How does SummerOS compare to AirDNA?
SummerOS and AirDNA both offer short-term rental data, but they serve different purposes and are designed for different types of users. If you’re wondering how they compare—or whether you need one, the other, or both—this article breaks it down.
What AirDNA is built for
AirDNA is a market research platform that provides high-level insights into short-term rental trends. It’s most useful for:
- Exploring new markets or properties
- Understanding average occupancy, ADR, and revenue at a macro level
- Estimating general potential for a property based on public STR data
Their data is largely retroactive and aggregated. It’s great for getting a high-level view of how STR markets are trending over time.
What SummerOS is built for
SummerOS is an asset intelligence platform designed for operators—not just researchers or dabblers. It helps professionally-minded hosts, property managers, and investors:
- Forecast revenue for specific properties based on comp sets and amenities
- Track real-time performance vs. projections and market benchmarks
- Understand why a listing is underperforming and what to do about it
- Align your teams across the organization
It connects directly to your PMS and pricing tools, so instead of analyzing the STR market broadly, it shows how your actual portfolio is doing—and what’s driving those results.
Can I use both?
Technically, yes—you can use AirDNA to compare market averages while using SummerOS for forecasting and portfolio management. But for most serious operators, SummerOS ends up replacing the need for AirDNA entirely.
That’s because SummerOS goes beyond market data. It includes market exploration, comp analysis, and revenue projections—but also adds what AirDNA doesn’t: forecasting future performance, comparing actual vs. projected revenue, and creating owner- or investor-ready reports. Instead of juggling disconnected tools, SummerOS gives you one platform to research, act, and prove ROI.
The bottom line
If you’re looking for high-level STR trends, AirDNA can help. But if you’re responsible for performance—whether across 3 homes or 300—you need more than averages. You need answers.
SummerOS is built for professionally-minded hosts and operators who want to forecast with precision, track results in real time, and explain performance with confidence. By combining real comp sets, amenity filters, PMS data, and forward-looking benchmarks, SummerOS gives you projections you can trust and the tools to track whether you're on pace to hit them. It’s not just about what’s happening in the market—it’s about how your listings are doing, and what to do next.
Whether you're a solo host scaling up or a revenue team managing a full portfolio, SummerOS brings everything together so you can stop guessing and start outperforming the market.