Airbtics 2026 Review: Global STR Data on a Smaller Budget

Do you invest only in US markets, run the numbers on one or two of them at a time, and want the single deepest domestic comp set on offer? Then Airbtics probably is not your tool, and it's fairer to say that now than three sections in. For everyone still reading: Airbtics sells worldwide short-term rental data for a fraction of what the big US incumbents charge, and if you're scouting Airbnb markets outside the States on a budget, it earns a serious look.

One disclosure up front, because it shapes how you should read this. Our team hosts short-term rentals, we lean on this kind of data in our own underwriting, and we built BNBCalc, so we know the category from the inside. So I'll be straight about the trade: Airbtics gives you global reach and a low entry price, not the depth or the hand-holding of a tool that costs three to five times as much.

An estimate is only as good as the comps behind it, and in thin markets those comps thin out fast. So here's the plan: what Airbtics does, what the plans cost in 2026, how it holds up against the pricier incumbents, and where the data is solid versus where it wobbles.

What Is Airbtics?

Airbtics is a short-term rental data platform. It tracks and models Airbnb performance across markets worldwide, then hands you the results as occupancy rates, average daily rates, revenue estimates, and listing-level detail you can filter and export. Picture a research desk for anyone deciding where to buy or how to price an Airbnb, tilted toward the markets US-first tools cover thinly.

Its own pricing page says it has tracked Airbnb listings worldwide on a fixed interval since 2020, partially back to 2015, and its data now feeds "100,000+ dashboard users and 100+ enterprise customers," including financial institutions trading Airbnb stock. That last line is the whole pitch: estimated data, but estimated carefully enough that some people bet real money on it.

Category-wise, Airbtics shares an aisle with AirDNA, Mashvisor and AllTheRooms. It sells that global data on a smaller budget, and makes more sense read as the affordable, international-first option rather than the deepest one.

Airbtics Features

Since it reads as the international-first option, I'll run this the way you'd use it. Pretend I'm sizing up a two-bedroom in Porto, a market where US-focused tools get sparse, and see how far Airbtics carries me.

Market Explorer and Market Overview

Market Explorer is the wide-angle lens: search a region and compare markets on revenue, occupancy and seasonality to shortlist before committing attention. Market Overview is the zoom, breaking one market and its submarkets into the core numbers.

The catch is the meter. On the entry plan you get five Explorer searches a month, so screening Porto, Lisbon and Faro burns three of them in one sitting. Make sure you have a rough idea where you're pointing before you start clicking, because the counter does not care that you were only browsing.

The Property Calculator

Once a market clears the shortlist, the Calculator turns it into a specific door. Feed it a property and it projects revenue and returns, then exports a clean PDF you can hand a lender or a partner. Airbtics' own site reckons the average Airbnb listing clears roughly $25,000 a year, so the Calculator's real job is telling you whether your Porto flat beats that bar or trails it.

Comp Set and Listing-Level History

A projection is a guess until you anchor it to real neighbors, which is what Comp Set does by tracking specific competitor listings. The entry plan gives Basic listing insight; the higher tier unlocks Advanced plus monthly listing-level history, so you can pull what a given Porto listing did in, say, August 2024. It's the feature that separates screening a market from operating in one, and where you catch the seasonality a market average hides.

Global Coverage and the Data Behind It

Coverage is the reason most people land here.

Airbtics is worldwide, and every market is included in the subscription, so there's no per-market fee to look. Standard property-level data is Airbnb only; VRBO, Booking.com and the other channels come through custom scraping on request.

You get three years of history at daily granularity, refreshed weekly, and Airbtics claims it estimates actual bookings and revenue with over 96% accuracy. Keep in mind those estimates are modeled from listing calendars rather than real booking records, so treat any single number as a well-built midpoint.

Reports, Exports and the API

Beyond the dashboards, Airbtics bundles a few tools built for people who work at volume. The Top Airbnb Management Companies report surfaces co-hosting and property-management leads, metered at one market a month on the entry plan and twenty on the higher tier.

CSV export is capped too, at a thousand rows a month, and an API plus a full Enterprise track deliver data by CSV, dashboard or API for teams and analysts. Be aware these caps are exactly where the cheap plan pinches if screening is your day job.

Airbtics Pricing and Plans in 2026

Those export caps are a pricing question in disguise, so here's what the tiers cost. This changed most since the earlier version of this review: the old Explorer and Investor plans are gone, replaced by a cheaper, renamed lineup.

