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Vrbo offers a free earnings estimate for people considering listing a property: type an address and a few details, and it predicts a nightly price and seasonal income on Vrbo. It is forward-looking and single-channel — a forecast for a listing that may not exist yet, with no way to add an Airbnb or direct-booking leg and no field for a stay you have already booked or priced.
That makes Vrbo's tool the right choice for "what might this property earn on Vrbo" before you list. This calculator answers a different question: for a stay you already have real numbers for, which channel actually pays the most — Airbnb, Vrbo, or direct — and what it would take to do better.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| What might a new listing earn on Vrbo, before it exists? | Vrbo's own earnings estimator. |
| For this exact stay, does Airbnb, Vrbo, or direct booking pay the most? | This calculator's side-by-side channel comparison. |
| What listed-price raise restores an old 3% Airbnb payout under the new 15.5% host-only fee? | This calculator's restore-payout figure — Vrbo's tool has no equivalent. |
| How many occupied nights can I afford to lose by going direct and still come out ahead? | This calculator's direct-booking break-even. |
| Does a Vrbo pay-per-booking fee or the legacy annual subscription pay more on this exact stay? | This calculator — Vrbo's own estimator does not compare its two fee plans against each other on one stay. |
This tool needs no Vrbo account and no live listing: it is a static
page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and your numbers stay on your
device — nothing is uploaded anywhere, and a shareable link carries your
inputs after the # in the URL rather than on a server.
Both, for different questions. Vrbo's own estimator, offered when you start listing a property on vrbo.com, predicts a nightly price and seasonal income for a property on Vrbo alone. This calculator instead takes a stay you already have numbers for — nightly rate, nights, cleaning fee, occupancy tax, deposit — and runs it through Airbnb's 15.5% host-only fee, the retired 3% split, Vrbo's pay-per-booking and legacy annual plans, and direct booking, side by side, plus the listed-price raise needed to restore an old 3% payout and the occupancy you can afford to lose going direct. Vrbo's tool cannot do any of that: it has no Airbnb or direct-booking leg and no way to enter an actual booked stay.
No. It is single-channel by design — it forecasts what Vrbo itself would pay for a listing on Vrbo. It has no field for Airbnb's host-only fee, Airbnb's retired 3% split, or a direct-booking site's processing fee, so it cannot answer which channel actually pays best on a given stay.
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vrbo or Expedia Group, Inc. Vrbo is a trademark of Expedia Group, Inc., named here only to describe what this calculator is for.
Also: This calculator vs. Airbnb's own Estimate Your Earnings tool · Airbnb vs Vrbo host fees, compared on the same stay