Conference Room Price Index

The Conference Room Price Index benchmarks what meeting rooms actually cost, computed from 993 live, bookable conference rooms on the Croissant network as of 2026-08-19. Unlike survey-based estimates, every rate here is a real price you could book at the snapshot date. It is part of the Workspace Inventory Index and is updated quarterly.

Rates are hourly, shown in each market's local currency, and never averaged across currencies. Medians are the headline figure because a small number of large event spaces skew averages upward; the 25th to 75th percentile range shows what most rooms cost.

Conference room rates by city

City rows link to live bookable inventory. Cities with fewer than 5 rated rooms are excluded; treat small-sample rows as indicative rather than definitive.

What drives conference room pricing

Capacity is the dominant price driver. In New York, the median 2 to 4 person room costs $50 per hour while the median room seating 9 or more costs $175. The pattern holds across markets:

Median hourly rate per capacity band; a dash means fewer than 3 rooms in that band. Location quality, amenities such as video conferencing hardware, and time of day also move prices, but none as much as room size. For what to look for in the room itself, see our guide to designing hybrid meeting spaces.

Rates by neighborhood

Within a city, neighborhood pricing varies more than most teams expect. The five deepest markets in the index:

New York

London

Lisbon

Barcelona

Berlin

Rates by country

How Croissant compares to the external market

To put the network's rates in context, the index also tracks conference room listings published on 5 other booking platforms: 1,721 externally listed rooms, deduplicated and aggregated anonymously (Croissant's own listings excluded). In 8 of the 12 comparable cities, the median Croissant room costs less than the external market median:

Comparisons are within the same currency and not adjusted for room size, which explains most of the cities where Croissant's median sits above market: the network's inventory there skews toward large rooms (Chicago's bookable rooms average 28 seats, for example). Cities appear only when both samples are meaningful: at least 5 Croissant rooms and at least 40 external listings.

Methodology

• Source: live listings from the Croissant network's public booking inventory, snapshot 2026-08-19. All 993 rated rooms qualified; none were excluded for missing rates.
• Currency: rates are reported in each listing's local currency and never pooled or converted across currencies.
• Statistics: medians and percentile ranges (p25 to p75), which resist skew from large event spaces; capacity bands report medians only.
• Thresholds: cities need at least 5 rated rooms, neighborhoods and capacity bands at least 3, countries at least 8.
• External market figures: aggregated from 1,721 conference room listings published publicly on 5 other booking platforms, deduplicated, with Croissant's own listings excluded. Reported anonymously in aggregate; per-platform figures are not published. Comparison rows require at least 40 external listings.
• Update cadence: quarterly, with the snapshot date shown on the page.

FAQs about conference room pricing

How much does a conference room cost per hour?

In the United States, the median bookable conference room costs $75 per hour as of 2026-08-19. Typical rates run from about $50 to $150 depending on city and room size; European markets are generally cheaper, with medians of €30 in Lisbon, €25 in Madrid and Barcelona, and £41 in London.

Why do rates vary so much within one city?

Room capacity and neighborhood. A 4-person huddle room in an outer neighborhood and a 20-person boardroom in the city center can differ by 5x or more. Compare rooms of the size you actually need, in the area you need them.

Is it cheaper to book hourly or rent a dedicated meeting room?

For most distributed teams, hourly wins by a wide margin. A team using 10 hours of meetings per month at the US median pays about $750; a dedicated conference room in a leased office costs several times that once rent, fit-out, and utilization are counted. The economics are covered in our FP&A guide to workspace spend.

Are conference rooms cheaper on Croissant than elsewhere?

In 8 of 12 comparable cities, the median Croissant room costs less than the median externally listed room, often substantially: London is £41 versus £102.46 on the external market, and Paris €47.50 versus €135.84. Where Croissant's median is higher, the difference mostly reflects larger rooms in the network's local inventory rather than higher like-for-like prices.

Where does this data come from?

From live bookable inventory on the Croissant network, computed under the methodology above. It reflects real transactable prices rather than advertised or survey-reported rates. See the Workspace Inventory Index for the full data program.