Sabre built its infrastructure for airlines and mega-TMCs. Ogilio was built for agencies that want to own their brand, control their margins, and ship a white-label OTA without a six-figure integration budget.
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Your brand, your domain, your checkout flow — deployed without a systems integrator. Ogilio ships a fully white-labeled booking engine for flights, hotels, and packages that agencies can configure and launch in days, not quarters.
Ogilio connects to GDS feeds, NDC airline APIs, hotel consolidators, and Umrah-specific inventory in a unified layer. You are not locked into one distribution network, and you do not pay per-segment fees that erode your economics as you scale.
Lead tracking, booking history, traveler profiles, and post-sale communication are built into the same platform — not bolted on from a generic SaaS tool. Agents close faster when context lives where they work.
Create flight + hotel + transfer packages with custom markup rules per segment. Sabre requires third-party packaging middleware; Ogilio includes it natively with real-time pricing and availability.
A dedicated workflow for Umrah quotas, group bookings, visa coordination, and Mecca-area hotel inventory — a vertical Sabre does not serve at all. Agencies specializing in religious travel operate in a purpose-built environment.
Set service fees, markup percentages, and net-fare rules by product type, channel, or customer segment. Your pricing strategy stays proprietary — not dictated by GDS fare filing conventions.
Ogilio's recommendation engine surfaces upsell opportunities, flags price-drop alerts for pending quotes, and suggests itinerary alternatives based on traveler history — reducing manual research time per booking.
Serve retail customers through a branded consumer portal and corporate clients through a dedicated B2B interface with negotiated rates and approval workflows — from a single platform instance.
Every Ogilio module exposes REST APIs. Connect your own back-office accounting system, loyalty program, or third-party content provider without waiting for a GDS-certified integration partner to quote the project.
An agency with 5–50 agents wants to go direct-to-consumer with a branded website. Sabre provides no storefront; Ogilio delivers a fully white-labeled B2C portal with flight and hotel search, checkout, and payment in a single deployment.
Operators running Umrah groups or pilgrimage packages need quota management, group pricing, and Arabic-language interfaces. Sabre has no native solution for this vertical. Ogilio's Umrah module was built specifically for it.
A travel management company booking 10,000+ segments per year watches GDS segment fees become a fixed cost of goods. Migrating to Ogilio's NDC-first, fee-transparent model can structurally improve per-booking margin without renegotiating airline contracts.
An agency that has outgrown mid-market tools and wants CRM, OTA, packages, and analytics in one codebase — without stitching six SaaS subscriptions together — finds in Ogilio a single operating layer it can customize via API and own as a competitive moat.
Sabre sells you access to its network. Ogilio gives you a platform you own — your domain, your brand, your customer data. That distinction compounds in value every year as your direct channel grows.
As booking volume increases on Sabre, GDS segment fees increase in lockstep. On Ogilio, your subscription cost stays predictable while your revenue per booking improves because you control markup at every layer.
Sabre was built for horizontal airline distribution. Ogilio was built for the full spectrum of modern agency operations — including verticals like Umrah, package tourism, and religious group travel that GDS infrastructure ignores.
Launching a new product line, entering a new market, or A/B testing a pricing strategy on Sabre requires integrations and certifications. On Ogilio, it requires a configuration change. Agencies that move faster win more.
Comparing Ogilio and Sabre for travel agencies in 2026? See which platform delivers faster setup, better margins, and real white-label control.
Ogilio is not a GDS. It is a white-label OTA SaaS platform that connects to multiple inventory sources — including GDS feeds, NDC airline APIs, hotel consolidators, and Umrah-specific content — and wraps them in a fully branded booking environment that agencies own. Sabre is a distribution network; Ogilio is the operating layer that sits above distribution.
Yes. Ogilio's API-first architecture allows integration with existing GDS agreements. If your agency has negotiated rates or corporate contracts on Sabre, those can be surfaced through Ogilio's booking engine while you progressively migrate toward NDC and direct-connect sources to reduce segment fees over time.
Sabre's total cost of ownership for a mid-market agency typically includes GDS segment fees, a platform access fee, and substantial third-party integration costs for any white-label storefront or CRM functionality. Ogilio operates on a transparent SaaS subscription model that includes the storefront, CRM, Umrah module, and package builder — making the TCO comparison highly favorable for agencies booking under enterprise-scale volume.
Ogilio includes a dedicated Umrah module with group quota management, Mecca-area hotel inventory, visa coordination tracking, and Arabic-language interfaces. This is a purpose-built vertical that has no equivalent in the Sabre ecosystem, making Ogilio the default choice for agencies specializing in religious travel.
A branded Sabre-powered OTA typically requires 6 to 18 months of development through certified integration partners before a consumer-facing product is live. Ogilio's white-label environment can be deployed and configured in a matter of weeks, allowing agencies to generate revenue from their new platform significantly faster.
On Sabre, customer and booking data lives within the GDS infrastructure and is difficult to port. On Ogilio, all customer profiles, booking history, CRM records, and transaction data are owned by your agency and accessible via API at any time. Data portability is a first-class principle of the platform.
Ogilio serves both. The platform includes a B2B portal with negotiated rate management, approval workflows, and cost-center reporting for corporate accounts — alongside the B2C storefront for leisure bookings. Both portals run from a single platform instance, reducing operational complexity for agencies serving mixed client bases.
Sabre's support structure is tiered behind enterprise contracts, meaning smaller agencies often receive limited SLA commitments. Ogilio provides dedicated onboarding, direct technical support access, and ongoing account management regardless of agency size — because mid-market agencies are the core customer, not an afterthought.
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