Updated October 2026. Prices and fees checked in October 2026 against both companies’ own websites and help centres, and against independent reports.
The short version
Guesty and Hospitable are not really rivals. They are opposites. Hospitable publishes every price on its website and serves the small host brilliantly, but thins out fast once you are running a proper portfolio, and the plan a property manager needs is the one with the steepest per property fee. Guesty has the depth for serious operations, but wraps it in quote only pricing and a sales process that will not tell you the cost until it has had a look at you. One is honest and shallow, the other is deep and opaque. If you manage somewhere between 5 and 50 properties, you fall straight through the gap between them. More on that at the end.
What has changed since July 2026
We published the first version of this comparison in July 2026. Here is what has moved since, and what we have pinned down properly this time.
- Hospitable’s prices are still all public: a free Essentials plan, Host at $29 a month, Professional at $59, Mogul at $99. The per property fees are $10 on Host, $15 on Professional and $30 on Mogul, and Host stops at 2 properties. That $30 is the number that matters for anyone managing other people’s properties, because the owner portal and owner statements live on Mogul only.
- Hospitable’s direct booking fees are 1% to you on its Basic option, or on Premium a 4% guest fee plus a 3% host fee, or 7% host only. Dynamic pricing is included on the paid plans. Upsells carry a 7% processing fee on paid plans and 10% on the free one. Trust accounting is in pilot.
- Guesty Lite now shows three prices: $9 per listing per month plus 1% of every reservation, $20 per listing per month on an annual plan, or $29 per listing per month with no commitment. Pro, the plan for 4 to 199 listings, is still quote only.
- Guesty’s pricing page now states there are no percentage fees on reservations through its own booking engine. The 1% on the Lite pay as you grow plan stays.
- Guesty closed Guesty For Hosts, its small host product, on 31 May 2026. Support stopped in January, access and data went at the end of May, and those hosts were pointed at Guesty Lite. Some of them will have landed on Hospitable instead, which tells you something about how the two companies see hosts with a handful of listings.
Hospitable: honest pricing, and we mean that as high praise
Let us start with what Hospitable gets right, because it is the thing we care most about in this industry.
Its pricing is public. All of it. A free Essentials plan with unlimited properties, then Host at $29 a month, Professional at $59, Mogul at $99, with the per property fees published next to each. A 14 day trial of every feature, no card needed, no setup fee, no onboarding charge, no sales call required to learn what you will pay. Anyone who read our Guesty vs Hostaway comparison knows how we feel about cloak and dagger pricing, so let us say it plainly: this is what an honest software company looks like. When a business shows you its prices, it is telling you it believes the product justifies them. When a business hides its prices, it is telling you something too. We trust companies that operate the way Hospitable does, and the market clearly agrees. It scores 4.7 on Capterra and, at the last count, 4.9 on G2, almost all of it from small hosts, and the affection is real. Reviewers single out the automation and guest messaging, and hosts talk about running their business on autopilot within hours of signing up.
So that is the honest part. Now the shallow part.
The channel list is Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda, plus iCal for anything else, against the 60 plus channels Guesty claims. The financial reporting gives you revenue, occupancy and average rates, which is fine if you manage a couple of your own units and can run on approximations. Owner statements and the owner portal are Mogul only, accounting runs through QuickBooks, and trust accounting is still in pilot. If you are producing 10 owner statements a month, this is not yet the product for you, and reviewers managing other people’s properties have reported exactly that pain, including owner statements going wrong with no clear answers from support.
Which brings up the other soft spot. There is no phone line. The free plan gets community and AI chat support, and while day to day queries get handled fine, reviewers report that complex problems, billing disputes, broken integrations, the awkward stuff, can drag on or get dropped. When something serious breaks, you can feel like you are on your own.
And honest pricing is not the same as cheap, because the per property fee goes up as you climb the plans: $10, then $15, then $30. Most software gets cheaper per unit as you grow. Hospitable’s gets dearer, and the features a property manager needs are all at the top. 10 properties on Professional is $179 a month. The same 10 on Mogul, the plan with owner statements, is $309. At 20 properties Mogul is $609 a month and at 50 it is $1,509, before the 7% on upsells and before the 1% or 7% on every direct booking. Every penny of that is published, which we respect. But “from $29” is doing some marketing work.
Guesty: the depth is real, and so is everything we said last time
We covered Guesty properly in the last piece, so we will not repeat the whole case. Short version: it is the enterprise machine, built for scale, and the depth is real. Proper owner accounting, granular permissions, a long channel list, the works. One reviewer put it well: it feels less like a hosting tool and more like a true property management system for serious operators.
