8% from hosts. Nothing from guests.

That is the whole pricing page. There is no second table, no tier chart, and nothing that only applies after your first ninety days.

Guests pay

0%

No service fee, no cleaning fee, no booking fee. The nightly rate you see is the rate you are charged, multiplied by the number of nights.

Hosts pay

8%

Deducted from your payout. Locked for 24 months from your first confirmed booking — if we raise the rate for new hosts, yours does not move.

What this is worth to you

Airbnb is moving every host onto a single host-only service fee of about 15.5%, charged on the whole booking subtotal — nightly rate, cleaning fee, pet fee and extra-guest charges included. Put your own numbers in.

R
On Airbnb15.5% host fee

R 12 675

after R 2 325 in platform fees

On LarkStay8% host fee

R 13 800

after R 1 200 in platform fees

You keep R 1 125 more a month — R 13 500 a year.

Things we do not charge for

  • Listing your place
  • Photos, and our improving them
  • Your listing appearing in search
  • Being paid out
  • Cancelling before a booking is confirmed
  • Talking to a human when something goes wrong

When you get paid

24 hours after your guest checks in — not after they leave. In rand, into a South African bank account, with no cross-border leg and no annual Reserve Bank mandate to chase down before the money moves.