# Hotel and short-term rental price research. Booking.com and Airbnb, priced for a stay.

> Compare Booking.com and Airbnb prices for real stay dates: nightly and total price, availability, scores and amenities. Free history of past captures.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/use-cases/hotel-and-rental-price-research · Updated 2026-10-21

Prices on Booking.com and Airbnb depend on the dates and the party. Send the stay with every call, check-in and check-out, and get prices for those nights with scores, rooms or amenities, and policies alongside.

- Booking.com: from $0.0018 per record
- Airbnb: from $0.0018 per record
- History: Free

## The workflow

1. Run Booking.com search with a location and stay dates. Narrow with propertyType, minStars, minRating, priceMin and priceMax, and sort by price_low or rating_high.
2. Run Booking.com properties on the properties you follow: price from, guest score and category scores, rooms with availability and price, facilities and policies.
3. Run Airbnb listings by listing URL or room id with stay dates and the party (adults, children, pets): nightly and total price, availability, ratings by category, amenities, house rules and cancellation policy.
4. Repeat for several date pairs, a weekday, a weekend and a holiday, to see how price moves with demand.
5. Read history for free: price_from and guest_score on Booking.com, price_per_night and total_price on Airbnb, from past captures.

## Who uses it

- **[Hosts and property managers](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/airbnb/listings-api).** Price your nights against the listings near you for the same dates and party size.
- **Hotel revenue teams.** Read the rooms and prices of your competitive set on Booking.com for the dates you are selling.
- **[Rate comparison](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/hotels-api).** Tripadvisor hotel cards with stay dates carry the online travel agency offers for that stay.

## Operations used

List prices per record. A call can carry a minimum, so quote first: the quote is free, and a record that does not come back is not charged.

| Step | Operation | What comes back | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Booking.com search | Properties for a destination and stay, with Booking's filters | $0.0018 per record |
| 2 | Booking.com properties | Price from, scores, rooms with availability and price, policies | $0.0018 per record |
| 3 | Airbnb listings | Nightly and total price, availability, ratings, amenities, rules | $0.0018 per record |
| 4 | Tripadvisor hotels | Rating, rank, amenities, offers for the stay | $0.0018 per record |

> **Always send the stay** Without check-in and check-out a Booking.com property has no price to show. Quote each date loop with "estimateOnly": true first, and set "maxUsd" on each run.

## The operations in this workflow

- [Booking.com search](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/booking/search-api): Properties for a destination and stay, with Booking's filters
- [Booking.com properties](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/booking/hotels-api): Price from, scores, rooms with availability and price, policies
- [Airbnb listings](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/airbnb/listings-api): Nightly and total price, availability, ratings, amenities, rules
- [Tripadvisor hotels](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/hotels-api): Rating, rank, amenities, offers for the stay

## Questions

### Why do I need dates?

Both sites price by the nights and the party. Without stay dates a Booking.com property has no price, and an Airbnb nightly price depends on the guests you send.

### Which currency do prices come back in?

Set stay.currency to an ISO 4217 code such as USD, INR or EUR on Booking.com and Airbnb.

### Can I search Airbnb by city?

The Airbnb operations read listings by URL or room id. Collect the listings you want to follow first, then read them for each stay.

## Why API for Agents

- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

## Start

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run (sign in first).

Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md