How Much Does Hostaway Cost per Month? Hostaway Pricing in 2026, by Portfolio Size

Hostaway publishes no price. Its pricing page carried zero dollar figures and zero plan names on October 7, 2026. Here is every verifiable figure, and what the priced alternatives cost.

Hostaway publishes no price. Its pricing page carried no dollar figures and no plan names when it was read on October 7, 2026, and the per-listing figures circulating elsewhere run from $15 to $50 a month, a 3.3x spread, with not one of them traceable to a Hostaway page. The page is a three-step form that asks your listing count, then your name, email and phone number, and routes you to sales.

So the honest answer to how much Hostaway costs per month is that nobody outside Hostaway knows, including every page that prints a figure. Onboarding claims run from $0 to $2,000 on the same evidence. What Hostaway does publish is narrower and more useful: it bills by listing count, it invoices monthly by default, and it charges 1.8% on bookings taken through its own booking website in the United States. Below is every verifiable figure, what the quote gate actually asks for, and what the tools that do publish prices cost at 2, 6, 10 and 20 doors.

What Hostaway publishes about its own pricing

Four things, and none of them is a dollar amount for the subscription. Hostaway bills per listing, invoices monthly unless your contract says otherwise, takes up to 30 days to process a cancellation, and charges a percentage on bookings through its own booking engine. Everything else arrives in the agreement after the sales call.

The billing basis is stated plainly in Hostaway's own Account and Billing FAQ, updated July 6, 2026: "Hostaway charges you according to the number of listings you have in your account." That article carries no dollar figure, and it does not define what counts as a listing.

• Billing frequency, from the Hostaway terms of service: "If not otherwise agreed in the Agreement, the prices and fees are invoiced monthly." Invoices are payable within 14 calendar days of issue, and Hostaway may change prices on 14 calendar days of notice.
• Cancellation, from the support article updated June 16, 2026: a 30-day cancellation policy, meaning the full account closure can take up to 30 days. Term length, notice period and early-termination treatment are all deferred to "your contract" and are not published.
• Setup or onboarding fee: not published, and not denied. No Hostaway page states one and no Hostaway page rules one out.
• Plan names: none exist. A search of the rendered pricing page for twelve common tier names returned no plan called Starter, Pro, Premium, Basic, Growth or Essential. The page headline is "Custom Plans for Vacation Rental Managers".

Hostaway states the custom-quote model itself. Its post on property management software cost, stamped 9/10/2026, says users "are provided a custom quote that takes into account their requirements and number of units", then publishes industry benchmark ranges rather than its own: $1 to $10 per unit per month for portfolios of 1 to 20 units, $200 to $1,000 or more per month at 20 to 100 units, and $1,000 to $5,000 or more above 100. Those are the industry. They get re-quoted as Hostaway's price anyway, which is one route by which the figures in circulation got there.

A per-listing bill invoiced monthly lands as one merchant line covering every door you run, which is why software almost never appears in per-property margin. MagicBNB's Profitability and P&L breaks expenses down by category per property and carries filter modes for at-loss and low-margin doors, so a subscription split across six doors shows up in each door's margin instead of sitting in a portfolio-level total. At $96 a month across six doors that is $16.00 a door. At $250 it is $41.67, and those two numbers lead to different decisions about which doors you keep.

The quote gate: what Hostaway asks before it gives you a number

Three steps, and the price sits behind the third. Step one asks "How many listings do you manage?" and offers six buckets: 0 to 1, 2 to 4, 5 to 14, 15 to 49, 50 to 199, and 200 or more. Step two is headed "Get a free quote" and asks for an email address, a full name and a phone number, with a checkbox agreeing to receive marketing text messages. Step three only opens after you submit those, so its contents are not public.

Those six buckets are the only portfolio segmentation Hostaway publishes anywhere. So the question of Hostaway pricing by portfolio size has exactly one published answer: which bucket you fall into. There is no slider. A check of the rendered page for range inputs and slider roles returned zero of each, so the absent prices are not hidden behind a control you failed to move.

