The line between them
Co-hosting covers the online half of running a short-term rental: the listing, the pricing, the calendar, the screening and every guest message. Full service adds the physical half: cleaning and laundry coordination, restocking, maintenance oversight, check-in support and property inspections.
That is the whole distinction. It is not a quality tier and it is not a support tier. It is a question of which half of the work you are keeping.
The test that actually answers it
Ask yourself one question: do you already have a cleaner you would recommend to a friend?
If yes, co-hosting is usually the right call. A reliable cleaner is the hardest part of the physical half to replace, and if you have solved it, paying someone else to manage that relationship is paying for something you already have.
If no, or if the honest answer is that you clean it yourself between guests, full service is usually the right call. Not because you cannot do it, but because the thing that ends most self-managed hosting arrangements is a turnover that has to happen on a day you are not available.
Where hosts get this wrong
The most common mistake is choosing co-hosting to save six percent while keeping a cleaning arrangement that is really just you. That works until the first weekend you are away, and then it produces the review that costs you more than a year of the difference.
The second most common is choosing full service for a property that is fifteen minutes from your house, where you enjoy the work and you already have a handyman. That is a perfectly good reason to keep the physical half.
You are not stuck with the choice
You can move between plans in either direction and it does not cost anything to change. A reasonable pattern is to start on full service through the first season while the property finds its rhythm, then move to co-hosting once you have found people you trust.
The pricing page sets out exactly what sits in each plan. If you are genuinely unsure, a free consultation will settle it in twenty minutes.