Most “which pricing tool is cheaper” advice compares a flat monthly fee against a vague “percentage of revenue” without being clear what “revenue” actually means. It matters: percentage-based tools like Beyond Pricing charge their fee on your total booking revenue, nightly rate plus cleaning fees, not just the nightly rate alone. This calculator uses your real numbers, not an abstract monthly total, and is built on the crossover analysis in our AI pricing tools for small hosts breakdown.

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Why “Booking Revenue” Includes the Cleaning Fee

This is the detail most pricing comparisons skip. Percentage-based tools like Beyond Pricing do not charge their fee on your nightly rate alone. They charge it on total booking revenue, which is everything the guest pays toward the stay itself: nightly rate plus cleaning fee (and, depending on the platform, extra-guest fees). A $200/night, 5-night booking with a $150 cleaning fee is $1,150 in fee-basis revenue, not $1,000. Skip the cleaning fee in your own math and you will underestimate what a percentage-based tool actually costs you.

This calculator deliberately does not ask for utilities or maintenance costs. Those are real expenses, often significant ones for a property with a hot tub in a cold climate, but they are not part of what any pricing tool charges its fee on. Keeping them separate is what makes this a fair comparison of the tools themselves, not a full property profitability model.

How the Math Works, With Real Numbers

Take a property renting at $200 a night, occupied 12 nights last month across 4 separate stays, with a $150 cleaning fee per stay. Total booking revenue for the month is $2,400 in nightly rate plus $600 in cleaning fees, or $3,000. A flat-fee tool charging $19.99 a month costs $19.99 no matter what that $3,000 figure is. A percentage tool charging 1% of total booking revenue costs $30 that same month, calculated on the full $3,000, not just the $2,400 in room revenue. At a busier 20 occupied nights and 6 stays, the flat fee is still $19.99, but the percentage fee climbs with the season. That is the actual crossover the calculator is solving for: flat fees are flat regardless of your calendar, percentage fees move with it in both directions.

The reverse is also true in a slow month. If occupancy drops to 5 nights across 2 stays, total booking revenue falls to $1,300, and a 1% fee costs $13, undercutting a $19.99 flat fee. There is no single answer that holds all year for a seasonal property like ours in Jay, which is exactly why a one-time comparison based on an average month can be misleading, and why we built this to take your actual current numbers instead.

FAQ

Does the percentage fee really include the cleaning fee?
For Beyond Pricing, yes, confirmed directly: the fee is calculated on total booking revenue (nightly rate, cleaning fee, and extra-guest fees combined), not just the nightly rate.

Does this account for portfolio discounts on flat-fee plans?
No. This calculator uses the standard per-listing flat fee. Larger portfolios often get reduced per-unit pricing, which would shift the crossover point higher. See the individual tool reviews for portfolio-scale specifics.

Which specific tools use which model?
PriceLabs offers both a flat-fee and percentage plan. Beyond Pricing is percentage-only, in the 1% to 1.25% range (or 1.49% pay-on-stay). Wheelhouse offers a free plan plus a flat-fee tier. Full details in our three-way comparison.

Why does the calculator ask for stays separately from nights?
Because cleaning fees are charged per stay, not per night. A 3-night stay and three separate 1-night stays both use the same number of occupied nights but generate very different cleaning fee totals.

Next: read the individual reviews for PriceLabs, Beyond Pricing, or Wheelhouse, or see the full three-way comparison.

Sources: Beyond Pricing operator review, 2026, confirming the total-booking-revenue fee basis including cleaning fees.