TurboTenant Pricing (2026): Plans, Fees and What Landlords Really Pay

Is TurboTenant worth paying for at your size

TurboTenant’s paid plans are priced by unit count and billed once a year. That makes the decision a short piece of arithmetic: compare the annual price with what the plan saves you and your tenants.

Each unit paying rent by ACH on the Free plan generates 12 x $2 = $24 a year in tenant fees. Pro removes that fee, so Pro beats the fees it removes once your unit count times $24 is larger than the Pro price.

• 1 to 8 units: Pro ($199) costs more than the ACH fees it removes (at most 8 x $24 = $192). Stay on Free unless you want a specific Pro feature.
• 9 to 10 units: 9 x $24 = $216, more than $199. Pro is cheaper than the fees your tenants would pay.
• 11 to 16 units: you move to the $399 tier, and 16 x $24 = $384 is still below it. Pro costs slightly more than the fees.
• 17 to 30 units: 17 x $24 = $408, more than $399. Pro wins again, by more as you add units.

At 20 units, the Free plan costs you $0 and your tenants $480 a year. Pro costs you $399 and your tenants $0 in ACH fees. Pro costs you $81 less than the $480 your tenants would otherwise pay, and each applicant saves $10 on screening.

Essentials is a different question. It doesn’t remove the ACH fee. At $149 a year (1 to 10 units), you’re paying for unlimited e-signed leases, the Landlord Forms Pack, faster listing review and faster payouts. Since the Forms Pack alone costs $199 on the Free plan, Essentials is the cheaper way to get it.

Who should pay for Pro, whatever the unit count

The break-even math covers ACH fees only. A few landlords should pay for Pro even below 9 units:

• Anyone worried about fraud. Income verification and fraud detection are Pro-only, and a single bad placement can cost far more than a year of Pro.
• Landlords who want a phone number to call. Phone support is only on Pro.
• Owners with more than one bank account. Free allows one connected account and manual transaction import; Pro allows unlimited accounts with automatic import.

Fees TurboTenant charges landlords and tenants

Most of what TurboTenant costs is paid by tenants and applicants, not by you.

Fee	Free	Essentials	Pro	Who pays
ACH rent payment	$2	$2	$0	Tenant
Card payment	3.49%	3.49%	3.49%	Tenant
Screening report	$55	$55	$45	Applicant, or you if you choose
Rent reporting	$4.99/mo	$4.99/mo	$4.99/mo	Tenant, opt-in
Landlord Forms Pack	$199	Included	Included	Landlord

Screening is the fee applicants notice most. For one vacancy with three applicants, that’s 3 x $55 = $165 on Free or 3 x $45 = $135 on Pro. In a slow market, some landlords pay for screening on their top applicant only, so good prospects don’t walk away from the fee.

The real yearly cost at 1, 5 and 20 units

Assuming each unit pays a $1,650 rent by ACH every month:

Units	Free (you / tenants)	Essentials (you / tenants)	Pro (you / tenants)
1	$0 / $24	$149 / $24	$199 / $0
5	$0 / $120	$149 / $120	$199 / $0
20	$0 / $480	$199 / $480	$399 / $0

Add screening on top whenever you have a vacancy, and $199 for the Forms Pack if you want it on Free.

Add-ons and one-off costs

• Landlord Forms Pack: $199 on Free, included on Essentials and Pro.
• Autopilot tenant placement: a one-time $1,500 for TurboTenant’s team to find and place a tenant.
• Autopilot full service: a flat fee quoted by phone, where TurboTenant handles placement, maintenance and rent collection.
• Rent reporting: $4.99 a month, paid by tenants who opt in.

A note on the Pro price: the pricing page headline says “starting at $16.48/month”, but $199 divided by 12 is $16.58. The annual figure, $199, is the one you’ll be billed.

Ways to pay less

• Stay on Free until 9 units. Below that, Pro costs more than the tenant fees it removes.
• Buy Essentials instead of the Forms Pack. $149 a year gets the forms plus unlimited e-sign. The Forms Pack alone is $199.
• Watch the tier lines. Moving from 10 to 11 units doubles Pro from $199 to $399. If you’re at 10 units and buying an 11th, Free may be cheaper for a while.
• Encourage ACH over cards. At 3.49%, a card payment on a $1,650 rent is $57.59, against $2 for ACH. A note in the lease and the welcome email saves your tenant real money.

How TurboTenant compares on price at 20 units

At 20 units, with each tenant paying a $1,650 rent by ACH every month, here is what the main small-landlord options cost per year:

Option	You pay	Tenants pay in ACH fees	Total
TurboTenant Free	$0	240 x $2 = $480	$480
TurboTenant Pro	$399	$0	$399
RentRedi (annual)	$144	240 x $1 = $240	$384
Innago	$0	240 x $2 = $480	$480
Avail Unlimited	$0	240 x $2.50 = $600	$600
Avail Unlimited Plus	20 x $9 x 12 = $2,160	$0	$2,160

TurboTenant Pro and RentRedi land within $15 of each other. The difference is who pays: with Pro, the whole cost sits with you and your tenants pay nothing for ACH.

Cheaper options than TurboTenant

Innago is free with a $2 tenant ACH fee, the same as TurboTenant, and its screening runs $30-$35 per report, well under $55.

Avail’s free plan includes state-specific leases with e-sign at no cost, but tenant ACH is higher at $2.50.

RentRedi isn’t free, but its $144-a-year annual plan covers unlimited units with a $1 tenant ACH fee. At 20 units, RentRedi plus all your tenants’ ACH fees is $384 a year, slightly less than TurboTenant Pro’s $399.

For bookkeeping, Stessa and Baselane both have free plans that pull in bank transactions automatically, which covers the gap if you stay on TurboTenant Free.