# Hotel Price Comparison: Cheapest Site vs Direct

**Use case:** 

Each row carries the cheapest source's rate and, beside it, the official site's own rate for the same night, so the gap between booking direct and booking through an OTA is one subtraction. Corinthia Lisbon over a week of two-night stays; official true means direct is at least as cheap as anywhere. Cost: 7 rate rows at $0.004 = at most $0.03 a run.

## Input

```json
{
  "hotels": [],
  "hotelNames": [
    "Corinthia Lisbon"
  ],
  "checkIn": "21 days",
  "days": 7,
  "nights": 2,
  "adults": 2,
  "childrenAges": [],
  "currency": "EUR",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "pt",
  "maxPrice": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "sessions": 4,
  "perIp": 0.5
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "hotel_name": {
    "label": "Property",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "check_in": {
    "label": "Check-in",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "check_out": {
    "label": "Check-out",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "currency": {
    "label": "Currency",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "price": {
    "label": "Lowest nightly",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "total": {
    "label": "Stay total",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "source": {
    "label": "Cheapest source",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "official": {
    "label": "Official site?",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "official_price": {
    "label": "Official nightly",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "free_cancellation": {
    "label": "Free cancellation",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "n_sources": {
    "label": "Sources",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "rank_in_window": {
    "label": "Rank",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "cheapest_in_window": {
    "label": "Cheapest date",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "source_url": {
    "label": "Book",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Hotel Price Tracker — Google Hotels Price History & Alerts](https://apify.com/kestrel/hotel-price-tracker.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/kestrel/hotel-price-tracker.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/kestrel/hotel-price-tracker.md

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).