TurboTenant Pricing in 2026: Every Tier, Every Gate, Every Fee

TurboTenant's pricing page leads with a promise: "No fees or contracts, ever." And unusual for this category, the free plan is real. You can list your rental, screen applicants, and collect rent without paying TurboTenant a dollar.

The quieter part is what the paid tiers gate. The accounting tools, meaning the reports that turn a year of tracked rental income and expenses into something your accountant can actually use, sit behind Pro at $199 a year. And the "$16.58/month" printed next to Pro is not a monthly price. It is the annual charge divided by 12, which TurboTenant's own help center confirms in plain language.

We reviewed TurboTenant the product separately. This page is just the money: every tier, every gate, every fee, and what a small landlord actually pays in 2026.

Quick answer: TurboTenant has three plans in 2026: Free ($0), Essentials (from $149/year), and Pro (from $199/year). Both paid tiers bill once per year, up front, and the per-month numbers on the pricing page are the annual price divided by 12, not a monthly billing option. The accounting tools, including the Schedule E report, are Pro-only. Verified against TurboTenant's live pricing page on October 23, 2026.

I build a competing app, so read this with that in mind. Every price below is linked to TurboTenant's own pages, and their pricing page wins any disagreement.

How much does TurboTenant cost in 2026?

Three plans. Free costs $0. Essentials starts at $149 per year for up to 10 units. Pro starts at $199 per year for up to 10 units. Both paid plans climb in price as your unit count grows, and both bill annually in a single charge.

Plan	Annual price (1 to 10 units)	"Per month" equivalent	What it is for
Free	$0	$0	List and market your rentals, screen applicants, collect rent online
Essentials	$149/yr	$12.42	Unlimited leases and e-signatures, faster rent payouts, priority listing review
Pro	$199/yr	$16.58	Adds the accounting suite (incl. the Schedule E report), applicant verification, team roles

Source: TurboTenant pricing page, verified October 23, 2026. TurboTenant says it is trusted by over 1 million self-managing landlords with 1 to 50 doors, and the pricing is built for exactly that range.

The headline numbers are honest. What matters is which features sit behind which number, and how the price moves as your portfolio grows. Both need a closer look.

Is TurboTenant's free plan actually free?

Yes. It is not a trial, no card is required, and TurboTenant's own FAQ says you can access the platform for $0 forever. Free covers the tenant-facing workflow: listings marketed to the top rental sites, online applications, tenant screening, online rent collection, maintenance requests, and in-app messaging.

The free tier even includes a few newer extras: a rent roll summary, electronic security deposit returns, and AI-assisted maintenance requests, per TurboTenant's help center. That is a genuinely usable free product for the tenant side of the business, and I will not pretend otherwise. Two things are worth knowing, though.

First, someone still pays. The default screening fee is $55, charged to the renter when they apply (you can opt to cover it yourself). Renters also get optional paid add-ons: rent reporting at $4.99 a month, and insurance through TurboTenant's partner, SURE. "Free for landlords" is funded by the people applying to live in your units. That is a common industry model, not a scandal, but you should know which side of the register the money comes from.

Second, the free tier stops at the books. You can log expenses on Free, but the reports that turn those numbers into something tax-ready are Pro-only. TurboTenant's help center is blunt about it: the Pro tier is the one that includes the accounting tools. If your actual problem is tracking income and expenses well enough to hand an accountant a clean report, free TurboTenant does not solve it.

What does TurboTenant Essentials add for $149 a year?

Essentials is the leasing tier. For $149 per year (up to 10 units) you get unlimited state-specific lease agreements, unlimited e-signatures, the Landlord Forms Pack (a $199 standalone value), priority listing review (under 24 hours instead of up to 48), expedited rent payouts, phone support, one connected bank account, and a lower renter screening fee ($45 instead of $55).

There is one bookkeeping tease: Essentials adds manual transaction import, so you can pull income and expenses into the platform. But the reports that make those numbers useful at tax time stay locked in Pro. Importing your transactions into a tool that will not report them back to you is a treadmill, not a workflow.

If your bottleneck is getting a lease drafted and signed fast, Essentials is a fair buy. If your bottleneck is tax season, $149 buys you a nicer leasing stack and nothing for the books.

A bit of history worth knowing: as recently as January 2026, TurboTenant sold a single paid plan called Premium for $149 a year, advertised as "everything TurboTenant has to offer," forms pack included. Today there are two paid tiers instead of one, and the accounting tools sit in the more expensive of the two.

