Comparison
Park Graph vs Neighbor: Which Parking Platform Fits Your Operation?
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Owner facts: Park Graph vs Neighbor
The six things lot owners ask first, checked against each company's own pages on . Neighbor's pages for every cell are linked in Sources, and its fees are at help.neighbor.com/en_us/payment-basics-BJ7t5rl6c.
| Owner question | Park Graph | Neighbor |
|---|---|---|
| Fees | Starter: $0 a month and 10% of each payment (minimum $0.75). Pro ($499/mo) and Enterprise ($2,499/mo) lower the fee to as little as 3.3%. Stripe's card processing fee applies on top. All published at /pricing. | Free to list. Neighbor adds a service fee to each renter payment and withdraws a processing fee from each host payout; the current rates are on its Payment Basics help page. |
| Payouts | To your bank account through Stripe. Your first payout is released 7 days after your first payment, once your ID check is done. After that, payouts arrive 2 business days after each payment. | Once per monthly rental period. Renters are charged at the start of the period, and Neighbor sends the host payout through Stripe at the end of it; it reaches the bank a few business days later. |
| Setup time | Same day. Sign up, add the lot and set your rates in a few minutes, then print the QR sign on any printer and post it. No hardware and no install visit. | Listing is free and online. Each booking starts when a renter sends a request and you approve it; garage operators start with a call to Neighbor's team. |
| Enforcement | You decide: your own staff or a tow operator you hire, under your local rules. The sign posts the notice, and plate lookup in your dashboard shows who paid. Park Graph has no enforcement crew; Wins Parking, its parent company, offers enforcement in select markets by separate agreement. | No enforcement service found on Neighbor's host pages. Renters are approved by the host and rent a specific space. |
| App-less QR pay | Yes, it is the default. Drivers scan the sign and pay in the browser with Apple Pay, Google Pay or a card. No app and no account. | No drive-up QR payment found. Renters search and book on Neighbor's website or app before they arrive. |
| AI booking | Lots are findable by AI assistants through the public API and MCP server on every plan. On Pro and Enterprise, assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT can also book and pay for a space. | Neighbor has an app in ChatGPT's app directory for finding storage and parking, and a read-only partner API for reservations and leads. |
Snapshot: Park Graph vs Neighbor at a glance
Eight dimensions, two columns, no fluff. The values come directly from each vendor's public material — see the Sources section at the bottom of this page for the URLs and verification dates behind every cell in the Neighbor column.
| Dimension | Park Graph | Neighbor |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment model | Self-serve software the owner runs at the lot | Marketplace listing; renters book month to month online |
| Hardware required | None — printable QR sign | None; the host arranges access to the space |
| Driver QR-pay flow | Scan, pay, park — no app, no account | No drive-up QR pay found; renters book in advance |
| AI-agent / MCP ready | Public MCP server + ChatGPT Actions | App in ChatGPT's directory for finding storage and parking |
| Operator API depth | Full public REST API + webhooks | Read-only partner API (organization, reservations, leads) |
| Pricing model | Published per-payment fee; free Starter plan | Free to list; renter service fee plus a fee on host payouts |
| Strongest vertical | Hourly, daily, event and monthly paid parking | Monthly storage and parking for vehicles, RVs, boats and items |
| Typical time to first paid session | Same day (print and post the QR sign) | When a renter requests a booking and you approve it |
Best for Neighbor
A fair comparison starts by acknowledging where the other vendor is the right call. Neighbor is a real product with a real fit. These are the buyer profiles who should probably stick with Neighbor (or pick it new), not replace it with Park Graph.
Owners who want monthly storage renters
Neighbor is built for month-to-month rentals of a space for a vehicle, RV, boat, trailer or items. If your lot works better as long-term storage than as daily parking, that is Neighbor's core business.
Hosts who want renters brought to them
Neighbor markets listings to people searching its marketplace, and garage operators can join through a parking-operator program with account managers and a rebate program.
Hosts who want a host guarantee
Neighbor advertises a $1 Million Host Guarantee and payout protection for up to two months, which it says its processing fee pays for.
Hosts who want to approve every renter
On Neighbor each reservation starts as a request, and the host approves it before the renter is charged for the first month.
Best for Park Graph
And these are the buyer profiles where Park Graph is the better fit — the cases where the operating shape, the cost model, or the AI-agent surface tilt the comparison toward operator-side software.
Owners who want hourly and daily drivers
Park Graph charges drivers by the hour, day or month at the sign, so a lot earns from short visits, events and commuters, not only from monthly renters.
Lots with no time to approve requests
With Park Graph any driver can scan the sign and pay. There is no booking request to accept and no key, remote or gate code to hand over.
Owners who want payouts after each payment
After the first release, Park Graph pays out 2 business days after each payment. Neighbor pays hosts once per monthly rental period, at its end.
Owners who want AI assistants to book their lot
On Pro and Enterprise, assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT can book and pay for a space at your lot through Park Graph's MCP server.
