Does Santara AI take a cut of upsells?

No. Late checkout, early check-in, airport transfers, breakfast — the whole amount is yours, on every plan that includes upsells (Operator and above) and at any volume. Hospitable processes upsells at 10%.

Is dynamic pricing an extra?

Not here. Seasonal and day-of-week rate rules are included at every tier. Hospitable charges roughly $15 per property per month for their dynamic pricing add-on, which is a real number at ten doors.

Can you connect Vrbo like Hospitable does?

For availability, rates and bookings, yes — Vrbo connects like every other channel. Not for guest messages: that connection carries none, so Vrbo conversations stay in Vrbo. If Vrbo messaging is most of your guest contact, Hospitable handles it natively.

What does Santara AI do that Hospitable does not?

The operations half. A daily brief before you ask for it, the day's jobs written for the staff who do them, maintenance tickets with photo evidence, and the cleaning schedule that decides whether a late checkout is even possible. Hospitable is a guest-messaging product and does not claim otherwise.

Is Hospitable cheaper?

At one or two listings, usually yes. Add the dynamic-pricing surcharge and the 10% on upsells and the gap closes quickly — the table above shows the subscription side at four portfolio sizes so you can work out your own.

Comparison · Verified 2026-09-21

Hospitable alternatives

The two reasons to look past Hospitable are usually the same: 10% taken on every guest upsell, and a channel list of exactly five that stops growing.

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Hospitable does guest messaging better than most things on this list, and for a solo host with a handful of listings that may be the whole job. It becomes a limit when you start selling upsells, when you need a channel it does not carry, or when you have staff to coordinate.

Each option below has its own sourced row on this site and its published price. The order is ours, and we are first on it — see the note under the list.

Hospitable alternatives

1. Santara AI
$154 /mo
Operators of 2–40 doors with on-site teams, in South-East Asia and beyond.
Nothing taken on upsells, dynamic pricing included rather than $15 per property extra, and 54 channels including Traveloka, Tiket.com and Trip.com. The operations layer — brief, cleaning plans, tickets — is the part Hospitable does not attempt.
14 of the 16 capabilities compared on this site
2. Guesty
Quote only
Professional managers and portfolios — Lite at 1–3 listings, Pro to 199, Enterprise beyond.
60+ direct channels and mature accounting, with AI messaging of its own. Published for one to three listings and quoted above that.
6 of the 16 capabilities compared on this site
Full comparison with Guesty →
3. Hostaway
Quote only
Property managers from roughly 5 doors upward, sold to rather than signed up.
The widest distribution here if a missing channel is what pushed you off Hospitable. Quote-only, with onboarding fees and annual terms.
7 of the 16 capabilities compared on this site
Full comparison with Hostaway →
4. OwnerRez
$110 /mo
Owner-operators and small managers in the US who want control and clean accounting.
Takes nothing from a booking or an upsell and publishes its prices, with the best trust accounting on this list. 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

Does Hospitable really take 10% of upsells?

That is their published rate for processing guest upsells. On a portfolio selling six late checkouts and four early check-ins a month it is a recurring line item for the same message each time.

Which alternatives take nothing on upsells?

Santara AI, Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify and OwnerRez all take 0% on upsells. Enso Connect, which is not on this list, charges 5%.

I need Vrbo. What are my options?

Santara AI connects Vrbo for availability, rates and bookings; its guest messages stay in Vrbo. Hospitable, Guesty and Hostaway connect it as well.

Which of these connects Traveloka or Tiket.com?

Santara AI does, in a catalogue of 54. Hostaway reaches them through partners. Hospitable does not carry either.

Sources

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Hospitable alternatives

Hospitable alternatives

1. Santara AI

2. Guesty

3. Hostaway

4. OwnerRez

Questions people actually ask

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