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Booking.com vs the market.
Booking.com prices 7,110 hotels — 87% of everything we track — across 20 cities. When another site quotes the same stay, it is the cheapest 8% of the time, over 39,859 contests.
Prices as collected on 17 Sep 2026
Where Booking.com wins. And where it doesn’t.
Every city with 100+ contests: how often it had the lowest price there, how many of the city’s hotels it quotes, and where its price usually sits. ★ marks the cities where it wins most often of any site.
- Ljubljana ★ city’s best 53%wins 97%covers 0.0%vs market 112 contests
- Prague 18%wins 97%covers +0.5%vs market 4,011 contests
- Krakow 17%wins 95%covers 0.0%vs market 334 contests
- Athens ★ city’s best 14%wins 77%covers +6.1%vs market 153 contests
- Warsaw 12%wins 90%covers 0.0%vs market 169 contests
- Rome 11%wins 86%covers +3.4%vs market 4,247 contests
- Munich 11%wins 94%covers 0.0%vs market 189 contests
- Budapest 9%wins 88%covers 0.0%vs market 190 contests
- Vienna 9%wins 90%covers +0.2%vs market 3,261 contests
- Berlin 8%wins 89%covers +0.1%vs market 3,555 contests
- Amsterdam 7%wins 90%covers +0.5%vs market 3,794 contests
- Madrid 6%wins 88%covers +0.5%vs market 3,309 contests
- Dublin 6%wins 94%covers 0.0%vs market 183 contests
- Milan 5%wins 76%covers +2.6%vs market 3,626 contests
- Lisbon 4%wins 89%covers +3.5%vs market 3,703 contests
- Copenhagen 4%wins 94%covers +0.3%vs market 178 contests
- Paris 3%wins 78%covers +5.5%vs market 5,113 contests
- Barcelona 2%wins 87%covers +0.6%vs market 3,590 contests
Against the sites that win most.
Sites with a track record — 200 contests and 5% of the hotels — by how often they had the lowest price.
Where Booking.com undercuts everyone today.
The same stay quoted by several sites today, and this one well under the median of the others. Gaps over 60% left out — usually a different room.
Booking.com prices that just fell.
Offers on this site cheaper than the same site asked for the same stay over the previous days.
Compare another one.
Stuff people ask.
Answers written from today’s numbers, not a help page from 2019.
How many hotels does Booking.com sell?
On 17 September 2026, Booking.com had a current price for 7,110 hotels of the 8,198 hotels priced across the tracked cities — 87% of the market — in 20 cities.
Is Booking.com usually the cheapest site?
Booking.com had the lowest price in 8% of the 39,859 contests it took part in on 17 September 2026 — stays that at least one other site quoted too. That places it 12th of the 26 sites with a track record; Trip.com leads at 66%.
Is Booking.com cheaper than the other booking sites?
Booking.com's price typically sits within 1% of the median site quoting the same stay — it is the market, neither a discounter nor a premium. That is the median over 39,859 contests: half the time the gap was smaller, half the time larger, and the per-hotel board on each page shows the actual one.
Where is Booking.com the cheapest most often?
Ljubljana: Booking.com had the lowest price in 53% of its 112 contests there. Its weakest is Barcelona, at 2%.
What do these percentages measure?
Every figure here comes from stays at least two sites priced on the same day: how often Booking.com had the lowest price (ties count), and how far its price sat from the median site, taken as the median over all its contests. A site with fewer than 200 contests or under 5% of the hotels is left out of the ranking — one lucky week is not a track record.
Are the prices shown here live?
Prices are read from the latest completed collection, dated 17 September 2026 (the newest observation anywhere is from 17 September 2026). StayScope shows what each site quoted then, not a live feed, so the seller's own page can differ by the time you open it.
Does StayScope sell rooms?
No — StayScope compares, it does not sell. Each offer is a link to the seller that quoted it; the reservation, the payment and the cancellation terms are the seller's.
Figures as of 17 Sep 2026.