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Hospitable review 2026: an honest review from a UK host
We run our three holiday lodges, in and around the Lake District, on Hospitable, across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and our own website. Its inbox, automation and channel connections do the day-to-day work well, and its dynamic pricing is included on the paid plans. One thing to know first: PeakRate, the pricing tool we built, works with Hospitable. So every limit below is one Hospitable states itself.
The short answer
- you sell on two or more of Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and your own site
- you want one inbox and messages that send themselves
- you'd like a direct booking website without building one (Professional and up)
- you have one Airbnb listing and Airbnb's own app does the job
- you rely on Booking.com rate plans, or discounts you manage on Airbnb or Vrbo (see the limits)
- you want to choose the exact listings your prices are compared with
Hospitable at a glance
| Plan (UK prices) | Monthly | Paid yearly | Properties | Adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | Free | Free | Unlimited | Unified inbox, some automated messaging, Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda sync. Dynamic pricing has a per-property fee after a trial. Support is AI chat and the community only |
| Host | £25 | £22.00 | 1 included, 2 at most; £9 for the 2nd | Dynamic pricing, message AI assistant, metrics dashboard |
| Professional | £49 | £43.12 | 2 included; £12 each after that | Direct booking website, smart lock and thermostat automations, guest payment collection |
| Mogul | £79 | £69.52 | 3 included; £25 each after that | Owner portal, payouts and statements, accounting, Inbox AI |
Source: hospitable.com/pricing, read from the UK on 17 October 2026. Prices exclude VAT where applicable. Yearly billing is 12% off. Every plan has a 14-day free trial with no card. Direct bookings carry their own fees (below).
What Hospitable costs a UK host
Hospitable shows UK visitors prices in pounds. Essentials is free; Host is £25 a month, Professional £49 and Mogul £79, all excluding VAT. Pay yearly and they're 12% less: £22.00, £43.12 and £69.52 a month.
Host stops at two properties, so with three you're on Professional or Mogul. Hospitable's own calculator, set to three properties, gives Professional at £61 a month (£49 plus £12 for the third) or £53.68 a month paid yearly, and Mogul at £79 (£69.52 yearly).
What counts as a property: Hospitable bills an "active" property, one that had a check-in, or had dynamic pricing switched on, during the billing cycle. Muted properties aren't billed, and the same home listed on several sites counts once when the listings are merged.
Direct bookings have their own fees. UK hosts are set up on Direct Premium, where the default is a 4% service fee paid by the guest and a 3% fee taken from you, or you can choose a 7% host-only fee so guests see no service fee. Direct Basic is a 1% host fee plus Stripe's card fees.
What Hospitable does well
One inbox
Messages from Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and direct bookings land in one inbox, with filters for unread, awaiting reply and awaiting a review reply. With three lodges on four channels, that's one place to check instead of four apps.
Automation
Messaging rules send set messages for you when something happens, such as a new inquiry, a request to book or a new reservation, and at set times around a stay. Task management schedules and tracks cleaning and maintenance in the same place.
Channels
It connects directly to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda on every plan, with other sites by iCal. On its own channel page, Hospitable describes itself as an Airbnb Preferred Plus partner and a Booking.com Premier Plus connectivity provider.
One price, a markup per channel
You set one base price and a percentage markup for each channel, which Hospitable says is "so you earn the same amount across channels after platform fees". On our Sahara lodge that's +5% on Airbnb, +20% on Booking.com and −2% on our own site.
A direct booking website
Professional and Mogul include a direct booking website, or widgets for a site you host yourself, as ours is. Direct Premium, available in the UK, adds card payments with chargeback protection, guest vetting and up to US$5 million of damage protection, according to Hospitable.
Dynamic pricing, included
Dynamic pricing is included on Host, Professional and Mogul for the properties your plan covers. Prices update every 24 hours and go to every connected channel, with your markups on top. You can preview it before you switch it on, and switching it off restores your previous prices.
Our experience with its dynamic pricing
We haven't switched Hospitable's dynamic pricing on; we previewed it on 17 October 2026. Its first suggestions for November were well below our prices: The Debonair's £133 on 1 November became £100, and our other two lodges showed similar gaps. After Hospitable tuned The Sahara to our booking history, with a minimum price set, its suggestions came much closer, for example £127 against £120 on 3 November. So preview it, and check the result, before you trust it.
Hospitable's own sidebar in the preview says dynamic pricing "can boost revenue by over 20%". That's Hospitable's claim, not something we've measured.
Where it falls short, in Hospitable's own words
- Booking.com rate plans. "Hospitable can only sync directly with one rate plan per Booking.com listing." Other rate plans have to follow it as child plans.
- Some Booking.com settings stay on Booking.com. Pet fees and custom house-rule text are set in Booking.com's extranet, and Booking.com writes its own listing descriptions.
- Airbnb discounts. "Hospitable does not manage Airbnb discounts." Weekly, monthly and rule-set discounts stay in Airbnb.
- Vrbo discounts are reset. "Existing discounts configured directly in Vrbo are removed when a listing is connected to the Vrbo Partner integration." You set them again in Hospitable, and Vrbo discounts there are percentage-only.
