What do your booking sites cost you?

Airbnb is moving hosts to a single fee of 15.5%, taken from what you earn. Hosts who live outside the EEA moved on 15 September 2026. Hosts who live in the EEA move on 13 October 2026.

Enter your own figures to see what each site costs you in a year, and what the same bookings would cost with Ask the Villa.

Your bookings in a typical year

Fill in the sites you use and leave the rest blank. Figures are in euros.

Airbnb

Airbnb's published host fee is 15.5%. Change it if your statements show a different rate.

Booking.com

Enter the commission on your Booking.com invoices, plus any payments charge. Booking.com does not publish a rate for Portugal, so we do not suggest one.

Add Vrbo
Vrbo

Enter what Vrbo takes from each booking, including payment processing.

Add Simply Owners
Simply Owners

Enter what you pay a year for your listing, in euros.

Add another site
Another site

Any other site that takes a share of each booking.

Your year today

Enter a weekly rate and weeks booked for at least one site to see your costs.

The same bookings with Ask the Villa

Starter No monthly fee

Commission at 8%

Pro €39 a month

Commission at 5%

Your first booking with us carries no commission. The figures above do not include that saving.

Founding owners pay no Pro subscription for their first 12 months. The figures above do not include that saving.

We assume every guest pays by card. A guest who pays you by bank transfer carries no card fee.

Get guest enquiries for your property

Enquiry alerts are free. We are not taking guest bookings yet. When we are, and a guest's brief matches your property, we will email it to you.

We only send guest enquiries to properties whose licence number matches Turismo de Portugal's public register of licensed holiday lets.

How we worked this out

For each site: weekly rate, times weeks booked, times the commission you entered. For Simply Owners, the fee you pay a year.

For us: the same bookings times our commission, plus Stripe's card fee, plus the Pro subscription where it applies. Card payments go straight to your own Stripe account and Stripe charges its own fee. We include it because Airbnb's fee already covers payment handling. Stripe's published rate for a UK card on a Portuguese account is 2.5% plus a small fixed fee per payment.

Figures exclude VAT. Whether VAT applies to a platform's fees depends on where you live and whether you are VAT registered.

This compares fees only. It does not predict how many bookings any site will bring you.

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