Hostomat vs Wheelhouse: fourteen settings or three decisions

Wheelhouse has priced short-term rentals since 2014. Its CEO founded Beyond Pricing before it. It gives you two ways to pay, fourteen named settings, and pricing up to eighteen months out. Hostomat launched in 2026 with three decisions and a year of nights. This is what each of those choices means for you.

Facts about Wheelhouse are from their pricing page, help centre and public reviews on September 8, 2026, linked below. If any have changed, tell us at hello@hostomat.io.

What Wheelhouse is

A recommended price on Wheelhouse is a base price plus a seasonality impact, a local-demand impact, an availability impact and a time factor, bounded by your minimum and maximum. (Wheelhouse help, how prices are built) Around that sit fourteen settings: base price, seasonality by month, day of week, last minute, far future, demand sensitivity, gaps, min and max, minimum stays, long-term rules, check-in and check-out rules, occupancy pacing and revenue pacing, most with conservative, recommended and aggressive presets. (Wheelhouse, dynamic pricing)

Prices refresh at least every 24 hours and setting changes push within minutes. Recommendations run up to eighteen months out. It connects to Airbnb directly, to Vrbo and Booking.com only through a PMS, and to more than forty PMSs including Hospitable. (Wheelhouse, integrations)

What Wheelhouse costs

Two paid plans with the same features. Pro Flex is 1% of revenue with a $2.99 per listing per month minimum. Pro Flat is $19.99 per listing per month, $16.99 at ten or more listings. A free plan lets you connect listings and read market reports, but does not push prices. Dynamic Sets, their comparable-listing product, are $12.99 per set per month on top. (Wheelhouse, pricing)

What Hostomat is

Hostomat connects to your Airbnb, audits each listing against the top earners near you, and prices every night for the next year against live market data. It re-prices every six hours, reacts within minutes when a booking lands, and never writes below the floor you set, which our code enforces on every push. Setup is one screen with three decisions: who sets the base price, how hard to push for rate against occupancy, and the floor.

$19 per listing per month for up to five listings, $16 from the sixth, $13 from the sixteenth. Every listing starts with a free month. The audit is free.

Where Wheelhouse is stronger

• Horizon. Eighteen months out. Hostomat prices 365 nights.
• Minimum stays and rules. Wheelhouse writes minimum stays, gap rules, check-in and check-out rules, long-term rules. Hostomat writes nightly prices only.
• Two ways to pay. A percentage with a small minimum, or a flat rate. We have one flat rate.
• Controls. Fourteen settings with presets, for hosts who want to set the dials. Wheelhouse also says its engine is published and externally audited. That is their claim, and we have not checked it, but we have nothing like it to point at.
• A free plan to look at your market before paying anything.
• History. Eleven years. We have been pricing real calendars since July 2026.

Where Hostomat is different

• Three decisions. Reviewers are split on Wheelhouse's setup. One host on Capterra: "Getting set up was a little bit confusing and I had to ask for help several times." (Capterra, February 2024) A 2026 review put it as a "wall of dials with little hand-holding." (BNBCalc, August 2026) We removed the dials rather than label them better.
• Seasons per night, not per month. A Wheelhouse reviewer on Trustpilot: "You're forced to define seasons or periods by full calendar months or set manual daily overrides." Hostomat reads a season shape for each night from the market around you. There is nothing to define.
• Six hours, not a day, and a reaction within minutes when a booking lands. One Capterra reviewer on Wheelhouse: "There have been times where Wheelhouse doesn't sync quickly enough, and I then have bookings at significantly undervalued prices." (Capterra, April 2025)
• Comps are included. The listings your price is read against are on a map, and you can exclude one. Wheelhouse charges $12.99 a set for its equivalent.
• The floor is a hard line, in our code.
• The audit is included.

Which one, then

Pick Wheelhouse if you want to set the dials yourself, price further than a year out, or have it write your minimum stays. If you are on Vrbo or Booking.com through a PMS, it covers you and we do not.

Pick Hostomat if you have a few listings on Airbnb and want to make three decisions once. The first month is free, and the calendar keeps its prices if you leave.

One engine per calendar, whichever you choose.

How Hostomat prices a night · Your Saturday price is your Tuesday price