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The self-hosted AppFolio alternative

Rentara: Automatic rent posting, late fees, and a tenant self-service portal for the portfolio you already manage. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying AppFolio every month.

Own Rentara for $119 Try the live demo

Stop renting AppFolio.

AppFolio No public price to a European visitor - Core, Plus and Max answer 'Get a Quote' ('*Minimum spend and 50 unit minimum apply'). The page's US data publishes per-unit rates: Core $1.49 per unit/month with a 50-unit minimum, Plus $3.20, Max $5.00. The minimum spend is not stated Rentara is $119 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.

How AppFolio pricing grows

AppFolio's pricing is quote-only, and even its entry-level Core plan carries a minimum spend and a 50-unit portfolio minimum before you get a number.

“*Minimum spend and 50 unit minimum apply. Contact us for details.”, their own page, read 2026-09-26
Who should stay with AppFolio

If you need integrated marketing and leasing tools, tenant login portals, and full accounting across a large multi-property portfolio, stay where you are - Rentara does not do that.

What Rentara deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting AppFolio.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in AppFolio's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Rentara vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off AppFolio.

Do tenants need accounts?
No. Each lease gets a private link; tenants bookmark it, see their own balance and ledger, and submit maintenance requests. You can rotate or kill any link instantly.
Does Rentara collect rent online?
Only if you switch it on, and only through your own Stripe account: the tenant pays on Stripe's page from their private link, and Rentara records the payment when Stripe confirms it. Otherwise you record payments as they arrive.
I already installed 1.0 — do I lose data?
No. Drop the new files over the old install (keep config.php and data/); the database upgrades itself in place on the next page load. Existing leases stay on manual billing until you enable auto-billing per lease, so nothing back-posts by surprise.
Will this run on my hosting?
Almost certainly. Rentara needs PHP 8.1+ with PDO — present on virtually all cPanel/Plesk hosts — and either MySQL or SQLite. Installation is a two-minute web installer.
Better together
Rentara is part of the Property Suite
2 apps for one price, $54 less than buying them separately.
$149once

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Sources

  1. AppFolio: price checked 2026-09-26, source“[plan cards, European address] Get a Quote *Minimum spend and 50 unit minimum apply. Contact us for details. ... [structured data] "AppFolio Performance Platform - Residential Core ... at $1.49 per unit/month. 50 units minimum.","price":"1.49","priceCurrency":"USD" ... Residential Plus…”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

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