Sahab Key: the Rentvine alternative for small landlords

Who each product is really for

The honest answer is that Rentvine and Sahab Key are aimed at operations of different sizes, and the right pick follows from yours.

Rentvine says on its own site that it is built for professional property management companies, with a focus on single-family residential managers. It sells one plan with every feature included: trust accounting and reconciliations, owner and tenant portals, unlimited digital signatures, maintenance workflows, online applications with tenant screening, reporting, an open API, and an AI suite. As of August 2026 its FAQ lists $2.50 per unit a month with new accounts starting at a thirty-unit minimum, plus a monthly platform fee, and its pricing page advertises rates as low as $1.50 per unit. Onboarding is a full-service migration with a dedicated specialist, covered by a one-time setup fee, and Rentvine says it takes about 45 days to be fully onboarded. If you run a management company at that scale, that depth and hand-holding is the point.

Sahab Key is built for residential landlords and small managers who want the whole operation handled without the professional-firm weight. Rent lands in your bank through Stripe, the books balance to the cent, maintenance stays tracked with tenant photos, and every tenant gets a portal with autopay. It is two dollars a unit a month, and the fifty-dollar minimum covers your first twenty-five units. There is no thirty-unit minimum to reach, no setup fee, and no 45-day onboarding project: it works from your first building.

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 the bill follows your portfolio up or down.

Rentvine publishes more than most of the enterprise field, and still not the whole bill. As of August 2026 its FAQ lists $2.50 per unit a month, and its pricing page advertises rates as low as $1.50 per unit. But new accounts start at a thirty-unit minimum, there is a monthly platform fee on top whose amount is not published, and onboarding carries a one-time setup fee that is also not published. For a landlord with well under thirty units, the floor is the deciding factor: you buy in at thirty units whether or not you have them, and the platform and setup fees arrive by quote.

What this means at a small portfolio

Put real numbers on it.

• 12 units Rentvine's new accounts start at a thirty-unit minimum. $50 a month
• 30 units Rentvine's published rate makes this $75 a month, before the platform fee. $60 a month

The gap closes as you grow: by the time you are running a management company across dozens of owners, Rentvine's trust accounting and full-service onboarding may be exactly what you want.

That is the whole reasoning. Below the thirty-unit line, you are paying Rentvine for a firm-sized setup you do not have yet, plus a platform fee and a setup fee that only arrive by quote. Sahab Key is priced for the portfolio you actually have today, and it grows two dollars at a time. If you are early, read the plain-English breakdown for small portfolios.