Avail is a capable free tool. The maths turns against it the moment you grow: Unlimited Plus is $9 per unit per month, every month, forever.
Avail figures read from avail.com/pricing on 16 October 2026. Vendor pricing changes — confirm before deciding.
Avail Unlimited Plus is $9 per unit per month. Rentwelly is $39 a month flat for up to 20 units. Here is where the lines cross.
| Units | Avail Unlimited Plus | Rentwelly |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $27 / mo | $39 / mo |
| 5 | $45 / mo | $39 / mo |
| 10 | $90 / mo | $39 / mo |
| 20 | $180 / mo | $39 / mo |
The crossover is around five units. Below it, Avail Plus is cheaper and we would say so. Above it, you are paying a growing subscription for income and expense tracking rather than books.
The accounting is a list. Avail tracks income and expenses. That answers roughly what you spent. It does not produce a balance sheet, a trial balance your accountant can audit, or a number you can trace back to the transaction behind it. Security deposits are where this shows first — a deposit is a liability you are holding, and a category-based tool has nowhere to put that.
The fees sit on your tenants. On the free plan a tenant pays $2.50 for every bank transfer. Card payments carry 3.5% no matter which plan you are on, and that one cannot be removed. Unlimited Plus clears the bank-transfer fee, but you are then back on the per-unit meter.
Flat pricing means the tenth door costs the same to administer as the first. Per-unit pricing quietly turns your software bill into a tax on growth.
Every rent payment, fee and expense posts to a real double-entry ledger. Your balance sheet balances because the system requires it.
A security deposit is money you hold, not money you earned. Recorded as a liability it stays correct through the whole tenancy and through the return.
Schedule E figures, 1099s and owner statements come out of the ledger instead of a spreadsheet you rebuild every spring.
Be honest with the maths before you move. Stay with Avail if:
You have four units or fewer and want Plus. Below the crossover the per-unit price genuinely wins. Paying more for accounting you do not yet need is not a strategy.
The free plan already does the job. $0 for unlimited units with a tenant portal is a real offer. If your tenants do not mind the $2.50 transfer fee and your books are simple, there is nothing to fix.
You lean on Realtor.com listing reach. Avail sits inside that ecosystem now, and the listing distribution that comes with it is not something a bookkeeping-led tool replicates.
Switch when the per-unit bill overtakes a flat fee, or when someone asks for statements that have to tie out.
Rentwelly — a real double-entry ledger under rent collection and a tenant portal. $39/mo flat for up to 20 units, no unit minimum, billed monthly.
TurboTenant — the strongest free listing and screening engine, but Premium is billed annually only at $149 to $999 a year. See our TurboTenant comparison.
Landlord Studio — free for 3 units, then $15/mo or $144/yr plus $1.20 per extra unit. Excellent mobile app, category-based bookkeeping. See our Landlord Studio comparison.
Baselane — banking-led, free Core tier and $20/mo Smart on an annual plan. See our Baselane comparison.
Stessa — a portfolio tracker rather than an operations tool. Free, $12/mo or $28/mo on annual billing. See our Stessa comparison.
All competitor pricing read from each vendor's own public pricing page on 16 October 2026. Confirm current details before deciding.
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Free for 14 days, no credit card. Import your portfolio and see a balance sheet that ties out.
Almost always the per-unit price. Avail Unlimited Plus is $9 per unit per month, so the cost rises every time you buy. At three units that is $27/mo and Avail looks cheap. At ten units it is $90/mo, and at twenty it is $180/mo. Flat pricing stops punishing you for growing.
The Unlimited plan is genuinely $0 per unit for unlimited units, with a tenant portal and rent collection included. The costs sit in the payment fees: tenants pay $2.50 per bank transfer on the free plan, and card payments carry a 3.5% fee regardless of which plan you are on. Unlimited Plus removes the bank-transfer fee but adds the per-unit charge.
No. Avail lists income and expense tracking, which is categorisation rather than bookkeeping. There is no general ledger, no chart of accounts, no trial balance and no balance sheet. That is fine until an accountant, a lender or a refinance asks for statements that tie out.
The product is now branded under Realtor.com Rentals and the pricing page has moved from avail.co to avail.com. If you bookmarked the old address, that is why it no longer resolves properly.
Yes. Rentwelly imports properties, units, leases, tenants and opening balances by CSV, so you can switch mid-year and keep reporting continuity instead of starting from zero in January.
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