What will your rental software really cost?
Vacation rental software is priced per listing, per plan, with add-ons, booking fees and VAT on top. Tell us how you host and we’ll add it all up for every plan that fits, cheapest first.
Cheapest setups that fit, per month
Monthly, excluding VAT, converted at today’s ECB rate. Add your country and revenue in the full calculator.
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7 vendors · prices checked 15 November 2026 · ranked by price onlyStart with the guides
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Vrbo’s 12% host commission: what changed on 29 OctoberVrbo moved hosts to a flat 12% commission with card processing included. What hosts paid before, how much to raise your price, and what it means for your software.15 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Does Airbnb have automated messaging? What it does and where free tools take overAirbnb’s quick replies and scheduled messages are free. Here’s what they cover, where they stop, and when a shared inbox is worth it.15 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Smoobu Flex or Prepaid? The booking value where the 0.9% fee costs moreFlex is €6 a month cheaper but takes 0.9% of bookings. Above about €667 a month in bookings, Prepaid costs less. The maths, and two details to check.15 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Hospitable alternatives for hosts with one to five listingsHospitable is free for one listing. At two or three, its plan limits change the maths. What the alternatives cost at two and five listings.15 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Smaller questions, answered with numbers
Each tool uses the same price data as the calculator.
- Booking site fee calculatorWhat you keep per night on Airbnb (15.5%), Vrbo (12%) and Booking.com, and the price that keeps your payout.
- Software finderFive questions about how you host, then a shortlist of plans that do what you need, cheapest first.
- Do I need software at all?With one listing on one site, free tools may be enough. Four questions to find out.
- Pricing tool costPriceLabs per listing or 1% of revenue, against Hospitable’s and Smoobu’s add-ons.
- Direct booking savingsAirbnb fees you’d avoid with your own booking site, minus what the site costs to run.
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Some vendors pay us a referral fee when you sign up through our links, including Hospitable when a host joins its free plan. OwnerRez and Guesty pay us nothing and we list them anyway. Results are always ordered by price.
Every price shows the date we checked it on the vendor’s own pricing page. The most recent check was 15 November 2026. We recheck monthly and when vendors run promotions.
Often not. With one listing on Airbnb only, Airbnb’s own calendar and inbox cover most of it, and Hospitable’s Essentials plan adds scheduled messages for free. Paid software starts to earn its cost once you list on a second site, where double bookings become a real risk.
Software that connects your listings on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, so a booking on one site closes the same dates on the others within seconds. Free calendar links (iCal) do something similar but only refresh every few hours, which is how most double bookings happen.
It depends on what you need. For sync and an inbox only, Hospitable’s Essentials plan is free. With automatic pricing added, the cheapest plan changes with your channels and currency. The calculator ranks every plan for your exact setup.
Vendors quote prices without VAT. If you’re in the EU and not VAT-registered, your country’s standard rate is added on top, for example 19% in Germany or 25.5% in Finland. If you are VAT-registered you usually account for it yourself. The calculator adds it when you tell it where you’re based.
Hospitable, iGMS, Smoobu, OwnerRez, Lodgify, Guesty and Hostaway, plus PriceLabs for pricing. We add vendors once we can verify their prices.