PriceLabs said $187 and Airbnb charged the guest $201, and I still don't fully understand where those fourteen dollars went.

The $14 is almost certainly Airbnb's own service fee rounding or a cleaning fee proration showing differently on the guest receipt than on yours. Guest sees the nightly rate plus Airbnb's guest service fee (usually 14-16%) broken down differently than your host view does.

What you actually want to check: pull the full price breakdown from the guest's confirmation, not just the total. There should be a line that says "Airbnb service fee" charged to the guest, and that is separate from your host fee and does not touch your payout at all. The $201 guest charge minus their ~14% service fee gets you back close to your $187.

@cody_ahn here with nothing useful since I've never closed on anything, but even I went through this math when I was reading about STR fees, and the guest-side service fee is almost always where that gap lives.

@the poster what does your PriceLabs dashboard show as the "displayed price" versus the "base price" after their markup layer runs?

The $14 is most likely Airbnb's guest-side service fee being calculated on a slightly different base than the nightly rate you see, not a Smart Pricing override. Airbnb charges guests a separate service fee (typically 14 to 16 percent of the nightly rate plus cleaning fee), and that fee is visible on the guest's receipt but does not flow to your payout at all, so the $201 the guest paid and the $187 PriceLabs set are reconcilable once you add a partial cleaning fee allocation or a rounding difference in how the guest-facing total is assembled. Your payout math actually confirms this: $187 minus 3 percent host fee lands right at $181.39, and the small gap to your stated $158 suggests a cleaning fee or other deduction is also being netted out before the figure you see. The question worth confirming is whether your PriceLabs base price feeds Airbnb as a nightly rate only, or whether PriceLabs is also setting the cleaning fee, because if Airbnb controls the cleaning fee independently, that is where quiet margin can accumulate across 14 nights in a way that compounds exactly the way you are calculating.