Comparison
PacRent vs TurboTenant
At a glance · 14 rows compared
Verified November 9, 20266
PacRent
7
TurboTenant
1
Even
TurboTenant's free tier is the most generous entry in this category, and their unit bands are the clearest example of the trap this whole comparison started from: the same product, five times the price, because you bought more property.
Pricing
- PacRent Pro
- $19/mo · $190/yr
- TurboTenant
- Free $0; Essentials from $12.42/mo ($149/yr, 1–10 units); Pro from $16.58/mo ($199/yr, 1–10 units)
- Pricing model
- Banded by unit count: Pro is $199/yr at 1–10, $399 at 11–30, $699 at 31–60, $999 at 61+
TurboTenant pricing quoted from their pricing page, read November 7, 2026: “Free $0/month; Essentials starting at $12.42/month ($149/year, 1-10 units); Pro starting at $16.58/month ($199/year, 1-10 units)”. Prices change — check theirs before deciding.
Row by row
PacRent and TurboTenant, side by side
Ordered by what decides the choice, not by what flatters us. The first rows are the ones most people pick on.
Free tier
TurboTenantPacRent
2 properties, full LTR and STR analysis
TurboTenant
Rent collection, leases, maintenance and screening — all free
Theirs is the better free tier, by a distance.
Price at 1–10 units
TurboTenantPacRent
$190/yr
TurboTenant
$149/yr Essentials, $199/yr Pro
Price at 11–30 units
PacRentPacRent
$190/yr — the same
TurboTenant
$399/yr Pro
Same software, double the price, because you bought more property.
Price at 61+ units
PacRentPacRent
$190/yr — still the same
TurboTenant
$999/yr Pro
Tenant ACH fee
TurboTenantPacRent
0.8% capped at $5, absorbed by the landlord
TurboTenant
Free on Free and Essentials, $2 on Pro
Our most expensive row. On one door that is up to $60 a year worse, and it is a pricing decision rather than a missing feature.
Tenant card fee
PacRentPacRent
2.9% + $0.30, paid by the tenant
TurboTenant
3.49%, paid by the tenant
On $1,850 rent that is $53.95 against $64.57 — about $10.60 a month cheaper for your tenant.
Listing syndication
TurboTenantPacRent
Facebook Marketplace, own listing pages, PacRent Rentals
TurboTenant
25+ sites, including Apartments.com, Rent.com and Realtor.com
Theirs is broader. But counted by relationship it is five, not twenty-five — nine of the sites are CoStar brands and four are Redfin's — and their own support page says they do not publish DIY listings to Zillow. Facebook Marketplace is not on their list either.
Schedule E and Form 8825
EvenPacRent
Both, on Pro
TurboTenant
Both, on Pro
This was their only tax advantage over us until Form 8825 shipped on 7 November 2026.
Fixed asset schedule
TurboTenantPacRent
Not built. Depreciation appears as Schedule E line 18 and inside the calculators.
TurboTenant
Fixed Asset Schedule on Pro
Mortgage principal and interest
PacRentPacRent
Included. Read off the statement.
TurboTenant
Through their accounting add-on, $15–$85/mo by unit count, on top of TurboTenant. Figures are typed in.
Their implementation is sound — their words are "using the same math your bank does". The difference is that it is an add-on, and that the figures are typed rather than read.
Bank feeds
TurboTenantPacRent
None. Schedules and AI receipt reading instead.
TurboTenant
Integrated accounting that syncs payments
Before you buy: LTR and STR underwriting
PacRentPacRent
Full analysis with market data
TurboTenant
Not offered
Owner time and mileage tracking
PacRentPacRent
Hours and mileage, for the REP test
TurboTenant
Not offered
Tenant screening
TurboTenantPacRent
À la carte by check, applicant pays, state caps enforced
TurboTenant
Free on Free and Essentials; $45–$55 per report on paid plans
Where TurboTenant wins
The rows we do not have an answer to
If one of these is the thing you most need, TurboTenant is the better choice and we would rather you knew that here than found out after paying us.
The free tier does the basics
Rent collection, leases, maintenance and screening at $0. For one or two doors with simple needs it is hard to argue with.
“Free $0/month” — TurboTenant, read November 7, 2026
Cheaper at small portfolios
$149/yr Essentials at 1–10 units, against our $190.
ACH is free for your tenant
On Free and Essentials. Ours costs the landlord up to $5 a payment.
More syndication sites
25+ against our one network. Worth reading closely — it is five relationships rather than twenty-five, and the Zillow network and Facebook Marketplace are both absent — but it is still broader reach than ours.
“TurboTenant does not directly publish self-managed (DIY) rental listings to Zillow.” — TurboTenant, read November 9, 2026
A fixed asset schedule
On Pro. We have no asset register, so no Form 4562 and no depreciation schedule.
Where PacRent wins
What you get here that you do not get there
The price does not move when you buy
$190 a year at one unit and at sixty-one. Their Pro goes $199 to $399 to $699 to $999 for the same software. 82.9% of US rental properties are single-unit (Census/HUD 2024 Rental Housing Finance Survey, ±1.7%), so the bands price for portfolios most of this market will never have — and punish the ones that grow.
The mortgage split is included
Theirs is a $15–$85/month add-on. Ours is in the $19, and reads the balance, rate and payment off your statement instead of asking you to type them.
Your tenant pays less to use a card
2.9% + $0.30 against 3.49% — about $10.60 a month on $1,850 rent.
You can underwrite before you buy
LTR and STR analysis with market data, in the same account that manages the property after.
Facebook Marketplace, which they do not have
Their syndication list does not include it, or Zillow. Ours is narrower overall and we say so — but it is not a subset of theirs.
The one every rival has and we do not
All three connect to your bank. We do not.
Money that moves through PacRent is already captured: rent is recorded as it settles, the Stripe webhook posts the processing fee straight into the chart of accounts, and receipts are read by AI with supplier matching. The costs that repeat — mortgage, insurance, HOA dues, utility autopay — run off schedules you set once, and a mortgage statement is read for its balance, rate and payment, then kept as the evidence behind them.
And the limit of that: What a feed still catches that this does not is an irregular cost paid straight from your bank and never photographed. That is a real gap, not a reframed one.
Which to pick
A straight answer, both ways
Choose TurboTenant if…
You have one or two doors and the free tier covers you, free tenant ACH matters, or you need a fixed asset schedule.
Choose PacRent if…
You expect to own more than ten units, you want the mortgage split without an add-on, or you underwrite before buying.
Whichever you pick, take your data with you when you go. Ours exports as every record in your account and imports back — a promise worth checking before you commit to anyone, us included.
Our own metered bit, declared
Credits buy AI, not the product
It would be hypocritical to warn you about metered upcharges and not explain ours. Pro includes 500 AI credits a month, 750 on annual billing. A document scan costs 10, a property search 5, a mileage calculation 1 — so 500 is 50 scans, or 100 searches, or any mix. A five-door landlord scanning five leases a year and twenty receipts a month uses about half of it.
If you do run out, 200 more cost $5 — about 25 cents per extra scan. Rent collection, leases, tenants, payments and reports are never metered and do not stop.
Decide it with your own portfolio in front of you
The free tier takes two properties and the full analysis tools, so you can test this against a real property rather than a feature table. Nothing is metered that matters, and the export is there the day you want to leave.
Every TurboTenant figure on this page is quoted from their own documentation with the date it was read. We re-read all of them quarterly; next review February 2027. Found something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.