# Guesty review (2026): is it worth $9 a month?

> Property management software for short-term rental hosts and managers

Checked Oct 24, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Guesty is property management software for short-term rentals, from hosts with a few listings to companies with hundreds. It syncs rates, availability and bookings with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and other channels, puts guest messages from every channel in one inbox, and creates cleaning tasks after each checkout. Pro and Enterprise add owner statements, revenue management and more channels, and are priced by quote.

- **Category:** Vacation Rental Software
- **Made by:** Guesty, Inc.
- **Website:** https://www.guesty.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you add extras: LocksManager, damage protection and analytics cost more, and so do GuestyPay and trust accounting on Pro.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 24, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 24, 2026, Guesty is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $9 per listing / month, plus 1% per reservation (LiteOptimizer).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of Guesty Lite, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| LiteOptimizer | $9 per listing / month and up, plus 1% per reservation | Guesty Lite on a pay-as-you-grow basis, with the PriceOptimizer pricing tool included. For hosts with 1 to 3 listings. |
| Lite | $20 per listing / month and up, billed annually ($29 billed monthly) | Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com sync, multi-calendar, unified inbox and a booking website. The annual price is marked as a limited-time offer. |
| Pro | Custom | For 4 to 199 listings: 60+ channels, owners portal and statements, revenue management and 24/7 support. Priced by number of listings. |
| Enterprise | Custom | For 200+ listings: custom reporting and analytics, tailored onboarding and enterprise-grade security. |

Read from https://www.guesty.com/packages/guesty-lite/ on Oct 24, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Guesty before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save up to 50% with annual billing on Lite** (Annual discount): The Guesty Lite page marks annual billing as a limited-time offer saving up to 50% (crossed out from 30%): from $20 rather than $29 per listing a month. Source: https://www.guesty.com/packages/guesty-lite/
- **Guesty Ultimate bundle: 40% off premium add-ons** (Other savings): The pricing page offers a quoted bundle of premium features, including PriceOptimizer, LocksManager, advanced analytics and premium channels, at a stated 40% saving. Source: https://www.guesty.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Channel manager:** Syncs rates, availability and reservations with Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com in real time on every plan; Pro reaches 60+ channels, including Expedia and Google Vacation Rentals.
- **Unified inbox and ReplyAI:** Guest messages from every channel land in one inbox beside the reservation details, and ReplyAI drafts a reply for each one to review and send.
- **Multi-calendar:** One calendar shows bookings from all channels, color-coded by source, with cleaning schedules; reservations can be created and moved from it.
- **Automated tasks and messages:** Creates cleaning and maintenance tasks after each checkout and sends guests scheduled messages from booking confirmation to checkout.
- **Direct booking website:** A booking site built from templates, with rates and availability synced to the channels; Guesty takes no percentage fee on direct bookings.
- **Owners portal and open API:** Pro adds an owners portal with customizable owner statements. The open API has webhooks and allows up to 15 calls per second.

## Good for

- Property managers with dozens or hundreds of short-term rental listings
- Hosts with 1 to 3 listings who may grow into a management company
- Teams that answer guests from Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com in one inbox

## Worth knowing

- Only Guesty Lite has published prices; Pro and Enterprise are quoted by number of listings.
- Lite is for 1 to 3 listings and syncs with Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com only; the 60+ other channels need Pro.
- Many tools are paid add-ons: PriceOptimizer, LocksManager, damage protection, advanced analytics and, on Pro, GuestyPay and trust accounting.
- The pay-as-you-grow Lite plan adds 1% of each reservation to the per-listing fee.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Guesty syncs Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, puts guest messages in one inbox and sets cleaning tasks after each checkout. Lite covers 1 to 3 listings from $9 a listing plus 1% of every booking, and past that Pro and Enterprise are quote only. Lock control, damage protection and advanced analytics are paid add-ons, and PriceOptimizer is too unless you're on the 1% plan.

- **Value for money: C.** The 1% plan is $9 a listing a month plus 1% of each booking, so about $29 for a listing taking $2,000. The flat price is $20 billed yearly, under this category's $25.52 middle, or $29 monthly, above it. From 4 listings it's Pro, and that's quote only.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial of Guesty Lite with no card needed. There's no free plan, so after two weeks you're paying.
- **Features: B.** Channel sync, a multi-calendar, one inbox with drafted AI replies, cleaning tasks after checkout, a booking site and an open API, with owner statements and revenue management on Pro. That covers the whole job, spread across a quoted plan and paid add-ons.
- **Ease of use: C.** Guesty rates 4.2 on the US App Store from 566 ratings, which puts it at C on our ease ladder.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, an open API with webhooks, and 60+ channels on Pro, Expedia and Google Vacation Rentals among them. There's no desktop app, and Lite reaches only three channels.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Guesty's own pages on 24 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among vacation rental tools

- Guesty's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 5 of the 10 other vacation rental tools we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on features (B, above 2 of 10) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $9 a month, against a middle price of $22.76 for the category: 0 of the 7 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/vacation-rentals

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Guesty you would be making two-way connections to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $108 a year.

- You could make: Tasks and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Two-way connections to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo.
- You could not: One mailbox that several people work at once.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.2 out of 5 from 566 ratings in the United States, read Oct 24, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1344816619

## Works with

Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, Stripe

**Tags:** Channel manager, Shared inbox, AI features, Tasks, Reports, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Hostaway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostaway): Vacation rental PMS and channel manager for property managers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/guesty-vs-hostaway)
- [Hostfully](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostfully): Vacation rental property management software and digital guidebooks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/guesty-vs-hostfully)
- [OwnerRez](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ownerrez): Vacation rental software priced per property, channel manager included. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/guesty-vs-ownerrez)
- [Lodgify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lodgify): Vacation rental software with a direct booking website builder. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/guesty-vs-lodgify)
- [Uplisting](https://toolgpa.com/tools/uplisting): Short-term rental channel manager with flat or pay-per-booking plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/guesty-vs-uplisting)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 24, 2026:

- https://www.guesty.com
- https://www.guesty.com/pricing/
- https://www.guesty.com/packages/guesty-lite/
- https://www.guesty.com/packages/guesty-pro/
- https://www.guesty.com/features/property-management-mobile-app/
- https://www.guesty.com/features/api/
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guesty/id1344816619
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.guesty&gl=US&hl=en

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