At twelve units OwnerRez costs $141 a month, and you can work that figure out yourself from its published ladder before you speak to anybody: $40 for the first property and less for every one after it. Lodgify publishes no figure for twelve units at all. Its four plans read $14, $26, $42 and $62 a month if you pay for the year, or $18, $33, $53 and $77 if you pay monthly, and every one of those covers a single property, with the two cheapest capped at one and two, so your own price comes from typing your unit count into the page. Lodgify sells the website as the product. On OwnerRez the website is a paid extra.
Lodgify puts the site and the booking engine in one subscription, with no booking fee on top, so a property that has never sold a night on its own domain can be taking cards within the week.
OwnerRez runs the calendar, the guest records and the accounting behind a site you already have, and it publishes its full price list, so you can check the figure yourself before anybody calls you. Its pricing page promises no setup fees, no booking fees and no contracts, with a fourteen day trial.
Several identical units sold as one type change the arithmetic on OwnerRez, because every one of those units is another rung on the price ladder, while Lodgify treats them as a single room type with a number behind it.
What twelve units actually cost
OwnerRez bills by property count on a sliding scale, and the scale is published in full. The first property is $40, which is also the floor whether that property is active or not. Properties two and three are $15 each, the fourth is $10, five through nine are $8 each, ten through nineteen are $7 each, and it keeps falling after that, to $6, $4, $3 and finally $2 each above two hundred.
The ladder is enough to work out any unit count. Eight units is $112 a month. Ten is $127. Twelve is $141. Twenty is $196, and twenty five is $226.
Premium features are billed monthly per property on their own separate tables, on top of those figures: property management, the QuickBooks connection, hosted websites, the WordPress plugin, text messaging and the AI assistant. So a twelve unit property that wants a hosted website and text messages to guests is paying more than $141, and the only way to find out how much more is to ask for the total with those switched on.
Lodgify will not give you an equivalent sum. Basic is limited to one property and Starter to two. The prices for Professional and Ultimate climb with the number of properties you enter on the page. The $42 and $62 you see first are one property figures. Lodgify's own line on the page is that the price varies with how many properties you manage and which features you take.
| Lodgify | OwnerRez | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | $14, $26, $42 and $62 a month billed yearly, or $18, $33, $53 and $77 billed monthly, at one property | $40 for the first property, then $15 each for two and three, $10 for the fourth, $8 each to nine, $7 each to nineteen, falling to $2 each above two hundred |
| What twelve units costs | Not published. Enter your count on the pricing page | $141 a month, before premium features |
| Plan limits | Basic one property, Starter two | None. The ladder covers any count |
| Fee on a direct booking | 0% booking fee on the plans | No setup fees, booking fees or contracts, and a fourteen day trial |
| The website | The product you are buying | A premium feature with its own per property price |
| Channels it connects | Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia | Vrbo, Airbnb, Booking.com, Google Vacation Rentals |
| Several identical units | One room type with a shared count | Separate properties, cross linked with Mutual Blocking |
| While the guest is paying | The booking is made first, then a payment link | A quote can hold the dates, and the hold expires on its own |
Checked on September 2026, from Lodgify's pricing page, Lodgify's documentation, OwnerRez's costs and fees article, OwnerRez's pricing page and OwnerRez's quotes and bookings guide.
Who gives you the website, and who charges extra for it
Lodgify's whole pitch is that the site comes with the subscription. OwnerRez sells a hosted website as well, but it sits with the premium features and carries its own monthly charge per property, so the comparison at twelve units is a bundled site against $141 plus whatever the website table says.
OwnerRez lists Google Vacation Rentals among the channels it connects. Lodgify's list on the same row is Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia. Google's free booking links cost a property nothing to appear in, but Google only shows rates that something is feeding it, which in practice means a system that is a Google connectivity partner. If you want your own rates showing up beside the platforms in a Google search, ask each vendor in writing whether their connection is the one that does that, because a channel logo on a marketing page is not the same promise.
Before you pay either of them for a website, go and click the Book Now button on the site you already have and try to book two nights at your own property with a real card. Clicking your own Book Now is the test, and it usually changes what you think you are shopping for.
Several identical units, and where that lands on your bill
If you have five studios a guest cannot tell apart, what you are selling is a type. The guest books "a studio" and you decide later which one they get.
Lodgify models that as a room type: one product with a count behind it, pushed out to every channel, and a booking anywhere takes the count down by one everywhere. OwnerRez has no equivalent. Identical units are set up as separate properties and cross linked with a feature called Mutual Blocking, so booking one of them blocks the others within a minute or two, including every booking already sitting in the account when you switch it on.
Mutual Blocking does the job, and five identical studios then count as five properties on OwnerRez's ladder, so the way you set the units up changes the monthly figure too. Neither vendor publishes how fast its channel connections update; the minute or two on Mutual Blocking is the only timing either of them puts in writing here.
I got this wrong myself, at our own place. MINT @Naschmarkt, the serviced apartments I co-own in Vienna, has 18 apartments in five apartment types, and our own booking page was asking the property system a yes or no question about each type rather than counting the apartments underneath it. Book one apartment in a type and the whole type showed as unavailable. For one month in 2026 our site offered 5 of 30 nights when 26 were free. We lost those bookings to other properties, and no complaint ever arrived to tell us why the month had been quiet. We fixed it by counting each apartment separately and adding the results up, and the numbers and their caveats are on the case page. MINT runs neither Lodgify nor OwnerRez, so read the vendor rows above as their documentation and this paragraph as ours.
Check this in your first week on either system: block one unit of a type, then open your own site as a guest and see whether the rest of that type is still bookable.
What happens when a guest abandons the payment page
On OwnerRez a quote is a priced offer for dates, and it can hold those dates while it is live, letting go by itself at the end of the day it was set to expire. An abandoned booking costs you nothing there, because the hold releases itself when it expires.
On Lodgify the booking is created in the system first, and the money is collected afterwards on a payment link generated for a booking that already exists. That booking stays on your dates until somebody cancels it by hand.
None of this matters much until your own site is taking real money, at which point somebody has to watch for the half finished bookings every week. Hostaway handles the same moment differently again, and the Hostaway comparison sets that out beside Lodgify.
Which one fits your property
At 8 to 15 units, with nearly every booking still arriving through the platforms, Lodgify is the way to start building direct bookings from zero. The website and the checkout arrive in the same subscription. OwnerRez asks $40 for a first property before a website is added at all, which makes it the more expensive route to the same starting point.
Past fifteen units, with money already arriving on your own domain, get OwnerRez priced. You know the ladder in advance, there is no contract to sign, and the system is built around the parts that get harder as you add units. Ask for the total with the premium features you actually want, not the bare ladder figure.
If you are already on one of them, the switch will take weeks and stall other work while it runs, so weigh that against what the move actually gets you. One operator who moved off Lodgify wrote on OwnerRez's own forum that he could not get his Airbnb connection working afterwards, because Airbnb allows one property management system per account and the old one was still holding it. Get both vendors to say in writing how that connection will be handed over before you move a single listing.
If you are stuck between the two and want somebody to look at your actual unit count and your actual numbers, book a call.
