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Airbnb Smart Pricing vs Beyond Dynamic Pricing vs Hospitable Dynamic Pricing

Compare Airbnb Smart Pricing vs Beyond Dynamic Pricing vs Hospitable Dynamic Pricing for nightly pricing. Check the connection, what you can change by hand and which rules reach each booking site.

Overview

Airbnb Smart Pricing

Adjust nightly rates using demand for the listing and its area.

Best for: Set Airbnb prices and keep control of dates you choose.

Beyond Dynamic Pricing

Send dynamic nightly rates to connected booking sites or property management software.

Best for: Using rate changes and pricing controls with a supported connection.

Hospitable Dynamic Pricing

Use a base price and market changes to set rates within Hospitable.

Best for: Adding rate rules to a Hospitable setup.

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Airbnb Smart PricingDynamic pricing

Beyond Dynamic Pricing

4.4 / 5Out of 283 reviews

Dynamic pricing

Hospitable Dynamic Pricing

4.2 / 5Out of 1,200 reviews

Dynamic pricing

Score

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Properties

A listing limit for Smart Pricing is not confirmed.

We could not confirm a firm listing limit. Performance is for large managers, but that is not a hard cap.

Host has enforced 2 properties; Essentials, Professional, Mogul documented unlimited with billing conditions.

Overview

Smart Pricing adjusts nightly rates from listing and area demand.

Daily dynamic prices sync to connected channels or PMS.

Base price plus independent market adjustments; rates recommended up to 24 months ahead.

Plans and add-ons

Smart Pricing

Open Calendar, then Price settings to turn it on. The guide does not list a separate plan price.

Growth

The guide lists Growth at 1%, Pro at 1.25% and Performance at 2%. Negotiated contracts and Guidance can change the terms.

Pro

The guide lists Growth at 1%, Pro at 1.25% and Performance at 2%. Negotiated contracts and Guidance can change the terms.

Performance

The guide lists Growth at 1%, Pro at 1.25% and Performance at 2%. Negotiated contracts and Guidance can change the terms.

Host

Check the selected property count and billing period.

Mogul

Check the selected property count and billing period.

Professional

Check the selected property count and billing period.

Price and how you pay

Native Airbnb tool

Plan prices and conditions

Native Airbnb tool

Airbnb’s help does not clearly list a separate Smart Pricing fee. We could not confirm that fee or Airbnb booking fees.

We have not calculated a total for this selection.

1% Pay on BookBooking percentage

Plan prices and conditions

1% Pay on Book

Booking percentage

The monthly fee depends on eligible revenue. A bill in dollars needs actual revenue. Host cleaning fees and extra-guest fees count. Taxes and deposits generally do not, but payout exceptions apply. The contract can change these terms.

We have not calculated a total for this selection.

Growth: 1% eligible revenue

Booking percentage

Default Pay on Book terms; contracted exceptions.

We have not calculated a total for this selection.

Pro: 1.25% eligible revenue

Booking percentage

This rate comes from the plan help. We could not confirm whether Pro works with Pay on Stay.

We have not calculated a total for this selection.

Performance: 2% eligible revenue

Booking percentage

Price from the plan guide. Extra services and contract rules apply.

We have not calculated a total for this selection.

Pay on Stay: 1.49% eligible revenue

Booking percentage

Pay on Stay has a different monthly billing schedule. We could not confirm a combined Pro rate.

We have not calculated a total for this selection.

Essentials Dynamic Pricing: USD 15 per property/month

Plan prices and conditions

Prices and conditions
Plan or service	Price or limit
Selected price	Essentials Dynamic Pricing: USD 15 per property/month
Host	monthly total · USD 29
Professional	monthly total · USD 59
Mogul	monthly total · USD 99

Limits and requirements

A listing limit for Smart Pricing is not confirmed.
API access for Smart Pricing customers is not confirmed.
Prices change on their own. The guide does not say how often.

