Turno vs TIDY

Turno is free if you exclusively use cleaners from its marketplace — the platform earns from cleaner-side fees instead. If you run your own cleaning team, Host Subscription runs $8–10 per property per month (annual discounts available), covering scheduling, checklists and auto-payments for your own "non-Turno teammates."

TIDY’s Flex plan charges 3% of each job’s cost with no fee at all on inactive properties — genuinely usage-based, which suits seasonal or lower-occupancy hosts. Standard is a flat $10/unit/month (annual) or $20 monthly for hosts who’d rather have predictable billing. Both scored 9/10 on value; run your numbers against your actual turnover volume, since the 3%-of-job-cost model can edge out a flat per-property fee at low volume and reverse at high volume.

Turno’s marketplace is its defining feature: 55,000+ vetted cleaning professionals across major markets worldwide, bookable directly through the platform when you need coverage — new market, sick cleaner, sudden portfolio growth. Its own data suggests improving cleanliness scores from 4.6 to 4.8 through the automation and accountability tools can lift bookings by roughly 20%.

TIDY also runs a vendor marketplace for cleaners and maintenance pros, but it’s smaller and more US-focused, with quality depending on local pro availability. If sourcing reliable cleaners on demand is your actual problem (not just scheduling the ones you already have), Turno’s network size is the deciding factor.

TIDY markets itself as AI-powered: it automates turnover scheduling, generates inspection tasks, and can trigger restocking based on PMS data patterns, aiming to reduce the host’s day-to-day decision load. In our testing, its automation felt genuinely predictive rather than just rule-based.

Turno automates the core loop reliably — reservations import from your PMS/OTA and cleans get scheduled with primary and backup cleaner assignments — but it’s automation-by-rules rather than AI-driven inference. Both scored well (Turno 10/10 automation, TIDY 9/10), and the practical difference is subtle: TIDY adapts more; Turno is more predictable and easier to reason about when something needs manual override.

Turno connects broadly across major PMS and OTA platforms for reservation sync, and its built-in Stripe payments mean cleaner payouts happen automatically inside the platform — no separate payment step.

TIDY integrates directly with Host Tools, Beds24, Housecall Pro and ChargeAutomation, and covers additional platforms via iCal or Zapier — workable, but an extra layer of setup for PMS platforms outside its direct list. TIDY also has no native payment processing, relying on integrations for that piece. If a single connected platform with payments built in matters to you, Turno is more complete out of the box.

Turno’s photo-guided checklists, inventory tracking and cleaner performance tools give hosts a clear before/after record and a way to hold cleaners accountable, accessible through dedicated host and cleaner apps.

TIDY’s mobile app for pros includes GPS check-in, photo documentation and real-time status updates, with AI-generated inspection tasks layered on top. Quality control is a wash between them — both give you the photo evidence and structure that separates a real STR cleaning platform from a group text with your cleaner.