PropStream alternatives, sorted by the job you actually need done

What you are actually paying for

PropStream bundles property data, comps, list building, a mobile app, list automation and skip tracing into one subscription. You pay $99 a month, per its pricing page, which includes 25,000 monthly saves and exports and skip tracing at 12 cents a contact. Then you sign in on a Tuesday and use one corner of it.

That gap is why "PropStream alternatives" gets searched a couple hundred times every month. Most people are not angry at PropStream. They are renting a warehouse to store one box. The mistake that follows is swapping the whole warehouse for a different whole warehouse, and paying twice for features that sit idle either way.

So this is sorted by the job, not by a star average. Read down to the row that matches what you open the software to do. Skip the rest, because the rest is what you are trying to stop paying for.

The number the alternatives have to beat

Set the baseline first. PropStream Essentials is $99 a month, or $81 when billed annually. The 12-cents-a-contact skip trace is average for the category, not cheap and not steep. The Lead Automator that people quote as the reason to stay is an add-on, not part of the $99. A seven-day trial hands you 50 leads to test it. There is also PropStream Connect, a separate subscription from $30 a month that bundles free skip tracing and click-to-dial for up to 50,000 properties. Stack that on and your true monthly cost is nearer $130 than $99. Read the add-ons before you compare anything, because the sticker price hides them.

Two things about that price matter for the comparison. It is a flat monthly fee whether you pull one list or forty, so heavy users get more for their dollar than light ones. And it is data-only: PropStream finds and traces owners, then hands you a spreadsheet. Getting mail to those owners is a separate task you still have to solve. Every tool below is either cheaper at one job or folds a second job in.

If the job is driving for dollars: DealMachine

DealMachine started as a driving-for-dollars app and it still does that better than PropStream's bolt-on. Basic is $99 a seat per month with 10,000 data credits, per its pricing page, and the route-tracking app is included on every plan. You drive a neighborhood, tap the distressed houses, and it pulls the owner and queues a postcard.

The mail is the real differentiator here. DealMachine prints and sends for you at 75 cents for a 4-by-6 postcard on Basic, 70 on Pro, with 6-by-9 and 6-by-11 sizes priced up from there. PropStream will not put a stamp on anything. If your whole workflow is spot a house, get the owner, mail the owner, DealMachine collapses three steps into one app and PropStream never does the third step at all.

Pro is $149 a seat for 20,000 credits. The Scale package is $599 for 100,000 records across ten seats, aimed at agencies. A solo driver never needs Scale. Where DealMachine is worse: at 10,000 credits a seat, it is not the tool for pulling a 40,000-record county list in one go. Skip that job to the next row. And the per-seat price climbs fast the moment a second and third person need their own login.

If the job is big lists and skip tracing: BatchLeads

BatchLeads is built for people who pull large lists and trace them in bulk. Growth is $119 a month for 10,000 leads and 20,000 exports, per its pricing page, and the headline feature is that phone numbers and emails come included when you save a property to a list. No separate 12-cent line item per contact. Blow past your monthly cap and extra records run 4 cents each.

Run the arithmetic against PropStream and it flips on volume. Trace 10,000 records on PropStream and the skip fees alone are $1,200 on top of the $99. Do the same on BatchLeads Growth and the contact data is inside the $119. For anyone building motivated-seller lists in the thousands every month, the all-in-pricing model is the reason to move. Our BatchLeads versus PropStream breakdown runs the numbers at a few list sizes.

Where it is worse: BatchLeads is a lead-and-SMS machine, not a mapping app. If you want to physically drive routes, this is not it. And the Professional tier at $349 is a real jump the moment you outgrow 10,000 leads.

If the job is lists that update themselves: PropertyRadar

PropertyRadar is the pick when you want a list that keeps working after you build it. Solo is $119 a month, or $99 prepaid annually, per its pricing page. It includes 250 phone-and-email appends, with more at 8 cents each on Solo, dropping to 6 and 4 cents on higher tiers. The draw is dynamic lists: set a rule like "absentee owner, 60 percent equity, this zip" and new matches drop in on their own as records change.