We could not confirm a firm listing limit. Performance is for large managers, but that is not a hard cap.
Personal access tokens need an active Beyond Pro trial or plan. They use the linked account’s permissions. Tokens stop working when Pro access ends.
Access The API has minimum-stay settings. Which fields it shares depends on the connection. The guides cover Guesty, Guesty for Hosts, Hospitable, Lodgify and OwnerRez, with different access rules.
Update timing Dynamic prices update daily. Sending times may depend on the connection.
Fees Pay on Book is the default at 1%. Pay on Stay is optional at 1.49%.
Fee basis The fee is based on nightly rates and host fees, such as cleaning. It usually excludes deposits and tax, but payout rules can change this.
Compatibility Whether Pro works with Pay on Stay is not confirmed.

Paid plans have public API and personal-token guides. These do not confirm a separate dynamic-pricing API or which accounts can use it.
Connection Dynamic Pricing is built into Hospitable. It is not a separate service to connect rental software.
Base plan Paid plans keep a base fee. They include Dynamic Pricing for their included properties.
Extra-property fee The extra fee is USD 10 a month per property. It applies to a property with Dynamic Pricing but no check-in. You pay it only above your plan’s included count of active properties.
Essentials Dynamic Pricing costs USD 15 per property each month after its separate trial. Mogul includes three active properties. With monthly billing, each extra active property on Mogul costs USD 30 a month. Check your plan and total at checkout.

Review sources

CapterraRating 4.4 / 5 · 97 reviews

GetAppRating 4.4 / 5 · 97 reviews

G2Rating 4.7 / 5 · 155 reviews

TrustpilotTrustScore 3.2 / 5 · 31 reviews

GetAppRating 4.7 / 5 · 144 reviews

G2Rating 4.8 / 5 · 272 reviews

TrustpilotTrustScore 3.9 / 5 · 674 reviews

GoogleRating 3.7 / 5 · 110 reviews

01 / Pricing controls

Automated nightly rates

How the tool sets prices and sends them to your listings.

Available

Nightly prices within Airbnb

Smart Pricing changes nightly prices. It uses demand for your listing and the local area.

Available

Automatic daily prices

Prices go out each day to your linked booking sites or rental software.

Available

Built-in nightly prices

Hospitable changes your base price using market data. It suggests prices up to 24 months ahead.

Lowest and highest prices

Set limits on prices changed by the tool.

Available

Set lowest and highest prices

You set the lowest and highest prices. Discounts can make the guest’s price lower than your minimum.

Available

Base, lowest and highest prices

The API lists a base price and limits for the lowest and highest price.

With conditions

Lowest and highest price settings

Prices start within the limits you set. Later discounts, offers or price increases can take the guest’s final price outside them.

Seasonality and events

Change prices for seasons or events.

Prices respond to demand. We could not confirm custom rules for seasons or events.

Available

Season and low-demand event tools

Growth has tools for seasonal trends and events with low demand. Their names are Seasonal Pacing and Low Demand Event Detection.

Available

Seasons and local demand

Prices change with local events and the time of year. The day of the week, demand and rules also matter.

Occupancy adjustments

Does the number of booked nights change future prices?

We could not confirm a price rule you can set based on how full your calendar is.

Available

Availability Yielding

Growth includes Availability Yielding for pricing. You can also change prices yourself with Dynamic Overrides.

With conditions

Uses local booking patterns

Prices use local booking patterns. We could not confirm a custom rule based on how full your calendar is.

Last-minute adjustments

Price rules for stays starting soon.

With conditions

Airbnb discounts

Early-bird and other discounts work with Smart Pricing. We could not confirm a custom automatic last-minute price rule.

Available

Last-minute discounts

Growth has a last-minute discount tool called Dynamic Time Based Adjustments.

Available

Discounts as check-in gets closer

Unbooked dates within a month can get larger discounts as check-in nears.

Gap-night controls

Rules for short empty gaps between stays.

Not confirmed

Available

Prices for gaps between bookings

Growth and the API list Gap Price Adjustments.

With conditions

Prices and stay rules for gaps

Details: Host, Professional, Mogul; Essentials stay-rule scope needs checking

Change prices for gaps between bookings. You can also allow shorter stays in those gaps.

Automatic changes to minimum stays

How the tool changes the shortest stay guests can book.

Smart Pricing sets nightly prices. Separate stay rules do not prove it can change the shortest stays for you.

With conditions

Minimum-stay rules

You can set minimum-stay rules. Which rules reach the booking site depends on the connection.