But the pricing remains smoke and mirrors where it matters. Yes, Lite now has public prices, $9 per listing plus 1% of every reservation, $20 on annual or $29 on monthly, but it is built for 1 to 3 listings. The Pro tier, the one anyone reading this actually needs, is still quote only, with independent research and operator reports putting real world costs at $40 to $72 per listing per month once onboarding fees, add ons and annual increases do their work. Onboarding alone is reported at $300 to $1,500. You find out the price after they have sized you up. We said last time what we think that reveals about a company, and nothing has changed.
And the depth is not flawless either. Reviewers report errors in owner statements, pricing mistakes that cost them money, and tools that take real time to fix when they break. One operator described revenue halving after switching. Another notes it handles mid term rentals booked at fixed monthly amounts poorly, worth knowing if your portfolio mixes in longer lets. Powerful kit, but not bulletproof, and at these prices it ought to be.
What they cost, side by side
All figures published or independently reported, checked in October 2026. Hospitable’s come straight off its pricing page and help centre, which is rather the point. Guesty’s mostly cannot, which is also the point.
| Hospitable | Guesty | |
|---|---|---|
| Public pricing | Yes, every plan and fee | Lite only, for 1 to 3 listings |
| Entry price | Free Essentials plan. Paid plans from $29 a month | Lite from $9 per listing plus 1% per reservation, or $20 annual, $29 monthly |
| Per property fee | $10 on Host (max 2 properties), $15 on Professional, $30 on Mogul | Pro by quote. $40 to $72 per listing per month reported |
| 10 properties, a month | $179 on Professional, $309 on Mogul | $400 to $720 reported |
| 20 properties, a month | $329 on Professional, $609 on Mogul | $800 to $1,440 reported |
| Setup or onboarding fee | None | $300 to $1,500 reported |
| Sales call required to learn the price | No | Yes, for Pro |
| Direct booking fees | 1% on Basic, paid by you; 4% from the guest plus 3% from you on Premium, or 7% from you | None stated on the booking engine. 1% per reservation on Lite pay as you grow |
| Owner statements and accounting | Mogul only. Trust accounting in pilot | Included on Pro, with add on costs reported |
| Channels | Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Agoda, plus iCal | 60 plus claimed |
| Support | No phone line. Community and AI chat on the free plan | Chat and email, mixed reports on statement errors |
| Free trial | 14 days, every feature, no card | 14 days, Lite only |
| Contract | Monthly, 12% off for annual | Monthly or annual on Lite. Pro terms by quote |
Who should honestly buy what
Buy Hospitable if you are a host with a handful of your own properties, you live mostly on Airbnb, and you want the best automation in the tier from a company that will never surprise you on a bill. At that scale it is excellent, the free plan is a real free plan, and we would struggle to argue against it.
Buy Guesty if you are at real scale, 100 plus units, with someone whose job is administering the PMS and a tolerance for negotiating your own price. The depth is there and at that size it earns its complexity.
And if you are in between, running 5 to 50 properties, producing owner statements every month, juggling multiple channels and maybe some longer lets? Hospitable will feel like a bicycle on a motorway within a year, and its answer is a $30 per property plan. The industry’s answer is a Guesty demo call. The upgrade path between these two products runs straight through everything we dislike about how this industry sells software.
The hard question
Here is what this comparison actually surfaces. Hospitable proves you can price honestly when the product is simple. Guesty proves you can build deep software when you charge whatever the sales call decides. The hard question is whether anyone can do both: professional depth, owner statements you would actually send, proper reporting across short and long lets, without the smoke and mirrors.
We built Hello Hosty because we believed the answer should be yes. Our reporting goes as deep as anything we have criticised here, monthly owner statements, proper per property breakdowns, long lets included, and every price we charge is on the website next to a free onboarding promise. Whether we have pulled it off is not for us to judge on our own blog. But the standard both of these companies set from opposite directions, Hospitable’s honesty and Guesty’s depth, is the standard we hold ourselves to on both fronts at once.
