Hospitable

The best-value software for a small host, and one of very few companies on this site with a complete public price list.

The facts on file

Service model

Software

Headline fee

Not a % of revenue

How the fee is structured

Essentials $0 forever; Host $29/month (1 property, $10 each additional, max 2); Professional $59/month (2 included, $15 each additional); Mogul $99/month (3 included, $30 each additional). 12% discount on annual billing.

Whose Airbnb account holds the listing

Yours — you stay the host of record

Time to go live

Not published; self-serve signup, generally same day

Contract and exit

14-day free trial with no credit card, cancel any time, monthly or annual

Channels

Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, Direct booking

Where they operate

Global

Portfolio size

Not published

Founded

Not verified

What Hospitable actually is

Hospitable — originally Smartbnb, around 2016, though we could not verify a definitive founding year — is an automation layer for hosts who run their own Airbnbs. Guest messaging automation is the core of it and it is very good: templated, triggered messages that absorb the ninety per cent of guest communication that is identical every single time. It is global, self-serve, and you are generally live the same day you sign up.

What it costs, and what the number really buys

Fully published, tier by tier, which almost nobody else in this directory manages. Essentials is $0 forever. Host is $29/month for one property, $10 per additional, capped at two. Professional is $59/month with two included and $15 each additional. Mogul is $99/month with three included and $30 each additional. Annual billing takes 12% off. Watch the escalators rather than the headline: the per-additional-property fees get steep at the top tier, so a growing portfolio can cost noticeably more on Mogul than the $99 suggests.

Do you keep your Airbnb listing?

Yes. Your Airbnb account, your listing, your reviews, your Superhost status, your payouts. Hospitable sits on top through the API. Cancel and your listing carries on exactly as it was, minus the automation — which is the entire argument for staying in the software column if you can tolerate the work it leaves on your plate.

Contract, notice and getting out

About as good as commitment terms get. A 14-day free trial with no credit card, cancel any time, monthly or annual. There is no lock-in to negotiate and no exit to plan. Against a full-service manager's twelve-month term with an unpublished notice period, this is a different universe of risk.

Who Hospitable is right for

• You have one to five listings and want messaging and calendars automated.
• You want to test whether software is enough before hiring a manager.
• Your margin is thin and the free tier is genuinely useful to you.

And who should keep looking

• You need trust accounting and owner statements for third-party properties.
• You want the physical work handled — this does none of it.
• Your portfolio is large enough to hit the per-property escalators hard.

Strengths and tradeoffs at a glance

Go to the source

Official site: hospitable.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

• hospitable.com/pricing/
• help.hospitable.com/en/articles/4596748-hospitable-pricing-subscription-costs

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.

Back to the full comparison table, or the index of all 17 companies. If you are still deciding between hiring somebody and automating the work, read the two philosophies side by side; if you have already decided to hire, take these questions into the call.