EliseAI vs Funnel vs Knock pricing: which multifamily AI leasing vendor publishes a number

None of the three publishes a price. We requested every pricing URL for EliseAI, Funnel and Knock CRM directly on 6 September 2026 from a United States connection. EliseAI's pricing page returns HTTP 404. Funnel has no pricing URL at all; its Pricing and Packages nav item resolves to a bundles page that names three tiers and prints no rate. Knock CRM returns HTTP 200 at /pricing and serves a demo request form with no plan names and no dollar figures. The only public number that constrains any of them is EliseAI's own ROI math, which implies roughly $1.50 to $3.00 per unit per month.

Last updated September 2026. Every HTTP status and every quoted sentence below was read first-hand on 6 September 2026. Nothing here is sourced from a comparison listicle.

How much does EliseAI cost compared to Funnel and Knock?

You cannot answer that from published prices, because there are none to compare. What you can compare is exactly how far each vendor goes before it hands you to sales, and that turns out to be a useful proxy for how the negotiation will feel.

Read down the third column and the category tells on itself. This is not one vendor being cagey. It is a market norm, and it exists because the quote depends on portfolio size, module mix and contract length, and because any published floor would anchor every negotiation against it for years.

Does EliseAI publish pricing?

No. EliseAI has no pricing page and no rate card of any kind. On 6 September 2026, eliseai.com/pricing, eliseai.com/plans and eliseai.com/get-started all returned HTTP 404, and meetelise.com/pricing on the company's older domain returned 404 as well. The homepage returns HTTP 200 and contains no link to any pricing URL in its markup.

The detail worth noticing is the FAQ. EliseAI publishes thirteen questions on its homepage, covering what EliseAI is, how it works, who uses it, whether it is a chatbot, whether it integrates with your property management system, whether it handles maintenance requests and how it measures performance. Not one of the thirteen is about cost. That is a deliberate omission on a page that otherwise anticipates buyer questions carefully.

What is EliseAI's price per unit?

EliseAI has not published one, but it has published two numbers that constrain it. In a blog post titled Why Investing in EliseAI is More Cost-Effective Than You Think, EliseAI writes that customers typically see a 5-10x ROI, and that Juniper Investment Group saw approximately $15 per unit per month in ROI after implementing its conversational AI.

Divide $15 by ten and you get $1.50. Divide it by five and you get $3.00. So EliseAI's own published figures imply a price somewhere around $1.50 to $3.00 per unit per month. That is our arithmetic on EliseAI's numbers rather than a rate EliseAI has confirmed, and the two figures may not describe the same customer set, so treat it as a bounded estimate and not a quote. It is still tighter and better sourced than the $3 to $6 per unit range that circulates in comparison articles, none of which cite an EliseAI source at all.

Scale it and the deal shape appears. At $1.50 to $3.00 a unit, a 300 unit property is $450 to $900 a month. A 5,000 unit portfolio is $7,500 to $15,000 a month. Against the roughly $25,000 annual minimum that gets repeated in third-party write-ups, which is about $2,083 a month, the per-unit rate alone does not reach the minimum until somewhere between 700 and 1,400 units. The rate is not what prices small operators out of EliseAI. The floor underneath it is. We break the whole picture down further in our analysis of EliseAI pricing, including the questions that actually move a quote.

Does Funnel Leasing publish pricing?

Funnel is the most interesting of the three, because it looks like it does. The main navigation carries a Pricing and Packages item, described as plans for every portfolio. Follow it and there is no /pricing URL; it resolves to funnelleasing.com/products/packages/, which returns HTTP 200.

That page names three bundles: Funnel Essentials, Funnel Intelligence and Full Funnel. Each has its own positioning paragraph. Essentials is pitched as the essential first step, Intelligence as the latest in generative AI, and Full Funnel as the option for teams that want to prevent fraud and replace their renter facing stack. Underneath each one is a feature list.

All three feature lists are identical. Each bundle lists the same ten capabilities: CRM, omni-channel communications, AI message suggestions, AI call summaries, AI workflows, Prospect AI, Resident AI, Voice AI, online leasing and ResApp. We checked the underlying markup for check marks, crosses or greyed-out rows and there are none. Three columns, ten identical rows, no prices and no visible differentiator. Whatever separates Essentials from Full Funnel is decided on the call.

