Airbnb Profit Calculator

Airbnb profit isn't your nightly rate times how many nights you're booked. That number is gross revenue, a useful starting point, and the number most calculators stop at. Real profit is what's left after Airbnb's service fee, what it actually costs you to turn the property over between guests, and everything fixed you pay whether or not a single night books.

This airbnb profit calculator builds that number the same way a real P&L does, one layer at a time:

grossRevenue   = (nightly rate × booked nights) + (extra guest fees) + (cleaning fees collected)
platformFee    = feePct × grossRevenue
variableCosts  = (cleaning + laundry + supplies per turnover) × number of turnovers
fixedCosts     = mortgage/rent + insurance + utilities + HOA + property tax + subscriptions + other
netProfit      = grossRevenue − platformFee − variableCosts − management fee − maintenance reserve − fixedCosts

One correction worth stating plainly, because it changes the answer: Airbnb's host-only service fee (the ≈15.5% most hosts are on) is charged against your total payout, cleaning fee included, not against the nightly rate alone. A calculator that applies the fee to nightly revenue only will understate your platform fee on every booking that carries a cleaning charge, which is most of them. This calculator applies it to gross revenue, cleaning fee and all, because that's what actually gets deducted.

Which fee model applies depends on your listing: host-only (≈15.5%) is Airbnb's current default for most hosts, split (≈3%, host-paid) shifts most of the fee onto the guest's displayed price instead, and a small number of hosts, mostly on older accounts or specific markets, are on neither and can enter their own rate as "custom." Pick the one that matches your payout, and the calculator does the rest.

Break-even occupancy is the percentage of nights you'd need booked in a month to cover every cost you've entered. Below it, the property loses money; above it, every additional booked night is profit.

It matters more than gross revenue or even net profit alone, because it's the number that tells you how much room you have. Two properties can show the same net profit at 65% occupancy and be in completely different positions: one breaks even at 30% and has a wide buffer against a slow month, the other breaks even at 60% and is one bad month from a loss. This calculator solves for break-even directly from your fixed costs, your variable cost per turnover, and your fee model, rather than making you guess-and-check by dragging occupancy up and down until the number crosses zero.

If your fixed costs are $0 (no mortgage, no HOA, nothing financed), break-even shows as 0%: you're profitable from the first booked night, because you have nothing to cover before revenue starts. That's a real result, not a placeholder, but it's worth checking your fixed-cost inputs if it surprises you; most real properties carry at least some fixed monthly cost. On the other end, if your variable cost per turnover is high enough relative to your nightly rate, some properties genuinely never break even at any occupancy. The calculator will tell you that directly instead of showing an impossible number past 100%.

RevPAN, or Revenue Per Available Night, is your gross monthly revenue divided by every day in the month, whether it was booked or not. It's the single number that lets you compare two properties, or two months, on equal footing regardless of how full the calendar was.

The reason it matters: your per-booked-night revenue figure goes up as occupancy goes down, because a smaller number of nights is absorbing the same fixed cleaning-fee revenue. That can make a half-empty calendar look deceptively strong on a per-night basis. RevPAN doesn't have that distortion. It's the same denominator (30 days) every month, so a drop in occupancy shows up as a drop in RevPAN, exactly as it should.

There isn't a single trustworthy number, and any calculator that hands you one is guessing on your behalf. Margin depends on whether you're carrying a mortgage or own the property outright, your local property tax and insurance rates, whether you self-manage or pay a manager a percentage of revenue, and how competitive your market is on nightly rate, all of which vary enormously between two otherwise similar listings.

What's actually useful isn't a benchmark percentage to compare yourself against. It's your own margin, computed from your own numbers, alongside your break-even occupancy. A property clearing a 15% margin with a wide break-even buffer is in a stronger position than one clearing 40% with almost no buffer, because the second one is one slow season away from a loss. Run your real fixed costs above and look at both numbers together, not just one of them.