Coho vs Guesty
Guesty is built for property management companies. Its Pro and Enterprise tiers serve portfolios from a handful of units to thousands. The Lite plan technically allows 1 to 3 listings, but the pricing structure tells you who it is really for.
Who Guesty is built for
Guesty is enterprise property management software. The feature set assumes you are running units on behalf of owners, coordinating a cleaning team, distributing across a dozen booking channels, and reporting on revenue per property. At that scale it is a serious and capable product, and there is a reason it dominates that market.
The Lite tier exists to catch small hosts on the way up, not because the product was designed for them. If you are hosting your own place and have no intention of managing other people's, most of what you are paying for is coordination infrastructure for a team you do not have.
How the pricing actually works
Guesty Lite charges per listing per month and adds roughly 1% of every reservation on top. That percentage is the part worth understanding: it means your software cost rises with your success, and it lands hardest on hosts with fewer, higher-value bookings, which describes most owners of a single well-run property.
Coho charges $19 per month flat with no per-booking component at all. That is not a claim to be better software than Guesty, which would be absurd at their scale. It is a different pricing philosophy for a different buyer: a fixed cost you can forget about rather than a variable one that tracks your revenue.
Side by side
Guesty pricing as researched at time of writing — check their current pricing since it can change.
What Guesty does well
- Scales genuinely well from a handful of units into a real property management business
- Deep channel distribution across dozens of booking platforms
- Built-in revenue management tools for portfolio operators
What Coho doesn't do
- No channel manager or multi-platform distribution
- No per-reservation fees — or any usage-based pricing at all
- No portfolio/team management features
Guesty is the better choice if
You're building a property management business and expect to manage many units, potentially for other owners, not just host your own place.
Common questions
- Is Guesty worth it for one or two Airbnb listings?
- Usually not. Guesty's value is in coordinating many units across many channels with a team. With one or two listings you can do the equivalent by hand in minutes a week, and the per-reservation fee means you pay more as you book more.
- What does Guesty cost for a small host?
- The Lite tier runs roughly $9 to $29 per listing per month plus about 1% of each reservation. Pro pricing is quote-based and generally starts above what a single-property host would consider. Check their pricing page, since it changes.
- Does Coho replace Guesty?
- No, and it would be dishonest to say otherwise. Guesty does channel management, team coordination, revenue management, and owner reporting, none of which Coho attempts. Coho replaces the small subset a solo host actually uses: guest information, listing quality, review replies, and cleaner handoff.
- When should I move from Coho to something like Guesty?
- When you start managing properties for other people, or when coordinating cleaners and calendars across units becomes a job rather than a task. That is a real threshold, and when you cross it you should switch.
The short version
The tell is in Guesty's own pricing: even the 'small host' Lite tier charges a percentage of every booking, which quietly punishes exactly the host with fewer, more valuable reservations. Coho has one price regardless of how many bookings you get or how many listings you add — because it's not trying to be the software you run a management company on, just the tools you need to host well yourself.