Avail vs Landlord Co-Pilot: 2026 Comparison for Small Landlords
TL;DR
Avail offers a free Unlimited tier (tenants pay $2.50 per ACH transfer) and a paid Unlimited Plus tier at $9 per unit per month with waived ACH fees and FastPay. Landlord Co-Pilot is flat-rate at $19/month or $179/year regardless of unit count, with a free tier for 1 property. The pricing models diverge with scale: Avail Plus on 3 units costs $27/month, but at 5 units it is $45/month versus Landlord Co-Pilot’s $19/month flat. Avail’s strength is its Realtor.com-backed syndication to 19 rental sites and a more permissive free tier. Landlord Co-Pilot’s strength is AI workflows, bilingual lease e-signature in English, Spanish, and Chinese, and predictable flat-rate scaling.
At-a-glance comparison
All figures verified May 2026 against avail.com/pricing and our own pricing page. Where a number is per-unit, we show the effective cost at a few common portfolio sizes to make the comparison concrete.
| Feature | Landlord Co-Pilot | Avail |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $19/month (Pro, unlimited units) | $0 (Unlimited free) or $9/unit/mo (Unlimited Plus) |
| Annual price | $179/year (~21% off, $14.92/mo equivalent) | Not advertised — Plus is monthly per-unit |
| Pricing model | Flat-rate, unlimited units | Per-unit on Plus; free on Unlimited |
| Cost at 3 units (Plus) | $19/mo | $27/mo |
| Cost at 5 units (Plus) | $19/mo | $45/mo |
| Cost at 10 units (Plus) | $19/mo | $90/mo |
| Free tier | 1 active property, all features, 10 AI calls/mo | Unlimited units, full landlord side; tenants pay transaction fees |
| Online rent collection (ACH) | Yes, no platform fee, via Stripe Connect | Yes (tenant pays $2.50/ACH on free; waived on Plus) |
| Card payments | Yes, tenant pays card processing | Yes, tenant pays 3.5% |
| Platform fee on rent | None (Stripe Connect pass-through) | None on Plus; tenant transaction fees on free |
| Tenant screening | TransUnion SmartMove, tenant pays | Credit + criminal + eviction reports, tenant typically pays |
| Lease e-signature | Yes, in-app, audit trail (IP + timestamp + document hash) | Yes, state-specific digital leases |
| Bilingual leases (EN/ZH/ES) | Yes — English, Spanish, Chinese PDFs | No — English only |
| Move-in / move-out inspections | Yes, photo-documented, built-in | Not advertised as a built-in workflow |
| AI features | Email drafting, maintenance triage, photo diagnosis, receipt parsing, NOI analytics | None advertised |
| Maintenance dispatch | Built-in with AI categorization and contractor handoff | Maintenance request tracking |
| Income & expense tracking with monthly summary | Yes — paid rent + completed maintenance auto-import, manual entries for mortgage/insurance/tax/HOA, monthly summary | Yes — basic income/expense tracker (limited categorization) |
| Tax reports (Schedule E) | Schedule E-ready exports + per-property NOI | Financial tracking |
| Listing syndication | Not offered | Yes — listing on 19 rental sites including Realtor.com |
| Branded property website | Not offered | Yes (Plus tier) |
| Target audience | Small landlords (1–20 units) wanting AI + bilingual leases + flat-rate | Landlords focused on listing reach and free entry |
Avail pricing and feature scope change periodically. Confirm current numbers on avail.com/pricing before deciding.
Pricing
Landlord Co-Pilot uses a single flat-rate Pro plan at $19/month or $179/year regardless of how many units you manage. The annual works out to $14.92/month — roughly 21% lower than monthly billing. A free tier is available with one active property, all features included, and a soft cap of 10 AI calls per month.
Avail uses a two-tier model. Unlimited (free) gives landlords unlimited units on the landlord side, but tenants pay $2.50 per ACH transfer and 3.5% on card payments. Unlimited Plus is $9 per unit per month and waives the ACH fee for tenants, adds FastPay (faster disbursement), custom application questions, lease template cloning, and a branded property website.
The pricing model crossover matters: on 3 units, Avail Plus is $27/month vs. Landlord Co-Pilot at $19/month. On 5 units, Avail Plus is $45/month vs. $19/month. On 10 units, Avail Plus is $90/month vs. $19/month. The per-unit model is favorable for a single-unit landlord on the free tier and increasingly expensive as the portfolio grows.
