Guesty Pricing in 2026: What It Actually Costs at 2, 10, and 50 Doors

Guesty publishes three prices in 2026, all capped at 3 listings: $9 plus 1% per reservation, $20 annual, or $29 monthly per listing. Above 3 doors it publishes nothing.

Guesty publishes exactly three prices in 2026, and all three belong to Guesty Lite, which is capped at three listings: $9 per listing per month plus 1% of every reservation, $20 per listing per month on annual billing, or $29 per listing per month billed month to month.

At the fourth door the published pricing stops. Guesty Pro covers 4 to 199 listings and carries no per-listing rate, no minimum monthly commitment, no contract length, and no onboarding fee anywhere on the site. Every Pro number is a sales call.

Key takeaways

• Guesty Lite publishes three per-listing rates: $9 per month plus 1% of every reservation, $20 per month on annual billing, and $29 per month billed monthly, all capped at 1 to 3 listings.
• Guesty Pro covers 4 to 199 listings and publishes no per-listing rate, no minimum commitment, no contract length, and no onboarding fee.
• All nine Guesty add-ons, including PriceOptimizer, Trust Accounting, Damage Protection, LocksManager, and Websites, appear on Guesty feature pages without a price.
• GuestyPay card processing runs 2.9% plus $0.30 per US transaction, which is $15,080 a year on 10 doors grossing $52,000 each.
• Guesty's 1% PriceOptimizer fee applies to total monthly reservation revenue including cleaning and extra-service charges, so $10,000 of gross revenue costs $100 even when most of it is pass-through.

What Guesty publishes, and what it does not

Three prices, one plan tier. The Guesty Lite package page lists a pay-as-you-grow plan from $9 per listing per month plus 1% per reservation, an annual plan from $20 per listing per month, and a monthly plan from $29 per listing per month. All three are scoped to hosts with 1 to 3 listings, all three are quoted as "from" floors rather than a rate table, and the trial runs 14 days with no credit card.

The Pro page is where the numbers vanish. It carries occupancy and revenue claims, an uptime figure, and a customer-satisfaction score, and not one dollar sign. The same is true of Enterprise. For an operator at 4 doors or 40, Guesty publishes no price at all.

A listing is a bookable unit, not a building

Guesty's own fee calculation article defines a listing as each bookable unit, so a five-bedroom house listed room by room bills as five listings, not one. That single definition pushes a room-rental operator past the 3-listing Lite cap on their first property. The same article confirms annual plans are charged upfront for the full year and all fees settle in USD.

The 1% lands on gross, including the money you pass straight through

The 1% reservation fee is calculated on total monthly reservation revenue, which Guesty defines as rental income plus additional guest fees plus extra services revenue. Its worked example is blunt: $10,000 of revenue costs $100. A cleaning fee you collect and hand to your cleaner is inside that base. So is a pet fee, a late-checkout charge, and the linen package. On a door where 22% of gross is pass-through, you are paying the fee on money that never becomes yours.

That gap between gross and what you actually keep is the number worth pinning down before any PMS contract. MagicBNB drives every surface off a single Net Payout source of truth, one canonical computation feeding profitability, the listings table, and the monthly report, so the base you compare a percentage fee against is the same figure in every view.

Guesty pricing at 2 doors

Two listings on Guesty Lite costs $40 per month billed annually ($480 a year), $58 per month billed monthly ($696 a year), or $18 per month plus 1% of reservations on the pay-as-you-grow plan. This is the only portfolio size where you can price Guesty without talking to anyone.

The crossover is easy to compute and Guesty does not do it for you. The gap between the $9 and $20 plans is $11 per listing per month, and 1% of revenue equals $11 at $1,100 of gross reservation revenue per listing per month. Below $1,100 gross per door per month, pay-as-you-grow is cheaper. Above it, the annual plan wins and the gap widens with every rate increase you hold. Against the $29 monthly plan the crossover sits at $2,000 gross per door per month.

Run that against a real door. A property grossing $4,300 a month pays $9 plus $43, or $52 per month on pay-as-you-grow, versus $20 flat. The percentage plan costs 2.6 times the annual plan on that listing. Percentage pricing is a discount for weak revenue and a tax on strong revenue, which is exactly backwards from how most operators read it.

A percentage plan is cheapest on the door you are least proud of.

