Vrbo Prices & Cross-OTA Comparison

Get a real Vrbo price quote for a listing and dates, and compare that property across booking platforms for the cheapest rate. Use for "how much is this Vrbo place" or "is it cheaper elsewhere". Powered by StayingAPI.

Get a real Vrbo price quote — and, because StayingAPI is cross-platform, compare the same property across OTAs for the cheapest rate with a computed min and median.

Setup

If $STAYINGAPI_KEY is not set, read references/auth-setup.md and follow it to get and store the key. A stay_test_ sandbox key works for evaluation at zero cost.

When to use this skill

DO use when the user asks:

• "How much is this Vrbo listing for these dates?"
• "Is this Vrbo place cheaper on another site?"

Do NOT use when:

• The user wants a list of options — use the search skill

Required headers

Every request needs:

• Authorization: Bearer $STAYINGAPI_KEY
• User-Agent: your agent's name (e.g. ClaudeCode/1.0).

Base URL: https://api.stayingapi.com/v1.

Tools

GET /v1/price

Quote one listing for specific dates and occupancy. Pass the platform-native platformListingId returned by /v1/search — numeric on Airbnb and Vrbo, a slug string on Booking.com and Google (e.g. "abramovic2") — or a full listing URL. The response is always a real numeric price or a typed error — never a wrong property's price.

Key parameters:

• platform — vrbo | booking | airbnb | google.
• listingId — Platform-native id from /v1/search platformListingId — numeric (Airbnb/Vrbo) or a slug string (Booking.com/Google). Or pass a url.
• checkIn — YYYY-MM-DD; not in the past.
• checkOut — Must be after checkIn.
• adults — ≥ 1.
• children — ≥ 0.

GET /v1/price-compare

Compare the price of one property across booking platforms in a single call, resolved through the Google Hotels backbone. The response carries the offers plus StayingAPI-computed min and median as first-class fields, so you can read the cheapest and typical cross-OTA price without re-deriving them. No cross-platform short-term-rental price-comparison API exists elsewhere — this is the wedge.

Key parameters:

• name — Property name to resolve.
• googleHotelId — Precise Google Hotels id.
• location — Disambiguating place / "lat,lng".
• checkIn — YYYY-MM-DD; not in the past.
• checkOut — Must be after checkIn.
• adults — ≥ 1.

MCP (no key pasted into the agent)

On an MCP-capable runtime, connect https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp (OAuth 2.1 + PKCE) and use: get_price, compare_prices.

The cross-OTA advantage

StayingAPI is cross-platform: Vrbo data comes back in the same unified schema as Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Google Hotels, and the price-compare tool returns a computed min and median across every OTA — something a single-platform wrapper can't do.

Async & partial failures

A live call that has to scrape returns 202 + a jobId; poll GET /v1/jobs/{jobId} (free) until data.status is completed, then read data.result. On a fan-out, check meta.partial and meta.platformResults[].

Credits

Number-free by design — failed, empty and blocked calls are never billed, and stay_test_ sandbox calls are always free. Current costs: https://stayingapi.com/pricing · full contract: https://api.stayingapi.com/openapi.json.

Trademark

StayingAPI is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vrbo. Vrbo is a trademark of its respective owner.

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