Guesty Review (2026)$9/mo Plus 1% Per Reservation

Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 22 Sep 2026

Guesty Lite is $9/mo PER LISTING plus 1% per reservation in 34 named markets, for 1-3 listings; Pro covers 4-199 listings and Enterprise 200+, both quote-only. 14-day free trial of Lite, no credit card. NOTHING CHANGED in the geo table since 31 Aug 2026, value for value. READING NOTE: guesty.com/pricing shows no price at all in the served HTML -- the plan-price divs are empty and are filled in the browser from a geoPricing payload.

That payload: a 34-country group (US, GB, AU, NZ, CA, MX, BE, CR, HR, DK, HU, IS, IE, JP, PH, SI, ZA, SE, TH, AR, PE, CO, CY, MT, VI, KY, AT, DE, BR, GR, IL, IT, ES, FR) at $9 annual AND $9 monthly, note '+1% per reservation | Including PriceOptimizer'; group2 (SA, KR, CZ) $20/$29; group3 (SK, RO, BG) $18/$26; group4 (LV, LT, EE, TR, SV, GT, HN, NI, PA, BO, CL, EC, GY, PY, SR, UY, VE, ID, MY, KH, LA, VN, IN, BZ) $16/$23; group1 $24/$34 with an EMPTY country list, so no country is priced into it; fallback for every unlisted country $27 annual / $39 monthly, and that fallback is the only entry carrying a sale tag ('Save 30%!').

Plans change, so check the live price on their site before you buy.

Category context: Operations & Workflow. Across the 52 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is $27 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →

What the price did

We read Guesty’s own pricing page on a schedule and keep every reading, so this is our record of the page. It is not a forecast, and not someone else’s summary. A change appears here only after we confirmed the new price on the page itself.

Guesty’s pricing page, as we read it

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What Guesty does

Property management for short-term and vacation rentals: bookings, guest messaging, channel distribution and pricing in one dashboard.

What buyers report about Guesty

Hands-on: not tested by usReported by buyers: G2, GetApp and host-community reviews, read August 2026

Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Guesty ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.

When the paid plan is worth it

Guesty Lite is $9 a month per listing plus roughly 1% per reservation, and the per-listing part matters: three listings is $27 of base fee, not $9. Check which $9 you are reading, too, because the price is set by country. Their pricing page carries a geo-table putting the US, UK, Canada, Australia and about thirty other markets at $9 whether you pay monthly or yearly, four smaller country groups at $16 to $24 yearly, and everywhere else at $27 yearly or $39 monthly (read 2026-08-31).

In the $9 group there is no annual discount at all. The percentage still dominates. A listing turning over $3,000 a month costs about $39 all in, of which the base fee is under a quarter; at $8,000 it is roughly $89 and the $9 is a rounding error. What upgrading does not do is bundle the extras. On Pro, Trust Accounting, GuestyPay, fraud and chargeback management, guest screening and damage protection are all listed as add-ons, priced separately, so a quote naming only a tier is incomplete.

How to actually use Guesty

Model the percentage and the listing count together, because both multiply. Lite is $9 per listing per month plus about 1% per reservation, so three listings turning over $3,000 each is $27 in base fees and roughly $90 in commission. The percentage is where the money goes, and it scales with your good months. Check your country before you budget. The pricing page prices Lite by market: the US, UK, Canada and Australia sit at $9, while the fallback for unlisted countries is $27 a month billed yearly or $39 month-to-month.

Read the add-on column rather than the tier names. Trust Accounting, GuestyPay, fraud and chargeback handling and damage protection are add-ons on Pro, not inclusions. Use the 14-day Lite trial to test one thing: whether the onboarding effort is proportionate to your portfolio. This platform earns its keep at scale and is heavy for a single apartment.

The natural comparison is Hostaway / Hospitable / Lodgify: leaner, cheaper rivals.

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Frequently asked questions

I run three listings from the Netherlands. Is Guesty Lite $9 a month for me?

Probably not, and the pricing page will not tell you until it loads. Read 22 September 2026, guesty.com/pricing serves no price at all: the plan cards arrive empty and are filled in your browser from a country table in the page payload. That table names 34 markets that pay $9 a month per listing - among them the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Japan, South Africa, Ireland and Belgium - and prices everyone else in bands: Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Czechia at $20 billed yearly or $29 monthly; Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria at $18 or $26; a 24-country band including India, Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Chile and the Baltics at $16 or $23. Any country the table does not name falls to $27 billed yearly or $39 monthly. The Netherlands is not named. Neighbouring Belgium is, so the same three listings are about $27 a month one side of the border and about $81 the other. The '+1% per reservation' note in that payload is attached to the $9 group only, so what the percentage does outside it is not published. Load the page yourself before you budget, because the number you have been quoted elsewhere may be someone else's country.

The FAQ told me to pay annually to save. What does annual actually save?

In the 34 markets on the $9 list, nothing. Read 22 September 2026, the country table gives that group $9 annual and $9 monthly - the same number twice - while the FAQ three screens below it says the monthly plan is not discounted and recommends annual if you are looking to save. The saving is real only outside that group: $20 against $29, $18 against $26, $16 against $23, and $27 against $39 for unlisted countries, which is where the table's one sale tag, 'Save 30%!', sits. Two oddities in the same payload are worth knowing before a salesperson quotes from it. A band at $24 annual and $34 monthly has an empty country list, so nothing is priced into it. And the Lite package page advertises annual as 'Save up to 30% 50%' with the 30% struck through and a 'Limited time offer' flag, while the deepest gap between any annual and monthly pair on either page is $20 against $29, which is 31%.

Is the 1% per reservation optional?

On the package page it reads as a choice rather than a term. Read 22 September 2026, guesty.com/packages/guesty-lite/ sells the same Lite plan three ways and only one of them mentions a percentage: 'Pay as you grow' from $9 a month per listing, with 'Per listing + 1% per reservation' beneath it and PriceOptimizer included; 'Annual' from $20 a month per listing; 'Monthly' from $29 a month per listing. The cheap headline and the commission are the same decision. Run it on your own numbers: against the $20 card the percentage is the cheaper side until a listing turns over about $1,100 a month, and against the $29 card until about $2,000, which one well-booked apartment clears in season. The catch is that the two pages do not agree - those three cards are fixed text, while /pricing serves the country table where $9 and $27 are the annual figures - so before you sign, get in writing which of the two price sets your quote came from and whether the percentage rides along with it.

Can I answer guests from Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com in one place?

Guesty says so in general terms. Its homepage (guesty.com, read 31 October 2026) lists "A single unified inbox for all guest communication" among its tools, next to connections to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and 60+ booking channels. Which channels' messages actually flow into that inbox, and whether the inbox is part of Guesty Lite as well as the Pro contract, is not confirmed there, and the help centres refuse non-browser readers. Ask Guesty to confirm both for your plan before you commit.

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