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Apaleo vs DPGO

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Apaleo

Travel

API-first hotel property management platform sold per room with a monthly floor

From
€8/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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DPGO

Travel

Dynamic pricing for short-term rentals with three billing models including pay per booked night

From
$18/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Apaleo the €400 monthly floor means a property under fifty rooms pays well above the headline €8 per room, so a twenty five room hotel pays €16 per room and the advertised rate is misleading at the small end.; DPGO the 0.5% and per booked night plans are invoiced every two weeks, which produces twenty six variable invoices a year and is awkward for anyone doing simple monthly bookkeeping.
  • They diverge on capability: Apaleo covers Open REST API, DPGO covers AI rate generation.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Apaleo and DPGO actually diverge.

Attributes where Apaleo and DPGO differ
AttributeApaleoDPGO
Starting price€8/month$18/month
Pricing modelPer room per monthPer listing per month, per booked night or percentage of booked price
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Travel).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Apaleo

  • Open REST API
  • Apaleo Store
  • Multi-property inventory
  • Apaleo Pay
  • Unit group model
  • Night audit and accounting export

Only in DPGO

  • AI rate generation
  • Price floors and ceilings
  • Orphan night handling
  • Channel push
  • Market dashboard
  • Three billing models

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Apaleo

  • A serviced apartment group building its own branded check-in and access flow that needs full PMS control through an API rather than a vendor-built kiosknot DPGO
  • A European hotel group standardising twenty properties on one system with central rate management and DATEV-ready accounting exportsnot DPGO
  • A new-build lifestyle hotel operating with no permanent front desk, where door locks, kiosks and messaging come from specialists and the PMS is the record of truthnot DPGO
  • A revenue team that wants to plug Duetto or IDeaS into live inventory without paying a per-connection interface feenot DPGO

DPGO

  • A host with a strongly seasonal cabin who wants pricing automation that costs almost nothing in the off seasonnot Apaleo
  • An Airbnb-first operator with eight listings wanting daily rate adjustment without paying a per listing fee for underperforming unitsnot Apaleo
  • A manager testing automated pricing against manual rates during a 30 day trial before committingnot Apaleo
  • An owner in a competitive city market who needs last-minute discounting rules rather than a static weekend upliftnot Apaleo

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Apaleo

  • The €400 monthly floor means a property under fifty rooms pays well above the headline €8 per room, so a twenty five room hotel pays €16 per room and the advertised rate is misleading at the small end.
  • Apaleo ships no point of sale, no spa or golf module and no conference and banqueting system, so full service hotels must buy and integrate three or four more products before the stack is complete.
  • Because the model assumes you assemble the guest-facing layer from the Store, the real monthly cost is the platform fee plus several third-party subscriptions, and that total is nowhere on the pricing page.
  • Support and documentation lean towards developers, so an operator without technical capacity or an implementation partner will find configuration and troubleshooting harder than with a conventional PMS.
  • The product and integration ecosystem is strongest in German-speaking Europe, and North American buyers will find fewer local integrations for payments, tax rules and accounting than a US-focused PMS offers.

DPGO

  • The 0.5% and per booked night plans are invoiced every two weeks, which produces twenty six variable invoices a year and is awkward for anyone doing simple monthly bookkeeping.
  • Market analytics are thin compared with larger competitors, so you get a recommended rate without much tooling to interrogate why or to define your own comparable set.
  • The integration list is shorter than PriceLabs or Wheelhouse, so operators on less common property management systems may have to push rates manually or not at all.
  • Recommendation quality drops sharply in low-density markets where there are too few comparable listings for the model to learn from, and there is little warning when this is the case.
  • It is a pricing engine only, with no length of stay optimisation across a portfolio or channel-level yield strategy, so professional managers usually run it alongside other tools rather than instead of them.

Pricing, plan by plan

Apaleo

€8/month
  • Apaleo Platform$8/month
    • €8 per room per month
    • Minimum €400 per month regardless of room count
    • All APIs included at no extra cost

DPGO

$18/month
  • Pay as You Go$undefined/month
    • 0.5% of booked price
    • 30 day free trial, no card required
    • Invoiced every two weeks
  • Flat Fee$18/month
    • $18 per listing per month
    • 30 day free trial
    • All pricing and market features included
  • Fixed$undefined/month
    • $1 per booked night
    • Costs nothing on unbooked nights
    • 30 day free trial

Which should you pick?

Choose Apaleo if

  • You need open rest api.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want apaleo store.
Apaleo review

Choose DPGO if

  • You need ai rate generation.
  • You also want price floors and ceilings.
DPGO review

Questions people ask

Is Apaleo or DPGO better?
Neither clearly leads. Apaleo starts at €8/month and DPGO at $18/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Apaleo or DPGO?
Apaleo starts at €8/month and DPGO at $18/month.
Does Apaleo or DPGO run on more platforms?
Apaleo runs on Web, API. DPGO runs on Web.
What is Apaleo best used for?
Apaleo is most often used for a serviced apartment group building its own branded check-in and access flow that needs full pms control through an api rather than a vendor-built kiosk, a european hotel group standardising twenty properties on one system with central rate management and datev-ready accounting exports, a new-build lifestyle hotel operating with no permanent front desk, where door locks, kiosks and messaging come from specialists and the pms is the record of truth, a revenue team that wants to plug duetto or ideas into live inventory without paying a per-connection interface fee. Of those, a serviced apartment group building its own branded check-in and access flow that needs full pms control through an api rather than a vendor-built kiosk and a european hotel group standardising twenty properties on one system with central rate management and datev-ready accounting exports are not what DPGO is typically brought in for.
What can Apaleo do that DPGO cannot?
Apaleo covers Open REST API, Apaleo Store, Multi-property inventory, Apaleo Pay. DPGO covers AI rate generation, Price floors and ceilings, Orphan night handling, Channel push.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Apaleo: What does Apaleo actually cost for a sixty room hotel?

€480 per month for the platform at €8 per room, plus payment processing from 0.6% and whatever Store integrations you add. Below fifty rooms you pay the €400 floor.

DPGO: Which billing model is cheapest?

It depends on occupancy. At $1 per booked night you pay $18 only if a listing is booked eighteen nights a month, so low-occupancy listings should use Fixed or Pay as You Go and high-occupancy ones the flat fee.

Apaleo: Is API access charged separately?

No. All APIs are included in the per room fee, which is unusual in the PMS market where interface fees per connection are common.

DPGO: Does it push rates to Airbnb?

Yes, directly, and to Vrbo and through supported property management systems.

Apaleo: Does it include a channel manager?

No. You connect one from the Store, such as SiteMinder, and pay that vendor separately.

DPGO: Is there a trial?

30 days, with no card required.

Apaleo: Can it run a full service hotel?

Only with additional systems. There is no native POS, spa or events module.

DPGO: Does it handle minimum stay rules?

It sets nightly rates and orphan gap pricing. Length of stay strategy is limited compared with a full revenue management system.

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