EliseAI alternative: EliseAI vs AppFolio, EliseAI vs Yardi and Funnel leasing bot software pricing per unit

EliseAI does not publish a price. Checked on 8 September 2026, eliseai.com/pricing, /plans and /get-started all return HTTP 404, as does meetelise.com/pricing. It sells per unit, per door, on an annual contract with a minimum, through a sales process. Every dollar figure you will find for EliseAI comes from a third party, not from EliseAI.

Roughly $1.50 to $3.00 per unit per month, derived from EliseAI's own two published figures. Its March 2025 post states customers "typically see a 5-10x ROI" and cites one customer "delivering ~$15 per unit/month ROI". Dividing $15 by 10 and by 5 gives that range. This is our arithmetic on their numbers, not a quoted rate, and the two figures may not describe the same customer set.

That figure is not vendor-published and we would not rely on it. It circulates in review-site roundups and comparison blogs, none of which cite an EliseAI source, and it sits above the range EliseAI's own ROI arithmetic implies. It also runs off the top of the $0.85 to $5.00 band that every actually-published rate in the category falls inside. Treat it as a rumor with a suspiciously round shape.

It depends on what you are replacing. If you want AI bundled into the system of record, AppFolio and Yardi both publish per-unit rates and include AI. If you want a leasing CRM with AI as one vendor, Funnel and Knock are the direct comparisons, though neither publishes a price. If you only need the conversation layer, a flat-priced messaging agent like MessageAgent sits alongside your existing PMS.

AppFolio publishes $1.49 per unit per month for Residential Core with a 50 unit minimum, $3.20 for Residential Plus, and $5.00 for Residential Max. Commercial Plus and Max match at $3.20 and $5.00, Community Associations is $0.85, and Investment Manager Core is $650 a month. All three residential plans also carry an unstated minimum spend.

Because the price is in the markup rather than the page. Every visible plan card on appfolio.com/pricing reads Get a Quote with no number. The seven rates above sit in the JSON-LD structured data embedded in that same URL, which is what search engines and AI assistants read. The result is a price that is machine-readable and buyer-invisible at the same address.

Yes, partly. Realm-X Assistant and Messages are listed in Residential Core at $1.49 per unit per month. The leasing-specific AI is gated higher: Realm-X Flows requires Plus at $3.20, and Leasing CRM and Leasing Signals require Max at $5.00. So AppFolio treats its AI as a tier gate rather than a usage meter, and the ladder runs $1.49 to $3.20 to $5.00.

Yardi Breeze Residential is $1 per unit per month with a $100 monthly minimum on an annual agreement, and it has a self-serve Buy Now button. Commercial is $2 per unit with a $200 minimum. Breeze Premier for Affordable is $3 per unit and for Associations is $1 per unit, both with a $400 minimum. Yardi states no onboarding, training or support fees.

On Residential the per-unit rate is identical at $1, so the published difference is the monthly minimum: $100 for Breeze against $400 for Breeze Premier. The tier gate is the floor, not the rate. That matters below 400 units, where the Premier minimum sets your bill: at 100 units you pay $400, an effective $4.00 per unit per month, four times the sticker rate.

Divide the minimum by the rate. Yardi Breeze Residential stops being minimum-bound at 100 units, Breeze Premier at 400 units. On the uncited $25,000 a year figure for EliseAI, about $2,083 a month, the per-unit rate alone only catches up at roughly 694 doors at $3.00 or 1,389 doors at $1.50. Below that the minimum, not the rate, is your price.

On the published numbers, often yes, and that is the uncomfortable finding here. AppFolio Core is $1.49 per unit per month for an entire property management platform with Realm-X included. That is a penny below the bottom of the $1.50 to $3.00 range EliseAI's own ROI figures imply for the leasing AI by itself. The specialist buys you depth, not a lower per-door rate.

Two of six that we checked today. AppFolio and Yardi Breeze publish per-unit rates. EliseAI, Funnel, Knock and RealPage publish nothing: three of those four return HTTP 404 on /pricing and the fourth serves a demo form. BetterBot returned HTTP 403 to us today, so we cannot report either way on it rather than guess.

Only for a specific slice of the job, and it is fairer to say so. It handles the conversation layer: answering inbound on SMS, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, web chat and email, qualifying prospects, booking tours, and escalating to a person with full context, on a flat subscription. It does not touch rent roll, unit availability sync, renewals or delinquency. If those workflows are what you are buying, EliseAI or your PMS is the right answer.

Because per-unit billing charges you for doors, and conversation volume is not proportional to doors. A stabilized 2,000 unit portfolio at 95 percent occupancy generates far less inbound leasing traffic than a 600 unit lease-up, yet costs more than three times as much on any per-unit rate. If your messaging load is driven by lease-ups, turns and seasonality rather than door count, the units are the wrong meter.

No. MessageAgent is pre-launch, the $79, $199 and $499 tiers are planned pricing, and signing up puts you on the waitlist. If you need AI answering leasing inquiries this quarter, buy one of the vendors above. Use this page for the per-unit arithmetic and the questions to put to their sales teams, and treat our pricing as a forward signal rather than an option.