Cheapest hotel channel manager: what the entry price actually buys

Every vendor below publishes a starting price on its own site, in its own currency, for a different unit and billing period. This page lines up the published numbers exactly as stated, with the context each one needs, checked on 11 November 2026.

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Updated 2026-11-11

What "cheapest" means on five different pricing pages

A headline price only means something once you know what it is a price for: one room or many, one month or a two-year commitment, the software alone or the software plus every channel connection you need. The five vendors below each publish a starting figure, and each one attaches a different set of conditions to it.

We have kept every price in the currency the vendor itself publishes it in — euros stay euros, dollars stay dollars — and we have not converted or added anything together. A vendor that charges a base fee plus separate per-channel fees is shown as two lines, not one combined total, because the vendor itself does not publish a combined total.

Published entry prices, in each vendor's own currency

The lowest self-serve monthly figure each vendor states on its pricing page, with the unit and billing context attached.

Vendor	Entry price (as published)	Unit & billing context	What it includes
Beds24	From €15.50/month	Starting base fee, scales with unit count; pay-as-you-go, no fixed plan tiers	Channel Manager, PMS and booking-engine access. Channel connections are billed separately at €0.55 per link/month.
Lodgify	$14/month	Basic plan, limited to 1 property, monthly billing (default view)	Unified calendar for Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, AI-powered inbox. No website builder or payment gateway on this plan.
Sirvoy	€0/month (Sirvoy Free)	1 room and up to 5 extras, no billing period since the plan is free	A free website, booking engine and online payments.
Smoobu	€10.50/month (Professional Prepaid)	1 unit, 2-year billing — the page's own default; discounted from its listed €35/month base rate	Channel Manager, booking system with Stripe/PayPal, website builder, CRM, API access, PMS.
Prime Host	From $59/month	1 room, annual billing; monthly billing costs 20% more and can be cancelled any month	Channel manager, booking calendar and direct booking engine, no commission or per-booking fee.

Being honest about the smallest properties

For a single room or a one-unit listing, Sirvoy's free plan and Beds24's starting base fee both publish a lower monthly number than Prime Host's starting price. Lodgify's Basic plan, limited to one property, also lists a lower monthly figure. If your only requirement is the cheapest possible number for one unit, one of those is likely to be it.

What changes that answer is what you need beyond the headline number: how many channels you actually connect, whether you need a direct booking engine with online payments, and what happens to the price once you add a second room or property. A plan that is cheapest at one unit is not necessarily cheapest at ten, and a free or low-cost plan sometimes caps features that a paid tier includes.

What the headline price doesn't show

Check these before comparing any two numbers from this table.

Worth checking on the vendor's own page

The unit the price is for — per property, per room, or per listing — since the same monthly figure can mean very different things.
The billing period behind the number: Smoobu's €10.50 figure is a 2-year-billing price for one unit, not its monthly-billing price.
Per-channel or per-connection fees billed separately from the base subscription, as Beds24 does at €0.55 per channel link per month.
Paid add-ons you are likely to need — extra user logins, SMS notifications, a custom domain — which several vendors price as separate line items.

Where Prime Host fits — and where it doesn't

For context against the entry prices in the table above.

What Prime Host is

A channel manager with a built-in reservation calendar and a direct booking engine, priced from $59 per property per month on annual billing, with no commission or per-booking fee.
One published price, shown by a calculator on its own pricing page, with no separate per-channel fee layered on top.
A free trial and a public live demo that needs no sign-up.

What it is not

Not the cheapest listed figure for a single room — Sirvoy's free plan and Beds24's starting fee both publish a lower number at that size, per the table above.
Not a full front-desk system: no night audit, key-card integration or point of sale.
The booking engine cannot take card payments yet and handles one room per booking.

How to compare before you commit to the cheapest-looking plan

1
Write down your own room count and billing preference
Monthly or annual, and whether you expect to add rooms or properties within the next year.
2
Ask each vendor for the exact monthly figure at that room count and billing period
The entry price in the table above is a starting point, not necessarily your number.
3
Add up every fee you'll actually pay
Per-channel fees, extra logins, SMS, and any add-on you know you need, rather than comparing base prices alone.
4
Check what the entry tier excludes
Several entry plans in the table drop the website builder, payment gateway or channel manager itself — confirm the cheap plan still does what you need.

Sources

Beds24 pricing — beds24.com/pricing.html
Lodgify pricing — lodgify.com/pricing/
Sirvoy pricing — sirvoy.com/pricing
Smoobu pricing — smoobu.com/en/pricing
Prime Host pricing — primehostpartners.com/en/pricing

Vendor facts were read from each vendor's own website on 11 November 2026. Prices and plans change — confirm on the vendor's page before you decide.

Frequently asked questions

Is Prime Host the cheapest channel manager for one room?

No. For a single room, Sirvoy's free plan (€0/month) and Beds24's starting base fee (from €15.50/month) both publish a lower figure than Prime Host's starting price, per each vendor's own pricing page.

Why does Smoobu's price change depending on the billing period?

Smoobu's pricing page defaults to 2-year billing and states that period's discounted figure; its FAQ separately mentions different annual and two-year discount percentages than the badges shown on the page itself, so always check which billing period a Smoobu figure reflects before comparing it.

Does the cheapest entry price include a channel manager?

Not always at the lowest tier. Lodgify's $14 Basic plan, for example, is built around a unified calendar and inbox rather than the full feature set on its higher plans — check each vendor's own compare table for what a specific plan includes.

Can I add up Beds24's base fee and its per-channel fee myself to get a total?

You can estimate your own total from the two figures Beds24 publishes — a starting base fee and a separate €0.55-per-channel-link fee — but Beds24 does not publish a single combined number, so treat any total as your own calculation, not a vendor-stated figure.