Google Hotel API · cross-OTA price-compare · REST + MCP
Compare one hotel’s price across every OTA — in one call.
SerpApi and SearchApi hand you a raw Google Hotels results page to parse. StayingAPI returns a normalized cross-OTA price comparison — every OTA’s rate for one property, plus a computed lowest and median — in the same schema you use for Airbnb, Booking, and Vrbo.
300 credits free · no credit card · failed calls cost 0 credits
GET /v1/price-compare
?name=D-Resort Sibenik
&checkIn=2026-07-13&checkOut=2026-07-20
&adults=2&children=2
¤cy=EUR{
"data": {
"property": "D-Resort Sibenik",
"checkIn": "2026-07-13",
"checkOut": "2026-07-20",
"currency": "EUR",
"min": 2870,
"median": 2910,
"offers": [
{ "ota": "google_hotels", "totalPrice": 2870, "currency": "EUR",
"url": "https://www.google.com/travel/hotels/entity/ChIJN1t.../prices" },
{ "ota": "booking.com", "totalPrice": 2910, "currency": "EUR",
"url": "https://www.booking.com/hotel/hr/d-resort-sibenik.html" },
{ "ota": "expedia", "totalPrice": 3025, "currency": "EUR",
"url": "https://www.expedia.com/Sibenik-Hotels-D-Resort-Sibenik.h123456" }
]
},
"meta": {
"platforms": ["google"], "cached": false, "creditsCharged": 5, "currency": "EUR",
"platformResults": [{ "platform": "google", "status": "ok", "count": 3 }],
"pagination": null
}
}Show, don’t sell
One property. Every OTA. Computed min & median.
This is an actual /v1/price-compare response, powered by Google Hotels. One call returns each OTA’s total price for the same hotel and dates, plus the lowest and median rate — no SERP to parse.
property + checkIn/checkOutThe hotel and the exact stay the comparison was run for.
minComputed lowest total price across every OTA offer — the answer in one field.
medianComputed median total across offers — a robust “fair price” signal vs a single outlier.
offers[].otaThe source for each price — google_hotels, booking.com, expedia — normalized.
offers[].totalPrice + currencyEach OTA’s total for the stay in one currency, ready to rank.
meta.creditsCharged22 credits for a successful price-compare — and 0 on a failed or empty call.
The same /v1/price-compare endpoint works for short-term rentals too — point it at a property and get every platform’s price with a computed min and median. Google Hotels is the cross-OTA backbone; the response shape never changes, whether you query a 4-star resort or a seafront villa.
Self-serve access
Instant access. No partner application. No sales call.
Google’s own Hotel APIs (Hotel Center, the Hotel Prices feed) are partner-gated, and SERP scrapers leave you to normalize raw results. StayingAPI is self-serve: sign up, get a key, and run a real cross-OTA comparison in under five minutes.
100 free credits — no credit card
Enough to build and test against real price-compare responses before you decide anything.
stay_test_ sandbox at zero cost
Deterministic fixtures wire up your integration before you ever spend a credit.
Predictable credits after that
Starter $19 · Pro $99 · Scale $499, or pay-as-you-go top-ups valid for 30+ days.
- 1Get your free key
- 2curl the /v1/price-compare example
- 3Ship
The trust wedge
Reliability you can build a product on.
SERP scrapers and RapidAPI listings give you raw data and a shrug. We run a product — monitoring, multi-source failover, retries, and caching behind one contract.
99.9% monthly uptime SLA
Committed on the StayingAPI response envelope and published on a public status page. Multi-source failover, retries, and caching sit behind one contract.
Failed calls cost 0 credits
Failed, empty, or blocked calls are never charged. If an OTA source is briefly unreachable you get a typed upstream_unavailable and we charge nothing — not the pay-per-attempt model of raw scrapers.
Honest scope, surfaced in meta
The SLA covers our envelope — accept, authenticate, meter, return a well-formed response. Upstream degradation is surfaced as meta.partial / upstream_unavailable with 0 credits. We don’t bill you for a source’s bad day.
Runnable in five minutes
Run a price comparison in five minutes.
