Stessa Pricing and Stessa Pro Cost per Month and Whether Stessa Is Free
Stessa Essentials is free. Manage costs $12 a month billed annually or $15 billed monthly, and Pro costs $28 or $35. Every plan covers unlimited properties. Tenants pay $2 per bank payment into an outside bank, or 3% by card, and applicants pay $29 to $49 for screening.
Figures from Stessa's own pricing page, its help center and its archived price list
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Stessa cost per month on each plan and billing term
The pricing page leads with the annual rate. Month to month costs 25% more, which is the number to use if you are trying Stessa for a single tax season.
Essentials
$0a year, billed annually
Free on every term
Unlimited properties, bank feeds, basic reports, rent collection, listings and screening. Lease templates cost $15 each.
Manage
$144a year, billed annually
$12 a month annually, or $15 a month monthly ($180 a year)
Adds the Schedule E report, 60+ legal forms, unlimited lease templates, one eSignature a month, accelerated rent payments and priority chat.
Pro
$336a year, billed annually
$28 a month annually, or $35 a month monthly ($420 a year)
Adds unlimited portfolios, all advanced reports, budgeting and pro forma, unlimited receipt scans, seven eSignatures a month, phone support and the higher cash rate.
RentPlace is not affiliated with Stessa or Roofstock. US dollars, before tenant fees and screening. Confirm the figure on Stessa's own pricing page before you subscribe.
Stessa cost per unit, from one door to fifty
Stessa charges a flat price whatever you own, so the cost per door falls as the portfolio grows. That is the reverse of the per-unit suites.
At one rental, Pro is $28 a door a month, more than most management software charges per unit. At 25 doors it is $1.12, and at 50 it is 56 cents. Manage at $144 a year is exactly what RentRedi charges on its annual term, and both cover unlimited units. Landlord Studio Pro shows the same $12 a month on yearly billing but charges per door above three, so Landlord Studio pricing at 30 units is $468 a year on its cheaper paid plan.
| Doors | Manage, per door a month | Pro, per door a month |
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| 1 | $12.00 | $28.00 |
| 3 | $4.00 | $9.33 |
| 5 | $2.40 | $5.60 |
| 10 | $1.20 | $2.80 |
| 25 | $0.48 | $1.12 |
| 50 | $0.24 | $0.56 |
Annual billing, $144 and $336 a year divided by twelve and by the door count.
Stessa Essentials, Manage and Pro, what each plan adds
Rent collection, listings, screening, bank feeds and maintenance tracking are on every plan. The paid tiers sell tax paperwork, documents and reporting depth.
| Feature | Essentials, free | Manage, $12 | Pro, $28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Properties and units | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Portfolios to group properties | 1 | 1 | Unlimited |
| Smart receipt scans | 5 a month | 5 a month | Unlimited |
| Tax package for your accountant | Basic | Plus Schedule E | Plus CapEx |
| Advanced reports, budgeting and pro forma | No | No | Yes |
| State lease templates | $15 each | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| eSignatures | None | 1 a month | 7 a month |
| Accelerated rent payments | No | Yes | Yes |
| Legal consultation | No | No | Yes |
| Support | Basic | Priority chat | Priority chat and phone |
Properties and units
Essentials: Unlimited · Manage: Unlimited · Pro: Unlimited
Portfolios to group properties
Essentials: 1 · Manage: 1 · Pro: Unlimited
Smart receipt scans
Essentials: 5 a month · Manage: 5 a month · Pro: Unlimited
Tax package for your accountant
Essentials: Basic · Manage: Plus Schedule E · Pro: Plus CapEx
Advanced reports, budgeting and pro forma
Essentials: No · Manage: No · Pro: Yes
State lease templates
Essentials: $15 each · Manage: Unlimited · Pro: Unlimited
eSignatures
Essentials: None · Manage: 1 a month · Pro: 7 a month
Accelerated rent payments
Essentials: No · Manage: Yes · Pro: Yes
Legal consultation
Essentials: No · Manage: No · Pro: Yes
Support
Essentials: Basic · Manage: Priority chat · Pro: Priority chat and phone
Manage is the plan for a landlord whose accountant asks for a Schedule E every spring and who signs a few leases a year: the unlimited state templates alone replace $15 a lease on the free plan. Pro is a reporting and banking plan. It earns its price for an investor running several LLCs as separate portfolios, building pro formas before a purchase, or scanning dozens of receipts a month.
When Stessa Pro pays for itself in interest
Stessa pays a higher rate on its cash account to Pro subscribers. Set the rate gap against the plan price and there is a balance above which Pro costs nothing.
