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A Buildium alternative for mixed portfolios

Buildium is a strong, established long-term property management system with full accounting. If your portfolio also includes Airbnb or Vrbo units, here's where Buildium stops and TraxKey picks up.

The short answer

• Choose Buildium if you run long-term rentals only and need built-in accounting, rent collection, tenant screening and e-signatures. Honestly, for that it's cheaper and more complete than TraxKey.
• Choose TraxKey if you run long-term and short-term units together and want AI to coordinate maintenance, vendors, turns and renewals across both, without a second STR system.

Side by side

	TraxKey	Buildium
Pricing	Free (1 unit), $99 (2-15 units), $249 (16-50), $549 (51-150) a month. 30-day free trial.	Essential "starting at $62/month", Growth "starting at $192/month", Premium "starting at $400/month" (pricing page). Growth and Premium require their onboarding service.
Long-term leases	Yes, with renewals flagged 90 days out	Yes, full leasing lifecycle
Short-term rentals	Yes: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com calendars by iCal, cleaning turns on checkout, pre-arrival checks, guest message drafts	No native STR tools. Buildium's own article says managers may need to "complement [Buildium] with dedicated STR software" (Buildium blog)
Accounting & rent collection	No. Tracks what's owed and follows up, never moves money	Yes, plus ePay fees by plan, e.g. incoming EFT $2.35 on Essential, cards 2.99% (pricing page)
AI	10 AI agents on every plan	Lumina AI; the full suite is on Premium (features page)
Maintenance	AI triage and dispatch, aware of guest occupancy	Work orders on all plans
Owner & tenant portals	Yes	Yes, including the Resident Center app
Integrations	iCal, imports, email, public rent data (list)	50+ in the Buildium Marketplace; open API on Premium (pricing page)

Where Buildium is stronger

• Full property accounting, rent collection and payments.
• Tenant screening, e-signatures, mobile apps and guided onboarding.
• Associations and commercial property, and proven scale into the thousands of units.

Where TraxKey is different

• Short-term and long-term in one place. No second system for your Airbnb units, and one vendor network and maintenance history across both.
• Maintenance that knows who's in the unit. A broken AC with a guest checked in is urgent; the same fault in an empty unit can wait.
• AI on every plan, with every decision logged and every big cost waiting for your OK.

Moving from Buildium

Export your properties, units, leases, owners and vendors as CSV and import them into TraxKey. You review everything before it saves. See how switching works. Keeping Buildium for accounting and adding TraxKey for operations and STR units also works; if you'd like the two to sync, request it here.

Competitor details were checked on their own public pages on October 2, 2026 and are linked next to each claim. Products and prices change; check them yourself before you decide. Think we got something wrong? Tell us and we'll correct it.