Airbnb Break-even Calculator

Nightly rate, platform fee, turnover cost and fixed costs. Nights per month you must book before the listing earns anything.

Nightly rate

Cleaning fee you charge

Platform host fee

Airbnb split fee is about 3%. Host-only fee is about 15%.

Average stay

nights

What a turnover really costs you

Cleaner, laundry, your own hour if you do it.

Supplies per stay

Toiletries, coffee, paper, welcome snacks.

Utilities per occupied night

Heat, power, water, internet, spread per night.

Fixed costs per month

Mortgage or rent, insurance, property tax, licence, software.

Nights you realistically book per month

How this is calculated

Net per stay = (rate × nights + cleaning fee) × (1 − platform fee).

Profit per night = (net − turnover − supplies − utilities × nights) ÷ nights.

Break-even nights = fixed costs ÷ profit per night. Occupancy needed = that ÷ 30.4.

Prices are before GST/HST. Add tax on top of the price shown, never inside your margin. Estimates, not advice.

Verdict

You are subsidising guests

66% occupancy just to cover fixed costs

Nights to break even each month20

Conservative yearly leak$3,424

What a year of these numbers costs you if nothing changes. Zero means the listing carries itself.

Rooms available, rooms sold, room revenue. Occupancy, ADR and RevPAR out, with the rate you need to hit target.

How many housekeepers tonight needs, how many minutes each room actually gets, and what an occupied room costs you.

What Booking.com, Expedia or Airbnb really take from a booking, against the same guest booking direct.

Wedding and group blocks: block rate, comp rooms, attrition, and what the block is actually worth after cleaning.

Every item a guest takes, waste, and staff minutes. True cost per guest against the allowance in your rate.

Shampoo, soap, coffee pods, water, snacks. Case price and units in the case, out comes the cost per stay and per year.