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Duetto vs Smoobu

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Duetto

Travel

Cloud revenue management for hotels, casinos and multi-property groups

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Smoobu

Travel

All-in-one channel manager and PMS for hosts with a handful of holiday rentals

From
€29/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: 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.; Smoobu the Flex plan carries a 0.9% fee on every booking, which on an apartment turning over €40,000 a year costs more than the entire annual subscription saving, and the pricing page presents Flex as the cheaper option.
  • They diverge on capability: Duetto covers Open pricing, Smoobu covers Channel manager.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Duetto and Smoobu actually diverge.

Attributes where Duetto and Smoobu differ
AttributeDuettoSmoobu
Starting priceOn request€29/month
Pricing modelquotePer unit per month
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android

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 Duetto

  • Open pricing
  • Demand forecasting
  • Group and business evaluation
  • Guest value pricing
  • Multi-property management
  • Rate shopping integration

Only in Smoobu

  • Channel manager
  • Website builder
  • Guest messaging
  • Unified calendar
  • Invoicing and e-invoicing
  • Mobile apps

What people use each for

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

Duetto

  • A casino resort pricing room nights against total guest worth including gaming spend rather than room revenue alonenot Smoobu
  • A four hundred room city hotel wanting to raise transient retail rates without dragging negotiated corporate rates with themnot Smoobu
  • A management company standardising revenue strategy across twenty properties with central oversight and local overridenot Smoobu
  • A resort evaluating a large group enquiry against the transient demand it would displace on the same datesnot Smoobu

Smoobu

  • A host with three apartments in Berlin who needs Airbnb and Booking.com calendars kept in sync and wants a direct booking site to cut OTA commissionnot Duetto
  • An owner wanting automated check-in instructions and pre-arrival messages sent per channel without logging into each extranetnot Duetto
  • A small manager who needs guest invoices that meet German documentation requirements without adding a separate accounting toolnot Duetto
  • A host testing dynamic pricing through the bundled trial before deciding whether to subscribe to PriceLabs separatelynot Duetto

Where each one falls short

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

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.

Smoobu

  • The Flex plan carries a 0.9% fee on every booking, which on an apartment turning over €40,000 a year costs more than the entire annual subscription saving, and the pricing page presents Flex as the cheaper option.
  • Pricing is per unit, so a ten unit portfolio pays roughly €31.50 plus nine additional units at about €9.60, and the headline monthly figure covers a single apartment only.
  • Write access is charged per account beyond the included seats, so a cleaner, a co-host and an owner all needing to edit bookings turn into a recurring per seat cost.
  • There is no trust accounting or owner statement generation, so anyone managing units on behalf of third-party owners has to build payout reporting outside the system.
  • Housekeeping and maintenance dispatch is minimal compared with manager-grade platforms, so cleaning coordination happens in WhatsApp or a separate tool once you are past a few units.

Pricing, plan by plan

Duetto

On request
  • Duetto$undefined/year
    • Pricing and forecasting applications
    • Group and business evaluation
    • Multi-property portfolio management

Smoobu

€29/month
  • Professional Flex$29/month
    • One unit included
    • 0.9% fee on every booking
    • Channel manager, website builder, messaging
  • Professional Prepaid$31.5/month
    • One unit included
    • No booking fee
    • Website builder, invoicing, chatbot, API access
  • Teams Pro+$49.5/month
    • Everything in Prepaid
    • E-invoicing
    • Two write-access accounts, extra accounts from about €12 each

Which should you pick?

Choose Duetto if

  • You need open pricing.
  • You also want demand forecasting.
Duetto review

Choose Smoobu if

  • You need channel manager.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want website builder.
Smoobu review

Questions people ask

Is Duetto or Smoobu better?
Neither clearly leads. Duetto starts at On request and Smoobu at €29/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Duetto or Smoobu?
Duetto starts at On request and Smoobu at €29/month.
Does Duetto or Smoobu run on more platforms?
Duetto runs on Web. Smoobu runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Duetto best used for?
Duetto is most often used for a casino resort pricing room nights against total guest worth including gaming spend rather than room revenue alone, a four hundred room city hotel wanting to raise transient retail rates without dragging negotiated corporate rates with them, a management company standardising revenue strategy across twenty properties with central oversight and local override, a resort evaluating a large group enquiry against the transient demand it would displace on the same dates. Of those, a casino resort pricing room nights against total guest worth including gaming spend rather than room revenue alone and a four hundred room city hotel wanting to raise transient retail rates without dragging negotiated corporate rates with them are not what Smoobu is typically brought in for.
What can Duetto do that Smoobu cannot?
Duetto covers Open pricing, Demand forecasting, Group and business evaluation, Guest value pricing. Smoobu covers Channel manager, Website builder, Guest messaging, Unified calendar.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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.

Smoobu: Which plan is actually cheaper, Flex or Prepaid?

Prepaid, for almost anyone with real occupancy. The 0.9% booking fee on Flex exceeds the subscription difference once annual revenue passes a few thousand euros.

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.

Smoobu: How many properties does the entry price cover?

One. Every additional unit adds roughly €9.60 per month.

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.

Smoobu: Does it include dynamic pricing?

Only two months free on the Teams tier. Ongoing dynamic pricing means subscribing to PriceLabs or similar.

Duetto: How long does implementation take?

Months rather than weeks, driven mostly by PMS data quality and rate code cleanup.

Smoobu: Is there a contract?

Billing is monthly, yearly or two-yearly, with 30 days notice required to cancel; longer terms buy 10% or 20% off.

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