The page is also harder to read than it looks. It renders entirely client-side: the HTML Hostaway's server returns converts to roughly 1,285 characters of metadata with no body copy and no figures. Of the 22,794 characters of text that appear once JavaScript runs, the overwhelming majority is the cookie-consent declaration table, and the actual pricing content is about 400 characters. The page is absent from Hostaway's own sitemap-0.xml while robots.txt allows everything. An AI assistant asked what Hostaway costs is working from the same third-party pages you are, because the vendor page gives it nothing to work with.

Get a tailored quote for Hostaway's all-in-one PMS and Channel Manager. Pricing scales with your portfolio.

That meta description is the most specific cost language Hostaway publishes in crawlable form. It is also the whole of it.

Hostaway pricing by portfolio size: what the circulating figures claim, and why they cannot all be right

At least five mutually incompatible answers exist for a ten-door operator, and the spread between them is larger than the subscription. Eleven ranking pages were read on October 7, 2026. Here is the full ledger of what they claim, without naming them, because the pattern matters more than the publishers.

• Per-listing claims: $15 to $25 above ten doors, $25 to $50 generally, $40 flat, $20 to $40 with volume discounts, and $40 to $50 per property. Floor to ceiling is 3.3x. One page prints two of those ranges and contradicts itself inside a single article.
• Flat monthly claims: $125 to $175 at 1 to 4 doors, $175 to $250 at 5 to 9, $250 to $350 at about ten, roughly $160 as a stated minimum, $1,000 to $5,000 or more for an "enterprise" tier, and a median contract of $10,000 a year with no door count attached to it.
• Onboarding claims: $0 to $2,000, $300 to $1,000 or more, and $100 to $500. One page says the fee can be zero and three say it starts at $300. The ceilings differ by 4x.
• At ten doors specifically, the pages answer about $160, $250 to $350, $150 to $250, $250 to $500, and about $833. Five answers, no overlap across all five.
• Two invented tier taxonomies circulate: Starter, Growth and Enterprise on one pair of pages, and Small, Medium and Large on another. Hostaway publishes neither set.

Sourcing is where it gets circular. One page attributes its $300 to $1,000 onboarding range to an undated affiliate page, and that affiliate page is in turn cited as a source by a third page. The range resolves back to a document with no date and no author on it.

Of the eleven editorial pages, eight disclose in prose that Hostaway publishes no prices. Six of those eight print a dollar figure anyway as the page's answer. Only two disclose and decline to print a number, and only one of those dates its disclosure.

The review directories are more consistent than the blogs. Zero of five display a starting price. Capterra shows "Custom Quote" and lists free trial and free version as unavailable. G2 states that information about Hostaway pricing, plan availability and costs is not listed on G2 by the vendor. Software Advice shows "Pricing available upon request". TrustRadius states that Hostaway does not currently have any pricing plans listed. GetApp shows "No pricing info", and contradicts Capterra and G2 on the same day by displaying a free trial and a free version as available. Capterra and GetApp are owned by the same company.

The staleness problem: the most specific Hostaway price online is thirteen months old

The page that prints the most specific answer, $40 per listing per month with a Starter, Growth and Enterprise table and a stated minimum of about $160 a month, carries publication metadata dated September 18, 2025 and cites Hostaway's pricing page as its source. That page carried zero dollar figures and zero plan names on October 7, 2026, and the tier names attributed to Hostaway have never been published by Hostaway at all. A second page from the same publisher repeats the figures under the line "as of Sep 2025, may be out of date" while its search result advertises an August 2026 update.

That is the ordinary condition of pricing content rather than an outlier, which is why three more figures in the same toolset are still quoted today and are wrong. Each was re-read on October 7, 2026.

