# Autohost review (2026): is it worth paying for? > Guest ID verification and fraud screening for rentals and hotels Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Autohost is a guest verification platform for short-term rentals, hotels and other hospitality software. It checks government IDs with selfie or liveness matching, runs fraud, watchlist and background screening, and exposes it through an API, SDKs, a hosted portal and an MCP server. Its pricing page is written for platforms that embed the checks, with prices per verification. - **Category:** Vacation Rental Software - **Made by:** Autohost - **Website:** https://www.autohost.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: the pricing page is written for partners, and platform plans are sold through sales. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Autohost is a paid product with a free trial. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** $5 in free credit on the self-serve option, then pay as you go. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Self-serve & SDK | $0 | Free to start with $5 in credit, then pay as you go per check. No contract or minimums; this is the Checktiv self-serve product. | | Launch | Custom | For platforms starting with verification. Usage-based pricing plus a platform fee, sold through sales. | | Growth | Custom | For growing platforms. Usage-based pricing plus a platform fee, adds fraud detection pro, data verification and Screening AI. | | Scale (Enterprise) | Custom | For large platforms with high volume and custom needs. Volume discounts, a dedicated customer success manager, and custom or waived implementation fees. | Read from https://www.autohost.ai/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Autohost before buying. ## Key features - **ID verification:** Guests photograph a government ID, with options for selfie matching, liveness detection and forensic document checks. - **Fraud detection and Screening AI:** Device fingerprinting, email and phone validation and an AI screening agent assess the risk of each booking. - **Background and watchlist checks:** Higher tiers add sex offender registry, criminal background, eviction history, global watchlist and adverse media checks, with optional credit history. - **Touchless verification:** A lighter option that collects data from the booking source in the background, without asking the guest to do anything. - **API, SDKs and hosted portal:** Verification can be embedded with web and mobile SDKs, an iFrame guest portal or the API, and the docs list an MCP server. - **Network effect data:** Checks are weighed against Autohost's reputation and watchlist databases, and data feeds are offered as an extra. ## Good for - Property management software and platforms that want to embed guest screening - Operators who want to choose the screening depth per property - Teams that want an API or SDK rather than a manual check ## Worth knowing - Per-verification prices vary by volume: $0.12 to $0.65 for touchless or ID collection, $0.35 to $1.25 for ID verification, $2.15 to $7.25 for criminal screening. - The pricing page is written for partners and applies to SDK implementation; platform plans are sold through sales. - Self-serve checks, from its Checktiv product, are listed at $0.75 for ID, $1 for watchlist, $5 for a US criminal check and $20 for credit history. - Checks bill per use, so costs track the number of guests screened. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Autohost checks guest IDs, runs fraud and background screens and sells it through an API. You pay per check, and the platform plans are quoted through sales, so costs follow how many guests you screen. - **Value for money: C.** Per-use prices run $0.12 to $1.25 for ID steps and $2.15 to $7.25 for criminal checks by volume, with no monthly rate to compare against the category. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The self-serve route starts with $5 of free credit, then pay as you go. There is no free plan. - **Features: C.** ID verification, fraud screening, watchlist and background checks, touchless verification and an API. It does that one job fully, but it is a narrower job than a property system. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and the SDK or partner setup needs connecting. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web with an API, SDKs and a hosted portal, and links to Enso Connect, Breezeway and OwnerRez. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Autohost's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among vacation rental tools - Autohost's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 26 of the 53 other vacation rental tools we grade, and level with 9. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 4 of 53) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/vacation-rentals ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Autohost you could make: forms. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. - You could make: Forms: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Enso Connect, Breezeway and OwnerRez among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Enso Connect, Breezeway, OwnerRez **Tags:** Public API, AI features, Forms ## Alternatives - [Truvi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/superhog): Guest screening, damage protection and claims for rentals. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autohost-vs-superhog) - [Chekin](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chekin): Online guest check-in, ID checks and legal reporting for rentals. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autohost-vs-chekin) - [Hospitable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hospitable): Guest messaging, channel sync and operations for short-term rentals. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autohost-vs-hospitable) - [Enso Connect](https://toolgpa.com/tools/enso-connect): AI guest messaging, check-in and upsells for rentals and hotels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autohost-vs-enso-connect) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.autohost.ai/ - https://www.autohost.ai/pricing - https://checktiv.com/ - https://checktiv.com/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/autohost Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).