Cabinly/Guesty
Guesty is built for a company. Cabinly is built for you.
Guesty is enterprise software for property-management companies: many listings, several people, workflows and an implementation behind it. Cabinly is one direct booking page for an owner with one to three cabins, with nothing to implement.
Updated 31 August 2026
- Built for
- One owner with one to three cabins
- Time to a working page
- About two minutes, from a listing link
- Commission on a direct booking
- 0% to Cabinly; Stripe charges its own fee
Side by side
| Cabinly | Guesty | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | One owner with one to three cabins | Property-management companies, typically 20+ listings and a team |
| Time to a working page | About two minutes, from a listing link | An onboarding process, usually with their team |
| Commission on a direct booking | 0% to Cabinly; Stripe charges its own fee | No commission on their own plans; see their pricing |
| Other portals | Two-way iCal with Booking.com and Airbnb | Full channel management and a large integration ecosystem |
| What it does beyond a booking page | One page, one calendar, one suggested move per empty night | Multi-user workflows, accounting, owner portals, analytics, API |
| What it costs | 0% commission on direct bookings, forever; everything free during the alpha | Quoted per portfolio – see guesty.com/pricing |
Choose Guesty if / Choose Cabinly if
Choose Cabinly if
- Your whole portfolio fits in one sentence.
- You want direct bookings without becoming a software administrator.
- The commission on your own guests is the money you want back.
Choose Guesty if
- You run a property-management business with a team and clients.
- You need accounting, owner portals and role-based access.
- Your listing count makes an implementation project worth it.
Questions people actually ask
- Would Guesty work for two cabins?
- Technically yes, and in practice it is more system than two cabins can use: their software assumes a portfolio and a team. That is not a criticism of it – it is what it is sold as.
- Does Cabinly have an API?
- Not a public one, and that is stated in agent.json under limitations, along with the absence of a public sandbox. What Cabinly does publish for machines is llms.txt, pricing.md and agent.json, so an agent can read what it does, what it costs and what it cannot do.
- Is Cabinly enterprise-ready?
- No. It is in alpha, there is no SLA, no status page and no uptime guarantee – all of it declared in agent.json rather than left to be discovered. If those are your requirements, this is the wrong tool.
- Whose data is the guest's data?
- The owner's. For guests booking through your page you are the controller of their data and Cabinly processes it on your behalf – that is written into the privacy policy, not just into a sales page. The e-mail address, the phone number and the booking history are yours to keep and to use again.
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