AirDNA's "$600 a year Host tier" does not exist. AirDNA's pricing page publishes Free at $0, Research at $125 a month or $34 a month billed annually, which is $400 a year, Adapt dynamic pricing at $20 per listing per month, and Property Manager behind a "Let's Talk" button with no figure. The help centre plan list, updated August 28, 2026, names no Host plan.

Guesty's "$9 per listing" is real and incomplete. The Guesty Lite page publishes it as "From $9 /month" per listing plus 1% per reservation, labelled a limited-time offer. The flat alternatives are "From $20" billed annually and "From $29" monthly, and Lite is scoped to 1 to 3 listings, so a four-door operator is routed to Pro, which carries no published figure. The annual savings badge renders two conflicting values, 30% and 50%, in the same element. $20 against $29 is a 31.0% reduction.

Mashvisor's $17.99 Lite tier is gone as well. Lite is $49.99 a month billed annually, Standard is $74.99 and Professional is $99.99, all billed annually. Anyone budgeting a research tool from a 2024 comparison is out by 178% on the entry price.

The two percentages Hostaway does publish, and why they are in nobody's quote

1.8% in the United States and 0.5% everywhere else, charged on bookings that arrive through Hostaway's own booking website and through Google Vacation Rentals. One or the other applies, never both.

The booking engine fee article, updated September 1, 2026, sets out both. In the United States, where payments run through Stripe, a 1.8% guest service fee applies to the base rate and fees and excludes taxes. The page works it through: a $1,000 base becomes $1,018 excluding taxes. In Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and the rest of the world, a 0.5% host processing fee applies instead.

• The 1.8% is inclusive of Stripe's standard 1% application fee, and the two arrive in Stripe payouts as one combined "Hostaway Application fee" line rather than as two.
• The default is guest-paid. A host can absorb it instead, under Listings, Edit, Price and Fees, Guest service fee, where it is reported as guestChannelFee or hostChannelFee.
• The rate does not change with the Booking Website Pro upgrade, so paying for the premium booking site does not buy the percentage down.

One more published item belongs in any quote comparison, and it has no number attached. The Booking Website Pro terms of service, updated May 8, 2026, define a "BWP Minimum" that accrues "regardless of whether any Booking Website Pro instance has been created, configured, or published." The amount is not published anywhere. It is the only place on the entire Hostaway domain where a minimum commitment of any kind is acknowledged, which makes it the single most useful question to put in writing before a call.

A fee that arrives inside a payout as one combined line is a fee that never reaches an expense report. MagicBNB's Smart transaction ledger matches each bank deposit against the payout records pulled from your PMS and categorises what is left over, with high, medium and low confidence bands on every suggestion and a multi-split dialog for allocating one transaction across doors. On $40,000 of direct-booking revenue a year, 1.8% is $720 that otherwise shows up only as a deposit slightly smaller than you expected.

What the tools that do publish prices cost at 2, 6, 10 and 20 doors

Two of the six let you price a two-to-twenty-door portfolio from published figures alone, and one of those two publishes the total for your exact door count rather than a rate you have to multiply. The other four stop somewhere short. Every figure was read on October 7, 2026. The dimensions are the same for each entry and in the same order: monthly cost at 2, 6, 10 and 20 doors, the shape of the ladder, the per-booking percentage, the setup fee, and where in the vendor's own property the figure actually lives. Ranked by how far you can get before you have to speak to anyone.

1. OwnerRez

• 2, 6, 10, 20 doors: $55, $96, $127, $196 a month. These are published totals for that door count, not per-property rates, read directly off the pricing page.
• Ladder: one account total on a declining scale. The marginal cost is $15 for the second and third door, about $8 for the sixth, and about $6.90 each from the eleventh to the twentieth, computed from the published totals.
• Per-booking percentage: none. The page states no setup fees, no booking fees and no contracts.
• Setup fee: none published. Fourteen-day free trial.
• Where the figure lives: server-rendered page text, readable without JavaScript, with the door count carried in the URL.
• Best for: an operator who refuses to start a sales conversation without knowing the bill. The gap is add-ons. Six premium features are named, including QuickBooks integration and SMS messaging, and not one of them carries a published price.

