Rabbu vs AirDNA: What a Free Address Projection Actually Costs You

Rabbu is free, AirDNA runs $34 to $150 a month. The two numbers are not comparable: AirDNA includes cleaning fees and pulls comps from 10 miles, Rabbu excludes fees and pulls from 1.

Rabbu’s address projection is free with no paid tier, and AirDNA’s runs $34 a month billed annually or $125 month-to-month. Run the same address through both and the numbers will not match, and the biggest reason is not accuracy: AirDNA’s projected revenue includes the cleaning fee and Rabbu’s excludes it.

Both vendors publish that difference in their own documentation. Almost nobody comparing the two reads it, which is how operators end up arguing about whose data is better while looking at two different quantities.

Key takeaways

• Rabbu’s Airbnb Calculator is free with unlimited searches and no paid tier, while AirDNA’s Research plan costs $125 a month month-to-month or $400 billed annually, which is $34 a month.
• AirDNA’s Rentalizer includes the cleaning fee in Projected Revenue and Rabbu’s estimate excludes cleaning, pet, and every other incidental fee, so the same address returns a structurally higher number on AirDNA.
• Rabbu builds comps from same-bedroom listings within 1 mile, while AirDNA searches a 10-mile (15km) radius weighted by bedroom, bathroom, and guest count.
• AirDNA’s published 94.9% accuracy figure measures its national aggregate estimates against Airbnb’s SEC filings, not the error on any single address projection, which it does not publish.
• Rabbu publishes no accuracy figure at all and sells buyer leads to real estate agents at $150 each with a 20-lead minimum, a $3,000 entry cost.

Rabbu vs AirDNA: The Comparison That Matters

Six dimensions decide which tool answers your question. Price is the least important of them.

• Price: Rabbu is $0 with unlimited searches and no premium tier. AirDNA is $0 for a limited free tier, $125/month or $400/year (Research), $150/month or $600/year (Host), and quote-based for Property Manager at 6-plus properties.
• Coverage: Rabbu claims 1.1 million-plus active US Airbnb listings across 3,500-plus US cities, refreshed weekly, US only. AirDNA claims 10 million Airbnb and Vrbo properties across 120,000 global markets.
• Comp selection: Rabbu uses same-bedroom listings within 1 mile, widening only when the pool is too thin, and programmatically drops revenue outliers. AirDNA uses a 10-mile radius weighted on bedroom, bathroom, and guest count, returning up to 10 comps on Rentalizer and up to 25 through its API.
• What the revenue number contains: Rabbu returns nightly rate revenue only, explicitly excluding cleaning, pet, early check-in, and check-out fees. AirDNA’s Projected Revenue includes the cleaning fee but excludes host fees and taxes.
• Confidence disclosure: AirDNA ships a per-address Comp Set Strength score rated Low, Medium, or High. Rabbu publishes no confidence metric and no numeric margin of error.
• Export and history: Rabbu publishes no CSV export, no public API, and no historical performance data. AirDNA gates CSV export and comp-set customization behind Research, offers 12 months of history free, 36 months on Research, and back to 2017 on its enterprise tier, plus a paid API.

Whichever number you land on, an address projection is a screening input rather than an underwrite. MagicBNB’s Property Analyzer takes the revenue assumption you settled on and runs it against purchase price, down payment, loan terms, property tax, insurance, and HOA to return annual ROI, cap rate, and a fixed-versus-variable cash flow breakdown, with the full calculation methodology written out. The estimate is one line in that model, which is roughly the weight it deserves.

Why the Two Numbers Do Not Match

The cleaning fee alone accounts for most of the visible gap on a typical three-bedroom, and it has nothing to do with either tool being wrong.

Work it through. Take a three-bedroom at a $240 ADR and 55% occupancy. That is 201 booked nights and $48,240 in nightly rate revenue. At a 3.4-night average stay, 59 turnovers at a $150 cleaning fee add $8,850. AirDNA’s projected revenue would carry all $57,090. Rabbu’s would carry $48,240. The gap is 18.3% of Rabbu’s figure, and it is definitional.

