Sahab Key: the TurboTenant alternative for landlords

Who each product is really for

The honest answer is that TurboTenant and Sahab Key put their weight in different halves of the landlord's job, and the right pick follows from which half fills your week.

TurboTenant is landlord software with a free plan at its center. As of August 2026 its published pricing lists the free plan at zero dollars a month, covering unlimited listings, applications and screening, online rent collection, and maintenance requests, plus two Premium tiers priced by unit count: Essentials from $149 a year and Pro from $199 a year. The model works because much of the cost sits with renters, who pay the screening fee and, on the free plan, the payment processing fees, and because the fuller toolkit lives in the Premium upgrades. Its center of gravity is finding tenants: it advertises rentals on 25 or more listing sites, takes applications, and runs credit, criminal, and eviction checks. If your properties are often between tenants, that is real value at a landlord price of zero.

Sahab Key is built for running the rental after the lease is signed. Rent lands in each building's own bank account through Stripe, the books balance to the cent in exact double-entry, maintenance stays tracked with tenant photos, Section 8 housing authority payments are tracked, and owners see their payouts in their own portal. It is two dollars a unit a month, and the fifty-dollar minimum covers your first twenty-five units. Sahab Key does not advertise vacancies and does not offer tenant screening; it is the software for everything that happens once the tenant is in.

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.

TurboTenant also publishes its pricing, and the landlord-facing number really is zero. As of August 2026 the free plan carries no fees or contracts, and the costs live elsewhere: renters pay a screening fee when they apply, $55 on the free plan and $45 for Premium landlords, and free-plan renters pay $2 per ACH payment and 3.49% on card payments. The deeper tools, unlimited leases and e-signatures, accounting, and more connected bank accounts, sit in Premium tiers that run $149 to $349 a year for Essentials and $199 to $999 a year for Pro depending on unit count. None of that is a trick; it is a different model. You are choosing where the cost and the depth sit.

What this means at a small portfolio

Put real numbers on it.

• 12 units TurboTenant is $0 on its free plan, with renters covering screening and payment fees. $50 a month
• 30 units TurboTenant Pro with accounting is $399 a year at this size. $60 a month

On software price alone, TurboTenant wins this table, and we will not pretend otherwise. What the Sahab Key column buys is the operation: every building keeps its own books and its own Stripe payout account, rent routes to each building's owner, the ledger balances to the cent, Section 8 housing authority payments stay tracked, and autopay runs on the due date and retries failed payments on its own.

That is the whole reasoning. If your week is mostly advertising vacancies and reviewing applicants, the free tool covers it. If your week is rent, repairs, owner payouts, and keeping the books straight, the sixty dollars is buying the part of the job you actually do. If you are early, read the plain-English breakdown for small portfolios.