2. Hospitable

• 2, 6, 10, 20 doors on Professional: $59, $119, $179, $329 a month, computed from the published rates of $59 including two properties plus $15 for each additional one.
• Ladder: a base fee including a set number of properties, then a flat per-additional rate. Host is $29 including one property plus $10 each. Mogul is $99 including three.
• Per-booking percentage: a direct-booking commission on Professional and Mogul, published on its direct booking site as 1% on the Basic site and 4% plus a 3% processing fee on the Premium one, with upsell processing at 7% to 10%.
• Setup fee: none. The page says "No Onboarding Fees". Paid onboarding is offered and its price is not published. Annual billing saves 12%.
• Where the figure lives: not on the pricing page, which renders every price as the placeholder "$--/mo". The numbers are in help centre article 4596748.
• Best for: an operator who wants a published number and can live with reading the help centre to find it. One flag: the Mogul per-additional-property rate is $15 on the pricing page and $30.00 in the help centre, and the vendor does not reconcile them.

3. Uplisting

• 2, 6, 10, 20 doors: GBP 40 flat at two doors on Independent Host, which covers up to four properties. Above four the page publishes GBP 90 a month for five properties on Operator plus GBP 16 a listing, and does not state whether the GBP 16 applies to every listing or only to those above the fifth. Six doors is therefore GBP 96 or GBP 106 depending on the reading, and the page does not settle it.
• Ladder: one flat plan to a cap, then two plans with a floor plus a per-listing rate. Independent Host is GBP 40 to a four-property maximum. Operator is GBP 90 for five properties with additional listings at GBP 16. Manager is GBP 208 for five with additional listings at GBP 13.
• Per-booking percentage: optional. A GBP 0 per month pay-as-you-go alternative charges 3% per booking on Independent Host and 1.5% on Operator.
• Setup fee: none, with a free one-to-one onboarding session on every plan. The page states no contract and no notice period. Annual billing takes 10% off Operator and Manager only.
• Where the figure lives: page text, in pounds. The currency selector needs JavaScript, so no dollar figure is published at all.

• Best for: a UK or European operator who wants a published rate and no contract. A US operator has to convert the figure themselves, and the GBP 16 ambiguity above five listings is worth a written confirmation even from a vendor that does publish.

4. Guesty

• 2 doors: $18 a month plus 1% per reservation on the limited-time tier, $40 on annual billing, or $58 monthly, computed from the published per-listing rates. At 6, 10 and 20 doors: not published.
• Ladder: flat per listing, every figure prefixed "From". Lite is scoped to 1 to 3 listings and four or more routes to Pro, which sits behind a "Get a quote" button with no figure.
• Per-booking percentage: 1% per reservation on the $9 tier. The pricing page states there are no percentage fees on reservations through the free direct booking engine, which is narrower than it reads and does not cancel the 1%.
• Setup fee: none published. Fourteen-day free trial, no card required.
• Where the figure lives: one dollar figure on the pricing page and three on the Guesty Lite page. Pro and Enterprise are gated.
• Best for: a one-to-three door operator who wants the lowest published entry price. Above three doors it is as unpriceable as Hostaway, which is the detail most comparisons skip.

5. Hostfully

• 2, 6, 10, 20 doors: not computable. Growth is "Starting at $15 per property per month" and Pro is "Starting at $25", and both are followed by "+ platform fee" with no stated amount.
• Ladder: per property per month, plus the unquantified platform fee. Growth covers 1 to 50 listings and Pro 1 to 199.
• Per-booking percentage: Growth carries a 1% payment gateway fee and a 0.85% direct booking fee. Pro removes both.
• Setup fee: none published. Both monthly and annual billing are offered, and the discount percentage is not published.
• Where the figure lives: page text for the two floors, and nowhere at all for the platform fee, which appears repeatedly as "+ platform fee".
• Best for: an operator doing enough direct booking that Pro removing 1.85% of it matters. The widely quoted $99 platform fee is not published by Hostfully in any amount.