That monitoring is the thing PropStream makes you redo by hand. PropertyRadar also has deeper coverage in California and the West, where it started, so agents and investors working those markets often find owner and contact data there that a national tool misses. The 250 included appends are thin, though. Heavy tracers will pay per record on top, and the math only beats BatchLeads if you trace hundreds, not thousands.

If the job is spend nothing: Propwire and the county

Propwire gives away what PropStream charges for. Its site advertises search across 157 million-plus properties at no cost, and the honest read is that the data is real and good enough to start with. For a new wholesaler with more time than money, a free tool that pulls owners and comps removes the last excuse not to begin.

The catch is the one every free product carries. You are the product, the data is the lead magnet, and skip tracing and mail are where the paid upsell lives. Propwire also does not monitor lists or send mail, so you are back to exporting spreadsheets and solving delivery yourself. The genuinely free alternative underneath all of this is your county recorder and assessor, which post ownership and sales records online for nothing. Slower, but the same data these tools resell. If free is the requirement, start there and add a paid tool only when your time is worth more than the hour it saves. Pair Propwire's free export with a low-cost skip-tracing service and you have a working stack for close to zero. It will not scale to 40,000 records a month. It does not need to when you are chasing your first deal.

If the job is one login for everything: REsimpli

REsimpli aims at the opposite of a narrow tool. It is a CRM first, with calling, texting, list stacking, driving, cash-buyer search and direct mail folded in, and its pitch is that every feature is on every plan with no tiered lockouts. The Solo plan runs about $249 a month billed annually, per its pricing page, with a 14-day trial.

That is more than double PropStream, and for a light user it is the wrong trade. For an operator running a team, a pipeline and a mail cadence out of five browser tabs, folding all of it into one system can be worth the premium, because the cost you are cutting is the hour a day lost to copy-pasting between tools. See our CRM comparison before you commit, since REsimpli is one of several that price this way. The failure mode is buying the all-in-one and using it like a data tool. Then you are paying $249 for a $99 job.

The comparison that wastes the most money

People pick alternatives on the skip-trace price, and it is close to the least important number on the page. Watch the arithmetic. Say you trace 500 owners and mail them. On PropStream the skip fees are $60. On PropertyRadar Solo they are $40. On BatchLeads they are inside the plan. The spread between the most and least expensive option is $60, once.

Now look at the postage. Mailing those 500 owners a single 65-cent postcard is $325, per the USPS retail price list, and one round is never enough, so call it $975 across three touches. The skip fee you agonized over is 6 percent of the mail spend, and the mail spend is wasted entirely if the 500 owners were the wrong 500. Optimizing the 12-cents-versus-4-cents question while ignoring who is on the list is the most common and most expensive mistake in this whole comparison. Cheap skip tracing on a bad list is still a bad list. Our skip-tracing cost guide has the per-record numbers if you want them, but the record fee is not where your money goes.

The alternatives at a glance

Prices below are the entry plan as listed on each vendor's own page in September 2026. Verify current pricing before you buy, because every one of these changes it.

When the real answer is no data tool at all

Step back and ask what the data is for. For a lot of investors and agents, every subscription above exists to answer one question: which owners should I mail? You pay $99 to $249 a month to find them, then pay again to reach them, and the tool washes its hands the moment the export finishes.

Farmrix runs that whole path and skips the subscription. It scores every owner in a market on how likely they are to sell in the next 6 to 12 months, ranks them, then prints and mails postcards to the top of that list. The smallest package is 500 ranked owners and 500 postcards for $1,195, which is $2.39 a mailed piece with data, printing and postage already inside. There is no monthly data fee, because you are not buying a data tool. You are buying the mail landing on the right doors. Nothing sits idle. Nothing exports to a spreadsheet you then have to solve.

Here is the honest routing. If you love working the data yourself, pick the tool above that matches your one job and stop overpaying for the other seven. Driving neighborhoods, use DealMachine. Pulling big lists, use BatchLeads. Watching a market, use PropertyRadar. Broke, use Propwire and your county. And if the only reason you ever open any of them is to figure out who deserves a postcard, let the scoring and the mailing happen for you and go spend the saved hour locking up a deal.