Travel · head to head
Apaleo vs Revinate
Apaleo
Travel
API-first hotel property management platform sold per room with a monthly floor
- From
- €8/month
- Rated
- -
Revinate
Travel
Hotel guest data platform, email marketing and messaging built on PMS profile data
- 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.; Revinate pricing is not published and is quoted per property scaled by room count with a monthly floor, so small properties often find the minimum higher than the campaign revenue they can realistically generate.
- They diverge on capability: Apaleo covers Open REST API, Revinate covers Guest profile resolution.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Apaleo and Revinate 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 Revinate
- Guest profile resolution
- Segmented email campaigns
- Revenue attribution
- Ivy messaging
- Reservation sales
- Multi-property database
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 Revinate
- A European hotel group standardising twenty properties on one system with central rate management and DATEV-ready accounting exportsnot Revinate
- 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 Revinate
- A revenue team that wants to plug Duetto or IDeaS into live inventory without paying a per-connection interface feenot Revinate
Revinate
- An independent resort with fifteen years of dirty PMS profiles that wants a usable marketing database out of themnot Apaleo
- A hotel group proving that direct email campaigns produced enough room nights to justify cutting OTA spendnot Apaleo
- A property automating pre-arrival texts so front desk staff are not answering the same parking and check-in questions by phonenot Apaleo
- A casino resort segmenting a large guest database by spend and recency for targeted offersnot 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.
Revinate
- Pricing is not published and is quoted per property scaled by room count with a monthly floor, so small properties often find the minimum higher than the campaign revenue they can realistically generate.
- Value depends on database size and quality; a hotel with a few thousand contacts and mostly OTA business will not recover the licence cost through email revenue.
- The platform is sold as several products including marketing, messaging and reservation sales, so the quoted figure often covers less than a buyer assumes and the full stack costs considerably more.
- Profile resolution quality depends on how the PMS was operated, and a property with poor data capture at check-in gets a cleaner database that is still missing email addresses for most guests.
- It is hotel-specific, so a group with mixed accommodation including serviced apartments or vacation rentals will find parts of the model and integrations do not fit those units.
Pricing, plan by plan
Apaleo
€8/month- Apaleo Platform$8/month
- €8 per room per month
- Minimum €400 per month regardless of room count
- All APIs included at no extra cost
Revinate
On request- Revinate$undefined/month
- Guest data platform and profile resolution
- Segmented email marketing with revenue attribution
- Ivy automated guest messaging
Which should you pick?
Choose Apaleo if
- You need open rest api.
- You work on Web, API.
- You also want apaleo store.
Choose Revinate if
- You need guest profile resolution.
- You also want segmented email campaigns.
Questions people ask
- Is Apaleo or Revinate better?
- Neither clearly leads. Apaleo starts at €8/month and Revinate at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Apaleo or Revinate?
- Apaleo starts at €8/month and Revinate at On request.
- Does Apaleo or Revinate run on more platforms?
- Apaleo runs on Web, API. Revinate 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 Revinate is typically brought in for.
- What can Apaleo do that Revinate cannot?
- Apaleo covers Open REST API, Apaleo Store, Multi-property inventory, Apaleo Pay. Revinate covers Guest profile resolution, Segmented email campaigns, Revenue attribution, Ivy messaging.
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.
Revinate: What does Revinate cost?
It is not published. Expect a per property monthly figure scaled by room count with a minimum, and confirm which products are inside that number.
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.
Revinate: Does it replace my email tool?
Yes for guest marketing, because it is built on merged PMS profiles rather than a contact list you upload.
Apaleo: Does it include a channel manager?
No. You connect one from the Store, such as SiteMinder, and pay that vendor separately.
Revinate: Will it work with a small database?
Poorly. The economics depend on having enough guest records with usable email addresses to generate attributable revenue.
Apaleo: Can it run a full service hotel?
Only with additional systems. There is no native POS, spa or events module.
Revinate: Is Ivy included?
Not necessarily. Messaging is priced separately from the marketing platform; confirm in writing.
Related pages
Other head to heads
- Apaleo vs Clock PMS+
- Apaleo vs Opera PMS
- Apaleo vs Cloudbeds
- Apaleo vs Mews
- Apaleo vs Hostaway
- Apaleo vs Stayntouch
- Apaleo vs ThinkReservations
- Apaleo vs Guesty
- Apaleo vs Hotelogix
- Apaleo vs RoomPriceGenie
- Apaleo vs Roomsy
- Apaleo vs Sirvoy
- Apaleo vs FareHarbor
- Apaleo vs Hopper
- Apaleo vs Kayak
- Apaleo vs Lyft
- Apaleo vs Ola
- Apaleo vs PriceLabs
- Apaleo vs WebRezPro
- Apaleo vs Bookinglayer
- Apaleo vs Chekin
- Apaleo vs Shiji
- Apaleo vs SiteMinder
- Apaleo vs Duetto
- Apaleo vs Hostfully
- Apaleo vs IDeaS
- Revinate vs Clock PMS+
- Revinate vs Opera PMS
- Revinate vs Cloudbeds
- Revinate vs Mews
- Revinate vs Hostaway
- Revinate vs Stayntouch
- Revinate vs ThinkReservations
- Revinate vs Guesty
- Revinate vs Hotelogix
- Revinate vs RoomPriceGenie
- Revinate vs Roomsy
- Revinate vs Sirvoy
- Revinate vs FareHarbor
- Revinate vs Hopper
- Revinate vs Kayak
- Revinate vs Lyft
- Revinate vs Ola
- Revinate vs PriceLabs
- Revinate vs WebRezPro
- Revinate vs Bookinglayer
- Revinate vs Chekin
- Revinate vs Shiji
- Revinate vs SiteMinder
- Revinate vs Duetto
- Revinate vs Hostfully
- Revinate vs IDeaS