Turo Host Fees in the UK: What Actually Lands in Your Account (£)
- Your protection plan is the lever: Turo keeps roughly 10–40% of the trip price depending on the plan you pick per vehicle.
- Extras like delivery follow their own rules — read your plan terms, not the forum.
- Track your per-trip take-rate in pounds monthly; averages hide expensive surprises.
The one number that matters: your take-rate
Hosts argue endlessly about individual fees. The number that pays your bills is the take-rate: payout divided by trip price, per trip and per month, in pounds. When it drifts, something changed — your plan, your trip mix, or a fee you didn’t notice.
Protection plans set the baseline
Turo’s host protection plans trade fee percentage for damage protection: the highest-earning plans leave roughly 85–90 percent of the trip price with you and the biggest excess; the maximum-protection plans keep roughly 60–65 percent for you with little or no excess. Where you sit should depend on the car’s value, your excess tolerance, and whether you carry your own self-drive hire policy. Plans are set per vehicle — a mixed fleet can mix plans deliberately.
| Plan style | You keep (approx.) | Who carries the risk |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum protection | ~85–90% | Mostly you (high excess) |
| Middle plans | ~75–80% | Shared |
| Maximum protection | ~60–65% | Mostly Turo (low/no excess) |
Exact percentages change and vary by market — confirm inside your host dashboard rather than trusting forum screenshots.
The quiet money: extras and adjustments
- Delivery fees — typically pass through to you, minus the platform’s cut structure for your plan.
- Young-driver and trip fees — largely retained by the platform; don’t budget them as income.
- Reimbursements (fuel, mileage overage, cleaning, congestion charges you rebill) — paid when approved, with timing that lags trips by days or weeks and muddies monthly numbers.
Reconciliation beats memory
A month of UK trips produces dozens of payout lines: earnings, adjustments, reimbursements, occasional clawbacks — plus the ULEZ day you rebilled and the PCN you processed. Matching each deposit to its trips is exactly what software should do. CarCEO’s channel view shows trip price, platform cut, and your keep side by side with your direct hires, all in sterling — so you can see which channel actually earns more (it depends on utilisation).