The self-hosted Rentec Direct 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 Rentec Direct every month.
Stop renting Rentec Direct
5 months of Rentec Direct equals this one-time price.
Assumption: The $45/mo figure carried here until 2026-09-03 is no longer on the page - $45 appears nowhere on it. Starter is $25/mo for up to 10 properties; the manager tiers start at $50/mo and scale by unit count, with annual billing stated as saving $60/year. Re-read 2026-09-07, unchanged: "Rentec Pro and Rentec PM start at $50 per month and grow with you as you add more units."
How Rentec Direct pricing grows with you
Rentec Direct's price scales with unit count through its live pricing calculator, and portfolios above 2,500 units are routed to a custom quote instead of self-serve pricing.
“Contact us for pricing above 2,500 units” — their own page, read 2026-08-11
What Rentec Direct does that we don't
Rentec Direct includes unlimited US-based customer support and free onboarding with every plan.
“Unlimited US-Based Customer Support” — their own page
Who should stay with Rentec Direct
If you need tenant login accounts with a dedicated portal rather than shared links, stay with Rentec Direct — Rentara has no tenant login accounts, only private per-lease token links. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting Rentec Direct
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in Rentec Direct'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 Rentec Direct comparison.
Sources
- Rentec Direct — price checked 2026-09-03 —
source “$25 /mo”
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.