What does TurboTenant Pro unlock for $199 a year?

Pro is everything in Essentials, plus the two feature groups TurboTenant considers premium: the accounting suite and deeper applicant verification.

The accounting suite is the part landlords actually feel in March. Per TurboTenant's plan breakdown, Pro unlocks the financial reports (profit and loss, net operating income, cash flow) and the full accounting toolbox: automated transaction import, automatic categorization, reconciliation, fixed asset and depreciation tracking, automatic loan tracking, and the Schedule E / Form 8825 report. On the screening side, Pro adds income and employer verification with fraud detection, custom application questions, team roles, unlimited connected bank accounts, and waived ACH fees (other tiers charge the renter about $2 per payment).

Read that the way a landlord should: TurboTenant has a Schedule E report, and it costs $199 a year, collected up front. The pricing page's own comparison table labels this row "Unlock all accounting tools to make tax season easier." They know exactly which feature sells the tier.

To be fair, Pro's verification bundle (income, employer, fraud) has real value if tenant quality is your pain point. This is not "Pro is a ripoff." It is "know which problem Pro actually solves before you pay for it."

Is the "$16.58 a month" price real?

No. TurboTenant has no monthly billing at all. Their help center says it directly: the per-month figure on the pricing page is the annual subscription cost divided by 12, and every paid plan is billed as a single annual charge at checkout.

So "$12.42 a month" means $149 leaves your account today. "$16.58 a month" means $199 leaves your account today. The price tag says monthly; the invoice says annual.

Showing an annual price as a monthly-equivalent is common software marketing, but most tools at least offer a true month-to-month rate at a premium. Stessa, for all its tier games, sells Pro monthly at $35 if you do not want to commit. TurboTenant gives you three options: $0, $149, or $199, with the paid two collected in full, up front. If you upgrade mid-year, you pay the tier difference for the rest of your subscription year.

How does TurboTenant pricing scale as you add units?

Both paid tiers price by unit count, in bands. The same plan costs more as your portfolio grows, and the jumps are not small.

Units you manage	Essentials (per year)	Pro (per year)
1 to 10	$149	$199
11 to 30	$199	$399
31 to 60	$299	$699
61+	$349	$999

Source: TurboTenant's help center, verified October 23, 2026.

The jump that stings is the one from 10 units to 11. Cross that line and Pro doubles from $199 to $399 a year. Same software, same login, zero new features, twice the price, because door number 11 exists. Growth is the goal, and the pricing bands tax it.

Who actually pays for free TurboTenant?

Mostly your applicants, plus the landlords who upgrade. The money map, all from TurboTenant's own pages:

• A $55 screening fee on the free plan ($45 if the landlord pays for Essentials or Pro), charged to the renter when they complete an application. The landlord can choose to absorb it, but the default is tenant-paid.
• A roughly $2 ACH fee per rent payment, again renter-paid on Free and Essentials. Pro waives it. Card payments are accepted on paid tiers, with the renter paying a 3.49% fee.
• $4.99 a month for rent reporting, an opt-in add-on that lets renters build credit by paying on time.
• Renters insurance through SURE, TurboTenant's partner, offered to renters inside the platform.
• The paid tiers, Essentials and Pro, billed annually.
• Autopilot, TurboTenant's full-service management offering, including a standalone tenant-placement service at a one-time $1,500 flat fee. Source for the fee figures: TurboTenant's pricing page and help center, October 23, 2026.

None of this is hidden, and tenant-paid screening is standard practice across the industry. But notice the shape of it: TurboTenant monetizes everyone around the landlord, and the one feature set it charges the landlord directly for is the books. The accounting tools are the toll booth.

How does TurboTenant pricing compare to the alternatives?

For a landlord with a few properties whose core need is bookkeeping (receipts captured, expenses organized by property and job, a tax-ready report in spring), here is the honest math. If you are still shopping the whole category, our best accounting software for rental property roundup covers the full field:

Tool	What the books cost	The catch
TurboTenant	Pro at $199/yr (annual billing only)	Accounting suite and Schedule E report gated to Pro; no monthly option; price climbs with units
Doortrackr	Plus at $6.99/mo, truly monthly, or $59.99/yr	No tenant-side features (listings, screening, leases). Bookkeeping only, on purpose
Stessa	Pro at $28/mo billed annually ($336/yr)	Receipt scanning capped at 5/month below Pro; Schedule E report starts at $12/mo; full breakdown
Landlord Studio	Pro from $12/mo billed annually	Receipt scanning and Schedule E both gated; per-unit price escalator; we went hands-on
Baselane	Schedule E reports genuinely free on Core	The push is banking lock-in, and AI features cost $240/yr up front; the full story

Two honest notes here. Baselane's free Schedule E reporting is real, and TurboTenant's free tier is real. This category is not all traps.