With conditions

Automatic minimum-stay rules

Plan: Host, Professional, Mogul

Host, Professional and Mogul have Dynamic Minimum Night Stays. This changes the shortest stay guests can book. Legal rules and your own date edits come first.

Changes made by hand

Choose when the tool should follow a different rule.

Available

Set prices for chosen dates

Your own nightly prices replace Smart Pricing on chosen dates. Smart Pricing can stay on for other dates.

Available

Price changes you can control

Growth has Dynamic Overrides and controls to change prices.

Available

Set prices in the calendar

Your own date prices can replace the tool’s prices. Turning the tool off brings back the earlier prices.

02 / Connections and analytics

Booking channels

Direct booking-site links and what they share.

With conditions

Airbnb calendar

This is an Airbnb tool. We could not confirm separate updates to Vrbo or Booking.com.

With conditions

Airbnb and Vrbo; property-software links

Beyond lists direct links to Airbnb and Vrbo. It also lists links to rental software.

With conditions

Through Hospitable connections

Prices go through Hospitable’s booking-site links. The site’s limits and discounts still apply.

PMS connections

Rental software that connects and what else you need.

Not confirmed

With conditions

Setup guides for each software link

Guides cover Guesty, Guesty for Hosts, Hospitable, Lodgify and OwnerRez. Check what your link needs to work.

Available

Built into Hospitable

This is built into Hospitable. It is not a separate link to other rental software.

How often updates run

How often updates run and which way details move.

Prices change on their own. The guide does not say how often.

Available

Daily

Prices change each day. The time they are sent may depend on your link.

Available

Every 24 hours; setup changes sent at once

The first prices and setup changes go out at once. Prices then update on booking sites every 24 hours.

Market data

Market information hosts can see.

Available

Demand for your listing and area

Smart Pricing uses hundreds of facts about listings and the local area. You cannot download these as a separate data product.

With conditions

Past market data; Pro adds comparisons

Details: Growth; Pro for advanced comp sets

Growth includes past market data. Pro adds Advanced Competitive Sets and search data.

With conditions

Local demand and property details

Prices use facts about the home, similar listings, demand and when guests book. We could not confirm a screen showing nearby rivals’ data.

Revenue reporting

Reports and ways to compare results.

Not confirmed

With conditions

Reports; Pro adds owner reports

Plan: Growth; Pro

Growth offers reports you can download. Pro adds Owner Reporting.

We could not confirm price-results reports beyond the calendar.

API access

Check whether you can use the API and what you need.

Not confirmed

With conditions

API; Pro access required for personal tokens

Details: Beyond Pro trial or plan

Personal access tokens need an active Beyond Pro trial or plan. They use the linked account’s permissions. Tokens stop working when Pro access ends.

Hospitable has an API. We do not know if it lets you use the pricing tool.

03 / Eligibility and costs

Property limits

Check the actual limit, not just the advertised size.

A listing limit for Smart Pricing is not confirmed.

We could not confirm a firm listing limit. Performance is for large managers, but that is not a hard cap.

We could not confirm a firm listing limit. Performance is for large managers, but that is not a hard cap.

Available

Host: 2 properties; other listed plans: unlimited

Host has enforced 2 properties; Essentials, Professional, Mogul documented unlimited with billing conditions.

Essentials, Professional and Mogul list unlimited properties, with billing rules. Host supports up to two properties.

Plans and add-ons

Plans and other paid tools you need.

Available

Turn it on in Airbnb’s calendar

Open Calendar, then Price settings to turn it on. The guide does not list a separate plan price.

Available

Growth, Pro and Performance

The guide lists Growth at 1%, Pro at 1.25% and Performance at 2%. Negotiated contracts and Guidance can change the terms.

With conditions

Essentials add-on; included use on paid plans

Essentials: $15 per property each month after the Dynamic Pricing trial.
Trial: Starts when you turn it on. Ends after 3 bookings or 30 days, whichever comes first, across the whole account. Canceled bookings count. Turning it off does not restart it.
Paid plans: Dynamic Pricing is included within the plan’s included property count.
Legacy: Price previews only.

Plan: Essentials / Host / Professional / Mogul

Additional fees

Booking percentages, taxes or optional charges.

We could not confirm a separate Smart Pricing price. Airbnb’s booking service fees are different charges.

