Baselane vs RentRedi Pricing and What Each One Costs per Door

Baselane and RentRedi get compared because they both cost a landlord almost nothing, and both collect rent. Beyond that they are different products. Baselane is a checking account with landlord bookkeeping built around it, and its software is free because it would like to hold your deposits. RentRedi is a landlord app that runs the whole tenancy, from the listing to the maintenance ticket, and it has no free tier at all. Comparing their prices is really comparing $0 for half the job against $144 a year for all of it, plus what each one charges the people who apply to and live in your units.

Every figure below was read from Baselane's and RentRedi's own pricing pages and help centers. If you are here mid-decision with a vacancy open, the fastest useful thing you can do is put the unit live on RentPlace for $39 a month while you finish choosing a back office, or at least paste the listing into the free Listing Grader so the copy stops costing you applicants on whichever platform ends up hosting it.

The short answer

Baselane Core is $0 a month with unlimited properties. Its paid tier, Baselane Smart, is $20 a month on an annual plan, so $240 a year, at any portfolio size (every banking and tenant fee is on our Baselane pricing page). RentRedi is one plan with every feature and unlimited units, priced by the term you commit to: $29.95 a month billed monthly ($359.40 a year), $20 a month billed every six months ($240 a year), or $12 a month billed once as $144 a year. There is no RentRedi free plan, only a 30-day money-back guarantee.

On the landlord side, then, Baselane wins outright if $0 is the number you care about, RentRedi's annual term is $96 a year cheaper than Baselane Smart, and RentRedi's six-month term costs exactly what Smart does. On the tenant side RentRedi is cheaper on every line: $1 per bank transfer against Baselane's $2, 3.1% plus $0.30 by card against 3.49%. Baselane claws it back on screening, from $24.99 against RentRedi's $39.99, and by waiving its ACH fee entirely when the rent is deposited into a Baselane checking account.

A bank with software attached against an app with no free tier

The price difference follows from what each company sells. Baselane is a financial technology company whose accounts are provided by Thread Bank, Member FDIC. It earns on deposits and card interchange, so it can give away property-level bookkeeping, rent invoicing, a Schedule E and QuickBooks and Xero sync, and it does. Its plan table has no listing, syndication, screening workflow or maintenance row, because its product begins once you have a tenant. RentRedi earns on the subscription. In return it covers the part before the tenant exists, the listing syndicated to Zillow and Realtor.com, the application, the screening, the lease signature, and the part after, rent, maintenance requests with photos, a tenant app, teammates and accounting reports.

That last row is why a lot of landlords use both. If you want the whole tenancy on one login, RentRedi is the only one of the two that can do it. If you want the rent to land in an account that already knows which property it belongs to, Baselane is the only one of the two that is a bank.

What each one costs the landlord for a year

Neither of these prices by door, so the usual break-even table by unit count does not apply. What matters instead is which tier or term you are on, and what you get for it. Here is a full year at list price.

Two things stand out. First, RentRedi on the annual term is cheaper than Baselane's paid tier by $96, and it covers listing, screening, leases and maintenance that Baselane Smart does not touch, so if you were going to pay either company, RentRedi is the broader buy. Second, Baselane's accounting on the free tier is roughly what RentRedi's accounting reports are on the paid plan, which is why an occupied portfolio with no vacancies can be run on Baselane for nothing. The monthly RentRedi term is only worth it if you expect to sell inside the year; at $215.40 more than the annual term for the same product, it is a fee for flexibility.

What each one charges your tenants

This is where the two diverge most, and it is the part neither pricing page leads with. Both charge the renter a fee to pay rent online, both let the landlord absorb it, and the rates are different enough to matter across a year. Here is $1,800 of rent, twelve payments.

For a tenant who pays by ACH, which is most of them once the card fee is visible, the gap is $12 a year and disappears entirely if the landlord banks with Baselane. For a tenant who insists on a card, RentRedi saves them $80 a year. For an applicant, Baselane's report is $15 cheaper and that shows up in how many people finish the application.

The screening fee gap

Baselane publishes tenant screening "from $24.99", and the from matters: the landlord picks the reports and the price moves with the bundle and the state. RentRedi publishes $39.99 for credit, criminal and eviction together, or $49.99 when the applicant also connects a bank account so Plaid can verify income. Neither company charges the landlord for the report on any plan.

The applicant-side price matters more than it looks. A renter shopping five listings on a Saturday applies to two or three, and a $40 fee at the top of the form is the point where a decent applicant with a decent alternative closes the tab. Income verification is real value for the landlord, but $49.99 is a number to charge only to the applicant you have already decided you want, not to everyone who inquires. RentRedi's two-step screening exists partly for this: a pre-screen first, the paid report second.

