Compare with Padel Mates

Padel Mates

Price on request

Padel Mates gives its price only on request¹

PLAI

€0/year

With payment fees^*, on €200,000 of online payments a year

With Padel Mates^*

Price on request

Padel Mates gives its price only on request, so its yearly total cannot be given¹.

With PLAI^*

€2,000/year

No plan. Payment fees^*: 1% × €200,000 = €2,000

^* Transaction fees are charged by the payment service provider (PSP) that processes card payments, with PLAI as with Padel Mates. They are not a software fee.

^** Padel Mates may add its own markup on top of the PSP fee.

Side by side

Every fact about the other product comes from its own public pages, read on the date shown. A number in the table points to its source.

Feature	Padel Mates
What it costs
PriceA month, on the same scale	Price on request Not published: book a demo¹	€0 PLAI€0 €0 a month, €0 setup, no paid extras
Fees on online payments	Not published Not found on Padel Mates's public pages	Only on PLAI Card fees about three times lower than Stripe's standard rate in France of 1.5% + €0.25 per standard European card²
Contract and trial	Not published Not found on Padel Mates's public pages	Only on PLAI No contract; nothing to trial, since it costs €0
Run your venuePLAI has one offer with everything in it.
Sports	Racket, padel first Racket sports clubs, padel first¹	Multi-sport Racket sports, golf, fitness, yoga, pilates and other studio classes
Memberships and packs	Yes Subscriptions, memberships, credits, packages and a reward programme¹	Included Memberships, packs of sessions and credit; member, newcomer and off-peak prices
Settings	Yes Reservations, schedules and availability¹	Included Booking rules, refund policy, opening hours, spaces and equipment, offers, products and packs, member, newcomer and off-peak prices, customer attributes, team roles, online and in-person payments, a public page that search engines and AI assistants can read, and a log of changes
Till at the desk	None No till on its page¹	Only on PLAI Cash or a card reader, sales even offline, stock, a chained sales journal with daily closes and a sealed yearly archive, copies for your accountant
Integrations and hardware	None No integrations or hardware among the features on its page¹	Only on PLAI Door access, a card reader and client import
Support and setup	Yes Personal support, praised in its customer reviews¹	Included Help by email or call, with full support during onboarding
Analytics	Yes Statistics, a module of its platform¹	Included Bookings, revenue, occupancy, players, hours, sport mix, courts, times of day, top players and loyalty, a heat map by weekday and hour, exports and a monthly email of the month before
AI assistant	None Its pages show no AI assistant¹	Only on PLAI Ace, built into PLAI Business: ask about your bookings and revenue, find your way around the app and your settings, and let Ace make changes for you, by text or by voice
Players and communityHow players and members find your venue, follow it, talk to each other and play together.
Your venue online	In the Padel Mates app Players book in the Padel Mates app¹	Included Your own page on plai.live with your sports, address and booking link, and your venue in the PLAI app, in front of players and members near you
App for players and members	Yes Yes: the Padel Mates app¹	Included Yes: the PLAI app on iPhone, Android and the web, where players and members find venues, book, pay their share and join open games
Communities	Community tools Community tools for members, as part of its communication tools¹	Included Each community has its own feed, members, group chat and activities, including members-only games. PLAI's own communities carry rankings, from the world to your city. Public or private, open, by request or by invitation; your venue gets its own members' community
Messages	Yes Messaging, as part of its communication tools¹	Included An inbox for your venue, private and group chats and a chat for each activity, with photos, videos, files and voice messages, replies, reactions, polls, mentions and forwards. System messages post themselves: a cancelled booking and its refund, a new time, who joined or left, and requests to join to accept in the chat
Feed and club news	Yes Announcements, updates and community tools for members¹	Included Your venue posts news, photos, videos and polls with a booking button; players follow you, react and comment
Tournaments	Yes Tournaments with brackets and registrations; leagues with standings, divisions and fixtures¹	Included Entry with a partner and online payment, waiting lists, draws, match scheduling, live scores and standings
AI video analysis	None No match video on its page¹	Only on PLAI Upload a padel match video to an activity: AI tracks the court, players and ball, with rallies, highlights, a points timeline and match stats. Each player gets their own view: where they stood on the court, distance run and time near the net, side by side with another player. Any rally can be shared as a clip. In beta

Why PLAI

A category of its own

PLAI is a sports marketplace that connects players and members with sport and wellness venues worldwide. It is a free app for players and members, and an all-in-one platform for venues and coaches to run their day.

Sport is the new social network

Players and members follow venues and friends, share posts, react and comment, and find open games near them, all in the PLAI app.

Four padel players shake hands across the net after a game

PLAI app, Featured feed: an open game near you with likes, comments and 3 of 4 players, demo data

Every sport, all in one place

Racket sports, golf, fitness, yoga and pilates, with booking, packs, the till, tournaments, messages and the feed in one app. Padel Mates says it is built for modern racket sports clubs¹.

Padel players on an outdoor court at sunset

A tennis player on a blue court by the sea

PLAI app, Create an activity: what do you want to do? Running, cycling and hiking anywhere, yoga anywhere or online, padel, tennis, 5-a-side and climbing at a club, with padel at a club picked, demo data

AI-native

Ace runs your venue with you. The name says it: PLAI is play + AI. Ace, the assistant built into PLAI Business, reads your numbers, guides you through the app and makes changes for you once you confirm, by text or by voice. AI also tracks the court, players and ball in your padel match videos. Padel Mates' own pages show no AI assistant¹.

A player checks in at a sports club reception desk

PLAI Business on a phone: Ace compares this week with last, then gets ready to change the opening hours, nothing changes before you confirm, demo data

100% free

€0 to run your venue, from one venue to a whole chain. No subscription, no setup fee, no contract and no paid extras, however many venues you run.

Padel Mates gives its price only on request, so its yearly total cannot be given. The chart shows PLAI alone: PSP fees of 1% on €200,000 of online payments, a year

PLAI, per venue: PSP fees at 1%€2,000

1 venuePrice on request

3 venuesPrice on request

15 venuesPrice on request

Padel Mates gives its price only on request, so its yearly total cannot be given¹.

Can I move from Padel Mates to PLAI?

Yes. Send us your clients and upcoming events as a CSV or Excel file and we import them in 15 minutes. The app then walks you through closing bookings on your old tool and pointing your customers to PLAI.

How we compared

This page is published by PLAI, one of the two products compared. Every fact about Padel Mates comes from its own public pages, listed under Sources with the date we read them; a number in the table points to its source. Prices and offers change: check Padel Mates's pages before you decide. PLAI is not affiliated with Padel Mates; its name is a trademark of its owner. To compare costs on your own numbers, read How much does venue management software cost?

Sources

Padel Mates home page, read 6 November 2026
Stripe pricing for France, read 4 November 2026

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