About $15,500
Average balance at which the higher rate covers the $192 a year step from Manage to Pro.
About $27,100
Average balance at which it covers Pro's full $336 a year against free Essentials.
Under $87
The most the higher rate can earn you a year below $10,000, never enough to cover either paid plan.
| Cash balance | Essentials or Manage APY | Pro APY | Extra interest a year on Pro |
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| Under $10,000 | 0.57% | 1.44% | Under $87 |
| $10,000 to $49,999 | 0.93% | 2.17% | $124 to $620 |
| $50,000 to $99,999 | 1.29% | 2.53% | $620 to $1,240 |
| $100,000 to $249,999 | 1.66% | 2.90% | $1,240 to $3,100 |
| $250,000 and up | 2.02% | 3.49% | $3,675 and up |
Under $10,000
0.57% against 1.44% on Pro, worth Under $87 a year
$10,000 to $49,999
0.93% against 2.17% on Pro, worth $124 to $620 a year
$50,000 to $99,999
1.29% against 2.53% on Pro, worth $620 to $1,240 a year
$100,000 to $249,999
1.66% against 2.90% on Pro, worth $1,240 to $3,100 a year
$250,000 and up
2.02% against 3.49% on Pro, worth $3,675 and up a year
Rates from the footnote on Stessa's pricing page, effective September 17, 2026, variable. The tier is set by the previous month's combined month-end balance. The account is held through Thread Bank, Member FDIC; Stessa itself is not a bank.
The catch is the account itself. The interest only applies to money kept in Stessa's cash management account, which is also the only way your tenants pay no fee on a bank transfer. Landlords who hold security deposits or reserves in a separate trust account at their own bank will not see the bump. A landlord who is happy to run rent and reserves through Stessa, with a balance in the tens of thousands, can treat Pro as close to free.
Stessa pricing history, and the 2024 Pro increase
Most pages still describe Stessa as "free with a $20 Pro plan". That was true until 2024.
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March 2021
Roofstock, the single-family rental marketplace, acquires Stessa. It buys the screening company RentPrep the following year.
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Through 2023
Two plans. Essentials free, Pro $20 a month billed annually, with the Schedule E and CapEx tax package on Pro.
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By June 2024
Three plans. Manage appears at $12 annually or $15 monthly and takes over the Schedule E report. Pro moves to $28 annually or $35 monthly, 40% above the old annual rate.
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2025 to today
The same $12 and $28 prices. Maintenance requests have been added to the free plan.
Every Stessa fee your tenants and applicants pay
None of these appear on the pricing page. They sit in the help center and on the screening page, and they are the same on every plan.
| What is being paid for | Stessa price | Billed to | Detail |
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| Rent by bank transfer into a Stessa cash account | $0 | Nobody | The only free way to collect rent on Stessa. It requires keeping rent in Stessa's own cash management account. |
| Rent by bank transfer to your own bank | $2 per payment | Tenant | On twelve payments a year that is $24 per tenant. Stessa calls it a convenience fee and it is non-refundable, even if the payment is reversed. |
| Rent by credit or debit card | 3% per payment | Tenant | On $1,800 of rent that is $54 a month, or $648 a year. Landlords cannot switch card payments off. |
| Credit report with ResidentScore | $29 | Applicant or landlord | Run through RentPrep, which Roofstock owns alongside Stessa. Either side can pay. |
| Background check only | $29 | Landlord only | Criminal, sex offender, eviction, judgments and bankruptcies, with a human screener review. The applicant cannot be billed for this one. |
| Complete screening package | $49 | Applicant or landlord | Credit report and background check together. |
| Income verification add-on | +$10, or +$15 with employment | Applicant or landlord | Added to any screening order. |
| State lease template on Essentials | $15 each | Landlord | Unlimited on Manage and Pro. Two leases a year on Essentials cost $30, a fifth of a year of Manage. |
Rent by bank transfer into a Stessa cash account
$0 billed to nobody
The only free way to collect rent on Stessa. It requires keeping rent in Stessa's own cash management account.
Rent by bank transfer to your own bank
$2 per payment billed to tenant
On twelve payments a year that is $24 per tenant. Stessa calls it a convenience fee and it is non-refundable, even if the payment is reversed.
Rent by credit or debit card
3% per payment billed to tenant
On $1,800 of rent that is $54 a month, or $648 a year. Landlords cannot switch card payments off.
Credit report with ResidentScore
$29 billed to applicant or landlord
Run through RentPrep, which Roofstock owns alongside Stessa. Either side can pay.
