TurboTenant Pricing (2026): The $0 Plan Is the Most Expensive One in the Building
TurboTenant’s headline price is the easiest one in property management to quote and the easiest one to get wrong. The landlord-facing number is simple: $0, $149 a year, or $199 a year. But TurboTenant’s actual business model lives on the other side of the lease, in the fees your tenants pay to apply, to pay rent, and to build credit. Once you add both columns together, the Free plan is routinely the most expensive way to run a tenancy on the platform.
There is a second problem: half the internet is still quoting plans TurboTenant killed. The old Pro ($119/yr) and Premium ($149/yr) tiers are dead, renamed into today’s Essentials and Pro, and stale review pages keep reprinting the old grid. So in this post we do two jobs: the combined landlord-plus-tenant math, dated and labeled, and a receipt-by-receipt tour of the rename so you can spot a stale source from the first paragraph.
One note on sourcing: turbotenant.com blocks automated scrapers, so every figure here is labeled with where it came from. The plan prices and fee structure below match our own July 21, 2026 browser check of the live site, cross-checked against TurboTenant’s support center and multiple June and July 2026 third-party trackers.
Every TurboTenant fee, landlord column and tenant column
This is the full sweep. The plan prices matched our July 21, 2026 browser check; per-fee figures are from TurboTenant’s support center and June to July 2026 third-party reporting, since the site blocks automated verification.
| Fee | Landlord pays | Tenant pays | Status (verified/reported, date) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | $0 | See fees below | Browser-verified 2026-07-21 |
| Essentials plan | $149/yr (annual-only) | See fees below | Browser-verified 2026-07-21 |
| Pro plan | $199/yr (annual-only) | See fees below | Browser-verified 2026-07-21 |
| Tenant screening (Free plan) | $0 | $55 per application, non-refundable | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| Tenant screening (Essentials/Pro) | $0 | $45 per application, non-refundable | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| ACH rent payment (Free plan) | $0 | $2 per payment | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| ACH rent payment (Pro) | $0 | $0 (fee waived) | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| ACH rent payment (Essentials) | $0 | $2 per payment (waiver is Pro-only) | Feature grid, live page 2026-07-22 |
| Card rent payment (all plans) | $0 | 3.49%, cannot be waived | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| State-specific lease + e-sign (Free) | $59 a la carte | $0 | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| Leases (Essentials and Pro) | Unlimited, included | $0 | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| Ultimate Landlord Forms Pack | $199 one-time, 33 documents, leases NOT included | $0 | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| Accounting add-on | Reported $15/mo + $5/property capped at $85/mo, vs “from $9/mo annual” elsewhere; sources conflict | $0 | Conflicting reports, Jul 2026 |
| Rent reporting | $0 | $4.99/mo opt-in (TransUnion + Experian, on-time payments only) | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| Livble flexible rent | $0 | $30/mo opt-in | Multi-source Jun-Jul 2026 |
| Rent payout speed (Free) | 5-10 business days | n/a | CRE Daily, Jun 2026 |
| Rent payout speed (paid plans) | Expedited; no same-day on any plan | n/a | CRE Daily, Jun 2026 |
Two structural things to internalize before we do the math. First, both paid plans are annual-only. TurboTenant markets Essentials as $12.42/mo and Pro as $16.58/mo, but those are arithmetic, not a billing option: you pay $149 or $199 up front. Second, the card fee is the one charge no plan can make disappear. That 3.49% is the quiet monster in this fee table, and we will put a number on it below.
The current lineup: Free, Essentials, Pro
TurboTenant sells three plans in 2026, and the honest one-line summary of each:
Free ($0) gets you listing syndication, applications, screening (tenant-paid), rent collection (tenant pays the ACH fee), messaging, and maintenance requests. Leases are a la carte at $59 per state-specific lease with e-sign included. It is a genuinely usable plan for a landlord who never signs leases through the platform and whose tenant tolerates the payment fees.
Essentials ($149/yr) adds unlimited state-specific leases and e-sign, plus lower tenant screening at $45. It does not kill the tenant’s $2 ACH fee. We checked the live pricing page in a real browser on July 22, 2026: the plan feature grid checks “Waived ACH Fees” under Pro only, with the Essentials column blank. One honest wrinkle: the renter-pricing table lower on the same page lumps every paid landlord under a single “Premium” label and shows ACH as free, so TurboTenant’s own page reads both ways. We go with the feature grid. Do not buy Essentials specifically for the ACH waiver.
One more live-page note: both paid plans now carry a “Starting at” qualifier next to their prices. There is no unit selector or published portfolio bracket anywhere on the page, so $149 and $199 are the only public numbers, but “Starting at” is the kind of language that usually precedes size-based pricing. Worth watching.