- Dynamic pricing has conditions. Your property must be "in a market currently supported", set-up is desktop only, and it chooses comparable listings "for you in the background", so you can't pick them. Discounts and promotions on the booking sites can take the guest's price below your minimum.
- Support on the free plan. Essentials gets AI chat and the community only.
Who Hospitable suits
This is our judgement, not Hospitable's.
- One or two properties on more than one booking site: Host covers the inbox, the automation and the pricing.
- Three or more properties, or you want your own booking website: Professional.
- Managing homes for other owners: Mogul, for owner statements, payouts and the owner portal.
- One Airbnb listing and Airbnb's own app works for you: you may not need it at all.
Our verdict: for a host on several channels, it does the day-to-day work well, for a fair price. Just check its prices against the listings guests actually compare you with. If you want to go deeper on pricing, see Hospitable's dynamic pricing vs PriceLabs and Airbnb's dynamic pricing vs PriceLabs vs Hospitable.
Questions hosts ask
Is Hospitable worth it for UK hosts?
If you sell on more than one channel, it does the day-to-day work well: one inbox, automated messages, direct connections to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda, a direct booking site on Professional and up, and dynamic pricing included on the paid plans. With one Airbnb listing, Airbnb’s own app may be enough. That’s our judgement as hosts who run three lodges on it.
How much does Hospitable cost in the UK?
On 17 October 2026 Hospitable showed UK prices of Free (Essentials), £25 a month (Host), £49 (Professional) and £79 (Mogul), excluding VAT, or 12% less paid yearly (£22.00, £43.12, £69.52). For three properties, its calculator gives Professional at £61 a month (£53.68 yearly) or Mogul at £79.
Does Hospitable include dynamic pricing?
Yes, on Host, Professional and Mogul, for the properties your plan covers. On the free Essentials plan it has a per-property fee after a trial of 30 days or 3 bookings, whichever comes first. It only works in markets Hospitable supports.
What are Hospitable’s direct booking fees?
On Direct Premium, which UK hosts are set up on, the default is a 4% guest service fee plus a 3% host fee, or a 7% host-only fee instead. Direct Basic is a 1% host fee plus Stripe’s card fees. The direct booking website is part of Professional and Mogul.
Can I use another pricing tool with Hospitable?
Yes. Hospitable says you can run its dynamic pricing on some properties and another tool on others. PeakRate works with Hospitable and sends the prices you approve through it to your connected channels.
Where PeakRate fits
PeakRate works with Hospitable. If you’d rather choose the listings your prices are compared with, here’s what we built for our own lodges.
We run holiday lets in the North West and used PriceLabs on our own lodges. What we wanted was simple: to see our price against the specific listings our guests actually compare us with, night by night, and know what to change. So we built PeakRate to do that.
- You choose your competitors, included. Accept the ones PeakRate finds, add any listing by its link, or remove one. No paid upgrade needed.
- Every competitor, every night. Their price, when they're booked, and who just cut or raised, next to a suggested price for you.
- Built for UK hosts. Priced in pounds, with UK school and bank holidays, and Airbnb's UK fee.
- Nothing changes until you approve it. PeakRate connects directly to your property management system and sends the prices you approve. Today that's Hospitable; more are coming soon. See the latest integrations.
- Simple pricing. Solo is £19 a month for one property, Host £49 for up to 3, Pro £129 for up to 10, Portfolio £279 for 25. 30-day free trial, no card.
- A free listing audit that compares your Airbnb listing with similar ones nearby, even if you're not on Hospitable.
More comparisons
- PriceLabs vs Beyond
- PriceLabs vs Wheelhouse
- Beyond vs Wheelhouse
- PriceLabs vs AirDNA
- PriceLabs vs Guesty PriceOptimizer
- PriceLabs vs Airbnb Smart Pricing
- Hospitable Dynamic Pricing vs PriceLabs
- Airbnb Dynamic Pricing vs PriceLabs vs Hospitable
- Airbnb’s suggested prices vs PriceLabs: a real test
- PriceLabs pricing for UK hosts
- PriceLabs review (2026)
- PriceLabs alternatives
- Beyond alternatives
- Wheelhouse alternatives
Sources
- Hospitable pricing, read from the UK in GBP, monthly and annual, with the property calculator set to 1 and 3: hospitable.com/pricing (read 17 October 2026)
- Hospitable help centre, "Dynamic Pricing Overview & Setup Guide" and "Dynamic Pricing FAQs": help.hospitable.com (read 17 October 2026)
- Hospitable help centre, "Hospitable Pricing & Subscription Costs" (dated 16 September 2026) and "Dynamic Pricing for the Essentials Plan" (read 17 October 2026)
- Hospitable help centre, "Direct Booking Service Fees" and "Getting Started with Direct" (read 17 October 2026)
- Hospitable help centre, "Listing Management: Per-Channel Push Behavior and Limitations", "Troubleshooting Booking.com Connection Issues" and "Vrbo Partner Connection: Discounts and Promotions" (read 17 October 2026)
- Our own Hospitable account (inbox, messaging rules, channel connections, pricing and markups, direct bookings, dynamic pricing preview), captured 17 October 2026 with guest details blurred
Hospitable, Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda are trademarks of their owners. This is an independent comparison by PeakRate, which makes a competing product; we've stuck to what each company publishes about itself.