VaultSTRThe short answer
Four tools are worth an agent's attention as AirDNA alternatives in 2026: Rabbu for lender-ready projections, Mashvisor for the buy-side search, PriceLabs Market Dashboards for cheap market data, and AllTheRooms for historical depth — the last with a serious caveat since its 2025 acquisition. None of them replaces AirDNA for market research. Each beats it at one specific job, and knowing which job is the point of this page. VaultSTR may earn a commission from partner links on this page. That never changes what we recommend — our methodology is below.
How we picked
- One job, done better. An alternative earns a spot only if it beats AirDNA at something specific — not by being a cheaper copy.
- Pricing verified in August 2026, from vendor pages, not cached reviews.
- Ownership and roadmap checked. A data subscription is a multi-year relationship; who owns the vendor matters.
- The agent lens. Scored on whether the output survives a client's CPA and lender.
Rabbu — best for lender-ready projections
Rabbu's calculator offers limited free lookups, with full scenario-based projections and business plan documents at $25-50 per report or $50-100/month. Its differentiator is the output: a polished, lender-facing document with high/medium/low revenue scenarios and built-in expense modeling — something AirDNA doesn't produce at all.
- Best for: the financing stage — a client who needs a document their lender will read
- Starting price: free lookups; reports from $25
- Where it breaks down: 2-3 years of history versus AirDNA's depth, opaque comp selection, and reliability drops in markets under ~50 active listings
- What to tell your client: Rabbu's report is a strong supporting exhibit for the loan file. It is not a substitute for the pro forma with your name on it.
Mashvisor — best for the buy-side search
Mashvisor is built for property acquisition rather than operations: MLS-integrated search, heatmaps, and a side-by-side traditional-versus-STR rental comparison no other tool on this page offers. Lite runs $17.99/month; Standard, at $49.99/month (about $35-40 on annual billing), is the tier with property search and full exports.
- Best for: clients deciding between long-term and short-term strategy on the same property
- Starting price: $17.99/mo; Standard $49.99/mo
- Where it breaks down: projections run within 10-20% of actuals in major metros but degrade in smaller markets, and STR-specific depth trails AirDNA
- What to tell your client: the strategy comparison is the feature worth showing — it answers "should this even be an STR?" before anyone argues about ADR.
PriceLabs Market Dashboards — best if the pricing tool is coming anyway
PriceLabs is a revenue-management tool first — $19.99 per listing/month in the US, 30-day free trial — and its Market Dashboards ride along with the subscription. If your client will end up on PriceLabs post-close regardless (most self-managing operators do), the market data is effectively bundled into software they were already buying.
- Best for: post-close clients; agents who want a second data source without a second research subscription
- Starting price: $19.99 per listing/mo, discounts from the second listing
- Where it breaks down: dashboards serve pricing decisions, not acquisition research — no address-level revenue projection, thinner buy-side workflow
- What to tell your client: this is the tool for after the wire clears. Our dynamic pricing tool rankings cover it as a pricing tool, which is the real reason to buy it.
AllTheRooms — best historical depth, biggest asterisk
AllTheRooms holds the deepest history in the category — up to seven years versus AirDNA's two to three — with patented cross-platform deduplication and per-market pricing (free tier; Basic ~$19/month; Pro ~$49/month). The asterisk: Deckard Technologies, a municipal STR-compliance vendor, acquired it in August 2025. Deckard's business is helping cities find unlicensed rentals, not helping investors underwrite them; its Trustpilot rating slid to 2.5/5 by early 2026 amid auto-renewal and support complaints, and the investor-facing roadmap is an open question.
- Best for: long-cycle trend analysis where seven years of history changes the answer
- Starting price: free tier; Pro ~$49/mo per market
- Where it breaks down: ownership uncertainty, support quality, and a parent company whose customers are city governments
- What to tell your client: use it as a secondary source, month-to-month, and never on auto-renew. Full comparison in AirDNA vs AllTheRooms.
When AirDNA is still the right call
For the core advisory job — which market, which property type, what does the realistic middle of the market earn — AirDNA remains the strongest single source: unmatched coverage, revenue percentiles, forward demand data, and a $34/month annual Research plan (full math in the pricing breakdown; full evaluation in the AirDNA review). The honest summary of this page is that most agents should hold the AirDNA subscription and add one alternative matched to their practice: Rabbu if your clients finance aggressively, Mashvisor if you work both rental strategies, PriceLabs if you shepherd clients into self-management.
Bottom line
There is no full replacement for AirDNA in 2026 — there are specialists that beat it at single jobs. Pick by the job, not by the subscription price. And whichever data source feeds the top line, sanity-check it against the free VaultSTR Airbnb revenue calculator and the rest of our market analytics research. This is not financial advice. