Buildium alternative for a small rental portfolio
Quick answer
Buildium lists property management plans from $62 a month with a 14-day free trial and tenant screening at $17 per screening. Omni Studio's real estate workspace is in early access and keeps the rent roll, leases, renewals, maintenance tickets, a ledger and Stripe autopay. Tenant screening is in design, and owner payouts stay outside Omni.
We set up the workflows described here around your records, tools, and approval rules during Custom Build or Enterprise setup. Custom workflows are not included in the Pilot. The examples illustrate the steps; we agree on the scope with you before using live records.
What Buildium charges as of October 2026
A Buildium alternative starts with what Buildium charges. Buildium lists three plans with starting prices on buildium.com/pricing, read October 13, 2026: Essential from $62 a month, Growth from $192, and Premium from $400, which lists an open API and the AI suite.
Essential includes basic accounting, maintenance, and leasing. Growth lists enhanced tenant screening and lower-cost e-signatures and EFT.
- Essential
- $62
- a month starting price
- Growth
- $192
- a month starting price
- Premium
- $400
- a month starting price
- Tenant screening
- $17
- per screening
- Free trial
- 14 days
- on every plan
The AI features sit on different plans: an AI Assistant on Essential and AI-enhanced communications on Growth. A sample 40-unit portfolio on Growth pays $192 a month at the starting price, which is the plan's starting price with no per-unit figure on the page. Sample data; your quote can differ.
What does Omni do for a rental portfolio today?
We set up the real estate workspace with you. Its rent roll uses unit records, and leases hold charges, effective dates, and expiry dates. We map your records and review the import before using live data.
Renewals carry a policy, counter-offers, and a rescreening step. Showings and tours book with a waitlist. Move-ins and move-outs have their own workspaces with a schedule and the deposit. Maintenance runs as tickets in a dispatch workspace, with preventive maintenance and vendor availability beside it.
The ledger holds charges, payments, late fees, deposits, and refunds. Autopay runs through Stripe, which the site labels Available for card payments. A trust and owner statements page keeps those records. Owner payouts and vendor payments stay outside Omni, and Omni is not your general ledger.
AI employee Olivia watches collections, vendors, renewals, and move-ins and flags what needs a person. AI employee Hank drafts calm replies to tenant complaints without promising refunds or waivers. AI employee Nora builds the owner report with the source of each number. Every draft waits for your approval, and each decision is recorded.
What a Buildium alternative must cover today
Each row names a Buildium plan feature from its pricing page beside what Omni does today, with the setup scope described on the live Omni pages.
| Job | Buildium, per its page | Omni Studio, status |
|---|---|---|
| Leasing | Leasing on Essential. | Lease dates, renewals with counter-offers, and showings with a waitlist, configured during setup. |
| Maintenance tickets | Maintenance on Essential. | Tickets, vendor availability, and preventive maintenance workflows configured during setup. |
| Rent collection and ledger | Basic accounting on Essential; lower-cost EFT on Growth. | Ledger and Stripe autopay workflows configured during setup. We connect QuickBooks; Omni is not your general ledger. |
| Owner statements | Standard and bulk reporting. | Trust and owner statement records configured during setup. Owner payouts stay outside Omni. |
| Tenant screening | $17 per screening; enhanced screening on Growth. | We connect your screening provider during setup. Screening decisions stay with people. |
| Open API | On Premium. | Keep the API tools you rely on and agree on connection scope during setup. |
| Price | Essential $62, Growth $192, Premium $400 a month starting prices. | Free workspace for 14 days on sample data. See the pricing page for plans and setup scope. |
Buildium publishes tenant screening at $17 a check, lower-cost EFT and e-signature transactions on Growth, and an open API on Premium. Omni's screening provider connection is configured during setup; screening decisions stay with people. The Omni versus Buildium page carries the same rows with the read dates.
Does Omni keep the books?
No. Omni keeps records: the ledger, the rent roll and the owner statements. Your accounting package stays, and the site labels the QuickBooks connection Available. Ask us whether your package connects for your account before you plan a switch.
We connect your Buildium account and configure the record workflow during setup. Omni connects to the apps Composio supports, which is 1,500+ apps. The AI receptionist versus virtual assistant article explains who handles the tenant phone line while the records move.
How to move a portfolio from Buildium
We configure the rent roll, lease and ticket workflows in the table with you, and we help move the records with setup help. For real estate we check every export file before anything moves, so the first step is a sample.
- Confirm the leasesList every active lease with its type, unit, charge, start, and end date. Fix gaps in Buildium first.
- Export leases and unitsPull the lease list and the unit list. Include the recurring charge column.
- We check the fileSend a sample. We map the columns to your lease fields and ledger entries before the import.
- Run one buildingMove one building, run its rent roll and tickets in Omni for one month, and compare the owner statement.
- Keep screening in BuildiumWe connect your screening provider during setup. Keep your current process until you have reviewed and accepted the configured workflow.
The AI ops outsourcing for real estate article covers what a managed workspace does for a landlord week by week. The AI for property management article follows one maintenance ticket from the tenant text to the vendor. The full stack with every vendor price is on the real estate compare page, and the software stack guide explains the replace and connect rule. The compare hub links every workspace.
Frequently asked questions
Does Omni screen tenants?
We connect your screening provider during setup. A person reviews the report and decides. Buildium publishes tenant screening at $17 per screening; keep your current process until the configured workflow has been reviewed.
Does Omni include accounting?
No. We set up a ledger, rent roll, owner statements, and Stripe card autopay with you. It is not your general ledger, and owner payouts and vendor payments stay outside Omni. The QuickBooks connection is labeled Available on the site.
Is there a free trial for Buildium?
Yes. Buildium's pricing page lists a 14-day free trial on every plan, read October 13, 2026, with Essential starting at $62 a month. Omni's free workspace also runs 14 days, on sample data with no credit card, and Omni's pricing page lists the plans and setup scope after that.
What does migration from Buildium include?
We scope migration and custom workflows with you during Custom Build or Enterprise setup, one building at a time. We ask for a sample export of leases and units, check the file, and map the columns to your lease fields and ledger entries before anything is imported. We connect your Buildium account and set up the import workflow during setup.
Sources
Last updated October 2026.
- Buildium pricing, plans, and tenant screening, buildium.com, read October 13, 2026.
- Omni Studio real estate workspace, omni.studio, read October 13, 2026.
- Omni Studio pricing, omni.studio, read October 13, 2026.
- Stripe pricing, stripe.com, read October 13, 2026.
Competitor facts are as of the read date shown, from each vendor's public page. Omni workflow and connection scope is agreed during setup.