Guesty pricing at 10 doors: where the published number disappears

At 10 doors there is no Guesty price to quote. You are in Pro, and Pro publishes nothing. What fills that vacuum is a layer of third-party pricing pages that contradict each other badly.

Figures circulating in 2026 put Pro anywhere from $40 to $72 per listing per month, and separately at 2% to 5% of booking revenue with a minimum near $38 per listing. Onboarding is quoted as $300 to $1,500 on one site and $2,200 to $11,000 on another. None of these trace back to a Guesty document, a filing, or a named operator publishing a real invoice. Treat all of them as noise and get your own quote in writing.

The practical move at 10 doors is to make the quote comparable before you receive it. Ask for the per-listing rate at your current count and at your count plus 20%, because a rate that only holds at 10 doors is a rate that reprices the moment you grow. Ask what happens to the rate if you drop below the contracted count mid-term, which is the question that matters when an owner pulls a property.

The add-on stack is where a Pro quote doubles

Guesty labels nine products as add-ons in its own navigation: PriceOptimizer, Trust Accounting, Damage Protection, GuestVerify, Shield Suite, LocksManager, Liability Coverage, Guesty Pay, and Guesty Capital. Not one of them carries a published price on its feature page. Damage Protection states that four coverage plans exist and stops there.

Payments are the one add-on with a published rate, and it is the largest line. Guesty’s payment processing article puts US card processing at 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction, and UK and EU processing at 1.5% plus £0.20 or €0.25. The same article confirms Guesty charges its own gateway fee on top of the processor fee, on every valid transaction attempt including declined cards, and does not state the rate.

Size that against a portfolio. Ten doors grossing $52,000 a year each is $520,000 through the platform, and 2.9% of that is $15,080 a year in card processing before a single subscription dollar. Against a $60 per listing per month Pro rate at 10 doors ($7,200 a year), processing is more than double the software line. Operators comparing PMS quotes on per-listing rate alone are arguing about the smaller number.

Software and processing only become manageable once you can see them per door rather than as one portfolio lump. MagicBNB’s Profitability & P&L breaks expenses into categories for every property and carries a highest-expenses filter mode, so a door where platform fees eat 4.1% of gross ranks above one sitting at 2.2% instead of averaging out of view.

Guesty pricing at 50 doors: five things to get in writing

At 50 doors the annual commitment is large enough that the contract terms matter more than the headline rate. Get these five in the document, not the sales call:

• The per-listing rate at your contracted count and at 20% above it, so growth does not trigger a silent reprice mid-term.
• Contract length, auto-renewal terms, and the notice window to cancel, none of which Guesty publishes anywhere.

• The one-time onboarding or implementation fee as a fixed dollar figure, since third-party estimates for it span $300 to $11,000 with no vendor number to anchor against.
• The Guesty gateway fee rate charged on top of the 2.9% plus $0.30 processing, including whether declined transaction attempts are billed.
• Add-on prices for PriceOptimizer, Trust Accounting, and Websites locked for the contract term, because all three are unpriced publicly and repricing them is the easiest lever a vendor has.

PMS pricing transparency in 2026, compared

Five vendors, five dimensions, in the same order each time: published entry price, listing cap on the entry plan, booking or revenue fee, setup fee, and contract commitment. Verified from each vendor’s own pricing page in August 2026.

• Guesty: entry price from $9 per listing per month plus 1% per reservation, or $20 annual, or $29 monthly. Entry plan capped at 3 listings. Booking fee 1% on two of the three Lite plans. Setup fee not published. Contract length not published. Pro (4 to 199 listings) publishes none of the five.
• Hostaway: no published price at all. No published listing cap. No published booking fee. No published setup fee. No published contract term. The pricing page is a three-step quote form asking whether you manage 2 to 14, 15 to 49, or 50+ listings.
• Hospitable: Essentials tier is free with unlimited properties. Paid tiers Host, Professional, and Mogul are uncapped except Host at 2 properties. Booking channel commission is 0% on every tier. No setup fee. No contract, with a 14-day free trial. Headline dollar figures render client-side rather than in the page source.
• Lodgify: from $16 per month on yearly billing per its own FAQ. Basic is capped at 1 property and Starter at 2. Booking fee is 0% on Basic, Professional, and Ultimate, and 1.9% on the Starter variant. No setup fee. No long-term contract, with a 7-day trial and no card required.
• OwnerRez: per-property sliding scale where cost per property falls as count rises. No listing cap. No booking fees, commissions, or guest fees. No setup fee. No contract or minimum term, with a 14-day trial. The current dollar table renders client-side; the last vendor-published table set a $40 monthly minimum including one property.

