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Apaleo vs Hotelogix

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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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Hotelogix

Travel

Cloud property management system priced per room for small and mid-sized independent hotels

From
$7.99/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.; Hotelogix the advertised per-room rate covers the PMS only; the channel manager and accounting connector are separate per-room subscriptions with their own monthly minimums, so a small hotel budgeting from the headline number will underestimate the bill.
  • They diverge on capability: Apaleo covers Open REST API, Hotelogix covers Front desk grid.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Apaleo and Hotelogix actually diverge.

Attributes where Apaleo and Hotelogix differ
AttributeApaleoHotelogix
Starting price€8/month$7.99/month
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, iOS, Android

Identical on both: pricing model (Per room per month), 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 Hotelogix

  • Front desk grid
  • Multi-outlet POS
  • Channel manager
  • Web booking engine
  • Group and corporate bookings
  • Night audit
  • Multi-property view
  • Housekeeping module

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 Hotelogix
  • A European hotel group standardising twenty properties on one system with central rate management and DATEV-ready accounting exportsnot Hotelogix
  • 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 Hotelogix
  • A revenue team that wants to plug Duetto or IDeaS into live inventory without paying a per-connection interface feenot Hotelogix

Hotelogix

  • A forty-room independent hotel in India replacing spreadsheets and a legacy Windows PMS without a large upfront licencenot Apaleo
  • A resort that needs restaurant and spa charges posted to the room folio from separate outletsnot Apaleo
  • A small chain of three properties wanting one dashboard without moving to an enterprise systemnot Apaleo
  • A hotel with a heavy corporate account book needing negotiated rate plans and agency billingnot 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.

Hotelogix

  • The advertised per-room rate covers the PMS only; the channel manager and accounting connector are separate per-room subscriptions with their own monthly minimums, so a small hotel budgeting from the headline number will underestimate the bill.
  • Each additional third-party interface, such as a door lock or a payment terminal, is billed as its own monthly fee, which makes an integrated stack expensive to assemble at a property that wants several connections.
  • Multi-property and enterprise pricing is not published, so a growing group cannot compare Hotelogix against alternatives without entering a sales process.
  • The user interface is dated next to Mews or Cloudbeds, and staff coming from a modern consumer app typically need more training time on the tape chart and folio screens.
  • Support quality varies by region and depends heavily on the local reseller rather than on the vendor directly, so response times in markets without a partner presence are inconsistent.

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

Hotelogix

$7.99/month
  • Premium$7.99/month
    • Per room per month
    • Front desk and reservations
    • Housekeeping
  • Premium Plus$11.99/month
    • Per room per month
    • Point of sale outlets
    • Group and corporate bookings
  • Platinum$17.99/month
    • Per room per month
    • Multi-property dashboard
    • Priority support
  • Distribution add-on$undefined/month
    • About 1 USD per room per month for the channel manager
    • Roughly 25 USD monthly minimum
    • Charged on top of the PMS tier

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 Hotelogix if

  • You need front desk grid.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want multi-outlet pos.
Hotelogix review

Questions people ask

Is Apaleo or Hotelogix better?
Neither clearly leads. Apaleo starts at €8/month and Hotelogix at $7.99/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Apaleo or Hotelogix?
Apaleo starts at €8/month and Hotelogix at $7.99/month.
Does Apaleo or Hotelogix run on more platforms?
Apaleo runs on Web, API. Hotelogix runs on Web, iOS, Android.
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 Hotelogix is typically brought in for.
What can Apaleo do that Hotelogix cannot?
Apaleo covers Open REST API, Apaleo Store, Multi-property inventory, Apaleo Pay. Hotelogix covers Front desk grid, Multi-outlet POS, Channel manager, Web booking engine.

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.

Hotelogix: What does Hotelogix actually cost for a thirty-room hotel?

The core PMS at the entry tier is around 240 US dollars a month at 7.99 per room, but adding the channel manager at about 1 dollar per room with a 25 dollar floor and any interface fees typically pushes the real figure past 300 dollars.

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.

Hotelogix: Is the channel manager included?

No. Distribution is a paid add-on charged per room per month on top of whichever PMS tier you are on.

Apaleo: Does it include a channel manager?

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

Hotelogix: Does Hotelogix take commission on direct bookings?

No. The booking engine does not charge a per-reservation commission; you pay only the subscription and your own payment processing.

Apaleo: Can it run a full service hotel?

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

Hotelogix: Is it suitable for a hotel group?

It has a multi-property dashboard, but group pricing is quoted rather than published and larger chains generally shortlist Opera or Mews instead.

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