Background check only
$29 billed to landlord only
Criminal, sex offender, eviction, judgments and bankruptcies, with a human screener review. The applicant cannot be billed for this one.
Complete screening package
$49 billed to applicant or landlord
Credit report and background check together.
Income verification add-on
+$10, or +$15 with employment billed to applicant or landlord
Added to any screening order.
State lease template on Essentials
$15 each billed to landlord
Unlimited on Manage and Pro. Two leases a year on Essentials cost $30, a fifth of a year of Manage.
Bank transfers take up to five business days to arrive and card payments up to two, with a 3 PM Eastern cutoff. Manage and Pro add accelerated rent payments, though the pricing page does not say how much faster. If you are coming from a platform that lets you absorb or switch off the tenant fee, note that Stessa does neither: the only way to spare a tenant the $2 is to receive rent into Stessa's own account.
Stessa cost against RentRedi, TurboTenant and Innago
The apps a landlord with one to fifty doors shortlists, both sides of the bill in one table.
| Platform | Landlord pays a year | Tenant bank payment | Tenant card payment | Screening |
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| Stessa Essentials | $0 | $2, or $0 into a Stessa account | 3% | $29 to $49 |
| Stessa Manage | $144 ($180 monthly) | $2, or $0 into a Stessa account | 3% | $29 to $49 |
| Stessa Pro | $336 ($420 monthly) | $2, or $0 into a Stessa account | 3% | $29 to $49 |
| RentRedi | $144 ($359.40 monthly) | $1 | 3.1% + $0.30 | $39.99 |
| TurboTenant Pro | $199 (1 to 10 units) | $0 on Pro | 3.49% | $45 to $55 |
| Innago | $0 | $2 | 2.99% | $30 to $35 |
Stessa Essentials
Landlord: $0
Tenant: $2, or $0 into a Stessa account by bank, 3% by card
Screening: $29 to $49
Stessa Manage
Landlord: $144 ($180 monthly)
Tenant: $2, or $0 into a Stessa account by bank, 3% by card
Screening: $29 to $49
Stessa Pro
Landlord: $336 ($420 monthly)
Tenant: $2, or $0 into a Stessa account by bank, 3% by card
Screening: $29 to $49
RentRedi
Landlord: $144 ($359.40 monthly)
Tenant: $1 by bank, 3.1% + $0.30 by card
Screening: $39.99
TurboTenant Pro
Landlord: $199 (1 to 10 units)
Tenant: $0 on Pro by bank, 3.49% by card
Screening: $45 to $55
Innago
Landlord: $0
Tenant: $2 by bank, 2.99% by card
Screening: $30 to $35
Stessa's real difference is accounting depth, not price. It started as bookkeeping software and its reports and tax package are stronger than the rent apps'. RentRedi charges tenants half as much per bank payment and lets the landlord absorb it; TurboTenant Pro waives it. The full schedules are on our TurboTenant pricing page and on our Innago pricing page. For what landlords say about support, bank feeds and payout timing, read the Stessa review for landlords.
Which Stessa plan to buy at your size
One to four doors, simple books: Essentials. Bank feeds and a basic tax package cover a landlord whose accountant does the Schedule E. Pay $15 for a lease template when you need one.
Five to twenty doors, doing your own taxes: Manage. The Schedule E report and unlimited templates are worth $144 a year to anyone who used to rebuild both by hand.
Several LLCs, or a large cash balance: Pro. Separate portfolios per entity, budgets and pro formas, and above about $27,000 in the Stessa account, interest that covers the plan.
Managing for other owners: not Stessa. Owner statements and trust accounting for clients are what the per-unit suites sell; the Buildium pricing and DoorLoop pricing pages price them.
Stessa and RentPlace, side by side
They do different jobs. If what you need is the books, the tax package and a place for rent to land, Stessa is the right purchase, and the rows below say where it plainly wins.