What Funnel does publish is four ROI calculators, for conversion rate savings, marketing savings, agent-to-unit ratio and AI savings. That is the trade the whole category is making: you get a model of your return and no statement of your cost.

How much does Knock CRM cost?

Unpublished. knockcrm.com/pricing returns HTTP 200, which is more than EliseAI or RealPage manage, but the page is a demo request form headed "Discover what Knock CRM can do for you", with a download form and a Seattle mailing address. There are no plan names, no tiers, no per-unit rate and no dollar figures anywhere on it.

Knock is also a slightly different product from the other two. It leads with CRM, leasing agent productivity, attribution and analytics rather than with an AI agent, and it sells AI Solutions as one module among several. If you are shopping for the conversational layer specifically rather than a leasing CRM, that changes what you are comparing, and it is worth being explicit about it on the call so the quote covers the same scope.

Why does nobody in multifamily publish a price?

Three reasons, and only one of them is about the buyer. Portfolio size genuinely does change the economics, so a single number would be wrong for most readers. Module mix genuinely varies, since leasing, resident, voice, CRM and fraud tooling are separate products at all three vendors. And a published floor becomes the ceiling in every negotiation that follows, which is the reason vendors give privately and never in writing.

EliseAI is unusually candid about the third one. Its cost post opens by conceding that at first glance, EliseAI may seem more expensive than other AI solutions on the market, and closes by inviting buyers whose primary concern is price to talk. A vendor writing a public post to get ahead of sticker shock has told you roughly where its quotes land.

Quote-only pricing is normal across real estate services, and the practical answer has always been the same: run several quotes in parallel and let them price against each other. Anyone who has commissioned an ALTA survey for an apartment acquisition knows the routine of calling three firms and waiting a week, which is exactly the friction that marketplaces where you can compare licensed, insured surveyors on price in a day exist to remove. Software has not caught up yet, so the parallel quote is still your only real leverage here.

How do you compare three vendors that all hide their rates?

Normalize the scope before anyone quotes you, or the numbers you get back will not be comparable. Five things to fix in writing first.

• Unit count and which properties are in scope. Per-unit pricing means every door counts, including the quiet ones.
• Which modules. Leasing AI, resident AI, voice, CRM and fraud screening are priced separately at all three. A quote that includes voice is not comparable to one that does not.
• Whether voice minutes are metered on top. Voice is the line most likely to carry usage billing behind a subscription.
• The annual minimum, stated separately from the per-unit rate. For anything under about a thousand units this is the number that governs.
• The renewal rate, not just year one. First-year discounts in this category are routine and the uplift is where the margin is.

Then ask each vendor for the same written ROI analysis. All three offer one. A vendor willing to model your return in detail should be willing to put your cost next to it on the same page.

Which one should a small portfolio pick?

Probably none of them, and that is worth saying plainly. EliseAI's own case for value is consolidation: Juniper Investment Group replaced a mass texting service, a first-response chatbot and a call answering service and cut technology spend by $1 per unit per month, and The Scion Group eliminated four separate tools and saved over $500,000 a year. Those savings are real and they are also structurally unavailable to an operator running a few hundred doors and one tool. What is left for that buyer is the annual minimum.

If the job is narrower, answering leasing inquiries within the hour they arrive, prescreening renters, booking tours and routing maintenance requests, that is a messaging layer rather than a multifamily operating platform, and it is a much cheaper product. That is the shape of what we build: one AI leasing agent across text, web chat, Instagram, Facebook and email at a flat monthly rate, with no per-unit meter and no annual floor. You can see how the same agent handles the resident side on our property management chatbot page, and we cover the wider cost picture in our breakdown of what an AI leasing agent costs.

Whichever way you go, do not let a listicle number set your expectations. Three of the four incumbent pricing URLs in this category either 404 or show a form, and the confident per-unit figures floating around the web trace back to each other rather than to any vendor. The only numbers worth negotiating against are the ones a vendor has actually published, and in this market that is a short list.