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PriceLabs vs Wheelhouse vs Beyond

Updated Oct 16, 2026. Operator take from running 7 Front Range / Grand County homes. Not sponsored — no vendor paid for placement. Prices below are from each vendor's public pricing page on Oct 16, 2026; check before you buy.

All three set nightly rates for you and push them to Airbnb, Vrbo or your PMS. The real differences for a small portfolio are how they bill, how much control you get over min-stays and gaps, and how they handle thin, seasonal markets like mountain towns.

Price at a glance

Flat vs percent math: 1% beats $19.99 flat only while a listing grosses under about $2,000 a month. A ski-season mountain home doing $6,000 in February pays $60 on a 1% plan vs $19.99 flat. Across 7 homes averaging ~$4,000/month, that is roughly $280/month on percent vs ~$140 flat. Percent plans make sense for slow, seasonal, or brand-new listings; flat wins once a home is earning.

PriceLabs — what we use

Pick for hands-on owners PriceLabs
The deepest rule set of the three: min-stay by season and day-of-week, orphan-night (gap) fills, last-minute and far-out adjustments, date-specific overrides, and portfolio-wide customizations you can apply to every home at once. That matters in the mountains: you want 3-night minimums over ski holidays, 2 nights in summer, and the Tuesday gap after a long weekend priced to sell. The downside is the learning curve — a new user can make it worse by stacking rules. Set a base price you would be happy with, a hard minimum, and add rules one at a time.

Wheelhouse

Pick if you want to see the why Wheelhouse
Strongest at explaining its recommendations — you can see what is driving a price and choose a more conservative or aggressive strategy. The free tier is a genuinely useful way to sanity-check your current rates before paying anyone. Comp-set tools ("Dynamic Sets") are a separate add-on. Fewer gap/min-stay knobs than PriceLabs.

Beyond

Pick for hands-off Beyond
The most set-it-and-forget-it. You set minimums, maximums and overrides and it prices inside them. Percent-of-bookings billing means you pay nothing in a dead month, which is friendly for one or two seasonal homes, but it gets expensive on a high-grossing house. Custom comp sets are on the higher Pro tier.

Mountain / small-market notes

Quick decision

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