Side by side
| Rentmark | TurboTenant | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to the landlord | $19.99/mo or $199.90/yr, flat | Free tier available; premium tiers billed annually |
| Cost to your tenant | Nothing — they pay you directly on your own link | Convenience fee on card payments; ACH fee outside the top tier |
| Cost to your applicant | They pay their own screening provider directly, nothing to us | Applicant-paid screening fee |
| State-specific lease | Included, unlimited, e-signature included | Charged per lease on the free tier |
| Who holds the rent | You do — Rentmark is never in the payment path | Payments run through the platform |
| Billing flexibility | Monthly or annual | Paid tiers billed annually |
| Marketplace listing | Rentmark Rentals | Yes, with wider syndication |
| Syndication to Zillow / Trulia | No | Yes |
What TurboTenant costs
TurboTenant offers a free landlord tier alongside paid tiers billed annually. The free tier is monetised elsewhere: applicants pay their own screening fee, state-specific lease agreements are charged per document to free-tier landlords, and tenants pay a convenience fee on card and (outside the top tier) ACH rent payments. TurboTenant's site blocks automated reading, so check the current figures on their pricing page before relying on them.
Read from their own pricing page on 10 August 2026. Prices change — check theirs before you decide, and tell us if this page has gone stale.
Rentmark, for comparison, is $19.99 a month or $199.90 a year — one plan, every feature, unlimited properties, no per-document or per-account fees. The full pricing page lists exactly what is free and what the subscription turns on.
When TurboTenant is the better choice
Genuinely, and we would rather you read this before subscribing than after:
- Paying nothing yourself matters more than what your tenant is charged
- You need your vacancy syndicated to the big listing portals — Rentmark does not do that
- You fill a unit once a year and barely use the software in between
When Rentmark is the better choice
- You do not want a fee appearing on your tenant's rent payment with your name attached to it
- You want to be the one holding the payment relationship, on your own Stripe, PayPal or Zelle
- You write more than one or two leases a year and do not want to pay per document
- You want month-to-month billing rather than an annual commitment
What switching actually involves
The part people expect to be painful is free: you can create a Rentmark account and enter every property, unit, tenant and lease you have without paying anything. Nothing is metered at that stage, so you can rebuild your portfolio in full, look at it, and decide afterwards.
The subscription starts when you want Rentmark to do things — generate the monthly rent schedule, issue receipts, chase late payments, open the tenant portal, run inspections and keep the accounts. Export is always available as CSV, in both directions of the decision.