Every sample is copy-paste runnable against your free key and generated from @stayingapi/sdk, so it never drifts from the live API.
curl -s -G "https://api.stayingapi.com/v1/price-compare" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer stay_test_YOUR_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "name=D-Resort Sibenik" \
--data-urlencode "checkIn=2026-07-13" \
--data-urlencode "checkOut=2026-07-20" \
--data-urlencode "adults=2" \
--data-urlencode "children=2" \
--data-urlencode "currency=EUR"
# Tip: your stay_test_ key returns deterministic fixtures at zero cost.The MCP tab adds StayingAPI’s native server (Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 / PKCE) to Claude, Cursor, or n8n — then the agent calls compare_prices({ name: "D-Resort Sibenik", checkIn: "2026-07-13", checkOut: "2026-07-20" }) and reads back min, median, and every OTA offer.
The honest comparison
Google Hotels data: SERP scraper, gated Google API, hotel-only API, or StayingAPI?
| Capability | StayingAPI | SERP scraper (SerpApi / SearchApi / DataForSEO) | Google’s official Hotel APIs | Hotel-only price API (LiteAPI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access | Self-serve, free key in minutes | Self-serve, but raw SERP output | Partner-gated (Hotel Center approval) | Self-serve (hotels only) |
| What you get back | Normalized cross-OTA compare with min / median | Raw Google Hotels SERP listings | Feed/partner integration, not a compare API | Hotel rates (single source) |
| Platform coverage | Hotels + Airbnb + Booking + Vrbo (hotels and STR) | Whatever Google’s SERP shows | Hotels only | Hotels (and flights) only |
| Min / median computed | Yes — in every response | No — you compute it from rows | No | No |
| Output schema | One unified schema, hotels and homes | Raw SERP JSON you normalize | Google-specific | Hotel-specific |
| Reliability | 99.9% SLA, status page, failover | None (SERP availability, no SLA) | Platform-dependent | Vendor-dependent |
| Failed-call billing | Free — 0 credits | You pay per request | n/a | n/a |
| Agent-native (MCP) | First-class MCP + OAuth + Connectors | No | No | MCP-native (hotels only) |
| Pricing | Predictable credits + free tier | Per-request, SERP-priced | Contracts / partnership | Per-call, hotels only |
The honest read: SERP scrapers give you raw Google listings to normalize and price yourself; Google’s official APIs are a gated partner feed, not a compare endpoint; hotel-only APIs cover half the map. StayingAPI returns the comparison done — every OTA, computed min / median, hotels and short-term rentals, one schema, with an SLA.
Built for real work
What developers and agents build on cross-OTA price-compare.
Not “scrape the SERP” — the outcomes a specific reader recognizes, with the comparison already computed.
Rate-shopping & meta-search apps
Show travelers the cheapest bookable rate for a property across every OTA, with a clear lowest-vs-median signal — the engine of a meta-search experience in one call.
Price-drop monitoring & alerts
Track a property and date range; fire a Slack, email, or Telegram alert when the min drops below a threshold — failed polls are free, so watching costs nothing on a miss.
Travel-planning agents
Give your AI agent a “find the cheapest rate” tool: it calls compare_prices, reads min and median, and books or recommends the lowest offer — across hotels and rentals.
Agency cheapest-rate reports
The executive-retreat agency that “stopped checking four sites by hand” now runs one price-compare per property and ships a cheapest-rate report with min / median for the whole shortlist.
Market-rate intelligence
Aggregate min / median across a market and date range to map where rates sit — feed dashboards and pricing models with live cross-OTA data, not stale estimates.
Dynamic & competitive pricing
Benchmark your nightly rate against the live cross-OTA median for comparable inventory and the same dates; feed a pricing engine that prices to the market, not a guess.
Answers
Google Hotel API — frequently asked questions
The questions developers actually search — answered in full, with FAQ structured data for rich results.
Ready-made workflows
Automate it — no code required
Importable n8n workflows and portable AI-agent skills built on this data. Grab one and ship, or browse the whole catalog.
Get your free Google Hotel API key.
300 credits, no credit card. Run your first cross-OTA comparison in under five minutes.
No credit card · failed calls cost 0 credits · native MCP included