OwnerRez vs Hospitable for direct booking websites

OwnerRez vs Hospitable comes down to how you want to pay and how much you want handled for you. OwnerRez charges a flat monthly price by property and takes nothing from a booking. Hospitable charges a monthly price plus a percentage of each direct booking, and on its Premium option it handles payments and protection.

I build custom websites on both. The first site I built runs on OwnerRez and the second on Hospitable, so I have no reason to push you toward either. Every figure is from each company’s own pages, read on November 10, 2026.

OwnerRez vs Hospitable at a glance

What you are comparing	OwnerRez	Hospitable
How it is priced	By number of properties, with premium features added on	By plan, with properties added on
One property	$40 a month	$59 a month on Professional, which includes two
Five properties	$88 a month	$104 a month on Professional
Fee on a direct booking	None	Direct Basic 1%. Direct Premium 7% in total
Card processing	Your own processor, at its rates	Your own Stripe on Basic. Included on Premium
Hosted website	A premium feature, from $15 a month	Included with Direct
Booking on your own website	Widgets, a WordPress plugin or its API	Property widgets and a search widget
Guest vetting and damage protection	Damage protection is a separate paid option	Included on Direct Premium
Contract	None, with a 14-day free trial	Monthly or annual. Annual saves 12%

The Hospitable column uses the Professional plan because it is the first one with direct bookings. Its Host plan is $29 a month and does not include them.

What each one costs a month

OwnerRez

OwnerRez uses a sliding scale. The first property is $40 a month. The second and third are $15 each, the fourth is $10, and properties five to nine are $8 each. That makes five properties $88 a month.

Premium features are billed on top, each on its own scale. Hosted Websites is $15 a month for the first property, $5 for the second and $3 each for three to nine. The WordPress plugin and integrated websites feature is $10, then $5, then $3 each.

So five properties with a hosted website come to $117 a month. Five properties with the integrated websites feature come to $112.

Hospitable

Hospitable’s Professional plan is $59 a month and includes two properties. Each further property is $15. Five properties come to $104 a month.

Mogul is $99 a month with three properties included and $30 for each one after that. Five properties come to $159 a month.

Hospitable counts active properties, which changes the bill in a quiet season. Its help center explains how that count works.

What each one takes from a booking

OwnerRez’s pricing page puts it in one line: “No commissions, no guest fees, or per-booking fees.” You still pay card processing, to a processor you choose.

Hospitable’s direct booking feature is called Direct, and it comes in two versions.

Version	Fee	What it covers
Direct Basic	1% host fee	Use of the booking flow. Stripe’s fees are separate, and chargebacks are yours
Direct Premium	4% from the guest and 3% from the host, or 7% from the host alone	Payment processing, guest vetting, chargeback protection and $5M damage protection

Premium is listed for properties in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

A worked year: five properties, 60 direct bookings

Percentages are hard to compare with subscriptions, so here is one example. Assume five properties and 60 direct bookings in a year at $1,000 each, or $60,000. Where you pay for card processing yourself, I have used Stripe’s standard US rate of 2.9% plus 30 cents.

Setup	Subscription for the year	Fees on the bookings	Total for the year
OwnerRez with integrated websites	$1,344	$1,758 in card fees	$3,102
Hospitable Professional, Direct Basic	$1,248	$600 to Hospitable and $1,758 in card fees	$3,606
Hospitable Professional, Direct Premium, host-only	$1,248	$4,200 to Hospitable, processing included	$5,448
Hospitable Professional, Direct Premium, split with guests	$1,248	$1,800 from you. Guests pay $2,400 on top	$3,048 from you

This is arithmetic on published rates, not a quote. Each company applies its fee to a slightly different base. Your own processor may charge less than Stripe’s standard rate.

The pattern holds at most sizes. OwnerRez is the lower-cost route if you handle risk yourself. Hospitable’s Premium costs more and takes vetting, chargebacks and damage claims off your desk.

To set these against what a listing platform takes, use the Host Fee Calculator.

Payments and who carries the risk

This is the real difference between the two.

OwnerRez says plainly that it is not a card processor. It connects to a dozen or more, and recommends Stripe and Lynnbrook Group for clients in the United States. You are the merchant, the money goes to your account and disputes are yours.

Hospitable’s Direct Basic works the same way through your own Stripe account. Direct Premium does not. Hospitable becomes the merchant of record, processes the payment and deals with chargebacks.

OwnerRez sells damage protection as a separate paid option, from $13 per booking for $500 of accidental damage cover. It also connects to outside insurers. The guide to the vacation rental security deposit sets the options side by side, and Waivo vs Safely compares two of them.

Websites: what you get from each

OwnerRez gives you three routes. A hosted website is served from OwnerRez on your own domain. The WordPress plugin connects a WordPress site to your account. An integrated website is any other site of your own, connected with widgets or its API.

Hospitable gives you two. A hosted site built with its site builder, or your own website with its widgets embedded.

In both systems the hosted site is the quick option, and the widget route is what a custom build uses. The pages on a custom OwnerRez website and a custom Hospitable website go through each in detail.

Channels and calendars

Both keep one calendar across your listings, which is what stops a direct booking and a platform booking landing on the same night.

Hospitable’s pricing page names Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda. OwnerRez says it connects to the major channels directly, and channel management is part of its base price, not a premium feature.

If you list on a smaller site, ask each company whether it has a full connection to it or only a calendar link.

Who each one suits

• You want the lowest running cost and no percentage on your bookings: OwnerRez.
• You want payments, screening and damage cover handled by the software: Hospitable with Direct Premium.
• You manage homes for other owners and need statements: OwnerRez lists property management as a premium feature. Check what Hospitable offers at your plan.
• You have one property and want to start small: OwnerRez at $40 a month is the lower entry price for direct bookings.
• You already run one of them happily: stay. The cost of switching is larger than the gap between them.

If Lodgify is also on your list, see Lodgify vs Hospitable. If you manage homes for other owners, the property management marketing page covers how the site wins them.

Where a custom site fits

Both systems are good at taking a booking. Neither is built to bring you a guest who has never heard of you.

That is the job of the site around the booking steps: the design, the area pages and how it ranks. I build that site on whichever system you run. The booking software integrations page explains how the two halves connect.

If you are still deciding what software to run at all, the guide to the direct booking engine sets out what to ask.

Final Thought

OwnerRez vs Hospitable is a trade between cost and cover. OwnerRez keeps the monthly bill low and takes nothing from a booking, and you carry the risk. Hospitable costs more per booking on Premium and carries much of that risk for you. Both can sit behind a site that is properly yours.

If you want a second opinion with your own numbers in front of us, book a call and I will tell you which I would pick in your place.