AirDNA API alternative
The AirDNA API vs a Wheelhouse API key you make yourself
The AirDNA API is market and rate data you license by quote from AirDNA's enterprise team. If you run listings, you want an API that works on your own portfolio. On Wheelhouse, you make that key yourself, then connect Claude, Cursor or your own code to your pricing and reservations.
Short-term rental data and pricing sources, by how you get access
A pricing tool's API comes with the listings you already price there. Market data is a separate purchase: some companies post a price, others quote you one.
Pricing tools with their own API
Wheelhouse
Teams that price their own portfolio and want to run it from their own tools, through the RM API and MCP server.
PriceLabs
Customer API at $1 per listing per month to read prices and edit settings, plus an MCP connector for Claude and Grok.
Beyond
MCP on the Growth plan, API and MCP on Pro, metered in Connectivity Tokens.
Data APIs with a published price
AirROI
From $0.01 a call, with credits from $10 that never expire.
Airbtics
Priced per endpoint, with a $500 monthly minimum on enterprise plans.
Mashvisor
$129 a month for 500 calls, after 30 free sample requests.
BNBCalc
$0 a month to start, then $0.20 per report plus $0.10 per AI step.
Data through a sales team
Key Data
Enterprise feeds by API, flat file, S3 bucket or Snowflake.
Lighthouse
Hotel-first. Its Data Solutions and Services team sells customized data.
AllTheRooms
Customized datasets through its Contact Us form.
Free files to download
Inside Airbnb
Quarterly data for each region's last 12 months, free under a CC BY 4.0 license.
What each API gives you: Wheelhouse vs AirDNA
The RM API is 1:1 with the Wheelhouse app, so anything you can do there, a script or an AI assistant can do too.
Wheelhouse RM API and MCP server vs AirDNA's four API packages
| Feature | Wheelhouse | AirDNA API |
|---|---|---|
| Getting a key | Make it yourself in your Wheelhouse account, up to 5 active keys per user | A private access token, issued when you buy |
| Price | The RM API comes with every plan and is free until at least the end of 2026. It only reads and writes data for listings on a paid plan. | A quote from AirDNA's enterprise team, based on the packages, endpoints, markets and call volume you need |
| What the key opens | Your whole account: price recommendations, listing preferences, custom rates, reservations and portfolio management | Market and rate data you license, in four packages: Market Data, Valuations & Comps, Rentalizer Lead Gen and Smart Rates Data |
| Rate recommendations | Unlimited pricing strategies, rule-based or data-driven. The Lite API prices a listing without creating a unit or uploading booking data. | Smart Rates Data: a recommended nightly rate for each night of the next 12 months for an Airbnb listing, plus base rates |
| Market data | Demand Signal API: a demand signal for each future stay date at a location. Market & Comps APIs on request by email. | Market Data: occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, revenue, lead time and length of stay for markets and submarkets, plus future daily pricing |
| Docs | Public, with a changelog | Public, with v2 enterprise endpoints |
| What it takes to build | Ask in plain words from an AI assistant, or call the API from your own code | A development environment or a data engineering team to load the data, AirDNA says |
| Changing prices, keys and limits | Write custom rates and listing preferences, or make a key read-only. 60 requests a minute per key, more on request. | Not listed on AirDNA's API page: MCP, write access, read-only keys or rate limits |
| Who it's for | Teams that run their own listings, and the tools they build | Teams that buy data at scale, such as hotels, OTAs, PMS platforms, investors and lenders |
Features and prices as of November 2026.
What it takes to make your first call
Wheelhouse RM API and MCP
- Sign in to your Wheelhouse account
- Generate an API key, or turn on MCP in your account settings
- Using MCP? Add the server to your AI client and sign in
AirDNA API
- Contact AirDNA's sales team
- Get a quote
- Pick packages and endpoints
- Your account manager sets up a private access token
- Send the token as a Bearer header
In use today
Teams ask their portfolio questions through the RM API
We built the RM API for revenue managers who want all their account data in their own tools. 300+ customers were using it in the first week of November 2026.
Casago uses it to talk revenue with owners
Jason Pratts, Owner Success at Casago Desert to Coast: "We took the Wheelhouse RM API and built an MCP our whole team now uses to have real, intelligent revenue conversations with owners." They built skills that "surface opportunities and misconfigurations to our Revenue Manager every morning," too.
Treasure Vacation Rentals asks in plain words
Isaac Baker, Owner of Treasure Vacation Rentals, was "logged into my Codex Terminal, connected to the Wheelhouse RM API, and able to ask direct, natural-language questions about my vacation rentals."
Ask about next year, too
Monthly, quarterly and yearly KPIs cover the next 1.5 years, so you can ask how next summer looks.
Start from ready-made skills
Install the Wheelhouse plugin in Cursor, Claude Code or Codex and you get the MCP server, plus skills for pacing, overpricing, custom rates and leaderboards.
AirDNA API questions
How much does the AirDNA API cost?
It's a quote from AirDNA's sales team. The $20 per listing per month on AirDNA's pricing page is for Adapt, its pricing tool, which we compare in Wheelhouse vs AirDNA.
Can I get AirDNA data for free?
AirDNA's free plan has a limited Rentalizer and limited Market Insights. Its API page doesn't list a free API tier. Inside Airbnb's files are free to download.
Is there an API for Airbnb?
Airbnb's own API is for partners that manage listings and bookings. AirDNA says Airbnb does not offer an open API for market or performance data.
How do I get a Wheelhouse API key?
Generate one in your Wheelhouse account under Api Key. For an AI assistant, go to API & MCP, then MCP, click Enable MCP Access, and add https://mcp.usewheelhouse.com/mcp to your client. Our AI & MCP training videos show it in Claude.
See your own listings in Wheelhouse
A free account lets you link your listings, open your market report and test settings. Paid plans are on the pricing page.