Correct for it before you compare anything. Multiply expected turnovers by your cleaning fee and add it to the Rabbu number, or subtract it from the AirDNA number. Do that first, then decide whether one tool is running optimistic.

The radius gap cuts the other way. In a dense urban submarket, Rabbu’s one-mile same-bedroom pool is tighter and more relevant than a 10-mile sweep that drags in a different neighbourhood. In a lake or mountain market where the nearest true comp sits four miles out, Rabbu is silently widening its radius while AirDNA was already there. Neither tool tells you how many comps ended up in the set, and Rabbu does not publish its comp count at all.

One methodology detail deserves more attention than it gets. Rabbu seasonalizes using county-level, pre-COVID demand data by month. That is a defensible method built on a dated input, and markets that reshaped after 2020 are being seasonalized against a demand curve from a different era.

Two tools disagreeing by 18% on the same address may simply be answering two different questions about the same house.

What AirDNA’s 94.9% Accuracy Number Actually Measures

AirDNA’s headline accuracy figure compares its national aggregate estimates to Airbnb’s SEC filings, and says nothing about the error on the single address you are underwriting. Its accuracy page states it matches Airbnb’s reported numbers with 94.9% accuracy and Vrbo’s with 98.7%, and shows the workings: Q3 2023 estimated nights booked of 113.2 million against 113.2 million reported, and gross booking value of $18.4 billion against $18.3 billion. That is strong market-level work across 10 million tracked listings in 120,000 markets. It is not a measurement of whether your three-bedroom clears $57,000.

AirDNA is more candid inside the product than on the marketing page. Rentalizer ships a Comp Set Strength score rated Low, Medium, or High, and its documentation gives the example that drives a Low rating: one comparable projecting $50,000 and another projecting $200,000 in the same set. A 4x spread among comps is the real error bar, it is disclosed per address, and it is far more useful than any headline percentage.

Rabbu discloses nothing numeric. Its answer to how accurate the projections are is that some hosts outperform estimates and some underperform, and that the figure is a directionally correct starting point. Honest, and unfalsifiable. Rabbu does note that some STR lenders use its estimates to support DSCR loan underwriting, which is a genuine vote of confidence and also a warning: a number good enough for a lender’s risk model is not a number good enough for your offer price.

Both tools are inferring from public listing data, and neither can see a deposit. MagicBNB’s Net Payout source of truth runs one canonical calculation that drives profitability, the listings table, property detail, and every monthly report, so once a property is live the argument shifts from whose estimate was closer to what actually cleared. Estimates get you to the offer. A reconciled payout is what you defend to a lender or an owner twelve months later.

Why Rabbu Is Free

Rabbu is free to investors because agents pay for it. Rabbu’s agent page sells buyer leads at $150 per lead with a 20-lead minimum purchase, a $3,000 entry cost and no success fee. The same page claims 85% of its leads intend to purchase within 90 days and estimates a 5% to 10% close rate.

That model is a disclosure worth having rather than a criticism. The incentive it creates points toward search volume and toward addresses that look buyable, and Rabbu’s own documentation states its algorithm programmatically excludes certain outlier comparables that appear to show revenue disproportionate to property prices in the area. Trimming high-revenue outliers is defensible smoothing. It also cuts the top of the distribution in exactly the markets where an operator’s edge comes from being at the top of it.

A useful tell about how much comparison content is worth reading: Rabbu’s own pages describe AirDNA’s pricing two different ways, both wrong. One page says AirDNA plans start around $34 a month for "Pro" or $125 a month for "Advanced" when $34 and $125 are the annual and monthly prices of the same single plan, called Research. Another says AirDNA subscriptions run $99 to $299 a month. Neither matches AirDNA’s published rate card, which takes about a minute to check.