Plan	Billed annually	Roughly per month	Best for
Analytics Expert	$349 / year	about $29	One investor screening markets one at a time
Market Intelligence Scale	$750 / year (or $295 month-to-month)	about $63	Active investors and managers who need exports and listing-level history
Enterprise	Custom quote	Custom quote	Agencies, funds and researchers pulling data by CSV, dashboard or API

All figures are as of August 2026, taken from Airbtics' pricing page with the toggle sitting on its default yearly view. That default matters: the page leads with a "Yearly, 77% off" switch, so the tidy monthly numbers are annual-effective rates, not what a month-to-month subscriber pays. Pay monthly and the Scale plan alone jumps to $295. There's no free plan and no free trial listed.

Is $349 a year good value? Set it against that $25,000 average listing figure Airbtics quotes. If the data steers you out of one dud market or into one better one, the subscription pays for itself many times over. Remember that math only works if the numbers are right.

Airbtics vs Alternatives in 2026

I'm judging these on coverage-for-the-money, because that's what a purchase in this aisle turns on. On raw depth the ranking flips, and I'll say so where it does.

Against AirDNA, Airbtics is the cheaper, more global buy, while AirDNA is the deeper US one with a longer history to lean on. In his May 2026 Airbtics versus AirDNA buyer guide, operator Sean Rakidzich gives Airbtics the nod on "flat pricing and bundled API access" against AirDNA's add-on fees, and his verdict is the honest one for the category: "Neither tool is 'accurate' in the absolute sense. Both estimate."

AllTheRooms is the other global name here, so it's the closest philosophical match, though its analytics lean more toward big-picture market data than the property-by-property underwriting Airbtics is built around. Its cheaper tiers each cover a single market, so comparing a stack of them climbs in price faster than Airbtics' all-markets-included subscription ever does.

Mashvisor runs the opposite way: it's US-centric and investor-focused, strong on domestic long-term-versus-short-term comparisons and weak exactly where Airbtics is strong, which is international coverage. It ties its rental math to on-market MLS listings, so it's sharpest when you're shopping homes for sale rather than sizing up a market you already operate in.

Airbtics vs BNBCalc

Airbtics sells global STR market data on a smaller budget and stops at that read. BNBCalc pairs its own STR market data with a full property-level underwrite. Feed it a purchase price, percent down, loan and rate and it returns your monthly mortgage payment, then layers in operating costs and US depreciation to reach cap rate, cash-on-cash and month-by-month cash flow, and it models the same deal four ways: short-term, arbitrage, long-term and cohosting.

The gap widens on how each one reaches a number. Airbtics infers bookings from scraped listing calendars, so a thin market with few comparable listings gives the model less to work with and the estimate can run optimistic. BNBCalc's AI comp benchmarking shows its work instead: it weighs product, bedroom and amenity fit, flags a biased comp set, and hands you up to ten comps you can inspect and override, picked out of the 50 comparable listings it shows behind every estimate. Its expense side starts from solid defaults that are generally good to go; if you're not satisfied, the AI estimator suggests each figure based on the property's specific details. It scores the revenue lift from specific amenities too, and BNBCalc Markets, the research half of the product, carries its own worldwide data across roughly 2,400 markets in 150+ countries and a stated 10M+ Airbnb and Vrbo listings, matching Airbtics on reach without giving up the underwrite.

Airbtics does win on cheap global market data, and its custom reports pull the VRBO and Booking.com channels most tools skip; if broad coverage on a tight budget is the whole job, its $349-a-year entry plan is a real bargain. On price the two sit closer than you'd guess. BNBCalc's Calculator runs $30 a month or $199 a year and Markets $79 a month or $399 a year, so Markets lands between Airbtics' $349 Analytics Expert and $750 Scale tiers as of August 2026, with a free trial Airbtics doesn't list. Want the global market read and the after-financing math in one place? That's BNBCalc.

Airbtics Pros and Cons

That breadth-versus-depth trade frames the scorecard, so let's total it up. An estimate is only as good as the comps behind it, and both columns come back to that one line.

Start with the wins. The coverage delivers on its promise, because this is the rare tool with real Airbnb data for markets US-first platforms barely touch. One Trustpilot reviewer sums up the everyday value in four words: "Useful info, worth the money."

The interface is clean, the entry price is low, and every market is bundled in. The Calculator's PDF export is a small delight when you hand a number to someone else. Across 91 Trustpilot reviews the platform holds a 4.2 score, respectable for a data tool that lives to be second-guessed.

Now the harder part, the con I'd weigh most.

The revenue estimates can run optimistic, and it bites hardest in thin markets. On Trustpilot, reviewers who checked Airbtics against real figures report "huge inaccuracies in their predicted revenues," with one saying they caught the gap only after "matching them with actual revenue figures."

