Tokay vs Uplisting

Tokay and Uplisting both answer guest messages with AI. Tokay is the complete front desk: six agents, the host in control, one flat price. Uplisting is a property management system with an AI reply feature on top, priced in plan tiers and metered at 100 AI actions a month unless you are on the top plan. Here is how they compare.

Side by side

Uplisting facts are from their public material as of October 2026; check their site for the current figure.

The Tokay edge

Six agents, not one feature

Uplisting's AI is a reply feature inside a booking system. Tokay's six agents cover the work a host does every day. Pam answers guests. Ivo reviews prices every morning and recommends changes you approve. Angela turns bank slip photos into expense records and flags a monthly bill that has not arrived. Sam writes tomorrow's cleaning brief every night and rewrites it when a late checkout is agreed. Andy drafts a reply to each review the morning it lands. Leo sends one morning message with what needs you. With Uplisting, all of that beyond the reply stays with the host.

Every message answered, none counted

Uplisting meters its AI at 100 actions a month unless you are on the top plan. A single busy listing in high season can pass that in a fortnight, and after that the host is back to typing. Tokay answers every guest, around the clock, with no per-message count and no usage tier to watch.

You stay in charge of every decision

Uplisting sends when its confidence score is high enough. Tokay earns the right to send in a set order: two weeks where every reply comes to you to approve, edit or deny with a tap, then auto-send switched on one topic at a time. Price changes can be undone for two days. Anything unusual, upset, sensitive or uncertain always comes to you first, and if a fact is missing Pam asks instead of guessing.

Guests answered in their language, not just translated

Pam answers in the guest's own language, more than ten of them including Thai, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and Russian, on Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo where the guest already wrote. Cleaners and contractors are reached on LINE, where staff in Thailand actually are.

One price with nothing variable

Tokay is one plan with the whole team included, no per-message fees, no commission, no share of bookings. $29 per listing monthly, $24 yearly, $24 / $20 from 10 listings, $19 / $16 from 25. Uplisting's price moves with plan tiers and the AI allowance moves with the plan. Tokay's number is the same on a quiet month and a full one.

Where Uplisting stops

Uplisting is built around bookings and calendars, and its AI is a feature inside that. With it, the host still does by hand:

• Replies after the allowance: 100 AI actions a month below the top plan, then the host types. Tokay has no count.
• Pricing: no morning review with recommendations and undo. Tokay's Ivo does this daily and you approve.
• Expenses and bills: no slip-photo records, no watchdog for a bill that has not arrived. Tokay's Angela does both.
• Cleaning: no nightly brief rewritten when plans change. Tokay's Sam writes it and reaches cleaners on LINE.
• Reviews and the morning: no drafted review replies, no one summary of what needs you. Tokay's Andy and Leo cover these.

Pricing side by side

Prices as of October 2026, per month.

Tokay's launch price is kept for life if you join before 31 March 2027, with a full refund within 30 days. Uplisting's figure buys a booking system with a metered reply feature; Tokay's buys the whole front desk with the host approving. Tokay prices are at /#pricing.

How you start

1. Connect your Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo listings. About ten minutes, nothing to install.
2. One short call to tell Tokay your rules in plain sentences: wifi, check-in, house rules, price floors.
3. Two supervised weeks where every reply comes to you first. Then switch on what Tokay may send on its own, one topic at a time.

Questions hosts ask