The self-hosted Hemlane 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 Hemlane every month.
Stop renting Hemlane
4 months of Hemlane equals this one-time price.
Assumption: Basic carries a $28/mo platform fee before any units are counted; Essential is $48/mo + $20/unit and Complete $86/mo + $58/unit, so the bill climbs with the portfolio. Re-read 2026-09-07, every figure unchanged - and one note about the page rather than the price: its Monthly/Annual switch sits under "Save up to 20% with annual billing", yet at one unit the cards showed the same figures in BOTH positions.
How Hemlane pricing grows with you
Hemlane's paid tiers add a per-unit fee on top of a flat monthly platform fee, so the cost per property multiplies as a portfolio grows — the top Complete tier runs $58/unit.
“Complete Try for 14 days, then $58 /unit $86/mo (incl. $28 platform fee)” — their own page, read 2026-08-11
What Hemlane does that we don't
Hemlane offers a free-forever Starter tier with no credit card required.
“Free forever, no credit card required” — their own page
Who should stay with Hemlane
If you need a marketing and listings portal to attract new tenants, stay with Hemlane — Rentara is an operations tool, not a marketing/listings portal for finding tenants. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting Hemlane
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in Hemlane'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 Hemlane comparison.
Sources
- Hemlane — price checked 2026-09-03 —
source “then $2 /unit $30/mo (incl. $28 platform fee)”
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.