Coworking prices in Switzerland 2026: seven cities compared

Prices at a glance

A walk-in day pass at a Swiss coworking space costs CHF 33 to 60, and CHF 45 at most of the spaces we checked. A flexible desk you can use on every working day costs CHF 300 to 525 a month, and a fixed desk of your own CHF 400 to 650. These are the operators' own prices in October 2026, and some of them leave out 8.1 percent VAT.

Most coworking prices you find online are one average for the whole country, an old survey, or a "from" price that only holds with a long contract. We did it the slow way. We read the price pages of ten coworking spaces in Zurich, Winterthur, Bern, Basel, Geneva, Lausanne and Lugano, wrote down what a day, a flexible plan and a fixed desk cost, and checked what each list says about VAT, notice and extras. We only used spaces that print a full price list on their own website. Then we looked at the question that matters if you work remotely for someone else: who pays the bill.

Coworking prices in Switzerland at a glance

The short version is that a day costs about the same everywhere, while monthly prices spread out. Six of the ten spaces list exactly CHF 45 for a walk-in day. The spread comes from the plans: some sell days per month, some days per week, and one sells only single days and a fixed desk.

The table puts the three numbers side by side. "Every day" means the plan that lets you come in on any working day without a desk of your own. Where a price list says VAT is excluded, we wrote "+ VAT".

City and space	Day pass	Flexible, every day	Fixed desk
Zurich, Impact Hub	45	525	595
Zurich, Tessinerplatz	45 + VAT	500 + VAT	650 + VAT
Winterthur, Home of Innovation (station)	50	400	500
Bern, Effinger	38	520	not listed
Bern, Impact Hub	45	440 (20 days)	620
Basel, Rhizom	35 + VAT	not listed	530 + VAT
Geneva, Voisins	45	315 + VAT	from 485 + VAT
Geneva and Lausanne, Impact Hub	45	400	500 (Geneva)
Lugano, Impact Hub Ticino	33	340	480

Read the table as a starting point, not a ranking. A 24/7 key, a locker or meeting room hours can be included in one plan and cost extra in the next, and the VAT column alone moves a price by up to CHF 53 a month. The city sections below give the details that decide which plan fits.

City by city

Each section lists what the space publishes, with the plans that matter for one person working remotely. Team offices and event rooms are left out.

Zurich

Impact Hub Zurich sells a day pass for CHF 45 at its Colab space on Sihlquai, and a trial day for CHF 10 that is credited to a membership if you join. Its plans count days per month: Starter costs CHF 155 for 5 days, Medium CHF 245 for 8 days and Explorer CHF 305 for 12 days. Nomad, at CHF 525, is unlimited in Zurich plus up to 10 days a month at other Swiss Impact Hubs. Resident, at CHF 595, gives you a fixed desk and four hours of meeting room a month. If you only come in on Mondays and Fridays, the off-peak plans cost CHF 135 for 5 days and CHF 215 for 8. The page does not say whether VAT is included.

Tessinerplatz counts in days per week instead. A flexible desk costs CHF 150 a month for one day a week, 280 for two, 380 for three and 500 for the whole month. A fixed desk with 24/7 access is CHF 650. The walk-in day is CHF 45 with coffee and printing included. Extras are priced one by one: a small locker CHF 25, and 24/7 access CHF 50 on several flexible plans. The page states that all prices exclude VAT, so the fixed desk comes to CHF 702.65.

Winterthur

Home of Innovation runs three spaces in Winterthur and prices each one differently. At the station, a day costs CHF 50, one day a week CHF 200 a month, two to three days a week CHF 300, a flexible desk CHF 400 and a fixed desk CHF 500. The Wintower costs CHF 50 more on each monthly plan except the Friday Desk, and CHF 60 for a day. Töss is the cheapest: a fixed desk for CHF 400 and a flexible desk for CHF 300. All three sell a Friday Desk, a flexible place every Friday, for CHF 100 a month. The flexible and fixed desks include a business address and up to 75 or 100 hours of meeting room a year. VAT is not mentioned.

Bern

Effinger, a coffee bar and coworking space, undercuts the usual CHF 45 for walk-ins: CHF 22 for half a day, CHF 38 for a day, and CHF 350 for a card of ten days that stays valid for 12 months. Its monthly plans cost CHF 130 for each weekday per week: 130 for one day a week, 260 for two, 390 for three and 520 full time. The catch is in the terms. You sign for at least three months, give one month's notice, and days you don't use are lost at the end of the month. If you are under 18, the monthly plans cost half.

