Hostaway Alternatives

OwnerRez is a property management system for vacation rentals run by a privately owned company. It covers what most Hostaway customers use every day: a channel manager with direct API connections to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Google Vacation Rentals, a shared calendar, guest messaging with triggers and auto-responders, rental agreements with digital signatures, payments and a CRM. Unlimited team logins are included, along with a portal for owners and cleaners.

The difference with Hostaway is the price you can read before talking to anyone. OwnerRez publishes its full table: $40 for the first property, $15 each for properties 2 and 3, $10 for the 4th, $8 each for the 5th to the 9th, $7 each from the 10th to the 19th, then down to $2 a property past 200. Five properties cost $88 a month, ten cost $127, twenty cost $196. There are no setup fees, no booking fees and no contract, and the bill is per account, not per user.

Watch the premium features. Owner statements and commissions (the Property Management module), the QuickBooks Online sync, hosted websites, the WordPress plugin, SMS and the Rezzy AI assistant are each priced on top. The AI assistant alone is $9 a property a month, so a 10-property account turning on everything can add more than the base fee. The minimum stays at $40 even if you disable every property, and the interface asks for a learning curve: a host using it for two years said on a real estate investor forum in 2026 that it is more complicated than the others until you get past that curve. For a broader view of the category, see our ranking of vacation rental software, and the OwnerRez Zapier integration if you automate around it.

Guesty is the closest like-for-like replacement for Hostaway: a short-term rental platform aimed at professional property managers, with a channel manager, multi-calendar, unified inbox with ReplyAI, direct booking website, owners portal with owner statements, task management and 24/7 support. Guesty Pro syncs with more than 60 listing channels, including Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia, and adds revenue management.

On price, Guesty sits between transparency and quote. Guesty Lite is public: from $9 per listing per month plus 1% per reservation, for 1 to 3 listings, with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo sync, a multi-calendar and a unified inbox. Three listings start at $27 a month before that 1%. From the 4th listing, you move to Guesty Pro, which is priced by number of listings after a quote, exactly like Hostaway. Lite and Pro run on the same platform, so a host who grows does not migrate. Monthly and annual plans both exist, and the annual one costs less. Its FAQ says reservations made through its direct booking engine carry no percentage fee, but the Lite plan card adds 1% per reservation, so count that 1% on Lite.

The trade-off is cost and weight. Optional tools such as PriceOptimizer, Damage Protection, LocksManager and GuestyPay are added per plan, and users on forums call the interface heavy for a handful of units. Ask for the per-listing rate, the onboarding fee and the contract length in writing before you sign, as you would with Hostaway. If you already looked at leaving Guesty, our page on switching from Guesty lists where its users go.

Hospitable, formerly Smartbnb, started as a guest messaging automation tool and grew into a full PMS. It syncs Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda, puts every message in one inbox, sends scheduled and automated guest messages, and runs a task app for cleaners with teammate payouts. Paid plans include dynamic pricing at no extra cost, AI guest issue alerts, an API and an MCP server to run the business through AI agents; Professional adds a direct booking website and smart lock and thermostat automation.

The price is public and low at the start. Essentials has no monthly fee. Host costs $29 a month with one property included, $10 for a second, and stops at two properties. Professional is $59 with two properties included and $15 per extra property, Mogul $99 with three included and $30 per extra one. Five properties on Professional cost $59 + 3 × $15 = $104 a month. Paying 12 months upfront takes 12% off, but the annual plan is a 12-month commitment that can only be refunded in the first 30 days after you start the trial. The base fee is charged as long as the subscription is active, even with no active property, and the direct booking website on Professional takes 1% of each direct booking on its Basic tier.

The limits show on the operations side. A host running three properties on it wrote on a real estate investor forum in 2026 that support is sometimes slow and that Vrbo integration had issues over the past year, with a new integration since rolled out; that matters if Vrbo brings a large share of your bookings. Cleaner payouts carry a fee per clean (1.5% to 2.5%, capped at $5). Hospitable shines when Airbnb is your main channel and messaging is your main pain.

Hostfully is a PMS for vacation rental managers best known for its digital guidebooks. The platform covers a channel manager, central calendar, direct booking site, mobile app, unified inbox with InboxAI, multi-unit management, automation, a booking pipeline, owner dashboard, payment processing and task management, with 120+ integrations in every plan and an open API as an add-on. It holds preferred and premium partner status with the main booking platforms.

Unlike Hostaway, Hostfully shows a starting rate per property on its pricing page. Growth, for 1 to 50 listings, starts at $15 per property per month plus a platform fee, and keeps a 1% payment gateway fee and a 0.85% direct booking fee. Pro, for 1 to 199 listings, starts at $25 per property per month plus a platform fee, and drops both fees, with a dedicated customer success manager and an annual business review. Ten properties come to $150 a month on Growth or $250 on Pro, before the platform fee.

The catch is that platform fee: it is added on every plan, so ask for it in writing. On Growth, 1% plus 0.85% on $50,000 of direct bookings a year is $925, which can cost more than the $10 per property a month that Pro adds. Digital guidebooks are also sold as a separate product, so check what your plan includes. For a wider view of tools for agencies, see our ranking of software for property management companies.

Lodgify is vacation rental software built around a website builder. Every plan has a unified calendar for Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com and an AI-powered unified inbox; from Starter you get a no-code website builder and booking widget, custom rates and secure payments; Professional adds automated messages and listing your website on Google Vacation Rentals; Ultimate adds task management, check-in and check-out automation, owner payments and statements, and a guest mobile app.

Prices are public and depend on the number of properties. For one property billed monthly, Basic is $18, Starter $33, Professional $58 and Ultimate $85 a month; billed yearly, Basic drops to $14 and Starter to $26. Basic is available for one property only and Starter for two or fewer. Lodgify has no booking fee on any plan and no long-term contract, and there is no setup fee. A 1% transaction fee applies to payments guests make online through a gateway such as Stripe or PayPal, on top of the gateway's own fee.

Where it falls short of Hostaway is operations at scale: automated messages only start on Professional, owner statements only on Ultimate, and managers with many owners usually find more in OwnerRez or Guesty. If you are weighing a move away from Lodgify later, our page on switching from Lodgify shows the common exits, and the Lodgify Zapier integration covers automation around it.

Smoobu is vacation rental software built for small hosts. Every plan includes a channel manager, a reservation system (PMS), a booking website, an invoicing system, statistics and full API access; Teams Pro+ adds e-invoicing, priority support and two write-access accounts. It is the lightest product in this list, and the one with the cleanest list of what is included.

Smoobu prices by number of units and bills in euros; the dollar and pound prices on its site are estimates. For one unit billed monthly, Professional Prepaid is €35 a month and Teams Pro+ €55; Professional Flex costs €29 a month but takes a 0.9% commission on each booking, while the other plans take none. An annual plan takes 10% off and a two-year plan 20%. Above 20 properties, Smoobu asks you to contact it for a quote. Dynamic pricing is an add-on, billed per property.

The add-on to watch is dynamic pricing: €12.99 a property for the first three, then €10.99 up to the 8th. For five units, that is 3 × €12.99 + 2 × €10.99 = €60.95 a month, on top of the subscription. Smoobu also has less automation than Hostaway and no owner accounting, so a manager with many owners outgrows it. If you used Smoobu before and left, our page on switching from Smoobu covers the reverse move.