Is Santara AI cheaper than Guesty?

At one to three listings, no — Guesty Lite starts at $9 per listing per month and our first door is $29. From four listings Guesty is quote-only, so nobody can answer this honestly for you, including us. What we can say is that every one of our tiers has a number on the pricing page, and that we take 0% commission on channel bookings and upsells at all of them (3% only on direct-site bookings). The table above works both out at your door count.

Does Santara AI connect as many channels as Guesty?

Close. Guesty connects 60+; we connect 54, and all 54 sync rates, availability and bookings the same way. Airbnb and Booking.com have a guided connect flow; Agoda, Expedia, Trip.com, Google Vacation Rentals and the rest connect from the channel list in Settings, one property at a time. Guest messaging is the real limit: replies work on Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia, and other channels' threads arrive readable but not repliable.

Can I keep PriceLabs if I move?

Yes. Connect your PriceLabs account and our own rate rules stand down — PriceLabs keeps pricing, and you keep paying it directly. There is no per-property dynamic-pricing surcharge either way.

What happens to my owner reporting?

Owner statements ship here — the month, gross minus fees minus expenses, with a CSV export. What Guesty has beyond that is full trust accounting, which matters if you hold client funds. For a manager producing a monthly statement per owner, ours does the job.

Do you take a cut of upsells like a late checkout?

No. Late checkout, early check-in, transfers, breakfast — upsells are included in your plan, and Santara AI takes 0% commission on them. Guesty does not take a cut of these either; Hospitable charges a processing fee of 7% on its paid plans and 10% on its free one.

How long does moving from Guesty take?

Under 24 hours for most portfolios, done by us, at no cost. We import properties, rooms, rates, availability, reservations and guest history, then reconnect Airbnb and Booking.com. Nothing is switched off on the Guesty side until you have checked the calendars line up.

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Guesty alternatives

Most people looking for a Guesty alternative are looking for a price. Above three listings Guesty quotes rather than publishes, and that is where the search usually starts.

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Guesty is a capable platform and plenty of managers are happy on it, and at one to three listings Lite is cheap. The reasons people leave are consistent: the quote wall from the fourth listing, optional add-ons that build up on top, and — for smaller operators — paying enterprise-shaped prices for enterprise-shaped features they never use.

Everything below is a product we have a sourced row for on this site, with its published price and a link to the full comparison. Where a vendor does not publish a price, this page says so rather than repeating a range from a review.

Guesty alternatives

1. Santara AI
$154 /mo
Operators of 2–40 doors with on-site teams, in South-East Asia and beyond.
Every tier has a number on the pricing page, 0% commission on channel bookings and upsells (3% only on direct-site bookings), and 54 channels that sync both ways. The reason to pick us over the rest of this list is the operations half — a brief that arrives before you open anything, the day's jobs written for the staff who do them, maintenance tickets with photos — which nothing else here does at all.
14 of the 16 capabilities compared on this site
2. Hostaway
Quote only
Property managers from roughly 5 doors upward, sold to rather than signed up.
The widest distribution in the category — over 200 booking platforms by Hostaway's own count. It is also quote-only at every size, with onboarding reported from $300 to $1,000+ and annual contracts by default — so if you are leaving Guesty because of the quote wall, this is the same wall.
7 of the 16 capabilities compared on this site
Full comparison with Hostaway →
3. Hospitable
$119 /mo
Solo hosts and small portfolios who want messaging automation above all else.
The best pure guest-messaging product here, the simplest to set up, and a free Essentials plan to try it on. Two catches worth knowing before you switch: a 7–10% processing fee on custom upsells, and a short channel list — Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda.
5 of the 16 capabilities compared on this site
Full comparison with Hospitable →
4. Lodgify
$177 /mo
Owners and small managers whose first priority is a direct booking website.
The strongest direct booking website of anything on this list, with a template library ahead of ours and a 0% booking fee on every plan. Automated messages start on Professional, and task management and owner statements only on Ultimate.
7 of the 16 capabilities compared on this site
Full comparison with Lodgify →
5. OwnerRez
$96 /mo
Owner-operators and small managers in the US who want control and clean accounting.
The cleanest pricing in the category — no commission, no booking fee, nothing on upsells, published at every level, and the lowest base price here from three doors up — plus trust accounting that goes deeper than ours. Owner statements, websites and Rezzy AI messaging are paid add-ons, and it is built for the United States.
8 of the 16 capabilities compared on this site
Full comparison with OwnerRez →

We put ourselves first, and we would rather say that than pretend a list we wrote is neutral. Everything else here is a real option: each one has its own sourced row on this site, its own published price, and a line we would stand behind on their own comparison page. The capability count is a crude signal — read the full comparison before it decides anything.

Questions people actually ask

Why is Guesty quote-only above three listings?

Lite covers one to three listings and is published. From four you are in Pro, which is priced by their sales team. That is a normal way to sell to a 200-door manager and an awkward one for somebody with six villas, which is why this page exists.

Which alternative is cheapest?

To start, Hospitable — its Essentials plan is free. On paid subscriptions from three doors up, OwnerRez has the lowest published base price, with owner statements and AI messaging as add-ons. Hospitable takes 7–10% on custom upsells; OwnerRez and Lodgify take nothing on bookings or upsells; Santara AI takes 0% on channel bookings and upsells, and 3% only on direct-site bookings.

Which of these connects the most channels?

Hostaway, at over 200 booking platforms by its own count. Guesty says 60+. We connect 54. Hospitable syncs Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda.

Do any of them do operations — cleaning, staff, maintenance?

Only us, on this list. Hostaway and Guesty have task management inside their own apps; none of them sends a daily brief or writes the cleaner's day ready to share to their own messaging app. If that is what you are leaving Guesty for, the list is shorter than it looks.

Is switching from Guesty difficult?

Here it is free and we run it — properties, rooms, rates, availability, reservations and guest history — and most portfolios are live inside 24 hours. Check your own Guesty terms for notice periods before you plan the date.

Sources

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Guesty alternatives

Guesty alternatives

1. Santara AI

2. Hostaway

3. Hospitable

4. Lodgify

5. OwnerRez

Questions people actually ask

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