But run the comparison that matters for a small landlord. TurboTenant Pro costs $199 a year, collected up front, for the accounting unlock. That is 3.3 times a year of Doortrackr Plus at $59.99. And the more interesting math: TurboTenant Free for the tenant workflow plus Doortrackr Plus for the books costs $59.99 a year total, less than a third of Pro, and covers more of the bookkeeping job. You can check every number in that paragraph against the linked pricing pages, and you should.

Should you pay for TurboTenant?

Pay for Essentials if leases and listing speed are your bottleneck. Pay for Pro if you want the verification tools and in-platform accounting, and you are fine with annual billing. Skip both if your real problem is the books, because the free tier plus a dedicated bookkeeping tool is cheaper and better at that specific job.

I say that as someone who lived it. When I was setting up my own rentals, I already had the tenant features I needed, and I paid nothing for them. Google Drive held my documents, Apartments.com collected rent (free, with automatic payments), Zillow handled listings, and Notion held my process notes. What I actually needed was the books: a faster replacement for my spreadsheet, and a fix for my habit of letting recordkeeping slide until it hurt. That gap is why I built Doortrackr.

So here is the honest recommendation. If you try TurboTenant's free tier and it covers your tenant workflow, keep it. It is good at what it does. Then run your books in a tool that was built for the books. Doortrackr Plus is $6.99 a month, actually monthly, cancel whenever, every feature on every tier. Receipt in 30 seconds, income in about 10. Your accountant will love you.

Is TurboTenant really free?

Yes. The free plan is not a trial and requires no card. It covers listings, applications, tenant screening, online rent collection, maintenance requests, and messaging. Renters pay a $55 screening fee by default, and the accounting tools (including the Schedule E report) are reserved for Pro at $199 per year. Source: TurboTenant's pricing page and FAQ, verified October 23, 2026.

Does TurboTenant offer monthly billing?

No. Per TurboTenant's help center, the per-month figures on the pricing page are the annual cost divided by 12, and all paid plans (Essentials and Pro) are billed as a single annual charge at checkout. There is no month-to-month option.

What is the difference between TurboTenant Essentials and Pro?

Essentials ($149 per year for up to 10 units) is the leasing tier: unlimited lease agreements, e-signatures, the Landlord Forms Pack, priority listing review, expedited rent payouts, phone support, and manual transaction import. Pro ($199 per year) adds the accounting suite (profit and loss, cash flow, the Schedule E / Form 8825 report, depreciation tracking, automatic categorization and loan tracking), applicant verification (income, employer, fraud detection), team roles, custom application questions, unlimited bank accounts, and waived ACH fees.

How much does TurboTenant cost for 20 units?

Twenty units lands in the 11 to 30 unit band: Essentials costs $199 per year and Pro costs $399 per year, billed annually. The full band table runs from $149 (Essentials, 1 to 10 units) up to $999 per year (Pro, 61+ units).

Does TurboTenant charge tenants any fees?

Yes, by default. Applicants pay a $55 screening fee when they apply ($45 if the landlord is on a paid plan; the landlord can also opt to cover it). Renters pay a roughly $2 ACH fee per rent payment on the Free and Essentials plans (waived on Pro) and 3.49% on card payments. Optional renter add-ons include rent reporting at $4.99 a month and insurance through TurboTenant's partner, SURE. Tenant-paid screening fees are standard practice in the industry, but they are how the "free" landlord tier gets funded.

Did TurboTenant pricing change in 2026?

Yes. TurboTenant previously sold a single paid plan (Premium, $149 per year, later Pro at $199 per year). In 2026 the paid offering split into two tiers: Essentials (from $149 per year) and Pro (from $199 per year), both priced by unit count and billed annually only. The accounting tools sit in Pro, the higher tier.

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Disclosure: I founded Doortrackr, which competes with TurboTenant. All TurboTenant prices and features above were verified against turbotenant.com/pricing and TurboTenant's help center on October 23, 2026, and are linked inline. If their page disagrees with anything here, their page wins.