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Rent or own · 8 rivals, each price dated

Rentara vs renting the software.

Rent that posts itself, late fees on your rule, and a private link for every tenant and owner.

Competitor prices on this page read between 2026-09-03 and 2026-09-26, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.

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Rented Buildium Essential starting at $62/month (Growth from $192/mo; Premium from $400/mo); the page calculator adds an annual option labeled "Save 10%" — Growth at its default 150 units reads $192/mo or $2,076/yr [1]

2 months of Buildium costs what Rentara costs once.

What Buildium does that we don't. Buildium backs every plan with live phone support, not just a ticketing queue.
The fine print

How their pricing grows. Buildium sells three subscription tiers (Essential/Growth/Premium) plus per-transaction fees for online payments and e-signatures, and requires a phone call for custom pricing once a portfolio exceeds 5,000 units.

“Managing Community Associations or a portfolio of over 5,000 units? We have dedicated pricing just for you.” Read 2026-09-07.

Who should stay with Buildium. If you want rent collected online without holding your own Stripe account, stay with Buildium — Rentara records payments on its ledger and takes card payments only through your own Stripe account, when you switch that on.

How we counted. 'Starting at' base prices; larger portfolios and associations require custom pricing. Re-read 2026-09-07: all three figures unchanged. The calculator prices by unit count and states its own limit — "This is an estimate based on the number of units entered. Any applicable taxes or fees, onboarding, and any optional add-ons are not included in this estimate."

Rented Hemlane Starter $0/mo; Basic $30/mo (incl. $28 platform fee) plus $2/unit [2]

4 months of Hemlane costs what Rentara costs once.

What Hemlane does that we don't. Hemlane offers a free-forever Starter tier with no credit card required.
The fine print

How their pricing grows. 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)” Read 2026-08-11.

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.

How we counted. 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.

Rented Rentec Direct Rentec Starter $25/month (up to 10 properties and tenants); Rentec Pro and Rentec PM from $50/month, scaling by unit count [3]

5 months of Rentec Direct costs what Rentara costs once.

What Rentec Direct does that we don't. Rentec Direct includes unlimited US-based customer support and free onboarding with every plan.
The fine print

How their pricing grows. 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” Read 2026-08-11.

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.

How we counted. 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."

Rented TenantCloud Starter $15.00/mo billed annually ($180/yr, "Save $120/yr - 40% off"); $25.00/mo billed monthly, up from $18.00 at the 2026-09-03 read. Growth $29/mo annually ($350/yr) or $35 monthly; Pro $50/$60; Business "Starting at $100/mo" monthly, annual quoted [4]

8 months of TenantCloud costs what Rentara costs once.

What TenantCloud does that we don't. TenantCloud ships separate mobile apps for landlords, tenants, service pros, and owners.
The fine print

How their pricing grows. TenantCloud tiers by feature caps like lease count and storage, and its top Business tier is custom-priced starting at $100/mo once a portfolio needs tailored features.

“Designed for large companies looking for advanced features tailored to their needs.” Read 2026-09-07.

Who should stay with TenantCloud. If you need separate mobile apps for landlords, tenants and service pros, stay with TenantCloud — Rentara is a web app, with team roles and a no-login tenant link.

How we counted. Two 2026-09-03 attempts returned HTTP 503 and a third succeeded, which is the read behind the annual figure. That figure is unchanged: $180/yr, the cheapest verified rental-ops tier. What moved is the month-to-month price a buyer can walk away from — $18.00 on 2026-09-03, $25.00 on 2026-09-07 — so the gap between renting and owning widened by $7/mo with the annual headline standing still. Growth shows $29/mo against $350/yr; the exact quotient is $29.17 and the vendor rounds it down.

Rented DoorLoop Starter $69.00/mo billed yearly ($99.00/mo monthly), max 10 units; Pro $149/$189 and Premium $209/$239 [5]

2 months of DoorLoop costs what Rentara costs once.

What DoorLoop does that we don't. DoorLoop puts email and chat support, plus unlimited help-center access, on even its entry plan.
The fine print

How their pricing grows. DoorLoop charges $3 per additional unit above each plan's base allotment, and portfolios managing more than 300 units are routed to a sales demo instead of self-serve pricing.