Pro ($199/yr) includes everything in Essentials, free ACH for tenants (this one is consistently reported), expedited rent payouts, and priority support. If tenant experience is the reason you are paying, Pro is the plan where the reported facts are unambiguous.
For what the product is actually like to run, our TurboTenant review owns the verdict and the 4.2 score; this post stays in its lane, which is the money. And if you are weighing TurboTenant against its closest DIY-landlord rival, the head-to-head lives in TurboTenant vs Avail.
The plan-rename history, or: why half the SERP is wrong
Here is the part that makes most TurboTenant pricing articles unreliable in 2026. TurboTenant used to sell Pro at $119/yr and Premium at $149/yr. Both of those plans are dead. The current lineup, Essentials at $149 and Pro at $199, reuses one of the old names at a new price, which is the single most confusing move a pricing page can make: “Pro” today costs $80 more than “Pro” did before, and the old Premium price point ($149) now belongs to a different plan (Essentials).
The receipts, named and dated:
- TurboTenant’s own support center still hosts an article titled “What’s Included in the Pro Plan (Now Part of Premium)”, a fossil from the transition period that references a Premium plan you can no longer buy (checked July 2026).
- The legacy /premium/ page is still live on turbotenant.com as of July 2026, indexed and findable, describing a plan that does not exist on the current pricing page.
- Capterra still printed $9.92 and $12.42 monthly equivalents and a $39 lease fee as of July 2026. The $9.92 figure maps to the dead $119 Pro plan, and the lease fee has been $59 for the current lineup.
- Research.com still listed $35 tenant screening as of July 2026. The current figures are $55 on Free and $45 on paid plans.
None of those stale figures are current prices, and none of them should appear in your budget. We keep them here for exactly one purpose: if an article you are reading quotes $119, $9.92, a $39 lease, or $35 screening, you now know that article predates the rename and everything else in it deserves the same skepticism.
The tenant-side fees, one by one
The landlord column above is boring by design. The tenant column is where the model lives, so let us go fee by fee. All figures multi-source June to July 2026 unless noted.
Screening: $55 on Free, $45 on paid plans, applicant-paid, non-refundable. The applicant pays whether or not they get the unit, and the non-refundable part is a recurring theme in BBB complaints about the platform. If you screen three applicants for one vacancy on the Free plan, applicants collectively paid $165 for your one decision. On paid plans the same three applications cost applicants $135. Worth knowing when a strong applicant asks why your listing carries a $55 toll.
ACH: $2 per payment on Free and Essentials, free on Pro only. Twenty-four dollars a year per tenant on Free. Small, but it is a monthly paper cut your tenant feels twelve times a year, and it is the fee that most often shows up in tenant-side reviews of landlord software.
Cards: 3.49% on every plan, unwaivable. This is the fee that can dwarf everything else on this page. On $1,250 rent, a card-paying tenant hands over $43.63 every month, about $524 a year. No plan upgrade touches it. If your tenant pays by card, nothing else in this article matters as much as moving them to ACH.
Rent reporting: $4.99/mo, tenant-paid, opt-in. Reports on-time payments only, to TransUnion and Experian. A genuinely useful credit-building tool at $59.88 a year, but it is the tenant’s $59.88, not yours.
Livble flexible rent: $30/mo, tenant-paid, opt-in. Splits rent into installments. At $360 a year it is an expensive convenience, and we would want any tenant leaning on it monthly to see that annual number before enrolling.
Payout speed: 5 to 10 business days on Free. Per CRE Daily’s June 2026 reporting, this is the top complaint in the review corpus, and it is the strongest practical argument for a paid plan: expedited payouts. But note what is missing at every tier: no TurboTenant plan offers same-day payouts.
The combined true-cost table
Here is the centerpiece, and the reason we wrote this post. Landlord-only pricing tables make the Free plan look unbeatable. Add the tenant column and the picture inverts.
Our assumptions, stated plainly: one unit, $1,250/mo rent ($15,000/yr), one new state-specific lease per year, one screened applicant per year, and a tenant who pays by ACH except where noted. Essentials includes the tenant’s $2 ACH fee, which the live feature grid keeps in place on that tier. Plan prices and fee toggles browser-verified 2026-07-22.
| Scenario | Landlord pays/yr | Tenant pays/yr | Combined true cost/yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free, ACH tenant | $59 (one lease) | $79 ($55 screening + $24 ACH) | $138 |
| Essentials, ACH tenant | $149 | $69 ($45 screening + $24 ACH) | $218 |
| Pro, ACH tenant | $199 | $45 (screening only, ACH free) | $244 |
| Free, card-paying tenant | $59 | ~$579 ($55 screening + ~$524 card fees at 3.49% of $15,000) | ~$638 |
Optional tenant add-ons stack on any row: rent reporting adds $59.88/yr and Livble flexible rent adds $360/yr, both opt-in and tenant-paid.
