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ThinkReservations vs Cloudbeds

Name: ThinkReservations and Cloudbeds in AI answers about hotel property management software
Creator: Broadcastwell
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ThinkReservations: 11 of 149. Cloudbeds: 115 of 149. Same ten buyer questions, same five engines, same day. There was no question where ThinkReservations was named and Cloudbeds was not. All five engines named ThinkReservations at least once.

Cloudbeds is the most named checked vendor in hotel property management software in this release, so every other vendor in the category is compared with it.

One capture on 22 September 2026, ten fixed questions, three runs per engine. Not a ranking, and an engine can answer differently on a refresh.

The ThinkReservations record · The Cloudbeds record

Side by side

All ten buyer questions, five engines, three runs. Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.
Measure	ThinkReservations	Cloudbeds
Named	11 of 149 (7.4%, Wilson 95% interval 4.2% to 12.7%)	115 of 149 (77.2%, Wilson 95% interval 69.8% to 83.2%)
Own domain cited	2 of 149 (1.3%, Wilson 95% interval 0.4% to 4.8%)	38 of 149 (25.5%, Wilson 95% interval 19.2% to 33.1%)

By question

Counts per question, over that question's valid answers.

ThinkReservations and Cloudbeds, named per buyer question.
Buyer question	ThinkReservations	Cloudbeds
What is the best hotel PMS for a small independent hotel?	4 of 15	15 of 15
What is the best PMS for a boutique hotel?	3 of 15	15 of 15
What is the best hotel PMS for a mid size hotel group?	0 of 15	13 of 15
What are the best alternatives to Opera PMS?	0 of 15	15 of 15
What are the best alternatives to Cloudbeds?	0 of 15	15 of 15
What are the best alternatives to Maestro PMS?	4 of 15	15 of 15
Mews vs Cloudbeds, which PMS is better?	0 of 15	15 of 15
Maestro PMS vs RoomKeyPMS, which is better for an independent hotel?	0 of 15	0 of 15
What should I look for in a hotel property management system?	0 of 15	2 of 15
What is the best PMS for a hotel group with eight properties?	0 of 14	10 of 14

By engine

Each engine's count over its valid answers to all ten questions.

ThinkReservations and Cloudbeds, named per engine.
Vendor	ChatGPT	Claude	Perplexity	Google AI Overviews	Google AI Mode
ThinkReservations	1 of 30	5 of 30	1 of 30	1 of 29	3 of 30
Cloudbeds	26 of 30	24 of 30	21 of 30	21 of 29	23 of 30

Measured head to head

No question in this release asked the engines to choose between ThinkReservations and Cloudbeds; the counts above come from the ten buyer questions.

What the engines said about each

For a U.S. inn, include ThinkReservations in those demos.

ChatGPT, 22 September 2026. Full answer text in the deposit.

I’d start with Cloudbeds for an all-around independent-hotel PMS, but for a very small, owner-operated hotel, I’d compare Little Hotelier first.

ChatGPT, 22 September 2026. Full answer text in the deposit. Dash punctuation normalized.

One sentence per engine at most, chosen by a fixed rule: the first full sentence naming a checked vendor, read in run order. Every answer in full: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695.

What to do with this

ThinkReservations claims its record, free, and runs the free check on its own name. The widest gap is on “What are the best alternatives to Opera PMS?”: that is the question to fix with Answer Repair, $490.
Cloudbeds claims its record, free: claim the Cloudbeds record.
Buyers: both figures are observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. Ask each vendor for a dated record.

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Receipt

Release: 2026-09, published 23 September 2026
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22907695
Method: v1.1: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode; ten fixed buyer questions per category; three runs per engine
Captured: 22 September 2026
Base: 149 valid answers across ten questions; 1 excluded
Licence: CC BY 4.0, attribution to Broadcastwell
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Any named company may request one no-cost re-run at index@broadcastwell.com; both results are published.

Prepared by the Broadcastwell team.

Page owner: Vikram Patel, AI Architect. Corrections: index@broadcastwell.com

Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

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