Two of the five publish a usable entry number. One publishes nothing. Guesty publishes a floor for the tier most professional operators have already outgrown. That pattern is the actual finding here, and it is worth weighing when a vendor asks you to commit annually to a rate you cannot benchmark.

How to model the real cost before you sign

Total annual PMS cost is four lines, not one: (per-listing rate x doors x 12) + (processing rate x annual gross) + add-on subscriptions + one-time onboarding. Divide the total by annual gross to get the number that actually compares across vendors.

Worked at 10 doors grossing $520,000: a $60 per listing rate is $7,200, processing at 2.9% plus $0.30 across roughly 620 transactions is about $15,266, two add-ons at $15 per listing per month adds $3,600, and a $2,000 onboarding fee amortized over a three-year term is $667. Total $26,733, or 5.14% of gross. The same portfolio on a free-tier PMS with 0% booking commission and outside card processing at 2.9% lands near 3.1%. That two-point spread is $10,600 a year, which is roughly the net profit of one average door.

Whether that spread is defensible depends on what each door actually returns, which is a per-property question rather than a portfolio one. MagicBNB’s Listings table sorts every property by net revenue, profit dollars, and profit margin percent with health-colored occupancy pills, so a $2,673 annual software cost per door reads against that door’s margin instead of against a portfolio average.

If you are choosing between platforms rather than pricing one you already run, the feature-level comparison in our Hospitable vs Guesty breakdown covers where each one wins operationally, which is the decision the price should follow rather than lead.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Guesty cost per month?

Guesty Lite costs $20 per listing per month on annual billing, $29 per listing per month billed monthly, or $9 per listing per month plus 1% of every reservation, for 1 to 3 listings. Guesty Pro, which covers 4 to 199 listings, publishes no monthly price and requires a sales quote.

Does Guesty have a free plan?

No. Guesty offers a 14-day free trial of the Lite package with no credit card required, and no permanently free tier on any plan. Hospitable, by contrast, publishes a free Essentials tier with unlimited properties and 0% booking commission.

Can I use Guesty Lite for 10 listings?

No. Guesty Lite is scoped to 1 to 3 listings, and a bookable unit counts as one listing, so a five-bedroom home listed room by room already fills five of those slots. At 4 listings you move to Guesty Pro and lose access to published pricing.

Does Guesty take a percentage of booking revenue?

Yes, on two of the three Lite plans, at 1% of total monthly reservation revenue. That base includes rental income, additional guest fees, and extra services revenue, so pass-through charges like cleaning fees are inside it. Guesty publishes no percentage-of-revenue plan for Pro or Enterprise.

What is the Guesty onboarding fee?

Guesty does not publish an onboarding or implementation fee for any plan. Third-party sites quote ranges from $300 to $1,500 and separately from $2,200 to $11,000, none of which trace to a Guesty document, so the only reliable figure is the one written into your own quote.

Is Guesty more expensive than Hostaway?

Neither figure can be compared publicly, because Hostaway publishes no price at all and Guesty publishes pricing only for its 3-listing Lite tier. At professional portfolio sizes both vendors require a quote, which means the comparison has to be run on two written offers using the same four-line total-cost formula.

Price your stack against what each door actually returns

A PMS quote is only defensible against a per-door margin you can see. Connect your PMS and your bank to MagicBNB, and platform fees, processing, and subscriptions land as categorized expenses against each property’s net payout, so the next renewal conversation starts from what the software costs as a share of that door’s profit rather than from a per-listing sticker price.

About MagicBNB

MagicBNB is the portfolio intelligence platform that sits on top of your PMS and your bank. The Net Payout source of truth drives one canonical revenue figure across profitability, the listings table, and every owner report. Profitability & P&L breaks expenses into categories per property with at-loss, low-margin, and highest-expenses filter modes. The Listings table ranks every door by net revenue, profit, and margin percent so the weakest property surfaces in seconds. For the wider stack decision, see our guide to automating the Airbnb tech stack. See it at magicbnb.io.