Rent collection
Landlord Co-Pilot routes rent through Stripe Connect with no platform fee on top of Stripe’s standard ACH and card processing. Dollars flow directly to a connected account you control; Landlord Co-Pilot does not hold tenant funds in an intermediary balance.
Avail’s free Unlimited tier requires tenants to pay $2.50 per ACH transfer and 3.5% on card payments — the landlord pays nothing but the tenant absorbs the fee. The Plus tier waives the ACH fee and adds FastPay for accelerated processing. For tenants paying once a month on ACH, $2.50/month is $30/year per tenant — a friction point that sometimes generates complaints from tenants on the Avail free tier.
For a landlord choosing between "I pay a flat fee" and "my tenants pay per transaction," the trade-off is real. Tenants generally prefer no fees; landlords on the Avail free tier are effectively passing $30/year per tenant in fees to the tenant in exchange for $0 platform cost. The Plus tier at $9/unit/month removes that friction but introduces per-unit cost scaling.
Tenant screening
Both platforms support credit, criminal, and eviction history reports. Landlord Co-Pilot integrates with TransUnion SmartMove as a pass-through — the tenant pays the screening fee directly and the landlord never handles their data or payment.
Avail offers similar screening report types and lets the landlord choose which reports to require. Tenants typically pay, though Avail allows the landlord to cover the cost optionally. The screening flow is well-integrated with Avail’s listing syndication, so applicants who arrive from a Realtor.com listing can go from inquiry to background check inside one platform.
For a landlord screening a handful of applicants per year the two are functionally similar. For a landlord whose lead flow is primarily from listing syndication, Avail’s integrated funnel is a slight workflow advantage.
Lease e-signature
Landlord Co-Pilot generates lease PDFs client-side via jsPDF and supports e-signing in English, Spanish, and Chinese — the same lease can be issued in the language the tenant reads. The audit trail records each signer’s IP address, timestamp, and the document hash that was signed.
Avail offers state-specific digital leases in English. Plus subscribers can customize and clone lease templates, which is useful for landlords with several standard configurations (furnished vs. unfurnished, short-term vs. annual). Multilingual lease support is not advertised.
For landlords whose tenant base is monolingual English, Avail’s state-specific templates are a real convenience and arguably better than a generic lease. For landlords serving bilingual Spanish-speaking or Chinese-speaking tenants — common in California, Texas, Florida, New York — issuing a lease the tenant fully reads in their first language is both a clarity win and a stronger legal position in the event of a dispute.
AI features
This is the largest functional difference. Landlord Co-Pilot ships several AI-assisted workflows: email categorization that triages tenant inbox messages into rent, maintenance, lease, and other buckets; AI-drafted reply suggestions that you can edit and send through Resend; photo-based maintenance diagnosis that categorizes a damage photo and suggests the trade (plumber, electrician, HVAC); receipt parsing that converts photographed receipts into expense entries tagged for Schedule E; and NOI analytics that summarize net operating income per property and across the portfolio.
Avail does not advertise AI features in their public product surface as of this writing. The Avail product surface is centered on listing syndication, tenant applications, lease signing, and rent collection — well-executed but not AI-augmented.
The AI features matter most for landlords who consider their time the binding constraint. Answering tenant emails, categorizing maintenance photos, and parsing receipts at tax time are the recurring tasks AI compresses meaningfully — usually several hours per month for a 5–10 unit portfolio.
Maintenance
Landlord Co-Pilot pairs tenant-submitted maintenance requests with AI categorization and a contractor handoff workflow. A tenant uploads a photo through the tenant portal; the AI suggests the trade and priority; the landlord dispatches to a saved contractor or a one-off vendor; the work order tracks through to completion with a timestamped log.
Move-in and move-out inspections are first-class objects in Landlord Co-Pilot — you walk the unit, photograph each room, the tenant signs the inspection report, and that record is what you reference at deposit-return time. This is a frequent source of small-claims disputes for self-managing landlords, and the documented record is the protection.
Avail supports tenant-submitted maintenance requests with tracking, but does not advertise built-in contractor dispatch, AI categorization, or formal move-in / move-out inspection workflows. For landlords who handle vendor dispatch outside the platform (text the plumber, log the cost as an expense later) this difference is moot; for landlords who want the workflow inside one tool, it is meaningful.
When to choose Avail
Choose Avail if listing syndication is the dominant funnel for your units. Listing on 19 rental sites including Realtor.com out of the box is a real advantage if you turn over units regularly and need application volume without running paid ads. The Realtor.com brand association also tends to attract higher-intent applicants than the average free listing site.
