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PriceLabs vs Stayntouch

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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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Stayntouch

Travel

Cloud property management system for independent hotels

From
On request
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.; Stayntouch quote-only pricing scaled by rooms, with no published rates
  • They diverge on capability: PriceLabs covers Dynamic nightly pricing, Stayntouch covers Mobile check-in.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which PriceLabs and Stayntouch actually diverge.

Attributes where PriceLabs and Stayntouch differ
AttributePriceLabsStayntouch
Starting price$19.99/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer listing per monthquote
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android, Cloud

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 Stayntouch

  • Mobile check-in
  • Guest self-service
  • Cloud PMS
  • Open API
  • Housekeeping
  • Payments

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 Stayntouch
  • An owner in a seasonal market wanting automatic last-minute discounting without watching the calendarnot Stayntouch
  • An operator filling orphan gaps that would otherwise sit empty between bookingsnot Stayntouch
  • A small hotel on Cloudbeds wanting rental-style demand pricing without a full revenue management systemnot Stayntouch

Stayntouch

  • Hotels wanting to check guests in away from a fixed desknot PriceLabs
  • Properties reducing lobby queuing at peak arrivalnot PriceLabs
  • Independents replacing an on-premise PMS with cloudnot 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.

Stayntouch

  • Quote-only pricing scaled by rooms, with no published rates
  • Mobile-first depends on property-wide wireless coverage that many older hotels do not have
  • A smaller vendor than the major PMS providers, with a narrower integration ecosystem
  • Strongest in North America, with less coverage elsewhere

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

Stayntouch

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Stayntouch review.

Which should you pick?

Choose PriceLabs if

  • You need dynamic nightly pricing.
  • You also want customisable profiles.
PriceLabs review

Choose Stayntouch if

  • You need mobile check-in.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android, Cloud.
  • You also want guest self-service.
Stayntouch review

Questions people ask

Is PriceLabs or Stayntouch better?
Neither clearly leads. PriceLabs starts at $19.99/month and Stayntouch at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, PriceLabs or Stayntouch?
PriceLabs starts at $19.99/month and Stayntouch at On request.
Does PriceLabs or Stayntouch run on more platforms?
PriceLabs runs on Web. Stayntouch runs on Web, iOS, Android, Cloud.
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 Stayntouch is typically brought in for.
What can PriceLabs do that Stayntouch cannot?
PriceLabs covers Dynamic nightly pricing, Customisable profiles, Minimum stay automation, Orphan gap handling. Stayntouch covers Mobile check-in, Guest self-service, Cloud PMS, Open API.

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.

Stayntouch: What does Stayntouch cost?

Quoted per property by room count; not published.

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.

Stayntouch: What does mobile-first actually change?

Check-in happens on a tablet anywhere in the property or on the guest's own phone, rather than at a fixed counter, which changes both queuing and front-desk staffing.

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.

Stayntouch: What does it need to work well?

Reliable property-wide wireless. A mobile-first PMS is only as good as the network it runs on.

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.

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