Revio vs Mews
A modern cloud PMS with a large open API and marketplace, aimed at design-forward hotels and groups that want to build on top of their platform.
Checked against their own published material, August 2026. No prices of theirs are quoted — those are negotiated, and we would get them wrong.
Mews assumes you will assemble the rest.
Their open API and marketplace are genuinely a strength — if you have someone whose job is choosing, wiring and maintaining the integrations. If you do not, an ecosystem is a set of subscriptions and boundaries you now own. Revio ships the three pieces on one core, so the parts that would otherwise be integrations are simply not separate things.
Where Mews is genuinely better
They are larger, older and further along than we are. If one of these decides it for you, it should — and we would rather you knew now than three weeks into an evaluation.
- A far deeper PMS, built over many more years and many more properties.
- An open API and marketplace that is genuinely best in class if you will use it.
- Multi-property and group functionality proven at a scale we have not reached.
- Enterprise procurement, security questionnaires and contractual SLAs handled as routine.
Feature by feature.
| Revio | Mews | |
|---|---|---|
| Property management | RevioPMS — front desk, housekeeping, folios, outlets, maintenance, night audit. | Yes. Deep, mature, and their core strength. |
| Distribution | RevioLink, part of the same platform and reading the same availability. | Via connected channel managers and marketplace partners. |
| Reservation analytics | Computed from the one reservation record — occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, pickup, lead time. | Strong reporting, plus a marketplace of revenue-management tools. |
| How you assemble it | You do not. The three products are one system with three faces. | API and marketplace — powerful, and it is work somebody has to own. |
| Who it is priced for | Independents and small groups. No platform fee under 31 rooms. | Generally larger properties and groups. |
| Contract | Month to month. | Typically an annual agreement — confirm what you are offered. |
| Direct bookings | RevioDirect at 2%, on the same availability, with all-in pricing shown from the first search result. | Booking engine available in the platform. |
| Who answers when it breaks | The people who wrote it. There are not many of us — that is the trade, in both directions. | A full support organisation with defined service levels. |
Pick Revio if…
- You are an independent or a small group and Mews is priced for someone larger.
- You do not have anyone whose job is maintaining integrations.
- You want distribution and operations to share one availability number without an integration in between.
- You will not sign an annual contract to try software.
Pick Mews if…
- You are a group with the scale, the budget and the team to build on a platform.
- You need a specific marketplace app that only exists in their ecosystem.
- Your procurement requires a contractual SLA with remedies today.
We set it up for you
Your rooms, your rates, your channel mappings — loaded by us, not left to you on a Sunday night.
Free until your first booking syncs
Billing starts once the software has demonstrably worked. We can prove the date, because the platform records the first successful push.
30 days, money back
Change your mind in the first month and we refund it. No form, no retention call.
No contract, ever
Month to month. Leave whenever you want, and take your data with you.
Judge it against your own rooms.
Twenty minutes on real inventory. If Mews is the better answer for you, we will say so — it costs us less than a customer who leaves in March.
Everything above describes what each product is designed to do, checked against each vendor’s own published material. We do not quote their prices, because those are negotiated and regional and we would get them wrong. If you think something here is unfair or out of date, tell us and we will fix it — a comparison page we have to defend is worth more to us than one that flatters us. Mews is a trademark of its owner; we are not affiliated with them.