Two-sided marketsRepricing a rental marketplace
→Airbnb replaced a fee split of roughly 3% on hosts and 14.1% to 16.5% on guests with a single 15.5% host fee. CNBC reported in August 2026 that Airbnb was moving all U.S. hosts to the new structure by September 15. AirDNA’s analysis of an earlier cohort found that about 30% of hosts raised prices enough to fully offset the fee.
Two-sided markets