Feature matrix
A row-by-row look at how the two products handle the things operators actually have to deliver — the driver flow, the operator dashboard, the API surface, the brand on the receipt. Where Neighbor's row reads “not publicly documented” or “partner-only,” we checked their public site on the date noted in the Sources section.
| Feature | Park Graph | Neighbor |
|---|---|---|
| Fees | Published per-payment fee; Starter is $0 a month | Free to list; renter service fee and a processing fee on each host payout (rates on Neighbor's help center) |
| Payouts | 2 business days after each payment, after the first release | Once per monthly rental period, at its end |
| Setup time | Same day | Free online listing; first booking when a renter requests and you approve |
| Enforcement | Your staff or a tow operator you hire; plate lookup shows who paid | No enforcement service found; renters are approved by the host |
| App-less QR pay | The default driver flow | No drive-up QR pay found |
| AI booking | Findable on every plan; bookable by assistants on Pro and Enterprise | App in ChatGPT's directory for finding storage and parking |
| Rental length | Hourly, daily, multi-day and monthly passes | Month to month |
| Who sets the price | You; drivers pay the price they see | Host sets the listing price; Neighbor adds a renter service fee |
| Driver flow | Scan the sign, pay, park | Search, request a booking, wait for approval, then move in |
| Public API | Full public REST API with webhooks | Read-only partner API: organization, reservations, leads |
| Vehicle types | Cars, plus separate truck and trailer rates | Vehicles, RVs, boats, trailers and stored items |
| Contract | None on Starter; Pro and Enterprise monthly or annual | Renters cancel any month |
Pricing model — qualitative comparison
Neighbor and Park Graph charge in different places. Neighbor says listing is free; it adds a service fee to what the renter pays, and it withdraws a processing fee from each monthly host payout. The renter's service fee varies by listing, so the price a renter sees is higher than the price the host set. Park Graph charges the owner a published per-payment fee, with a free Starter plan and lower fees on paid plans, and Stripe's card processing fee on top. Drivers pay the rate on your sign. Which costs less depends on how you rent: a handful of monthly storage renters suits a marketplace; steady daily traffic suits a per-payment fee.
We deliberately do not quote a Neighbor percentage, per-transaction fee, or contract minimum on this page. Public material from Neighbor does not always publish those numbers as a single rate, and inventing a number to make a comparison chart look tidier would be the exact kind of fake claim this page is built to avoid. For your specific deal, see Neighbor's own published pricing at help.neighbor.com/en_us/payment-basics-BJ7t5rl6c or ask your Neighbor account manager — and for Park Graph, our pricing is published at /pricing with no hidden contract minimums.
Deployment, hardware, and time to launch
A Neighbor listing goes up online for free, with photos and a price. From there, each rental starts when a renter requests the space and the host approves it, and the host arranges access. Garage operators with many stalls start with a call to Neighbor's team. Park Graph deploys as a printed QR sign and a web dashboard: add the lot, set rates, print and post the sign, and the next driver can pay. Neither needs hardware. The difference is whether each customer is a booking you approve or a driver who simply pays.
The single biggest practical difference between Park Graph and Neighbor on most lots is how long it takes to accept the first paid session. Print, post, and accept payments — same day — is a different shape of operating motion than a procurement, install, or marketplace listing review.
AI-agent readiness, public API, and MCP
As of 2026-10-29, Neighbor has an app in ChatGPT's app directory, listed by Neighbor Storage, Inc., for finding storage and parking, and it documents a read-only partner API for reading an organization's reservations or leads. Park Graph publishes a public REST API with webhooks, an MCP server and a ChatGPT integration. Listed Park Graph lots are findable by assistants on every plan, and on Pro and Enterprise an assistant can book and pay for a space for the driver.
AI-agent commerce moved from theory to a real distribution channel in 2025 and 2026. Drivers ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to find and pay for parking at the destination they are headed to, and assistants that speak Model Context Protocol can complete that transaction inside the chat. Park Graph publishes a public MCP server and ChatGPT Actions manifest so any lot in the network is reachable to those assistants. See our MCP server and ChatGPT Actions docs for the full surface.
QR-payment comparison
Neighbor is a booking marketplace, not a pay-at-the-lot system: renters find a space, request it, and are charged monthly once the host approves. We found no drive-up QR payment on Neighbor's pages. Park Graph's driver flow starts at the lot: scan the sign, pick a time, pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay or a card, and park. A lot can use both, with Neighbor for monthly renters on some spaces and the Park Graph sign for everyone else.
A working QR-pay flow is now table stakes for any operator who wants to capture walk-up demand. The right comparison question is not “does the vendor support QR” (most do at this point) — it is “is QR the default driver flow with no app install required, or is it an add-on to the primary flow?” That distinction shows up directly in driver conversion at the lot.