Impact Hub Bern is the clearest on tax: every price on its list is marked as including 8.1 percent VAT. Starter costs CHF 150 for 5 days a month, Medium CHF 240 for 8 days, Nomad CHF 440 for 20 days and Resident CHF 620 for a fixed desk with unlimited use. Paying a year ahead saves 10 percent, which brings the Resident desk down to CHF 558 a month. A day pass is CHF 45, half a day CHF 30, an hour CHF 10, and a card of five days CHF 225. A 24/7 key costs CHF 30 a month on the smaller plans and is included in Nomad and Resident.

Basel

Rhizom, a few minutes from Basel SBB, keeps it simple. A day costs CHF 35, four hours CHF 20, and ten days bought together CHF 315, which is CHF 31.50 a day. There is no monthly flexible plan. A fixed desk with a 27-inch screen, a locker and 24/7 access costs CHF 530 for a single month, or CHF 480 a month on a six-month contract, which adds a business address.

The note at the bottom is the part most lists don't have: it says the prices date from December 2025 and exclude VAT. Rhizom's booking page adds two useful details for the one-month desk: it has no notice period, and you leave a CHF 100 deposit for the office and locker keys.

Geneva

Impact Hub Geneva charges CHF 45 for a day and CHF 30 for half a day, or CHF 30 a day once you are a member. Its plans are Community at CHF 50 for one day a month, Starter at CHF 140 for one day a week, Medium at CHF 220 for 8 days, Plus at CHF 300 for 12 days and Nomad at CHF 400 for daily access. For CHF 100 more on Plus or Nomad, you can add a Solo Desk, a private spot that is yours alone, so daily access with a desk of your own comes to CHF 500.

Voisins runs five spaces in and around Geneva and one in Neuchâtel, and members can switch between them. Five days a month costs CHF 165, more than Impact Hub's Starter, but the larger plans are cheaper on paper: CHF 225 for 12 days and CHF 315 for unlimited access, or CHF 285 a month on a yearly plan. Notice is one month, two on the yearly plan. The page says these prices exclude VAT, while the CHF 45 day pass includes it. A fixed desk starts at CHF 485 a month before VAT.

Lausanne

Impact Hub Lausanne publishes the same list as Geneva, from the CHF 45 day pass to the CHF 400 Nomad plan. Beyond that, it rents private spaces for teams of four to eight people. For one person on a flexible plan, the two Impact Hubs in Romandy are interchangeable on price.

Lugano

Impact Hub Ticino, at Via Ciseri 3, is the cheapest Impact Hub we checked, and it says its prices include VAT. A day costs CHF 33, or CHF 30 with a membership, for students and for people drawing an old-age or invalidity pension, and an unused pass stays valid for a year. Starter costs CHF 140 for 5 days a month, Medium CHF 200 for 8 days, Nomad CHF 340 unlimited and Resident CHF 480 for a fixed desk. Paying six months or a year ahead takes 10 or 15 percent off; the Resident desk falls to CHF 408 a month on a yearly payment.

VAT: compare prices with it, not without

Swiss VAT is 8.1 percent at the standard rate, which covers most services, according to the Federal Tax Administration. Some lists include it and some don't, and a few never say. That one line explains a good part of the difference between two prices that look close.

Tessinerplatz lists its fixed desk at CHF 650 and Impact Hub Bern at CHF 620, so Zurich looks only CHF 30 dearer. Add the VAT that Tessinerplatz leaves out and the gap is CHF 82.65 a month. Voisins' unlimited plan moves from CHF 315 to 340.52. If you pay as a private person, or your employer reimburses you, the price with VAT is the one that counts. Where a page says nothing, as at Impact Hub Zurich, Effinger, Home of Innovation and the Impact Hubs in Geneva and Lausanne, ask before you sign.

Day pass, flexible plan or fixed desk?

At Impact Hub Zurich, a plan beats day passes from the fourth day of the month. Three day passes cost CHF 135. A fourth would take you to 180, while the Starter plan gives you five days for 155.