The mechanism is structural. Airbtics infers bookings from scraped listing calendars and machine-learning classifiers, not from real reservation records, so a small market with few comparable listings widens the error band and leaves your projection a midpoint dressed as a forecast. The one who gets hurt is the first-timer buying in a quiet non-US market off a single confident number, who spends season one learning the gap between the estimate and the deposits.

The second issue is the meter, and it doubles as a pricing-clarity gripe. One Trustpilot reviewer captured it well, writing that they had "$119 a year" in their head, then found "two price structures, one $63 a month and the other $29 a month," and could not tell them apart.

The cheap headline is the annual-effective rate, and the harder you screen, the faster you hit the five-searches-a-month wall on the entry tier. Screen more than a handful of markets a month and you'll want Scale.

Support is the last soft spot. Airbtics leans self-serve, per Rakidzich's guide above, and on Capterra one reviewer noted "minor bugs that will sometimes come up" while crediting the team as "quick to address and fix" them. It's a thin sample there, only a handful of reviews, so weight it accordingly.

What Airbtics Is Best Used For

Weigh those cons against the coverage and it's clear who should buy this. Airbtics is at its best for an investor or analyst scouting Airbnb markets outside the United States, especially in dense European or Asia-Pacific cities where the sample size is large and the pricier US tools run out of data.

It's also a fair fit for a freelance analyst or a growing management company that needs exports, listing-level history and a low monthly floor. And it suits anyone comparing many global markets who values breadth over the last decimal of precision.

Who should skip it? The US-only investor doing a close read of one or two domestic markets, the reader from the first paragraph. That's home turf for the US-first incumbents, and you'll feel Airbtics' sample thin out.

If that's you, our AirDNA review covers the depth-first incumbent, and for a cheaper US-focused angle our Rabbu review and RentCast review are next. Do check a couple of your own known listings against any of them before you trust the projections on a market you can't sanity-check yourself.

The Bottom Line

So, is Airbtics worth it? Yes, for the investor scouting Airbnb markets outside the US on a budget, where its coverage is a real edge and $349 a year is a genuine bargain. If you only ever work one or two US markets, a US-first tool goes deeper and you should buy that instead.

An estimate is only as good as the comps behind it, and that's the one thing Airbtics can't fully solve in the thin markets it's proudest of reaching. So before you commit to any market it flags, run the property through BNBCalc and see whether the underwriting holds once the numbers are yours.

Whatever tool you land on, price the data by how well it survives contact with your own market, not by how little it costs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Airbtics Accurate?

Airbtics claims it estimates actual bookings and revenue with over 96% accuracy, and says it has tracked Airbnb listings worldwide since 2020. The estimates are modeled from listing calendars rather than confirmed reservations, so accuracy is strongest in dense markets with many comparable listings and weaker in thin ones. Trustpilot reviews are mixed on this point, with some users praising the projections and others reporting large gaps against real figures. Treat any single number as a careful midpoint, not a guarantee.

How Much Does Airbtics Cost in 2026?

As of August 2026, Airbtics lists two self-serve plans and a custom tier. Analytics Expert is $349 a year, about $29 a month billed annually. Market Intelligence Scale is $750 a year, or $295 month-to-month, roughly $63 a month on the annual plan. Enterprise is a custom quote for agencies, funds and researchers. The pricing page defaults to a discounted yearly view, so month-to-month billing costs more, and there is no free plan or free trial listed.

Does Airbtics Cover Markets Outside the United States?

Yes, and that is its main selling point. Airbtics tracks Airbnb data worldwide, and every market is included in a subscription rather than sold per market. Standard property-level data covers Airbnb only, while VRBO, Booking.com and other channels are available through custom scraping on request. Coverage is strongest in dense urban markets with large samples, so European and Asia-Pacific cities tend to have deeper data than sparse rural areas where fewer active listings exist to model from.

Does Airbtics Offer a Free Trial or Refund?

Airbtics' pricing page lists no free trial and no money-back guarantee as of August 2026. The only flexibility stated is that a subscription can be cancelled anytime, through the app or by email, with access continuing until the end of the current billing period. There is also no free plan on the current pricing page, so testing the data means paying for at least one billing cycle first. Anyone wanting a risk-free trial should factor that in.

Airbtics vs AirDNA: Which Is Better?

It depends on where you invest. Airbtics is cheaper and more global, so it wins for markets outside the United States and for buyers on a tight budget. AirDNA goes deeper on US markets and carries a longer, more established track record. As operator Sean Rakidzich put it in his 2026 comparison, neither is accurate in an absolute sense because both estimate, so the right pick turns on your specific markets, bedroom counts and budget rather than brand.

Last verified: August 2026. Pricing and features were checked against Airbtics's own site on the date above, and every third-party opinion links to its source.