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.
AppFolio No public price - quote-gated, with a stated 50-unit minimum (verified) Rentara is $119.00 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.
How AppFolio pricing grows with you
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 2026-08-11
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. Full honest limitations are on the 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 a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset or price-hiked out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up, and apply updates yourself — see the product page for honest limitations, and the full Rentara vs AppFolio comparison.
Sources
- AppFolio — price checked 2026-09-03 —
source “*Minimum spend and 50 unit minimum apply. Contact us for details.”
Competitor prices change — 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.