Hotel rooms for about 14% less, and the price on the screen is the price on your card.
Live search opens when our supply platform connects. The ledger below shows exactly what you will see: the whole price, first.
01The shape of our ledger, next to what the big sites ask
| Property | Dates | Big site | You keep | The fare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanfront boutiqueSouth Beach | 21–24 Jul | Big sites $412 | You keep $65 a night | $347 |
| Design hotelCollins Avenue | 21–24 Jul | Big sites $298 | You keep $47 a night | $251 |
| Four-starMid-Beach | 21–24 Jul | Big sites $235 | You keep $28 a night | $207 |
| Garden hotelMid-Beach | 21–24 Jul | Big sites $189 | You keep $25 a night | $164 |
02How one of those numbers is built
| Wholesale room rate | $171 |
| Taxes | $24 |
| Resort fee | $5 |
| Our markup, 4%. This is how Levelfare makes money. | $7 |
| What you pay, per night | $207 |
03 What we charge
3 to 5%
That is our markup. It is already inside every number above, it does not change at checkout, and it is the only money we make on your booking.
04What this site will not do
No countdown timers.
No fee added at checkout.
No membership.
05Why the number can be lower
Levelfare books through a wholesale hotel platform, the same kind of inventory a travel agency uses. That inventory is priced below the public rate because it is sold in volume and it is not advertised. We add a flat 3 to 5% on top and show you the result.
The large booking sites work the other way around. They take a commission from the hotel, typically 15 to 25%, and that commission is inside the rate you see. Then a resort fee, a service fee, or a cleaning fee arrives on the confirmation screen. The number you compared was never the number you paid.
We are not doing anything clever. We are showing the total first and taking a smaller cut. That is the entire business.
06If you sent an agent
Machines are welcome here. Levelfare is being built agent-first: deterministic prices, machine-readable policies, and a booking interface that says what it will do and then does it. The fare your AI agent sees is the fare you see, because there is only one fare.
Until the booking API opens, agents can read /llms.txt, and the people who build them can read the agent contract and the guides.
Preview build. Rates shown are illustrative samples, not live inventory; live search connects when the supply platform account is provisioned.