Does Santara AI take a cut of upsells?

No, 0% commission. Late checkout, early check-in, airport transfers, breakfast — upsells are included on every plan from Operator and above, and Santara AI takes 0% commission on them. Hospitable charges a processing fee of 7% on its paid plans and 10% on Essentials.

Is dynamic pricing an extra?

Not here — seasonal and day-of-week rate rules are included at every tier. Not on Hospitable's paid plans either: dynamic pricing comes with Host, Professional and Mogul. It is only an add-on on their free Essentials plan.

Can you connect Vrbo like Hospitable does?

Not today. Vrbo is not among the channels we connect, so if Vrbo is a large share of your bookings, Hospitable covers it and we do not.

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 and shared to WhatsApp or Zalo, maintenance tickets with photo evidence, and owner statements without a sales call. Hospitable is a guest-messaging product and does not claim otherwise.

Is Hospitable cheaper?

On the subscription, yes. Essentials is free; on monthly billing Host matches our first door at $29, and Professional costs less than ours from two doors up — about $119 against our $154 at six doors. What it costs you on top is 7–10% of custom upsells, and owner statements only on Mogul. The table above shows both subscriptions at four portfolio sizes.

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Hospitable alternatives

The reasons to look past Hospitable are usually the same: a processing fee on every custom upsell, a short channel list, and owner statements only on a top plan that is sold through a sales call.

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Hospitable does guest messaging better than most things on this list, it has a free plan, 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 and owners to answer to.

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, owner statements from Operator up, and 54 channels including Agoda, Expedia, Trip.com and Google Vacation Rentals. The operations layer — brief, cleaning plans, tickets — is the part Hospitable does not attempt. On the subscription alone, Hospitable is cheaper.
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+ channels and mature accounting, with AI messaging of its own. Lite is published from $9 per listing for one to three listings; above that, Guesty quotes.
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 — over 200 booking platforms by its own count — if a missing channel is what pushed you off Hospitable. Quote-only, with onboarding fees and annual terms reported.
7 of the 16 capabilities compared on this site
Full comparison with Hostaway →
4. OwnerRez
$96 /mo
Owner-operators and small managers in the US who want control and clean accounting.
Takes nothing from a booking or an upsell, publishes its prices, and has the best trust accounting on this list. Owner statements 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

How much does Hospitable take from upsells?

A processing fee of 7% on its paid plans and 10% on the free Essentials plan. 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 no commission on upsells?

Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify and OwnerRez take 0% on upsells; so does Santara AI.

I need Vrbo. What are my options?

Hospitable, Guesty and Hostaway connect it. Santara AI does not connect Vrbo today, so if Vrbo matters to your mix, weigh that before you move.

Which of these connects Expedia or Trip.com?

Santara AI connects both, in a catalogue of 54. Hostaway lists Expedia among its channels. Hospitable's pricing page lists Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda.

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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