Payout speed, and where the rent lands

RentRedi states rent typically lands in your account within 2 to 3 business days on every term, paid to whatever bank you already use. Baselane Core takes 5 business days, Smart 2, and the deposit goes to a Baselane checking account by design, because the product is the account. That account is a reasonable one for this purpose: a separate balance per property, up to 2.63% APY, FDIC pass-through coverage through Thread Bank, and bookkeeping that tags the rent to the right unit as it arrives.

So the real fork is not $1 against $2. It is whether you are willing to move the rental banking. If yes, Baselane's ACH fee vanishes, the books do themselves and the free tier is genuinely free. If no, you are paying $2 a payment to use a bank's software without the bank, and RentRedi at $1 with a faster payout to your existing account is the cleaner deal. There is no version of this decision where the payment fee is the deciding number; the account is.

Rent reporting is the add-on both of them sell

Both platforms sell an optional service that reports on-time rent to the credit bureaus: Baselane at $5 a month paid by the tenant, RentRedi's Credit Boost at $5.99 a month paid by either party. For a landlord it is a cheap renewal lever. A tenant who has been paying on time for two years and is deciding whether to stay is more likely to sign again if that history is now on their file, and offering to cover the $6 costs less than a single day of vacancy. It works best for the tenant who has actually looked at what is holding their credit score down and knows a rent tradeline is one of the few things they can add without borrowing.

Where Baselane is the better choice

• Your units are occupied and the books are the problem. Property-level bookkeeping, Schedule E, QuickBooks and Xero sync are on the $0 tier. RentRedi has accounting reports, but you are paying $144 a year for a platform whose center of gravity is leasing.
• You are happy to bank there. The ACH fee disappears, deposits land in the right property's account automatically, and the balance earns interest while it waits for the mortgage payment.
• You want the lower screening fee. From $24.99 against $39.99, and you choose the reports.
• You want a free tier that is actually free. RentRedi's cheapest way in is $144 charged on day one, refundable for 30 days.

Where RentRedi is the better choice

• You have a vacancy. Baselane does not list, market or syndicate. RentRedi pushes the listing to Zillow, Realtor.com and the rest, takes the application and runs the screening in the same flow.
• You want the whole tenancy on one login. Listing, application, lease signature, rent, maintenance tickets with photos, tenant app, teammates. Baselane covers the money and stops.
• You do not want to move your banking. RentRedi pays out to the account you already have, in 2 to 3 business days, with a $1 fee your tenant barely notices.
• Your tenants pay by card or in cash. 3.1% plus $0.30 beats 3.49%, and cash at retail locations is something Baselane does not offer at all.
• You want a flat price that never moves. $144 a year at one door or forty. Baselane Smart is also flat, but $96 more and narrower.

The cost neither pricing page shows

An $1,800 unit loses about $60 for every day it sits empty. One extra vacant week is $420 of rent you will never bill. Set that against the numbers above: the difference between Baselane Smart and RentRedi's annual term is $96 a year, and the entire annual cost of either is less than one extra vacant week on one unit.

That is not an argument for ignoring price. It is an argument for spending proportionate time on it. What moves the $420 is the listing and what happens in the first hour after somebody reads it. Baselane does not touch that stage. RentRedi puts the unit on the portals and then hands you a lead: a name and a message, with optional prescreening questions before the paid application. You still find out the move-in date, the income, the occupants and the pets one applicant at a time.

That is the specific problem RentPlace is priced around. The listing asks your screening questions before the message will send, so the first thing you read already has the answers, and every applicant on that listing answered the same set, so you can compare them side by side. It is $39 a month for up to five listings, monthly, no annual prepay, renters pay nothing, and the listing goes live the same day you pay. It does not collect rent, hold your deposits or write your lease, and it is not trying to. Run it in front of whichever of these two you pick.

How to decide this week

Ask where the tenancy is. If the unit is empty, RentRedi is the one of the two that can fill it, and $144 for a year of the whole stack is a small number against the vacancy. If the unit is occupied and the problem is where the rent goes and how the books get done, Baselane Core does that for $0, and the ACH fee vanishes if you let it be the bank.

Then check the two things the price comparison does not cover. Ask what applying will cost a renter on your setup, because it shapes how many finish. And look at where the platform leaves you on the day the inquiries start arriving, because neither of these tools sorts that pile for you.

If you want the full fee schedule rather than the comparison, the RentRedi pricing page has every term and every renter-side charge with the date each figure was checked. Baselane against the other free landlord platform is in Baselane vs TurboTenant pricing, and if you have outgrown both of these, the DoorLoop pricing ladder shows what a property-manager-grade platform costs at every unit count, with the tenant fees that change by plan.

And before you pay anyone anything, fix the listing. When applying costs a renter $25 or $40, copy that leaves out the move-in date, the pet policy and who pays the utilities is copy they skip. Paste yours into the free Listing Grader: it scores the text out of 100, names the missing facts one by one, and rewrites the headline and description. There are also four complete sample rental ads to work from if you would rather start from copy that already works.