The money left on the table
Here is what the gap looks like for a 20 property manager who needs owner statements, so Hospitable’s Mogul plan and Guesty’s Pro. Published prices for Hospitable and Hello Hosty, a conservative point inside the reported range for Guesty.
| Hospitable Mogul | Guesty Pro | Hello Hosty | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software per month | $609 ($99 plus 17 at $30) | $900 (20 listings at a reported $45) | $410 (10 at $24, then 10 at $17) |
| Software per year | $7,308 | $10,800 | $4,920 |
| Onboarding | None | $300 to $1,500 reported | Free, migration included |
| On every $100,000 of direct bookings | $1,000 on Basic, $7,000 on Premium of which $3,000 to $7,000 is yours | None stated | Nothing from you. The guest pays 0.9% |
| Dynamic pricing | Included on paid plans | PriceOptimizer add on, reported at about 1% per reservation | Through dynamic pricing integrations, no per property fee from us |
| Direct booking website | Professional and above, custom branding on Mogul | Pro and above, Advanced Websites extra | One included, on your own domain |
| Three years, software plus onboarding | About $21,900 | About $33,000 | About $14,800 |
That is roughly $7,000 against Hospitable and $18,000 against Guesty over three years, before a single direct booking fee, for software that does the same core job. We will be fair to Hospitable here: if you will never need owner statements or accounting, its Professional plan at $329 a month for those 20 properties undercuts us on the headline, and we would rather say so than hope you do not check. Add the 1% or 7% on your direct bookings and the 7% on upsells, and the gap narrows fast. Add one owner who wants a statement, and it reverses.
Hello Hosty publishes every price on the website, Hospitable style. $24 per property per month, $17 from your 11th property and $12 from your 31st (£17, £12 and £9 in the UK). The per property price goes down as you grow, not up. No account fee, no setup fee, free onboarding and migration, and everything in one price: the channel manager with 50 plus booking platforms including Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Agoda and Trip.com, the AI assistant for guest messaging, the digital guidebook with upsells, a direct booking website on your own domain, owner statements, cleaning schedules, team access and the app. Nothing is taken from your bookings. On direct bookings through your website the guest pays a 0.9% booking fee, written here rather than found on an invoice, and you keep every penny. Go and check all three. Our numbers are published too.
Frequently asked questions
Is Hospitable cheaper than Guesty?
For small portfolios, yes, and by a long way. Hospitable has a free plan and paid plans from $29 a month, while Guesty’s only published prices are for Lite, which covers 1 to 3 listings. At 10 properties Hospitable costs $179 a month on Professional or $309 on Mogul, against $400 to $720 a month reported for Guesty Pro, which also carries a reported $300 to $1,500 onboarding fee.
How much does Hospitable cost for 10 properties?
$179 a month on Professional ($59 plus 8 extra properties at $15) or $309 a month on Mogul ($99 plus 7 extra properties at $30). Mogul is the plan with the owner portal and owner statements. Dynamic pricing is included on the paid plans, and annual billing takes 12% off.
Does Hospitable charge commission on direct bookings?
Yes. Direct bookings through Hospitable’s booking site carry a 1% fee on the Basic option or 4% plus 3% processing on Premium, charged to the host per booking. The direct booking site itself is available on Professional and Mogul.
Is Hospitable really free?
The Essentials plan is free with no monthly fee and unlimited properties. It includes the unified inbox, limited automated messaging, Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda sync and the guest portal, with usage fees on some features: 10% on upsells, 2.5% on team payouts and 2% on security deposits. The AI assistant, dynamic pricing, direct booking site and owner statements need a paid plan.
Does Hospitable do owner statements?
Only on the Mogul plan, which is $99 a month plus $30 per property after the first 3. Mogul adds an owner portal with payouts and statements, commission tracking and accounting through QuickBooks. Trust accounting is in pilot.
Does Guesty publish its prices?
Only for Guesty Lite, which covers 1 to 3 listings: $9 per listing per month plus 1% of every reservation, $20 per listing per month on an annual plan, or $29 per listing per month billed monthly. Guesty Pro (4 to 199 listings) and Enterprise (200 plus) are quote only.
Which is better for a property manager with 5 to 50 properties?
Neither is built for you. Hospitable serves the small host and charges $30 per property on the plan that produces owner statements. Guesty serves the enterprise and will not tell you the price until a sales call. Hello Hosty was built for the gap between them: a flat published price per property that falls as you grow, owner statements and every feature included, free migration, and a 14 day trial.
Can I switch to Hello Hosty from Hospitable or Guesty?
Yes. Onboarding and migration are free. We bring your properties and bookings across and set you up, and there is no setup fee and no long contract. Try it free for 14 days.
Part one: Guesty vs Hostaway, and part three: Hostaway vs Hospitable. For what Guesty’s quote really comes to, Guesty pricing explained (2026); for every Hospitable price and fee added up, Hospitable pricing explained (2026). And for what the booking platforms themselves take on top of your software, read Booking platform commissions: what hosts really pay.
Sources: Hospitable’s pricing page and help centre, Guesty’s pricing and Guesty Lite pages, Capterra, G2 and independent operator reports, all checked October 2026. Spot a stale number and we will update the table. Same standing promise as the last one.
