Changelog
What's new in StayingAPI
The shipping log for the unified accommodation data API. Follow along as new platforms, endpoints and integrations land.
location.country was previously null for most of the world on all four platforms. It is now a correct ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. If your code branches on a null country, that branch will now be taken far less often.
location.country — behaviour change
- WHAT MOVED: location.country used to be null for every property outside a small hardcoded set of countries, and the set differed per platform — the same physical property could return a country on one platform and null on another. It now resolves to a correct ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for all 250 countries, identically on Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Google Hotels.
- IF YOU BRANCH ON NULL: that branch will now be taken far less often. Responses that previously carried location.country: null will now carry a real two-letter code. The field type and its null-ability are unchanged — it is still null when a source supplies no recognisable country — so this is a change in how often you see a value, not in the shape of the response.
- The code is resolved from whatever spelling a source emits — full name, local name, three-letter code or two-letter code. Where we cannot resolve one, the response carries a country_unmapped warning so an unmapped value is distinguishable from genuinely absent data, rather than both appearing as null.
- Apps and dashboards now display the country name ("United States") rather than the code, since a two-letter code is correct in an API field and unhelpful in a sentence.
Pre-GA pricing calibration: Vrbo listing and availability are re-priced to reflect the premium, accuracy-first source we now use for Vrbo detail. Every other platform is unchanged.
Vrbo pricing
- Vrbo /v1/listing is now 15 credits (was 3), and /v1/availability has a 12-credit floor (was 5). Vrbo has no clean public feed, so its listing detail and calendar are sourced through a premium path that resolves the EXACT property rather than a plausible-but-wrong one — accuracy first. Vrbo search is unchanged (1 credit per result, min 5).
- All other platforms are unchanged: listing stays 3 credits and availability floors at 5.
- This is pre-GA calibration, not a post-launch price increase. StayingAPI is still pre-marketing — the only live account is our own reference account, so no customer is affected. The standard 30-day advance-notice policy for price changes applies to real customers after launch. meta.creditsCharged always shows the exact cost before you commit, and failed or empty calls remain free.
StayingAPI is live: one unified API for accommodation availability, search and cross-OTA price comparison across Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Google Hotels.
API
- Unified REST API across the Core-4 platforms — search, availability, listing detail, price, reviews and jobs, all returning one { data, meta } schema.
- Flagship cross-OTA /v1/price-compare — one property, every OTA, with server-computed lowest and median rates.
- Cursor pagination, idempotent reads, per-request ids in meta, and Retry-After on rate limits.
- Failed, empty and blocked calls always cost 0 credits — you only pay for answers.
Agents & integrations
- Native MCP server over Streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1 / PKCE and seven read-only tools — Claude Connectors ready.
- Typed SDK (@stayingapi/sdk) with auth, retries, pagination and async-job polling built in.
Billing & dashboard
- Credit-based pricing with a free tier (300 credits, no card) and Starter / Pro / Scale plans whose credits reset monthly.
- Stripe checkout, pay-as-you-go top-ups valid for 30+ days, and a dashboard for API keys and live usage.
Docs & trust
- Full documentation: quickstart, per-endpoint reference, the unified schema, an error catalog, a downloadable OpenAPI spec, and a live Try-It console.
- Published Terms, Privacy and Refund policies, and a committed 99.9% monthly uptime SLA.
More platforms and no-code surfaces are on the way — see what's next on the integrations roadmap.
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