Hostaway
Hostaway is an AI-powered vacation rental management platform that consolidates property management, channel management, direct booking, guest messaging, automation, and revenue optimization for short-term rental operators. The platform connects to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Marriott Homes & Villas, and exposes a documented OAuth 2.0 public REST API at https://api.hostaway.com/v1 covering listings, reservations, calendar, messaging, finance, tasks, custom fields, guest payments, and unified webhooks. Pricing is quote-based; a free product demo is available. The Hostaway Marketplace contains 100+ integrated vendors spanning revenue management, operations, smart locks, payments, and accounting.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Hostaway the way a machine reads it — 55 machine-readable artifacts across 16 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Hostaway scores 57.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile Hostaway
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Hostaway. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 16
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Hostaway Listings API
Manage vacation rental listings — properties, amenities, bed types, images, and custom field values. Each Hostaway listing maps to one or more external channels (Airbnb, Vrbo, B...
Hostaway Reservations API
Create, read, and update reservations across all connected channels. Includes coupons, reservation fees, reservation units, host proxy email handling, and channel-of-origin cont...
Hostaway Calendar API
Read and update the per-listing availability and nightly pricing calendar. Supports per-day retrieval, batch updates across date ranges, and inline reservation context via the i...
Hostaway Messaging API
Unified guest messaging across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, email, SMS, and WhatsApp. Resources include conversations, conversation messages, and reusable message templates.
Hostaway Finance API
Financial operations for vacation rental managers — finance fields, price calculations, expenses and extras, offline charges, and owner statements.
Hostaway Tasks API
Create, assign, and complete operational tasks (cleaning, maintenance, inspection) tied to listings and reservations.
Hostaway Custom Fields API
Define and manage custom fields on listings and reservations, plus retrieve and set custom field values on individual records.
Hostaway Guest Payments API
Manage guest payments and auto-payment rules for reservations.
Hostaway Reference Data API
Reference-data endpoints for cancellation policies (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Marriott), countries, currencies, languages, and timezones.
Hostaway Webhooks API
Manage unified webhooks for the three Hostaway event types — reservation created, reservation updated, and new message received. Failed deliveries retry up to three times before...
Hostaway Listing Amenities API
Amenities offered by a listing
Hostaway Listing Bed Types API
Bed types configured for a listing
Hostaway Listing Images API
Photographs attached to a listing
Hostaway Reservation Coupons API
Coupons applied to a reservation
Hostaway Reservation Fees API
Fees applied to a reservation
Hostaway Reservation Units API
Sub-units associated with a reservation
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Open Collections 4
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Hostaway Calendar API
OPEN COLLECTIONHostaway Listings API
OPEN COLLECTIONHostaway Reservations API
OPEN COLLECTIONHostaway Webhooks API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Hostaway Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Hostaway Finops
FINOPSFeatures 16
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Hostaway Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Hostaway API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Hostaway Listing
JSON SCHEMAHostaway Reservation
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Integrations 8
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
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Resources
Every other property we hold for Hostaway — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 7
The organization behind the API
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Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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