Looking for a Hostaway alternative?
Vortex PMS supports vacation rentals, villas, hotels, condo-hotels, and multi-property groups. Compare the channel connections, owner-statement workflows, and total price that apply to your setup against Hostaway's written offer.
Compare Hostaway's written price for your listings, services, and contract term with Vortex PMS's published property-and-room subscription and included workflows.
How much you'd save
Adjust to your property size. Side-by-side monthly cost.
What Hostaway does well — and where Vortex PMS wins
Owner statements, automated.
Vortex PMS attributes booking revenue to units and generates owner statements with recorded channel fees and management fees, available as PDF and CSV.
Drag to recalculate owner splits instantly
Vortex PMS vs Hostaway
Feature-by-feature. We don't hide what the competition does well — balanced comparisons rank better on Google and earn more trust.
| Feature | Vortex PMS | Hostaway |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $12/property + $3/room, 0% of bookings | Varies — see pricing source |
| % of revenue taken | 0% | Varies |
| Channel manager | Included on paid plans; 300+ channels, connection coverage varies | Plan and connection dependent |
| Direct booking website | Included on paid plans | Plan and add-on dependent |
| Payment processing | Stripe supported; processor fees apply | Provider and plan dependent |
| Digital check-in + ID capture | Included | Availability varies |
| Per-unit owner statements | Included | Availability varies |
| Multi-property, one account | Supported | Plan dependent |
| Audit log + CSV export | Available | Verify for your plan |
| Staff AI assistant | Included | Availability varies |
| Per-listing pricing model | No | Yes |
| Public pricing | $12/property + $3/room per month | Lite prices listed; Pro/Enterprise quote-based |
| Native owner statements | Yes | Owners Portal listed on Pro and Enterprise; confirm statement workflow |
Hostaway information is based on public pricing pages and operator reviews as of 2026. Plans, prices, and features change — verify the latest on the vendor's site before deciding.
Channel manager included.
Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Agoda, Vrbo and 300+ channels. Availability and rate updates typically reach a channel in under five minutes; booking webhooks usually arrive in about two minutes, or channels without webhooks are checked every 15 minutes. OTA display timing can vary.
Setup is free, migration is on us — and a human does it with you.
There is no setup fee, no implementation package and no paid training tier. More than that: we set the property up with you — email or WhatsApp coordination while we build out your rooms, rates, policies and channel connections, rather than handing you a help centre and wishing you luck. No call is required.
This isn’t a stripped-back version of onboarding — it’s the opposite. Our team checks your whole setup so your first booking goes out right: rooms mapped, rates correct, channels connected, nothing half-configured. You go live confident, not alone with a help centre. We give every host this personal setup today, and the AI-guided setup already in the app takes on more of it as we grow — so it stays this fast for everyone.
To be clear about what happens when: start your free month and the hands-on setup runs straight away — we move your real property across and connect Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia and Agoda to live inventory first, at no charge. Your 30 free days start the day that work is done and you are taking bookings, and we only ask for a card five days before they run out. If you take the explore trial instead, it runs on a pre-loaded sample property, so there is nothing to migrate and nothing to connect until you subscribe.
Hostaway doesn't publish what onboarding costs.
Hostaway's pricing page is a quote request form with no figures, and HotelTechReport notes Hostaway has opted not to share general pricing. No onboarding fee is disclosed either way.
Source: Hostaway pricing · retrieved 2026-07-21. Vendors change pricing — check the source before relying on it.
Switching from Hostaway
Hostaway (HQ Helsinki + Boston) is a vacation-rental-focused PMS, ~25,000 listings under management. Strong in messaging automation; per-listing pricing is the dominant complaint at higher unit counts.
Make the switch from Hostaway.
First month free. Migration is on us.
No card to start. We move you across ourselves at no charge, and your free month begins once your channels are connected and you are taking bookings — 30 days with the whole product, channel manager and booking engine included. We email you five days before it ends: add a card to carry on, or do nothing and you have paid nothing. 20-minute AI-guided setup. Monthly plans can be cancelled before any renewal. The annual plan is discounted because it is a 12-month commitment. Free month = your real bookings · explore trial and demo = sample data.
Migration is on us. We set up your property, reconnect your channels, and move your bookings and rates for you — no downtime.