We took AirDNA’s numbers apart against real portfolio data in our piece on whether AirDNA is accurate.

How to Use Both Without Getting Fooled

Run both, normalize for the cleaning fee, and treat the spread between them as your confidence interval instead of picking a winner.

• Pull both projections on the same address on the same day. Rabbu refreshes weekly and AirDNA refreshes continuously, so a two-week-old screenshot from either is a different dataset.
• Add expected turnovers times your cleaning fee to the Rabbu figure before comparing. On the three-bedroom above, that single correction closes $8,850 of an apparent gap.
• Check AirDNA’s Comp Set Strength before trusting its number. A Low rating means the comps disagree by multiples, and no amount of national-level vendor accuracy fixes that on your address.
• Open the comp list and remove properties you would not actually compete with. Rabbu allows this free; AirDNA gates customizable comps behind the $34-a-month Research plan.
• Underwrite to the lower of the two after normalization, then stress it another 20% down. Neither vendor publishes an address-level error bar, so you supply one.

Two tools disagreeing by 30% on the same address is a decision problem more than a data problem. MagicBNB’s Self-consistency verification runs ROI, payback period, and return calculations through multiple solution paths and surfaces where the answers diverge and why, rather than returning one confident figure with the assumptions buried. When the inputs are contested, knowing which assumption moved the result beats a tighter point estimate.

For the wider field, including Airbtics, AirROI, and AllTheRooms, see our guide to AirDNA alternatives.

Rabbu vs AirDNA FAQ

Is Rabbu free?

Yes. Rabbu’s Airbnb Calculator is free with unlimited searches and no premium paid tier for investors. Rabbu monetizes real estate agents at $150 per lead with a 20-lead minimum purchase, and separately runs a free-to-list marketplace for STR sellers.

Is Rabbu more accurate than AirDNA?

Neither company publishes an address-level accuracy figure, so no credible measurement exists either way. AirDNA’s published 94.9% figure benchmarks national aggregates against Airbnb’s SEC filings, and Rabbu makes no numeric accuracy claim at all.

Why does AirDNA show higher revenue than Rabbu for the same property?

AirDNA’s Projected Revenue includes the cleaning fee and Rabbu’s excludes it, which on a three-bedroom doing 59 turnovers at $150 is an $8,850 difference before accuracy enters the conversation. AirDNA also draws comps from a 10-mile radius against Rabbu’s default 1 mile.

How much does AirDNA cost in 2026?

AirDNA’s Research plan costs $125 a month month-to-month or $400 billed annually, which works out to $34 a month. The Host plan is $150 monthly or $600 annually and bundles Uplisting for 3 listings, and the Property Manager tier for 6-plus properties is quote-based.

Does Rabbu cover markets outside the US?

No. Rabbu covers 1.1 million-plus active US Airbnb listings across 3,500-plus US cities and publishes no international coverage. AirDNA tracks 10 million Airbnb and Vrbo properties across 120,000 global markets, which is the main reason to pay for it if you buy outside the US.

Can I export data from Rabbu?

Rabbu publishes no CSV export and no public API. AirDNA gates CSV export behind its Research plan at $34 a month billed annually and sells API access separately, with enterprise discounts stated above 5,000 calls a month.

Turn the estimate into a number you can defend

Projections decide which offer you make. Reconciled numbers decide whether you were right. Connect your PMS and bank accounts to MagicBNB and every door you bought off a Rabbu or AirDNA projection gets measured against what actually cleared, month by month, against one canonical net payout figure.

About MagicBNB

MagicBNB is the portfolio intelligence platform that sits on top of your PMS and your bank. The Property Analyzer underwrites a purchase or a lease with ROI, cap rate, and a full cash flow breakdown, storing each analysis with persistent multi-turn chat so the assumptions stay editable later. The Deal Analyzer ranks saved analyses side by side against your risk tolerance and target ROI. See it at magicbnb.io.