The chart shows the same logic all the way up. Each plan wins for a short band of days, and the cost per day drops as you go: CHF 31 on Starter used in full, CHF 25.42 on Explorer, and CHF 25 on Nomad if you come in on 21 days. Fixed desks follow a different rule. At Impact Hub Zurich it costs CHF 70 more than Nomad, so you are paying for a desk nobody else uses, where you can leave your things, and at many spaces a 24/7 key.

The plan only pays off if you use it. Count the days you really worked away from home in a normal month, not the ones you meant to. Then check whether unused days carry over. At Effinger they don't, while the Effinger ten-day card, Impact Hub Bern's five-day card and Impact Hub Ticino's day passes all stay valid for a year. For someone who goes in once a week but misses weeks, a card can be cheaper than any plan.

Notice, minimum terms and extras

Where the lists give a notice period, it is short, but the minimum terms differ. Impact Hub Zurich has no minimum term on its coworking plans: you cancel by the 15th for the following month, or six weeks ahead on the Resident desk. Impact Hub Ticino's plans can be cancelled monthly. Effinger asks for at least three months. Voisins wants two months' notice on its yearly plan. Rhizom's single-month desk needs no notice at all, and a six-month contract buys you CHF 50 off each month.

Extras add up quickly, so price the plan you will actually use:

• 24/7 access: CHF 30 a month on Impact Hub Bern's smaller plans, CHF 50 at Tessinerplatz on the flexible plans, included with most fixed desks.
• Locker: CHF 25 or 40 at Tessinerplatz, CHF 30 at Impact Hub Bern, CHF 25 for a storage box at Effinger.
• Business address: CHF 60 at Voisins, CHF 75 at Effinger and Impact Hub Bern, CHF 100 with post service at Tessinerplatz. You only need one if you run a company.
• Meeting rooms: hours are included in some plans, and otherwise cost by the hour; at Rhizom, CHF 35 an hour for six people.

A remote job sometimes means a week in Bern and the next in Zurich. Here, a network helps. Impact Hub Zurich lets you spend half of your included days at other Swiss Impact Hubs, and Impact Hub Bern's table sets the limit per plan, from 2.5 days a month on Starter to 10 on Nomad and Resident.

Will your employer pay for coworking?

Only if the cost is necessary for your work, and a desk at the office usually means it isn't. The Code of Obligations makes your employer repay "all expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of the work" (CO art. 327a). Any agreement that makes you carry those necessary costs yourself is void. A fixed monthly allowance is allowed, as long as it covers them.

The word that decides it is "necessary". If your employer has a desk for you and you prefer to work from a coworking space near home, that is your choice and your cost. Canton Zurich takes the same line with its own staff, who fall under cantonal staff law rather than the Code of Obligations: its leaflet on mobile work states that mobile work gives no right to expenses, and that the same applies to coworking space rented of your own accord. It is different when the employer offers you no suitable workplace at all, for example when you were hired fully remote and the company has no office near you. Then a coworking desk can be a cost your work makes necessary. We found no court ruling on coworking fees as such. The closest case concerns a share of rent for a home office, and our post on whether your employer must pay for your home office goes through it.

In practice, ask before you sign up, and ask for a specific plan at a specific price. A short email is enough:

The company has no office in Basel, where I live, so I'd like to work from Rhizom near the station. A fixed desk costs CHF 530 a month plus VAT, CHF 572.93 in total, with no notice period. Could the company pay this as a work expense, either directly to Rhizom or through my expense claim?

If your employer pays the space directly, there is nothing for you to claim and nothing to advance. If it agrees to a monthly allowance instead, get the amount and what it covers in writing, because art. 327a only lets a flat sum replace your costs if it really covers them.

If you pay it yourself

Then the money comes out of your net salary, and the tax office may give part of it back only in narrow cases. For the federal income tax, the ordinance on work costs does not name coworking. It lists tools, books and a private study among "other work costs", which are covered by a flat rate unless you prove higher costs, and it rules out any cost your employer has taken over. Cantonal taxes follow each canton's own rules. Our post on the home office tax deduction explains the flat rate, when you may claim more, and what proof the tax office asks for.

Before you sign up

Count your days, then pick the cheapest plan that covers them, using the VAT-inclusive price. Book a trial day first: Tessinerplatz and Home of Innovation offer one free, and Impact Hub Zurich credits the CHF 10 it charges. Read the notice period and whether unused days are lost before you pay the first month. And if you work for someone else and have no desk at their office, send the email above before the first invoice arrives, not after.