Choose Avail Unlimited (free) if you have 1–3 units and are okay with tenants paying $2.50 per ACH transfer. The landlord-side cost is genuinely $0 and the feature set on the free tier is more generous than most competitors’ free plans.
Choose Avail Plus if you specifically need the branded property website, FastPay disbursement, or lease template cloning, and your unit count is low enough that $9 per unit per month is cheaper than a flat-rate alternative. Below 2 units, Avail Plus at $18/month is competitive with Landlord Co-Pilot Pro at $19/month.
When to choose Landlord Co-Pilot
Choose Landlord Co-Pilot if your portfolio is 3 or more units and you do not want per-unit pricing. At 5 units, the cost difference is $19/month flat vs. $45/month on Avail Plus — that scales fast as you add doors. Flat-rate also makes annual budget planning much simpler.
Choose Landlord Co-Pilot if your tenants speak Spanish or Chinese and you want a lease they can fully read and sign in their language. Bilingual lease e-sign in English, Spanish, and Chinese is not a feature Avail offers, and it is a real differentiator in California, Texas, Florida, New York, and other states with large bilingual populations.
Choose Landlord Co-Pilot if you want AI workflows that compress the recurring tenant-email, maintenance-triage, and receipt-categorization tasks. Avail does not ship AI features. The hours saved per month from AI email drafts and photo-based maintenance diagnosis typically exceed the marginal cost over a year.
Choose Landlord Co-Pilot if you want zero per-transaction fees passed to your tenants. With Stripe Connect ACH and no platform fee, tenants pay nothing per ACH transfer; on Avail’s free tier they pay $2.50 each time.
Frequently asked questions
Honest answers to the most common questions about how the two platforms compare. Where pricing is involved, all figures are current as of May 2026 and we link out to the source pages so you can verify.
Is Landlord Co-Pilot cheaper than Avail?
At 1 unit, Avail Plus is $9/month vs. Landlord Co-Pilot Pro at $19/month — Avail wins. At 2 units, Avail Plus is $18/month vs. $19/month — roughly tied. At 3+ units, Landlord Co-Pilot’s flat $19/month is cheaper than Avail Plus’s per-unit pricing ($27/month at 3 units, $45/month at 5, $90/month at 10). Avail Unlimited (free) is $0 for the landlord regardless of unit count, but tenants pay $2.50 per ACH transfer.
Does Landlord Co-Pilot have a free tier like Avail?
Yes, but with different limits. Landlord Co-Pilot’s free tier covers 1 active property with all features included (inspections, lease e-sign, screening, rent collection, tenant portal in English, Spanish, and Chinese) and a soft cap of 10 AI calls per month. Avail Unlimited is free for any number of units on the landlord side, but tenants pay transaction fees.
Can I switch from Avail to Landlord Co-Pilot?
Yes. Neither platform locks you in. Export your tenant ledger and lease PDFs from Avail, then upload them as documents in Landlord Co-Pilot. Existing tenants are invited via the tenant portal flow; active leases can be re-created in the system or kept as static PDFs in the documents bucket.
Does Avail offer AI features like maintenance triage or email drafting?
Not as of this writing. Avail’s public product surface does not advertise AI categorization, AI-drafted email replies, photo-based maintenance diagnosis, or receipt parsing. Landlord Co-Pilot includes all four.
Does Avail charge tenants for ACH payments?
On the free Unlimited tier, yes — tenants pay $2.50 per ACH transfer. On the paid Unlimited Plus tier ($9/unit/month), the ACH fee is waived. Card payments incur a 3.5% fee paid by the tenant on both tiers. Landlord Co-Pilot routes ACH through Stripe Connect with no platform fee added, so tenants do not pay a per-transfer surcharge.
Which platform has better bilingual lease support?
Landlord Co-Pilot supports lease e-signature in English, Spanish, and Chinese — the same lease can be issued in the language the tenant reads. Avail offers state-specific digital leases in English with template customization on the Plus tier, but does not advertise multilingual leases.
When does Landlord Co-Pilot beat Avail Plus on price?
At 3 or more units. Avail Plus at $9/unit/month crosses the $19/month Landlord Co-Pilot Pro price between 2 and 3 units. At 5 units the gap is already $45/mo vs. $19/mo; at 10 units it is $90/mo vs. $19/mo. For single-unit landlords on Plus, Avail is cheaper on the margin.
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