With conditions

Fees based on booking income

Default Pay on Book costs 1%. Optional Pay on Stay costs 1.49%. The fee applies to nightly prices and host fees, such as cleaning. Deposits and tax are usually excluded, with some payout exceptions. Ask if Pro can be combined with Pay on Stay.

With conditions

Base plan fees and extra-property charges

Essentials: After the trial, each property with Dynamic Pricing on at any time in the billing cycle costs $15 for that month.
Paid plans: The base fee is still due with no active properties. Extra Dynamic Pricing fees apply only if it was on during the cycle and the active-property count is above the plan’s included count.
Extra properties: With a check-in, the normal extra-property fee includes Dynamic Pricing. With Dynamic Pricing but no check-in, an extra property costs $10 for the month.

Plan: Essentials / Host / Professional / Mogul

Monthly base fees: Host $29, Professional $59 and Mogul $99. They include 1, 2 and 3 properties, respectively.
Extra active properties cost $10 on Host, $15 on Professional and $30 on Mogul. Host allows up to 2 properties.

Trial and cancellation

Trial terms and cancellation rules.

We could not confirm a separate Smart Pricing trial. Turning it on or off for a listing is not a trial offer.

With conditions

Credit for getting started

New accounts get setup credit. Contract customers have separate rules for who qualifies. Check terms for credits when bookings cancel or you leave. Without a contract, remove or turn off all listings to end service. You still owe fees already charged. The final Pay on Stay bill includes future stays booked earlier. Those fees are not refunded if the stays later cancel.

Available

Essentials: first 3 bookings or 30 days

The account’s pricing trial starts when you first turn it on. It keeps running if you turn pricing off. Confirmed bookings count even if later cancelled.

Compare tools that set nightly prices — Airbnb Smart Pricing vs Beyond Dynamic Pricing vs Hospitable Dynamic Pricing

Start with the software that sends prices to your booking sites. Check the supported connection and the rules it can pass through. Then review minimum stays, manual changes and fees. Keep one clear source for your rates so two tools do not work against each other.

Airbnb Smart Pricing: what to consider

Set custom nightly prices when you want to choose a rate yourself. This leaves Smart Pricing on for other dates. The exact update schedule and a public API for custom links were not confirmed. Read the Airbnb Smart Pricing profile for its plans and requirements.

Beyond Dynamic Pricing: what to consider

Check which price and minimum-stay rules your link supports. Growth has Dynamic Overrides and pricing controls. Check how fees are charged. Some published plan combinations remain unclear. Read the Beyond Dynamic Pricing profile for its plans and requirements.

Hospitable Dynamic Pricing: what to consider

This tool is built into Hospitable. It is not a separate link for any property system. Check fees for inactive properties. Published prices conflict, so confirm the charge before turning it on. Read the Hospitable Dynamic Pricing profile for its plans and requirements.

Explore all dynamic pricing options, how pricing tools connect to your booking software, when to set rates by hand to continue your shortlist.

Common questions

What should I check before syncing one of these tools?

Confirm the exact connection and which fields it changes. Decide which existing pricing rules or tools to turn off, then inspect a few dates on the booking channel after the first sync. Seeing suggested rates in a dashboard does not prove they are live.

How should I test price limits in Airbnb Smart Pricing, Beyond Dynamic Pricing and Hospitable Dynamic Pricing?

Check a normal date, a holiday and a short gap between stays. Look at discounts and minimum stays, not just the nightly rate. A suggested price does not show whether a guest can book those dates or what the price is after discounts.

Can a guest pay below my Airbnb Smart Pricing minimum?

Yes. Airbnb says discounts can take the guest’s nightly price below your Smart Pricing minimum. Check the price after weekly, monthly and other discounts. The minimum you set is not a floor on every offer.

Does Beyond’s dynamic gap pricing remove minimum-stay rules?

No. Beyond’s guide says dynamic gap pricing still follows minimum-stay rules. While this mode is on, it does not use your manual gap-price rules. It is only offered in some markets. Check that your account and market support it before you rely on it.

What happens to manual stays when I enable Hospitable Dynamic Minimum Night Stays?

The first time you turn it on, it replaces old manual minimum stays with the previewed rules. Later manual edits win for those dates. Check the preview first. This feature needs Dynamic Pricing and a Host, Professional or Mogul plan.

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