6. Hostaway

• 2, 6, 10, 20 doors: not published at any count, in any currency.
• Ladder: by listing count, per the billing FAQ, invoiced monthly unless the agreement says otherwise, per the terms. The bands you are sorted into are 0 to 1, 2 to 4, 5 to 14, 15 to 49, 50 to 199 and 200 or more.
• Per-booking percentage: 1.8% in the United States and 0.5% elsewhere, on bookings through the Hostaway booking website and Google Vacation Rentals only. Nothing on OTA bookings.
• Setup fee: not published and not denied. The only acknowledged minimum anywhere is the undefined BWP Minimum.
• Where the figure lives: nowhere. Three-step form, and the page is absent from the vendor's own sitemap.
• Best for: an operator who was going to take the demo regardless and wants the Airbnb Preferred Plus connection, which Airbnb's software partners directory does confirm. Everyone else pays in time before they pay in dollars.

Three things that look like prices are not. Beds24 publishes "from EUR 15.50 a month" with the per-unit scale living only inside a JavaScript calculator. Lodgify publishes $14, $26, $47 and $68 in page text while the property count and billing cycle those figures correspond to are absent from the static markup, and a second Lodgify-owned page publishes different numbers on the same day. Smoobu publishes EUR 35 for a first property with each additional one at EUR 12 in its support article and "from EUR 9.60" on its pricing page, and quote-gates everything above twenty properties.

MagicBNB is not on that list, and it would lose if it were, because it is not a property management system. It has no channel manager and no unified inbox, and it does not push calendars or rates out to the OTAs. The shipped PMS connection covers Hospitable and Hostfully, with Guesty sync currently in development, so a Hostaway operator cannot connect it today. Pick the PMS on operations and price, not on what reports sit on top of it.

What it does is the arithmetic that decides whether any of those bills is worth paying. The Listings table puts every door in one sortable view with net revenue, occupancy, profit in dollars, profit margin and reservation count, with occupancy pills coloured green above 80%, amber from 60% to 80% and red below. A $196 bill across twenty doors is $9.80 a door. The two red doors are the ones that cannot carry it, and they are the reason the quote matters less than the portfolio underneath it.

How to make a Hostaway quote comparable before you take the call

Ten questions, asked in the first email so the answers arrive in writing. A quote is a number. A bill is a number plus definitions, and Hostaway publishes the number nowhere and the definitions only partly.

• Is the count on listings or on units, and does one property distributed to four channels count once or four times? The billing FAQ says "according to the number of listings you have in your account" and defines neither term.
• Is a door paused for the off-season still billed, and is the count trued up each month or locked at signing? Neither is published.
• Is there a floor below which the per-listing rate stops applying? One widely cited affiliate page claims a two-listing minimum. Hostaway publishes no minimum and the lowest bucket on its own form is 0 to 1.
• What is the minimum term, the notice period and the early-termination treatment? The terms defer to "the Agreement" and the cancellation article to "your contract". Only the 30-day cancellation processing window is published.
• Is onboarding charged, and is it refundable if go-live fails? No Hostaway page states a setup fee and none denies one.
• What is the BWP Minimum, in dollars, and does it apply if you never publish a Booking Website Pro instance? The terms say it accrues either way.
• Which capabilities sit inside the quote and which are priced separately: dynamic pricing, revenue management, extra user seats, API access, the insurance product? The marketing copy bundles them and the pricing page itemises nothing.
• How many integrations does your plan actually include? Hostaway published three different counts on the same day: 300 or more on the homepage, 200 or more on the marketplace page, and over 100 on the about page.
• Does the quoted price change at renewal, and by how much? The terms permit a price change on 14 calendar days of notice.
• Are invoices net 14 from issue? The terms say payable within 14 calendar days of the invoice date, which is tighter than most software billing and worth planning cash around.

