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Alternatives to Hostaway
22 travel tools sit alongside Hostaway in this directory. Below is what separates each from Hostaway on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 11
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Hostaway starts at
- On request
Why people look past Hostaway
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Hostaway entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Hostaway carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 11 of the 22 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Property management platform for short-term rentals
Priced and rated the same as Hostaway on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Cloud-based hospitality management platform unifying PMS, channel management, and booking engine
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Hostaway does not.
Southeast Asia super-app combining ride hailing, food delivery and payments across around eight countries in the region
- Can be used without paying; Hostaway cannot.
- Sold on a Free app, pay per ride and per order with dynamic pricing model rather than quote.
Dominant ride hailing app in China from Didi Chuxing, which acquired Uber China in 2016 and now operates almost entirely within China plus a handful of other markets
- Can be used without paying; Hostaway cannot.
- Sold on a Free app, pay per ride with dynamic pricing model rather than quote.
Travel booking marketplace and package deal platform, part of Expedia Group, earning commission from hotels and margin on bundled packages
- Can be used without paying; Hostaway cannot.
- Sold on a Free for travellers, commission and package margin model rather than quote.
US and Canada focused ride hailing app, the smaller of the two dominant North American ride hailing platforms alongside Uber
- Can be used without paying; Hostaway cannot.
- Sold on a Free app, pay per ride with dynamic pricing model rather than quote.
Every Hostaway alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostaway (this page) | On request | Quote | - | |
| GuestyThe closest direct competitor in short-term rental management | On request | Quote | - | vs Hostaway |
| CloudbedsAimed at hotels and hostels rather than distributed rental portfolios | Free | Quote | - | vs Hostaway |
| Grab | Free | Free app, pay per ride and per order with dynamic pricing | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Didi | Free | Free app, pay per ride with dynamic pricing | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Expedia | Free | Free for travellers, commission and package margin | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Lyft | Free | Free app, pay per ride with dynamic pricing | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Booking.com | Free | Free for travellers, commission charged to listed properties | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Kayak | Free | Free to users, revenue from referral commissions and advertising | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Skyscanner | Free | Free for travellers, referral fees from booking partners | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Careem | Free | Free app, pay per ride with dynamic pricing | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Ola | Free | Free app, pay per ride with dynamic pricing | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Hopper | Free | Free to book, paid add-ons for price freezing and cancellation flexibility | 3 | vs Hostaway |
| Bolt | Free | Free app, pay per ride with dynamic pricing | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Egencia | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Center | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| myCWT | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| BCD TripSource | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Sabre Red 360 | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Travelport Smartpoint | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Spotnana | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Corporate Traveller | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hostaway |
| Amadeus Selling Platform Connect | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hostaway |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Hostaway badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (11)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Grab , Free
- Didi , Free
- Expedia , Free
- Lyft , Free
- Booking.com , Free
- Kayak , Free
- Skyscanner , Free
- Careem , Free
What you would be giving up
Hostaway is most often brought in for managers running portfolios across several booking channels, operators whose margin goes to manual guest messaging and turnover coordination, companies producing owner statements for managed properties. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Hostaway is broadly right and the question is cost, the Hostaway pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Travel category lists everything the directory holds, and best travel tools ranks them.
Hostaway runs on web, ios, android, cloud. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Hostaway alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Hostaway?
- 22 other travel tools are listed in this directory, led by Guesty, Cloudbeds, Grab, Didi. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Hostaway?
- 11 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Grab, Didi, Expedia, Lyft, Booking.com.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Hostaway?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Hostaway?
- Hostaway is most often brought in for managers running portfolios across several booking channels, operators whose margin goes to manual guest messaging and turnover coordination, companies producing owner statements for managed properties. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Hostaway?
- None of the travel tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Hostaway alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Travel, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Hostaway against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Hostaway covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every travel tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Travel category, 22 tools beside Hostaway. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.