Most head-to-heads in property data end in a shrug, because at least one vendor refuses to publish a number and the comparison becomes vibes. This one is different. PropStream and PropertyRadar both put complete rate cards on public pages, add-on prices included, which means you can settle this with arithmetic instead of opinion — as long as you do the arithmetic on the right unit.
Disclosure: Scout Data is our product; treat the last section as a maker’s pitch and the rest as our honest read.
Two theories about where the work lives
PropStream believes the deal starts in a filter. You describe a population — equity band, distress status, absentee flag, property type — the platform returns it, and you export. The metering follows that belief: plans are sized in saves and exports, and the number that grows with your ambition is how many records you can take out per month.
PropertyRadar believes the deal starts in a watchlist. You define a set of properties you care about and the platform tells you when something happens to them. Its metering follows too: alongside exports there is a separate cap on monitored properties, because holding a property under watch is a standing cost rather than a one-off query.
Those two sentences predict almost everything else about the products, including which one will feel expensive to you.
The published plans, side by side
| PropStream | PropertyRadar | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | Essentials — $99/mo, $81/mo annual | Solo — $119/mo, $99/mo annual |
| Middle plan | Pro — $199/mo, $165/mo annual | Team — $249/mo, $199/mo annual |
| Top plan | Elite — $699/mo, $583/mo annual | Business — $599/mo, $549/mo annual |
| Record allowance | 25,000 / 50,000 / 100,000 saves and exports | 10,000 / 25,000 / 50,000 exports |
| Monitoring | Not metered as a separate limit | 10,000 / 25,000 / 50,000 monitored properties |
| Contact append | 12¢ per contact (entry), 10¢ (higher plans) | 250 / 500 / 2,500 included, then 8¢ per contact |
| Extra seats | $30 per team member per month | $50 per user per month |
Every figure above is what each vendor publicly advertised on its own pricing page at the time of writing. Rate cards, allowances and add-on discounts change — confirm current pricing with PropStream and PropertyRadar directly, and with our sales team for Scout Data.
Read the export column carefully
The most misleading pair of numbers in that table is the record allowance, because the two vendors are not counting the same thing. PropStream’s figure covers saves and exports together, and its entry plan advertises more than twice PropertyRadar’s. On the raw number, PropStream looks far more generous per dollar.
Then look one row down. PropertyRadar bundles contact append into every plan and charges less per contact beyond the allowance; PropStream bundles none and charges more. Exports are cheap to serve. Contacts are not. Whichever vendor is generous on the cheap meter and tight on the expensive one has simply chosen where to put the margin, and the plan that looks better on the pricing page is the one that is generous with the meter you were not going to exhaust.
The arithmetic, on a real month
Suppose you need 3,000 appended contacts in a month — a modest outbound program, not a call-center floor.
- On PropStream Essentials: $99 plan, no bundled contacts, 3,000 × 12¢ = $360 of append. Roughly $459 for the month, before extra seats.
- On PropertyRadar Solo: $119 plan, 250 contacts included, 2,750 × 8¢ = $220 of append. Roughly $339 for the month, before extra seats.
PropertyRadar wins that month by about a quarter, despite the higher sticker price and the smaller export allowance — and the gap widens as contact volume rises, then narrows again if you would sit on a PropStream plan whose advertised append rate drops to 10¢. Run the same two lines with your contact count before you decide anything. The point is not which vendor won this example; it is that the winner is determined by a number that appears nowhere in the plan comparison table, and flips depending on that number.
And in both cases, convert the total into cost per dialable contact — spend divided by the records that came back with a working number for the right person — before comparing either to anything else. The formula is in our skip tracing cost calculator, and the deeper breakdowns of each vendor’s structure are in PropStream pricing and PropertyRadar pricing.
How to decide in one line
- You build a new list every week from filters. PropStream. The export allowance and the research tooling are pointed at exactly that motion.
- You work one farm and want to know what changed. PropertyRadar. Monitoring is the feature you would otherwise be simulating with a calendar reminder.
- Contacts are most of your spend. Model both at your real volume; the advertised append rates and allowances decide it, not the plan tier.
- You need several people in the tool. Compare seat prices and what each plan already bundles — the advertised per-seat rates differ, and so does how many are included before you start paying them.
When the honest answer is neither
Both platforms grew up serving investors, and an investor’s definition of a good lead is a property whose owner might sell. Solar, roofing and HVAC teams are selling to an owner who has no intention of selling, and the signals that make that call timely are not distress or equity — they are events in the physical world and in the permit record. You can approximate them inside either platform with year built and ownership length, and the approximation is precisely why so many home-services teams cycle between the two and conclude the data is bad. It is not bad. It is answering a different question well.
The wider field on each side is covered in PropStream alternatives and PropertyRadar alternatives; if you are weighing PropStream against a field-capture tool instead, that is DealMachine vs PropStream.
Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, PropStream or PropertyRadar?
It depends entirely on how many contacts you append, because that is where both bills are decided. At the time of writing PropStream publicly advertises skip tracing at 12¢ per contact on its entry plan and 10¢ on the higher ones with no bundled allowance; PropertyRadar advertises 8¢ per contact with a small monthly allowance included and add-on discounts on its upper tiers. Below a few hundred contacts a month the plan price dominates; above that, the append rate does.
What does PropertyRadar do that PropStream does not?
Monitoring. PropertyRadar lets you hold a set of properties under watch and reports when something changes on them, and it caps that capability with its own limit on every plan. PropStream is built around the search-and-export motion instead. If your work is a defined farm you return to, that difference is the whole comparison.
Do either of them work for solar or roofing outbound?
Both will produce a list of homeowners, and neither was designed around the signals that make a home-services call timely — storm exposure, permit activity, roof and system age. You can approximate those with year built and equity filters, and the approximation is the reason contact rates disappoint. See PropertyRadar alternatives for the lane split.