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The self-hosted TurboTenant 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 TurboTenant every month.

Own Rentara for $119 Try the live demo

Stop renting TurboTenant.

TurboTenant Free $0/month; Essentials from $12.42/month and Pro from $16.48/month, billed yearly by units managed: 1–10 units $149/year or $199/year, 11–30 $199 or $399, 31–60 $299 or $699, 61+ $349 or $999 Rentara is $119 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.

How TurboTenant pricing grows

TurboTenant bills its paid plans YEARLY, in bands of units managed, with renter-paid extras.

“Units Managed Essentials Pro 1-10 $149/year $199/year”, their own page, read 2026-09-24
What TurboTenant does that we don't

TurboTenant has a genuinely free plan for listing, screening and rent collection.

“No fees or contracts – ever”, their own page
Who should stay with TurboTenant

Stay with TurboTenant if you are a landlord whose needs fit the free plan — Rentara records payments on a ledger rather than collecting them, and it does not list units or screen applicants.

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

Why owning beats renting TurboTenant.

One payment

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

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in TurboTenant'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 TurboTenant.

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. TurboTenant: price checked 2026-09-24, source“$149/year”

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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