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PriceLabs vs Smoobu

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PriceLabs

Travel

Dynamic pricing and market data for vacation rentals and small hotels

From
$19.99/month
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: PriceLabs the market dashboard is a separate subscription from the pricing engine, so the widely quoted 19.99 figure is not what most serious users pay per listing.; 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: PriceLabs covers Dynamic nightly pricing, Smoobu covers Channel manager.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which PriceLabs and Smoobu actually diverge.

Attributes where PriceLabs and Smoobu differ
AttributePriceLabsSmoobu
Starting price$19.99/month€29/month
Pricing modelPer listing per monthPer 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 PriceLabs

  • Dynamic nightly pricing
  • Customisable profiles
  • Minimum stay automation
  • Orphan gap handling
  • Market dashboards
  • Neighbourhood data
  • Portfolio management
  • Direct channel and PMS sync

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.

PriceLabs

  • A manager encoding a single pricing policy across two hundred listings rather than tuning each onenot Smoobu
  • An owner in a seasonal market wanting automatic last-minute discounting without watching the calendarnot Smoobu
  • An operator filling orphan gaps that would otherwise sit empty between bookingsnot Smoobu
  • A small hotel on Cloudbeds wanting rental-style demand pricing without a full revenue management systemnot 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 PriceLabs
  • An owner wanting automated check-in instructions and pre-arrival messages sent per channel without logging into each extranetnot PriceLabs
  • A small manager who needs guest invoices that meet German documentation requirements without adding a separate accounting toolnot PriceLabs
  • A host testing dynamic pricing through the bundled trial before deciding whether to subscribe to PriceLabs separatelynot PriceLabs

Where each one falls short

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

PriceLabs

  • The market dashboard is a separate subscription from the pricing engine, so the widely quoted 19.99 figure is not what most serious users pay per listing.
  • The revenue share alternative at one per cent of bookings is a poor deal for high average daily rate properties, where it can cost several times the per-listing price.
  • Market data quality collapses in destinations with few tracked listings, which is precisely where an owner has the least pricing intuition of their own.
  • It will happily discount to zero margin if the base price and minimum are set carelessly, and the tool does not know your cost base, so an inattentive user can lose money faster than they would manually.
  • It prices but does not distribute or manage; you still need a PMS or channel manager underneath, and rate push failures between the two systems are a recurring support burden.

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

PriceLabs

$19.99/month
  • Dynamic Pricing$19.99/month
    • Per listing per month at low volume
    • Volume tiers fall toward about 5.99 per listing past 100 units
    • Rate, minimum stay and orphan gap automation
  • Market Dashboard$9.99/month
    • Charged separately from the pricing engine
    • Competitor rates, occupancy and forward demand
    • Per market subscribed
  • Portfolio$499/month
    • Flat monthly rate for larger portfolios, roughly 60 units and above
    • All pricing features included
    • Alternative to per-listing billing
  • Revenue share option$undefined/month
    • One per cent of booking revenue instead of a per-listing fee
    • Suits low-rate or low-occupancy listings
    • Becomes expensive on high average daily rates

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 PriceLabs if

  • You need dynamic nightly pricing.
  • You also want customisable profiles.
PriceLabs 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 PriceLabs or Smoobu better?
Neither clearly leads. PriceLabs starts at $19.99/month and Smoobu at €29/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, PriceLabs or Smoobu?
PriceLabs starts at $19.99/month and Smoobu at €29/month.
Does PriceLabs or Smoobu run on more platforms?
PriceLabs runs on Web. Smoobu runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is PriceLabs best used for?
PriceLabs is most often used for a manager encoding a single pricing policy across two hundred listings rather than tuning each one, an owner in a seasonal market wanting automatic last-minute discounting without watching the calendar, an operator filling orphan gaps that would otherwise sit empty between bookings, a small hotel on cloudbeds wanting rental-style demand pricing without a full revenue management system. Of those, a manager encoding a single pricing policy across two hundred listings rather than tuning each one and an owner in a seasonal market wanting automatic last-minute discounting without watching the calendar are not what Smoobu is typically brought in for.
What can PriceLabs do that Smoobu cannot?
PriceLabs covers Dynamic nightly pricing, Customisable profiles, Minimum stay automation, Orphan gap handling. Smoobu covers Channel manager, Website builder, Guest messaging, Unified calendar.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

PriceLabs: What does PriceLabs cost for ten listings?

Around 19.99 US dollars per listing per month at that volume for dynamic pricing, plus about 9.99 per market for the dashboard if you want the competitor data.

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.

PriceLabs: Should I take the one per cent revenue share instead?

Only if your average nightly rate and occupancy are low. On a listing earning 40,000 dollars a year the revenue share costs roughly 400 dollars against about 240 for the per-listing plan.

Smoobu: How many properties does the entry price cover?

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

PriceLabs: Does it work for hotels?

It connects to Cloudbeds and similar systems and is used by small properties, but it is built around rental demand signals rather than hotel segmentation and forecasting.

Smoobu: Does it include dynamic pricing?

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

PriceLabs: Can I override the algorithm?

Extensively. Base price, minimum and maximum, seasonal profiles and day-of-week adjustments are all directly editable and reusable across a portfolio.

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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