The free Beds24 alternative for independent hotels
Beds24 is deep and cheap per room, but their own calculator puts 20 rooms at €64.90 a month, with a free trial and no free plan. Tribii is free for those same 20 rooms and adds a website builder, a guest app and AI.
An honest, side by side comparison.
Beds24 pricing vs Tribii
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~€64.90/mo for 20 rooms + add-ons
How each company describes its own pricing, in their own words, from their public pricing pages. It is not the cost-to-match figure the comparison uses: that one is in the table below, with its basis. See their live pricing.
Data verified October 2026The biggest difference isn't a feature. It's the price.
Beds24 is genuinely good value per unit. It is still a bill, and at the size this page is about it is not a small one. Here is what a 20-room property pays on Beds24's own published prices for things Tribii's free plan already includes.
| Capability | Beds24 | Tribii |
|---|---|---|
| Booking engine and PMS, 20 rooms | €64.90/mo | Included, free |
| Your own subdomain | €19.00/mo | Included, free |
| Website builder | Not available | Included, free |
| Total to match | €83.90/mo | Free - website and hosting included |
The 20-room figure comes from Beds24's own pricing calculator; €15.50 a month is their advertised single-unit minimum. The total covers only the rows they publish a price for. Per-connection (€0.55), per-user (€2) and SMS charges are extra and depend on your setup. Source: their pricing page (October 2026)
Choose Tribii if…
- You want a genuinely free plan up to 20 rooms rather than a trial that ends.
- You want a website builder included; Beds24 has none of its own.
- You want invoicing and a guest app built in.
- You want team members included instead of €2 per extra user per month.
Beds24 may fit better if…
- You want the lowest possible monthly bill and are happy to pay per connection.
- You need very deep automation and a mature API, and enjoy configuring it.
- You run vacation rentals or a hostel, where Beds24 has years of specialisation.
Tribii replaces Beds24 with a free booking engine and the free hotel PMS, free for up to 20 rooms with 0% commission on direct bookings.
Tribii vs Beds24, line by line.
How we price this: for each company we take the cheapest plan they publish that does what Tribii's Free plan does, a booking engine that can take an online card payment, a website, and reservations, rates and invoicing, for a 20-room property. Where a company publishes no price at all, we say so and the range shown is marked as an estimate: it is ours, not a quote from them. Prices are shown in the currency each company publishes and are never converted. Where you land may differ, so check their pricing page before deciding.
Comparison compiled by Tribii from public product information. Competitor plans and prices change: check their current pricing before deciding.
Where Tribii is different from Beds24
Free, not a trial
Beds24 gives you a free trial, then bills pay as you go: about €64.90 a month for 20 rooms by their own calculator, before per-connection, per-user and subdomain charges. Tribii's booking engine, website, PMS essentials and invoicing are free for those same 20 rooms.
A website, not just a booking page
Beds24 gives you a customisable booking page and a WordPress plugin, and points to partner website builders, but has no builder of its own; a private-label subdomain costs €19 a month. Tribii builds the hotel website itself, free.
Guests, financials and AI
Invoicing, a guest app and AI onboarding are built into Tribii. Beds24 has invoicing and a guest login area, with AI only through marketplace partners.
Tribii vs Beds24, in depth
Cheap is not the same as free
Beds24 is inexpensive per unit and earns its reputation: the channel manager, PMS, booking engine and payment processing are all in the base price. But cheap per unit is not cheap at 20 rooms, and it is not free at any size. Their calculator returns about €64.90 a month for a 20-room property, which is the point where Tribii costs nothing at all.
What the pay-as-you-go extras add up to
Beds24 charges for what you use, which is fair and transparent, but the line items stack: €0.55 a month per OTA connection, €2 a month per additional user login, €19 a month to serve your booking page on your own subdomain, €0.10 per SMS. A 20-room property with a few channels, two staff logins and its own subdomain is comfortably past €85 a month before anything else.
Depth versus getting started
Beds24 is unusually deep for the money, with a mature API and heavy automation, and reviewers consistently note the trade-off: a lot of configuration and an interface that takes learning. Tribii aims at the hotelier who wants to publish a bookable site and take direct bookings the same afternoon, with AI onboarding importing the setup. Both are valid; they are not the same job.
Moving from Beds24 is free. Tribii's AI onboarding imports your rooms, rates and reservations in minutes.
You do not have to rebuild your website: paste the Tribii booking widget where your current one sits, on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or a hand-coded page. On WordPress there is also a free plugin that does it without code. Or build a new site free with the website builder.
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