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Short-term rental profit calculator
For Airbnb, Vrbo and direct-booking hosts. Enter your nightly rate, occupancy, fees and running costs to see what a listing really brings in each month (cash flow), plus ADR, RevPAR and the occupancy you need to break even.
Bookings
Share of nights booked.
Charged on rent and cleaning fees. See the note below.
Cleaning
Cleaner, laundry and restocking.
Monthly running costs
Your full monthly payment.
Track the real numbers, booking by booking
The Short-Term Rental Host Tracker logs every booking and expense for up to five properties: payout reconciler, per-property P&L, occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, lodging tax and a year-end category summary for your tax professional. Google Sheets and Excel.
How the numbers are worked out
- Nights booked = occupancy × 30.4 nights (an average month). Stays = nights booked ÷ average stay.
- Platform fees = fee % × (rent + cleaning fees charged).
- Cash flow before tax = rent + cleaning fees − platform fees − cleaning costs − monthly running costs. Because your mortgage payment includes principal (which builds equity rather than being an expense), cash flow is lower than accounting profit.
- ADR (average daily rate) is rent per booked night. RevPAR (revenue per available night) is rent ÷ all nights in the month, so it rises with both rate and occupancy. Some market-data tools include cleaning fees in ADR, so their figures may run higher.
- Break-even occupancy is the occupancy at which cash flow is $0 with your current rate, stay length and costs.
Which platform fee should I use?
Fees depend on the platform and your settings, and they change, so check your own payout statements. As of October 2026, most Airbnb hosts pay a host-only fee of about 15.5% of the booking subtotal (nightly rate plus cleaning and other host fees, before taxes). Airbnb has moved US hosts off the old split fee (about 3% for the host), which now applies only to bookings made before the switch. Vrbo is moving hosts to a single 12% commission on bookings made from October 29, 2026; subscription listings move when they expire. Direct bookings usually cost only card processing, often around 3%, plus any booking software.
What's left out
Lodging and occupancy taxes you collect and pass on aren't income, so they're excluded. So are income tax, depreciation, big one-off purchases and seasonal swings. Mortgage principal is counted as a cost here, though for tax purposes generally only the interest is an expense; your tax professional can confirm what applies to you. For a year with real seasonality, use your actual monthly bookings instead of an average.
An educational tool. All results are estimates. Not financial or tax advice.