Migration path
You do not have to move anyone. Keep your current Neighbor renters on Neighbor; its terms forbid moving a Neighbor reservation off the platform. Step 1: decide which spaces stay on Neighbor and which you will open to daily drivers. Step 2: sign up for Park Graph, add the lot and set rates for those spaces. Step 3: print the QR sign and post it at those rows. Step 4: as Neighbor rentals end, choose whether to relist the space on Neighbor or sell a Park Graph monthly pass for it.
Most operators run both products side by side for thirty days before making a per-lot decision. The cost of running both is small (a printed sign and a free Starter plan on the Park Graph side); the cost of switching prematurely on a single hunch is much larger. We are happy to help design that thirty-day comparison — see our contact page.
About Neighbor
Neighbor launched in 2017 in Utah and is based in Lehi. It runs a marketplace for storage and parking: hosts list garages, driveways, sheds, unpaved lots and parking lots, and renters book space month to month for items, vehicles, RVs, boats and trailers. Neighbor charges renters at the start of each rental period and pays hosts at its end through Stripe, and it offers a host guarantee and payout protection. It also works with businesses, including parking operators that list vacant stalls, and announced a $53M Series B in January 2024.
Neighbor was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Lehi, Utah. Neighbor is independently held. The company's public site is www.neighbor.com.
About Park Graph
Park Graph is AI-native parking management software. The product turns any parking lot into a QR-pay surface in under five minutes, ships an operator dashboard with sessions, revenue, occupancy, and payouts, and publishes a public REST API, an MCP server, and a ChatGPT Actions integration so AI assistants can find, quote, and pay for parking on behalf of drivers. Pricing is a per-transaction software fee with a three-tier ladder (Starter is free, Pro is monthly, Enterprise is monthly with a lower transaction fee and white-label). There is no hardware to buy, no integrator to schedule, and no contract minimum on Starter.
See the product overview, how Park Graph works, QR-code payments, AI-agent booking, developer docs, the MCP server, and pricing.
Related comparisons
Sources
Every claim on this page about Neighbor is verified against a public source on the date listed below. If you find a stale claim, reach out and we will refresh it.
- Neighbor — How do payouts work as a host? — verified October 29, 2026
- Neighbor — Payment Basics (renter service fee, host processing fee) — verified October 29, 2026
- Neighbor — become a host — verified October 29, 2026
- Neighbor — for parking operators — verified October 29, 2026
- Neighbor — Series B announcement (2017 launch in Utah) — verified October 29, 2026
- Neighbor — public partner API docs — verified October 29, 2026
- ChatApp Radar — Neighbor's ChatGPT app listing (developer Neighbor Storage, Inc.) — verified October 29, 2026
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Print a QR sign, post it at your lot, and accept payments today. Run side by side with Neighbor for thirty days, then decide per lot.
FAQ — Park Graph vs Neighbor
- Is Park Graph a Neighbor alternative for lot owners?
- Yes, if you want drivers to pay by the hour, day or month at your lot. Neighbor is a marketplace for month-to-month storage and parking rentals that you approve one by one; Park Graph lets any driver scan your sign and pay. Many lots could use both on different spaces.
- How does Neighbor charge hosts?
- Neighbor says listing is free. It adds a service fee to each renter payment and withdraws a processing fee from each monthly host payout; the current rates are on Neighbor's Payment Basics help page. Park Graph's fees are published at /pricing.
- When does Neighbor pay hosts?
- Neighbor charges the renter at the start of each monthly rental period and sends the host payout through Stripe at the end of it, per its help center. Park Graph pays out 2 business days after each payment once your first payout is released.
- Can I rent out my lot by the hour on Neighbor?
- Neighbor's help center describes reservations as month to month. For hourly or daily parking, Park Graph charges drivers at the sign, and you can still sell monthly passes.
- Does Neighbor work with AI assistants?
- Neighbor has an app in ChatGPT's app directory for finding storage and parking. Park Graph publishes an MCP server and a ChatGPT integration; listed lots are findable on every plan, and assistants can book on Pro and Enterprise.
- Can I use Neighbor and Park Graph on the same lot?
- Yes, on separate spaces. Keep monthly renters on Neighbor and post a Park Graph sign at the rows you open to daily drivers. Neighbor's terms forbid moving a Neighbor reservation off its platform, so leave existing Neighbor renters there.
- Who handles drivers who don't pay?
- With Park Graph you do, or a tow operator you hire, under your local rules; the sign posts the notice and plate lookup shows who paid. We found no enforcement service on Neighbor's host pages; its renters are approved by the host.
- Is Spacer the same kind of service as Neighbor?
- Broadly, yes: both are marketplaces where hosts rent out parking month to month to renters who book online. Our Park Graph vs Spacer page compares Spacer's fees and payouts line by line.
- Where are the sources behind these claims?
- Every claim about Neighbor on this page is sourced to Neighbor's own pages or a named third party, listed in the Sources section with the date we checked it.