Buildium Pricing and Cost in 2026 for Essential, Growth and Premium

Buildium pricing in 2026 starts at $62 a month for Essential, $192 a month for Growth and $400 a month for Premium. Those are starting prices: the monthly figure rises with the number of units you enter, and Buildium does not publish a per-unit rate. On top of the subscription you pay $99 per business bank account beyond the ones your plan includes, EFT fees of up to $2.35 per incoming payment, and 2.99% on card payments.

We read the live Buildium pricing page on 30 September 2026, including the plan comparison table and the fee notes, and checked an archived copy from December 2025 that already showed the same $62, $192 and $400. Some review pages still quote $58, $183 and $375, the starting prices on archived copies of the page through October 2025. If a site shows those numbers, it has not been updated since the increase.

How much does Buildium cost per month?

The subscription is the smaller part of the decision. The table has the published starting prices and the fees that change the real monthly bill.

What do the Buildium plans include?

All three plans cover the core of property management: listing syndication, applicant and prospect management, a resident portal, work orders and maintenance billing, owner portals, standard and batched financial reports, EFT approvals, bank reconciliation and bank reconciliation rules, and Buildium's help-only AI assistant. The differences are about scale and automation.

• Essential is the accounting and maintenance core for a small portfolio. There is no onboarding team, support is by ticket, and every business bank account costs $99 to set up.
• Growth adds staff calendars and time tracking, unit turn automation, property inspections, amenity booking, two-way email and SMS threads, business analytics, reporting and workflow automation, custom fields, onboarding and live phone support. It is the plan Buildium marks as most popular.
• Premium adds the prospect pipeline, call hub, tour scheduling, eSignatures, AI bill scan and the Lumina AI workforce, the Open API, priority support, 100 included bank accounts and a free first year of incoming EFT.

Buildium fees that change the real bill

Two published fees move the total more than the plan price does for most management companies: bank account setup and incoming EFT. The examples below use only those published rates, so you can swap in your own counts.

The pattern is clear. A company that keeps a separate operating, security deposit and trust account per owner group reaches a dozen bank accounts quickly, and a company collecting most rent by ACH pays the EFT fee hundreds of times a month. At that point Growth's higher starting price is often cheaper in total than Essential, and Premium's free first year of incoming EFT is worth real money.

Which Buildium plan should you choose?

For leasing, all plans syndicate listings. If you want more reach for vacant units than the syndication feeds give you, a separate rental listing marketplace can sit alongside Buildium without changing your plan.

The cost nobody quotes, loading your bank history

Every Buildium plan includes bank reconciliation, but a new bank feed connection typically brings in only about the last 90 days. Anything older, a portfolio takeover, or an owner-held account at a bank that does not connect has to come in as a CSV or OFX file. Banks and previous managers usually hand you PDF statements instead, and Buildium does not read PDFs.

That is the step our Buildium bank statement converter covers: upload the PDF statements, download CSV with date, description, amount and running balance, and import the history before you reconnect the feed. It costs far less than the hours of retyping it replaces. BankXLSX Starter is $49 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly, for 2,500 pages with unlimited users, and Plus converts up to 50 statements in one batch. New accounts get a one-time 15 page demo, no credit card, to test a real statement first.

If you are still comparing platforms, our Rent Manager pricing breakdown covers a per-unit competitor with published history, and managers on Propertyware, which has no statement import at all, can follow the Propertyware bank reconciliation workflow. For owner statements and Schedule E work across any of these systems, see the bank statement converter for property managers.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Buildium cost per month?

Buildium starts at $62 a month on Essential, $192 on Growth and $400 on Premium. Those are starting prices: the final monthly figure depends on the number of units you enter, and Buildium does not publish a per-unit rate. Bank account setup, EFT and card processing fees are charged on top of the subscription.

Does Buildium charge per unit?

Yes, in effect. Buildium quotes each plan as a starting price and asks for your number of units when you sign up or buy, so the subscription rises with portfolio size. It does not print a per-unit rate on the pricing page. Portfolios over 5,000 units and community associations get pricing by phone.

What fees does Buildium charge besides the subscription?

A $99 setup fee per business bank account (Growth includes 10 accounts and Premium 100 before the fee applies), incoming EFT at $2.35, $1.35 or free for the first year on Premium, outgoing EFT at $0.99, and 2.99% on card payments. Tenant screening, eSignatures on the lower plans and some add-ons are extra.

Is Buildium Growth worth it over Essential?

Usually yes once you run more than a handful of bank accounts or collect rent by EFT. Growth includes 10 business bank accounts, cuts incoming EFT from $2.35 to $1.35, and adds onboarding, live phone support, reporting automation and custom fields. At a few hundred EFT payments a month the fee difference alone covers much of the price gap.

Does Buildium include bank reconciliation on every plan?

Yes. Bank Reconciliation and Bank Reconciliation Rules are checked on Essential, Growth and Premium on the Buildium pricing page. What differs is how many bank accounts you can set up without the $99 fee, which matters for companies keeping separate operating, trust and security deposit accounts.

Is there a Buildium free trial?

Yes. Buildium offers a 14 day trial with sample data and no credit card, and you can convert to Essential, Growth or Premium from the same trial. The trial uses sample data, so plan separately for loading your real history, which usually means importing older bank activity as CSV or OFX.