Read the table twice, because it says two different things:
If you only count your own money, Free wins. $59 versus $149 versus $199. This is the comparison every landlord-facing pricing table shows you, and it is not wrong, it is just half the ledger.
If you count the tenancy’s money, Free is the cheap plan only until a card shows up. The ACH scenarios cluster within about $106 of each other, close enough that payout speed and unlimited leases can justify the paid tiers on their own. But the card scenario is not close: one card-paying tenant makes the “free” plan a ~$638/yr arrangement, roughly 2.6 times the cost of Pro with an ACH tenant. And because the card fee is unwaivable, upgrading does not fix it; only the payment method does.
The upgrade math for the landlord alone: going Free to Pro costs you $140 more per year ($199 versus $59), buys unlimited leases, faster payouts, and cuts your applicants’ costs by $10 a head plus $24/yr in ACH fees. Sign two leases a year and the lease line alone ($118 a la carte) nearly pays the difference.
Add-ons: the lease pack and the accounting question
Two add-ons deserve their own paragraphs because both carry a catch.
The Ultimate Landlord Forms Pack is $199 one-time for 33 documents, and leases are not included. Read that twice, because the name invites the assumption. The pack covers notices, addenda, and operational forms; the state-specific lease itself is either $59 a la carte on Free or included from Essentials up. If leases are the only document you need, the pack is the wrong purchase entirely.
The accounting add-on price is genuinely unclear, and we will not pretend otherwise. TurboTenant acquired REI Hub and offers integrated rental accounting, but the 2026 price reporting conflicts: Landlord Gurus reports $15/mo for the first property plus $5/mo per additional property, capped at $85/mo, while other 2026 mentions say “from $9/mo billed annually”. REI Hub’s own support article declines to print a number and routes all billing questions to TurboTenant. Until the live page settles it, treat the accounting add-on as costing somewhere between $9 and $85 a month depending on portfolio size and billing term, and get the exact figure in-app before enabling it. For a portfolio big enough to hit that $85 cap, purpose-built accounting inside a fuller management platform starts being the better comparison; our TenantCloud review covers the closest rival that bundles accounting into its plan price.
Company context, briefly
TurboTenant acquired Azibo on May 7, 2025, consolidating two of the bigger DIY-landlord platforms, and claims “over 1 million landlords” (vendor figure, as marketed in 2026). It also runs Autopilot, a full-service management arm in select markets, which is worth knowing as a buyer: the software’s upsell path does not stop at Pro, it continues into having TurboTenant manage the property for you. None of that changes the fee math above; it does explain why the platform can afford a $0 tier, since the funnel is long and the tenant fees run through every stage of it.
Which plan, for whom
Stay Free if: you sign at most one lease a year, your tenants pay by ACH without grumbling about $2, and you can live with 5 to 10 business day payouts. Your combined cost is ~$138/yr and the product is genuinely functional at $0.
Buy Essentials if: you sign multiple leases a year and want the $45 screening rate for applicants. Do not buy it for the ACH waiver; that benefit is Pro-only per the live feature grid.
Buy Pro if: payout speed matters (it is the top Free-plan complaint), you want the tenant-side fees minimized with certainty, or you simply want the platform’s best version for $199/yr, which is still cheaper than one month of most full property management software.
Look elsewhere if: you need accounting depth without add-on ambiguity, same-day payouts (no TurboTenant plan has them), or you are scaling past the DIY lane entirely. Our best AI tools for landlords roundup covers the 1 to 20 unit field TurboTenant plays in, and if you are graduating toward full management software, the per-door pricing landscape in our DoorLoop alternatives guide is the right next read.
Verdict: price the tenancy, not the plan
TurboTenant’s 2026 pricing is honest about its landlord column and quiet about its tenant column, and the internet’s coverage of it is polluted by a plan rename that half the SERP never noticed. The three numbers worth carrying out of this post: $199 buys the best version of the platform for a year, $2 a month is what your ACH tenant pays for the privilege on the Free plan, and 3.49% is the unwaivable card fee that can turn the $0 plan into the most expensive arrangement in this article. Verify the Essentials ACH question on the live page before upgrading for it, get the accounting price in-app before enabling it, and if an article quotes you a $119 Pro plan, close the tab. That price died with the rename.
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