and every one of those numbers moves; that is what the fields above are for.

How to read your result

Profit above zero with a margin of at least 20 percent means the month pays its way with room to spare. Profit above zero under a 20 percent margin means the month works, but thinly: one repair or one slow week can take the profit with it. Profit at or below zero means the month loses money at these prices, and the break-even line shows how many more nights, or what price change, the month needs. A break-even occupancy past 100 percent means the fixed costs cannot be covered in a 30-day month at these prices at all.

What the math takes as given, and what it leaves out

The math holds your rate, your stay length, and your fees steady for the whole month, and it counts one month at a time. It leaves out income tax, local rental taxes and permits, repairs, refunds, and damage claims. Your city may also limit short-term rentals; check your local rules before you count on hosting income. Hosting income also lands unevenly across the year, which is its own budgeting problem: the Kollaz Money guide How to Budget With Irregular Income (Paycheck-First) covers that side in plain words.

The selling side of the same hosting income

Many hosts also sell what they make. The fee math there is different, but the habit is the same: count the platform fee before you call a sale profit. The free Etsy Fee Calculator does that count for a sale.

Sources

Airbnb service fees, Airbnb Help Centre (checked 2026-11-10): under the split fee, most hosts pay a 3 percent service fee, and service fees are a percentage of the nightly price and any fees charged by the host, excluding the guest service fee and taxes. That published base is why this calculator charges the fee on rent plus cleaning fees. The same page describes a single fee paid by the host alone, which is why the fee field here is editable. Source: https://www.airbnb.ca/help/article/1857
The break-even occupancy figure uses a 30-day month, stated on this page as a plain convention, not a sourced figure.
The paid product named on this page is the Airbnb Running Kit (Kollaz, KM-043), sold as the Airbnb Host Kit: the guest message templates, daily pricing check, listing workbook, weekly report, review replies, and Canada Regulations Companion are its stated contents in the Kollaz catalog (catalog.json, checked 2026-11-10).

Educational information only, not financial advice. Consider a qualified professional for decisions about your specific situation.

Frequently asked questions

What does this Airbnb profit calculator show?

It shows one month of hosting in plain numbers: the rent and cleaning fees that come in, the platform service fee, the cleaning costs, and your fixed costs, and what is left as profit. It also shows your margin, and the break-even point: how many nights you must book in the month just to cover your fixed costs, and that figure as a share of a 30-day month.

How is the Airbnb host fee worked out?

Airbnb charges the host service fee on the booking subtotal, which is the nightly price plus any fees you charge the guest, such as the cleaning fee. It is not charged on the rent alone. Under the shared host and guest split, most hosts pay 3 percent, which is the default in this calculator. Fee plans differ, and Airbnb also runs a single fee paid by the host alone, so the field is editable from 0 to 20 percent: set it to the fee on your own account.

What is break-even occupancy?

It is the break-even nights figure told as a share of the month. First the calculator finds what one booked night adds toward your fixed costs, after the platform fee and the cleaning cost of its stay. Your fixed costs divided by that amount gives the nights you need. Divided by a 30-day month, it becomes a percent. If it passes 100 percent, the month cannot cover your fixed costs at these prices, even fully booked.

Why do I enter both a cleaning fee and a cleaning cost?

They are two different amounts of money moving in opposite directions. The cleaning fee is what you charge the guest, once per stay, and it comes in. The cleaning cost is what you pay the cleaner, once per stay, and it goes out. Hosts set the fee and pay the cost separately, and the gap between them is real money each stay, so this calculator asks for both and counts the number of stays from your nights booked and your average stay length.

Where does my information go when I use this calculator?

The calculation runs entirely in your browser on your own device, and the numbers you type are never sent to us or stored. Like every Kollaz page, this one counts visits with cookies only if you accept them; the consent banner explains that choice, and it is yours to decline. The signup form on this page sends only the email address you type into it, and your first name if you add it, when you press its button. Signing up takes one more step: we email you a link, and clicking it is what subscribes you.

Is this financial advice?

No. It is arithmetic on the numbers you type, using the fee base Airbnb publishes for its host service fee. It does not know your tax situation, your local short-term rental rules, or your mortgage terms. For decisions about your specific situation, talk to a qualified professional.