Guesty

Enterprise-grade rental software. $9 per listing on the small tier, and a sales call for the tier most growing operators actually need.

The facts on file

Service model: Software
Headline fee: Not a % of revenue
How the fee is structured: Guesty Lite (1–3 listings) from $9/listing/month; Guesty Pro (4–199 listings) custom quote; Enterprise (200+) custom. Monthly or annual, annual discounted.
Whose Airbnb account holds the listing: Yours — you stay the host of record
Time to go live: Not published; Lite is self-serve, Pro and Enterprise include onboarding
Contract and exit: 14-day free trial on Lite. Upgrades any time, but downgrades require waiting until the contract ends — which implies a term commitment on paid tiers.
Channels: Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, Direct booking
Where they operate: Global
Portfolio size: Not published
Founded: 2013

What Guesty actually is

Guesty, founded in 2013, is a property management system rather than a property manager. Nobody cleans anything. You carry on running your Airbnb and Guesty runs the software layer underneath: channel distribution across 60+ channels on Pro, a unified inbox, automation, owner portals, accounting and trust accounting. It is the enterprise option in this category, built for people who manage other people's properties as a business, and it operates globally.

What it costs, and what the number really buys

Partly published. Guesty Lite covers 1–3 listings from $9 per listing per month. Guesty Pro covers 4–199 listings on a custom quote. Enterprise, 200+, is also custom. Monthly or annual billing, annual discounted. So the entry price is transparent and the price most growing operators need is not. For a single Airbnb, $9 a month is cheap; the honest caveat is that Guesty is widely considered overkill and overpriced below about five units, and Lite is a cut-down product rather than Pro for small portfolios.

Do you keep your Airbnb listing?

Yes — you keep everything. Guesty connects to your Airbnb account through the API. The listing stays yours, the reviews stay yours, Superhost status stays yours, the guests are your guests and the payouts are your payouts. This is the structural difference between the software column and everything else in this directory: churning a software vendor means changing a login, churning a manager means rebuilding a listing.

Contract, notice and getting out

A 14-day free trial on Lite. You can upgrade at any time, but downgrades require waiting until the contract term ends — which implies a term commitment on the paid tiers even though the length is not published. That is the thing to nail down before signing: not the monthly number, but how long you are committed to it and what happens when your portfolio shrinks.

Who Guesty is right for

You manage 5–200 units and need trust accounting and owner statements.
You distribute across many channels beyond Airbnb.
You need a real PMS rather than an automation layer bolted onto Airbnb.

And who should keep looking

You have one or two Airbnbs — cheaper and simpler tools do this job.
You want a full price list before a sales conversation.
Your unit count might go down as easily as up.

Strengths and tradeoffs at a glance

Strengths

Broadest channel coverage of any platform here
Genuine accounting and owner-portal depth
You keep your listing, your reviews and your accounts

Tradeoffs

The tier most people grow into has no public price
Downgrade restrictions imply a term commitment
Overkill and overpriced below roughly five units

Go to the source

Official site: www.guesty.com. Ask them for the management agreement and the fee schedule in writing before you sign anything — particularly the clause covering who holds the listing and what happens to it when you leave.

What this profile was built from

Verified 2026-08-28. Where a fee, contract term or go-live time is described as reported or estimated, the company does not publish it and we have not invented one.

Fees, contracts and coverage in this category change. Confirm the current terms with the company before you sign.

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