Sahab Key: the Innago alternative for professional landlords

Who each product is really for

The honest answer is that Innago and Sahab Key charge differently because they are built to carry different amounts of the work.

Innago is free property management software for landlords and small managers. As of August 2026 its site says exactly that: no monthly fee, no setup fee, no contract, and its FAQ explains that Innago makes money through small transaction fees paid by tenants, two dollars per ACH payment and 2.99 percent on card payments, plus tenant screening billed to the applicant at thirty to thirty-five dollars. For that price of zero you get rent collection with autopay, lease e-signing, free rental applications, maintenance requests with tenant photos, and income and expense tracking. If you have one or two straightforward units, that is a lot of software for no money.

Sahab Key is built for landlords and small managers who run rentals as a business. Each building keeps its own books and its own Stripe payout account, so rent routes straight to the right owner and the books balance to the cent. Section 8 housing authority payments are tracked alongside tenant payments, owners and investors get a portal with per-building payouts, and every workspace is reviewed before it opens, usually within one business day. It is two dollars a unit a month, and the fifty-dollar minimum covers your first twenty-five units.

Pricing, side by side

Sahab Key publishes its full price on the pricing page: two dollars per unit per month, a fifty-dollar monthly minimum that covers the first twenty-five units, and flat monthly add-ons if you want them. Forty units is eighty dollars a month. One hundred units is two hundred. No setup fees, no contract, and past two hundred units you talk to us about an enterprise plan.

Innago publishes a price of zero and means it. As of August 2026, innago.com states there is no monthly fee, no setup fee, and no contract, and its FAQ is plain about the model: revenue comes from tenant-paid transaction fees of two dollars per ACH payment and 2.99 percent on credit and debit cards, which the landlord can choose to absorb, plus tenant screening at thirty to thirty-five dollars charged to the applicant by default, with a ten-dollar income verification add-on.

The tenant-side fee structures are closer than the headline prices suggest. Sahab Key also shows the payment processing fee to the tenant by default, the manager can choose to absorb it per payment method, and debit and prepaid cards are never charged a fee at all. The real difference is the software fee itself. Innago's zero dollars funds a lighter tool. Sahab Key's two dollars a unit funds the operation: separate books and a separate Stripe payout account for every building, Section 8 payment tracking, an owner and investor portal with per-building payouts, and a reviewed workspace.

What this means in real dollars

Put real numbers on it. Innago's software price at every one of these sizes is zero. Here is what Sahab Key charges, and what the two dollars is doing.

• 12 units The minimum covers you, and every building still gets its own books and its own payout account. $50 a month
• 40 units Straight multiplication, two dollars a unit. $80 a month
• 100 units Owner payouts and Section 8 tracking stay per building as you grow. $200 a month

If free still nets out ahead for your situation, that is a fair result and Innago is a fine pick. What Sahab Key's fee buys is the operation itself: books that balance to the cent, rent that routes to each building's own Stripe payout account, housing authority payments tracked next to tenant payments, and a portal your owners and investors can actually read. If you are early, the plain-English breakdown for small portfolios walks through the arithmetic.