Then do the division. Take the quoted monthly figure, divide by your door count, and put the result next to the profit margin on your weakest door. A $250 quote at six doors is $41.67 a door. If your worst door clears $180 of profit in a slow month, software is 23.1% of it, and that is the number the sales call will not give you.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Hostaway cost per month?

Hostaway publishes no monthly price at any portfolio size. Its pricing page carried zero dollar figures and zero plan names on October 7, 2026, and routes every visitor through a three-step quote form instead. The figures printed on comparison sites range from about $125 to $833 a month for a comparable small portfolio, and none is traceable to a Hostaway page.

Is Hostaway priced per listing or per account?

Per listing. Hostaway's billing FAQ, updated July 6, 2026, states that it "charges you according to the number of listings you have in your account." What that article does not define is whether a single property distributed to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and a direct site counts as one listing or four, which is the difference between a predictable bill and a surprise at a four-channel portfolio.

Does Hostaway charge a setup or onboarding fee?

Hostaway publishes no setup fee and does not deny one. The $300 to $1,000 onboarding range in circulation comes from third parties, one of which is an undated affiliate page that a second page then cites as its source. A separate page claims the fee can be as low as $0 and as high as $2,000. Ask for it in writing, because none of those numbers has a vendor behind it.

Does Hostaway have a free trial?

Hostaway does not publish an answer either way, and the directories contradict each other. On October 7, 2026, G2 and Capterra both showed no free trial while GetApp displayed both a free trial and a free version as available, even though Capterra and GetApp share an owner. The pricing page offers a quote request and no trial signup.

What does Hostaway charge on direct bookings?

1.8% in the United States and 0.5% in Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and the rest of the world, on bookings through the Hostaway booking website and Google Vacation Rentals. One applies, never both. The US figure is inclusive of Stripe's 1% application fee and appears in payouts as a single combined line. The rate is unchanged by the Booking Website Pro upgrade.

Can I cancel Hostaway monthly?

Hostaway publishes a 30-day cancellation processing window and nothing about the commitment behind it. The support article updated June 16, 2026 tells you to have your contract on hand because it "outlines your commitment terms, notice period, and any specific conditions". Since the contract arrives after the quote, the exit terms are the last thing you learn and the first thing to ask about.

Key takeaways

• Hostaway published no subscription price anywhere on its site on October 7, 2026: the pricing page contains zero dollar figures and zero plan names, and routes to a three-step quote form that asks for a phone number before it gives a figure.
• The per-listing figures circulating for Hostaway run from $15 to $50 a listing a month, a 3.3x spread, and onboarding claims run from $0 to $2,000, with no figure in either range traceable to a Hostaway page.
• Hostaway does publish two percentages: 1.8% on bookings through its own booking website and Google Vacation Rentals in the United States, inclusive of Stripe's 1% application fee, and 0.5% as a host processing fee elsewhere, one or the other and never both.
• OwnerRez publishes a total for your exact door count, $55 at two doors, $96 at six, $127 at ten and $196 at twenty, which makes it the only tool in this set you can price without speaking to anyone.
• The only minimum commitment Hostaway acknowledges anywhere is an undefined "BWP Minimum" in the Booking Website Pro terms, which accrues whether or not you ever create an instance, so ask for its dollar value in writing.
• AirDNA's $600 a year Host tier and Mashvisor's $17.99 Lite tier are both dead and both still quoted: AirDNA Research is $400 a year billed annually and Mashvisor Lite is $49.99 a month billed annually.

For the head-to-head on features rather than price, read OwnerRez against Hostaway. And for the other PMS whose published price is incomplete because of a fee it never quantifies, see Hostfully pricing in 2026.

A quote you cannot verify is still a cost you have to carry per door, so the figure worth knowing first is what each door earns. See profit per door in MagicBNB →

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