| Compared on | Stessa | RentPlace |
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| Cheapest way in | Free Essentials plan | $39 a month for up to five listings |
| Accounting, bank feeds, tax package | Yes, its core product | No. This is not bookkeeping software |
| Rent collection and cash account | Yes, with $2 or 3% on the tenant | No. We do not process rent |
| Screening | Through RentPrep, $29 to $49 | No. We are not a consumer reporting agency |
| Listing a vacancy | Vacancy marketing with syndication to Zillow | A listing page of our own, scored out of 100 before it goes live |
| What an inquiry contains | Whatever the portal passes on, usually a name and a message | Move-in date, income band, occupants, pets and lease length, before the message can send |
| Maturity | Owned by Roofstock since 2021, a large landlord user base | New, with a smaller audience, and we will not claim otherwise |
Cheapest way in
Stessa: Free Essentials plan
RentPlace: $39 a month for up to five listings
Accounting, bank feeds, tax package
Stessa: Yes, its core product
RentPlace: No. This is not bookkeeping software
Rent collection and cash account
Stessa: Yes, with $2 or 3% on the tenant
RentPlace: No. We do not process rent
Screening
Stessa: Through RentPrep, $29 to $49
RentPlace: No. We are not a consumer reporting agency
Listing a vacancy
Stessa: Vacancy marketing with syndication to Zillow
RentPlace: A listing page of our own, scored out of 100 before it goes live
What an inquiry contains
Stessa: Whatever the portal passes on, usually a name and a message
RentPlace: Move-in date, income band, occupants, pets and lease length, before the message can send
Maturity
Stessa: Owned by Roofstock since 2021, a large landlord user base
RentPlace: New, with a smaller audience, and we will not claim otherwise
Plenty of landlords run Stessa for the books and something else for the vacancy, because free syndication brings back the portals' inquiries unsorted. RentPlace covers that part. A renter cannot send "is this still available?" because the listing asks your screening questions first, and every unit sits on a vacancy board with its days empty beside it. The Landlord plan is $39 a month for up to five listings, and all four plans are on the pricing page.
Two vacant days cost more than a year of Stessa Manage
A unit renting at $1,800 a month loses about $60 a day while it sits empty. Two extra vacant days are $120, most of the $144 a year Manage costs, and a vacant week is more than a year of Pro. The plan choice is worth ten minutes; the empty unit is worth an afternoon.
The vacancy calculator on the pricing page runs that number on your own rent. For what the portals charge on top, see the Zillow Rental Manager cost breakdown, and for a landlord weighing a paid rent app instead, what RentRedi costs both sides of the lease.
What landlords ask about Stessa pricing
Answers use Stessa's pricing page, its help center and its archived price list.
How much does Stessa cost?
Stessa has three plans. Essentials is free. Manage costs $12 a month billed annually ($144 a year) or $15 billed monthly. Pro costs $28 a month billed annually ($336 a year) or $35 billed monthly. Every plan covers unlimited properties, so the price does not rise with your door count.
Is Stessa free?
Yes, the Essentials plan is free for the landlord with unlimited properties, bank feeds, basic reports, rent collection, listings and screening. Tenants pay $2 per bank payment into an outside bank or 3% by card, applicants pay for screening, and state lease templates cost $15 each on the free plan.
How much is Stessa Pro?
Stessa Pro is $28 a month when billed annually, which is $336 a year, or $35 a month billed monthly, which is $420 a year. It adds unlimited portfolios, all advanced reports, budgeting and pro forma, unlimited receipt scans, seven eSignatures a month, phone support and a higher rate on cash balances.
Why is Stessa free?
Stessa makes its money around the free plan rather than from it. Tenants pay convenience fees on rent, applicants pay for screening through RentPrep, landlords pay for Manage and Pro, and Stessa offers a cash management account that rent can be paid into. Roofstock, a rental property marketplace, has owned Stessa since March 2021.
Does Stessa charge tenants?
Yes, when they pay rent, unless the rent goes into a Stessa cash management account. Paying by bank transfer to the landlord's own bank costs the tenant $2 a payment, and paying by credit or debit card costs 3%. The fee is non-refundable and landlords cannot turn payment methods off.
Is Stessa Pro worth it?
Pro is worth it if you need advanced reports, budgets or several portfolios, or if you keep a large balance in Stessa's cash account. At September 2026 rates, Pro earns 1.24 points more on balances of $10,000 to $249,999, so an average balance near $27,100 covers the $336 annual price by itself.
What is the difference between Stessa Manage and Pro?
Manage ($12 a month annually) adds the Schedule E report, legal forms, unlimited lease templates, one eSignature a month and faster rent payouts. Pro ($28) adds unlimited portfolios, every advanced report, budgeting, unlimited receipt scans, seven eSignatures, legal consultation, phone support and a higher cash rate.
How much does Stessa tenant screening cost?
Stessa screening runs through RentPrep. A credit report is $29, a background check alone is $29 and can only be paid by the landlord, and the complete package is $49. Income verification adds $10, or $15 with employment verification. The credit report and complete package can be billed to the applicant.
Has Stessa raised its prices?
Yes. Through 2023 Stessa had two plans, free Essentials and Pro at $20 a month billed annually. By June 2024 it had added Manage at $12 and moved Pro to $28 a month annually, a 40% rise. Those prices were unchanged in 2025 and are the same today.
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