Travel · head to head
Apaleo vs Duetto
Apaleo
Travel
API-first hotel property management platform sold per room with a monthly floor
- From
- €8/month
- Rated
- -
Duetto
Travel
Cloud revenue management for hotels, casinos and multi-property groups
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
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.; Duetto nothing is published on price, and deals are typically annual per property licences on multi-year terms, so the real commitment is only visible after several sales meetings.
- They diverge on capability: Apaleo covers Open REST API, Duetto covers Open pricing.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Apaleo and Duetto actually diverge.
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 Duetto
- Open pricing
- Demand forecasting
- Group and business evaluation
- Guest value pricing
- Multi-property management
- Rate shopping integration
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 Duetto
- A European hotel group standardising twenty properties on one system with central rate management and DATEV-ready accounting exportsnot Duetto
- 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 Duetto
- A revenue team that wants to plug Duetto or IDeaS into live inventory without paying a per-connection interface feenot Duetto
Duetto
- A casino resort pricing room nights against total guest worth including gaming spend rather than room revenue alonenot Apaleo
- A four hundred room city hotel wanting to raise transient retail rates without dragging negotiated corporate rates with themnot Apaleo
- A management company standardising revenue strategy across twenty properties with central oversight and local overridenot Apaleo
- A resort evaluating a large group enquiry against the transient demand it would displace on the same datesnot 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.
Duetto
- Nothing is published on price, and deals are typically annual per property licences on multi-year terms, so the real commitment is only visible after several sales meetings.
- Implementation is a project involving data cleansing, PMS integration and configuration, and properties routinely take months to reach useful output, during which the licence is already being paid.
- The system requires a trained revenue manager to interpret and act on recommendations; a hotel without that function will not get value and would be better served by a rules-based tool.
- Value depends on clean historical and segmentation data from the PMS, and properties with inconsistent rate coding or short history get weaker forecasts with no easy remedy.
- It is priced and scoped for upper-midscale and above, so independent hotels under about a hundred rooms are typically outside the economic range regardless of how sophisticated their pricing needs are.
Pricing, plan by plan
Apaleo
€8/month- Apaleo Platform$8/month
- €8 per room per month
- Minimum €400 per month regardless of room count
- All APIs included at no extra cost
Duetto
On request- Duetto$undefined/year
- Pricing and forecasting applications
- Group and business evaluation
- Multi-property portfolio management
Which should you pick?
Choose Apaleo if
- You need open rest api.
- You work on Web, API.
- You also want apaleo store.
Questions people ask
- Is Apaleo or Duetto better?
- Neither clearly leads. Apaleo starts at €8/month and Duetto at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Apaleo or Duetto?
- Apaleo starts at €8/month and Duetto at On request.
- Does Apaleo or Duetto run on more platforms?
- Apaleo runs on Web, API. Duetto 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 Duetto is typically brought in for.
- What can Apaleo do that Duetto cannot?
- Apaleo covers Open REST API, Apaleo Store, Multi-property inventory, Apaleo Pay. Duetto covers Open pricing, Demand forecasting, Group and business evaluation, Guest value pricing.
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.
Duetto: How much does Duetto cost?
Not published. Expect a per property annual licence scaled by room count, plus implementation, on a multi-year contract.
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.
Duetto: What is open pricing?
Yielding each segment, channel and room type independently rather than moving one best available rate and deriving everything else from it.
Apaleo: Does it include a channel manager?
No. You connect one from the Store, such as SiteMinder, and pay that vendor separately.
Duetto: Is it worth it for a small independent hotel?
Usually not. Below roughly a hundred rooms, and without a dedicated revenue manager, a simpler rules-based pricing tool is a better fit.
Apaleo: Can it run a full service hotel?
Only with additional systems. There is no native POS, spa or events module.
Duetto: How long does implementation take?
Months rather than weeks, driven mostly by PMS data quality and rate code cleanup.
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