Canary Technologies vs Quicktext
The facts side by side, what each one costs tier by tier, and which of the two we'd pick. Both have been paid for and run at a working European hotel.
The short version
On our hands-on ratings, Quicktext takes it overall, 6/10 against 5/10.
Canary Technologies is built for large US hotel chains wanting a full guest management suite. Quicktext is built for hotels wanting a European AI chatbot with direct booking conversion.
Which we'd pick
Different jobs: Quicktext converts website visitors, Canary manages arrivals.
These barely compete. Quicktext is a French AI chatbot pointed at direct bookings, and Thomas tracked about 9% of availability conversations turning into one. It is EU-hosted, the knowledge base takes two or three minutes to update, and roughly 1,800 hotels run it on barely $1M of funding. Canary is a US guest management suite built around contactless check-in, identity capture, upselling and digital tipping.
If the question is which to buy, it usually is not a choice between these two at all. If it is, the jurisdiction question decides it for European properties, because Canary has no EU hosting and holds passport scans under US law. Both have weak spots worth knowing: Canary's messaging is robotic and its ID capture blurry, while Quicktext's WhatsApp feels like a website widget moved into a messaging app, its PMS integration only runs one way, and it now trades as Quinta and costs from $299 a month, quoted in dollars to European buyers.
Drawn from our individual hands-on reviews rather than a fresh head-to-head test. Where a finding belongs to one of us, we've said whose it is.
| Canary Technologies | Quicktext | |
|---|---|---|
| Our rating | 5/10 | 6/10 |
| Pricing | Quote only. Core, Advanced and Pro tiers, all of them get-quote buttons; the former ~$99/month entry reference is no longer published | Now trading as Quinta. Premium from $299/month, based on room count |
| Best for | Large US hotel chains wanting a full guest management suite | Hotels wanting a European AI chatbot with direct booking conversion |
| HQ | United States (San Francisco, CA) | France (Paris) |
| Founded | 2016 | 2017 |
| Reviewed by | marc | thomas |
What each one costs
Canary Technologies pricing
- Core Quote only
- Mobile check-in, guest messaging and the digital compendium. Get quote.
- Advanced Quote only
- Adds AI messaging responses, tablet registration, dynamic upsells at 0% commission, digital tipping and smart checkout.
- Pro Quote only
- Adds AI webchat. Unlimited users, data and support are stated as included on every subscription, which is the one commercial detail Canary does publish.
Canary has never published a price and still does not. What has changed since our review is that the roughly $99 a month entry reference we recorded is no longer anywhere on the pricing page, so even the rough starting figure has gone. The three tiers are clearly described and every one of them ends in a get quote button. For a company of Canary's size, with over 20,000 properties and $175M raised, declining to state a single number is a choice rather than a constraint.
Quicktext pricing
- Premium From $299/month
- The only tier shown, priced on room count. Bundles eleven products under the new Q- naming, Q-Data, Q-Channel, Q-SEO, Q-Sales, Q-Task, Q-Connect, Q-Hub, Q-Automate, Q-Mail and Q-BI, alongside the fourth-generation Velma chatbot.
Two things moved at once. The rebrand Thomas described as half-finished is now complete: quicktext.im redirects permanently to quinta.im and the site brands itself Quinta throughout, so his complaint about both names circulating is out of date. And the headline price moved from roughly €250 a month to $299, quoted in dollars. For a Paris company selling mainly to European hotels that is worth noticing, because you now carry the exchange risk on a monthly subscription. The product names in our review no longer match the vendor's either.
Prices as last verified during each review. Hotel software pricing moves, and per-room rates behave very differently at 20 rooms and at 200, so run the arithmetic at your own room count. Full detail on Canary Technologies pricing and Quicktext pricing.
Common questions
Which is better, Canary Technologies or Quicktext?
On our ratings Quicktext scores 6/10 against Canary Technologies at 5/10. But the better tool is the one that fits your property, so read both reviews before you decide.
How much do Canary Technologies and Quicktext cost?
Canary Technologies: Quote only. Core, Advanced and Pro tiers, all of them get-quote buttons; the former ~$99/month entry reference is no longer published
Quicktext: Now trading as Quinta. Premium from $299/month, based on room count
Read the full reviews
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Canary Technologies
Canary Technologies has raised $175 million, built a strong guest management platform, and is now eyeing Europe. The product is good. The question is whether European hotels should care.
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Quicktext
Quicktext's chatbot still converts direct bookings and still handles multilingual queries well. They've added WhatsApp and a new brand name. Neither fixes the integration problems I flagged previously.