Fees
Turo host fees explained
The guest's receipt and your payout are two different documents. Hosts still talk about the gap as one fee.
Three charges sit in that gap, and only one of them comes out of your daily rate. I host out of McKinney. Dallas is one of the cities where the share you keep also moves with how far ahead the guest booked, so the same sticker does not cash the same way every week.
The trip fee is the guest's bill
The trip fee is a percentage of the trip price. The guest pays it. Turo keeps it. Turo's trip-costs page says the fee helps run the platform and cover the cost of supporting the trip. There is no single percentage worth memorizing. It moves with the car's value, how little notice the guest gave, how short the trip is, and other factors Turo does not publish as a formula. New York runs higher than other states because of that state's peer-to-peer law. The fee can't be removed, and it can't be refunded when the trip ends.
On the guest's checkout it sits inside the subtotal. It is not a setting on your listing, and it does not show up as income on your earnings receipt. When a guest writes that the total is well above your daily rate, this line, plus the protection plan they picked, is usually what they are looking at. You can't take it off their total. Sending your calendar rate and implying the checkout will match is how a trip starts with an argument.
Host groups pass around screenshots of trip fees and treat the percentage like a rule. Those screenshots expire. Check Turo's trip costs page before you repeat a number from one.
What actually comes out of the daily rate
The money Turo takes from the host is the other side of your host share, and the earnings plan on that vehicle sets it. On the US plans, you keep 70, 80, or 90 percent of the trip price. Turo's earnings page calls the remainder the Turo fee on your earnings receipt: the cost of the platform, plus the cost of the plan. The plans that pay you more also leave you with more damage responsibility if something gets hit. I did that arithmetic in Turo's earnings plans, and which one actually pays you more. Pick the plan from the size of your reserve. Then come back to the daily rate, which is the part you can still move.
In most of the US that percentage does not move. A trip booked tomorrow and a trip booked in six weeks pay the same share.
Dallas doesn't work that way. Since March 31, 2026, Austin, Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas, Maui, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, and Seattle use a variable host share. Four bands, five points apart, around the plan's standard rate:
| Days in advance | More peace of mind | Balanced | More earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28+ | 80% | 90% | 100% |
| 14–27 | 75% | 85% | 95% |
| 3–13 | 70% | 80% | 90% |
| 0–2 | 65% | 75% | 85% |
Two mistakes keep circulating. One: 100 percent is not a plan in the settings menu. It is the top band of More earnings, only in those nine markets, only when the guest books 28 or more days ahead. Two: the bands are not a bonus sitting on top of 70/80/90. A booking made 0–2 days out pays five points under the standard rate. The bottom of the system is 65 percent.
Confirm the current table on Turo's earnings and host share page before you switch anything. The plans were reworked once already in 2026. A blog post is not the system of record, including this one.
Delivery and extras are a flat 10 percent
Delivery is not paid at your earnings-plan rate. The same host-share page says you receive 90 percent of the delivery price, and 90 percent of extras. The other 10 percent is Turo's whether the car is on the 70 plan or the 90. That 10 percent stays put if you switch plans.
Approved reimbursements go the other direction. Refueling, charging during the trip, post-trip recharging, tickets, and tolls come back at 100 percent of the approved amount. Approved cleaning and smoking fees do too. A North Texas toll bill is a nuisance and a review risk. It is not Turo skimming the daily rate. If the charge is approved, the cut on it is zero. I wrote up the local version of the toll problem in Hosting on Turo in Dallas–Fort Worth.
Price the delivery fee as the cost of the drive. From McKinney, DFW airport is an hour each way before anyone's flight runs late. Ninety percent of a $40 delivery fee is $36. That does not cover the round trip. Set the number after you time your own drive, or don't offer the delivery. A car that goes out several times a week can justify an airport run. A weekend sports car usually can't, and offering the run anyway is how you give away a Sunday.
Discounts come off before your percentage
Your share multiplies the trip price, and the trip price is the calendar rate after discounts. Every US host offers a 10 percent non-refundable discount on trips booked four or more days ahead. You can't change the percentage and you can't opt out. Duration discounts, for trips that run several days, are a second layer. When a trip qualifies for more than one, Turo combines them at checkout. The example on the trip pricing page is a 10 percent non-refundable discount plus a 5 percent three-day discount, applied as a 15 percent reduction to the daily price.
So the $150 on your calendar, booked a week out, is not the $150 your share applies to. Comparing calendar rates and calling it a read on the market skips the number the guest actually booked. Your payout is a percentage of that discounted trip price. Skip the checkout and you are pricing a sticker.
The duration discount on your listing is yours. It is not one percentage Turo assigned to every car, so I am not going to publish a universal figure here. Read your own discount screen, then run the trip through the calculator with your plan and your lead time. The receipt on a finished trip is the check on both.
A $150 day, assumptions written down
This is a worked example. It is not a trip from my cars, and it is not what a Corvette or a Camry earns in DFW.
Assume a $150 calendar rate, a three-day trip, booked 10 days ahead, in Dallas, on the Balanced plan. The only discount in the example is the mandatory 10 percent non-refundable. No duration discount. If your listing has one, take it off before you trust the result.
| Step | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calendar rate, 3 days | $150 × 3 = $450 |
| After the 10% non-refundable discount | $405 trip price |
| Balanced, Dallas, booked 10 days out (3–13 day band, 80%) | 0.80 × $405 = $324 |
| You keep, per day | $108 |
The guest pays more than $405. The trip fee and their protection plan sit on top of the trip price, outside the $324. A checkout total of $500 still pays the host $324 on these assumptions, because those extra dollars are the guest's trip fee and protection.
Add an $80 delivery fee and you keep 90 percent of that, $72, as its own line. Don't fold the $72 back into the daily rate. It paid for the drive.
$108 is the figure that has to clear your costs: the loan or lease, the off-platform insurance, and a maintenance reserve that can survive a set of tires. I laid out how to build that floor in How much should you charge on Turo? Under the floor, a booked day makes the month worse. The floor sits well under the calendar rate because of this stack.
What to read on the receipt
I run the higher earnings plan. In Dallas a trip booked a month out can pay me 100 percent of the trip price, and a trip booked two days out pays 85. Same sticker, different cash, so those days do not get the same rate. The trip fee never enters that decision. I can't set it, and it never arrives on the earnings receipt.
When a trip ends, open that receipt and find three numbers: the trip price after discounts, the host share that was actually applied, and any delivery or extras at 90 percent. If those match what you thought the day was worth, you're done. If the share band is the surprise, change the next block of dates.
See the share before the trip books
Pricing Lab applies your earnings plan to the daily rate, including the Dallas lead-time bands, and shows what you'd keep. The trip fee stays out of that number, because it was never yours. Your first Compare is free. No Turo login.
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Pricing Lab is built by a Turo host and isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Turo Inc. Fee rules above are from Turo's public help pages as of September 2026 and change. Confirm the current trip-costs, trip-pricing, and earnings pages before you switch a plan or set a delivery fee. This is not tax, insurance, or financial advice. The $150 example states its assumptions and is not a report of any trip I hosted.