“Managing more than 300 units? Book a Free Demo.” Read 2026-09-07.

Who should stay with DoorLoop. If you need a full accounting package with built-in QuickBooks sync, stay with DoorLoop — Rentara is not a full accounting package; export a CSV and import it into your accounting tool.

How we counted. Starter is capped at 10 units. A promo (30% off for 3 months plus zero onboarding fees on select plans) was live at fetch time - the base price is cited. Re-read 2026-09-07: all six figures unchanged, walked through the page's own billing switch in both positions. The page also states the annual charge outright - "if you add 10 units on the basic plan, it would cost $708 upfront for the entire year ($69 x 12 months)".

Work out your own numbers.

The rented figures use the cited plan price above; per-seat plans scale by the seat count from that same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.

Also in this category.

AppFolio [6] 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 Built for large portfolios - a 50-unit minimum locks small landlords out. Re-read 2026-09-26: the cards shown to this European address carry no figure, but the page's structured data (countriesSupported: United States) publishes per-unit rates, which US visitors see. Counted as quote-gated under our census rule (gated if any region is refused a price); no cents are stored, because the minimum spend on top of the 50-unit floor is unpublished. Rentara has no minimums and no meter.
How their 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.”
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.
Enso Connect [7] Quote-gated: no price is published. The pricing page is a form — "receive a custom quote instantly". Read in full on 2026-09-15 and again on 2026-09-24, the rendered page carries no currency figure anywhere: only a demo booking and a quote request There is no price to compare, and that is the finding rather than a gap in our research: the page was fetched and read, and it publishes none. What can be said is the shape — a quote scaled to a portfolio, which means the bill grows with the number of properties, and neither the starting point nor the slope is public until you identify yourself. Rentara is a one-time license for software you run, so the comparison is a known number against a number you have to ask for.
How their pricing grows. Enso Connect prices per portfolio on a quote, so the cost is unknown before contact and scales with the properties you add.
“Get pricing designed specifically for your portfolio.”
What Enso Connect does that we don't. Enso Connect is built for the short-term-rental guest journey — messaging, upsells and the arrival experience — which is a job Rentara does not do at all.
Stay with Enso Connect if what you need is the GUEST side of short-term lets: automated messaging, upsells, verification and the check-in experience. Rentara is not that and does not pretend to be. Rentara is the landlord's side of a long-term tenancy — units, tenants, leases, rent and late fees, a tenant portal, on your own server for one payment.
TurboTenant [8] 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 A genuinely free plan exists, and a landlord whose needs fit it pays nothing for listing, screening and rent collection. The paid plans are billed yearly only, in bands of units managed: Essentials at 1-10 units is $149/year, which the page shows as from $12.42/month, and Pro is $199/year at the same band. No monthly figure is entered for the break-even calculator, because nothing here is billed monthly and the entry plan is free. Read 2026-09-24.
How their 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”
What TurboTenant does that we don't. TurboTenant has a genuinely free plan for listing, screening and rent collection.
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.

Why owning beats renting here.

One payment

No per-month, per-seat or per-location fees: the license does not expire.

Your data

Your data sits on a server you choose; customer records are not held in a vendor's cloud unless you put them there.

No plan ceilings

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

If the vendor stops

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't: no one can switch your copy off, and keeping it up to date is in your hands.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply. The product page lists what Rentara deliberately doesn't do.

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Sources

  1. Buildium: price checked 2026-09-03, source“starting at $62/month”
  2. Hemlane: price checked 2026-09-03, source“then $2 /unit $30/mo (incl. $28 platform fee)”
  3. Rentec Direct: price checked 2026-09-03, source“$25 /mo”
  4. TenantCloud: price checked 2026-09-07, source“Starter 'Monthly $25 /mo' ... 'Annual $180/yr billed annually $15 /mo' ... 'Save $120/yr - 40% off'”
  5. DoorLoop: price checked 2026-09-03, source“STARTER - $69.00/month (billed yearly) - 'Only $3/unit'”
  6. 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…”
  7. Enso Connect: price checked 2026-09-24, source“Get pricing designed specifically for your portfolio. Tell us about your business and receive a custom quote instantly.”
  8. 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.

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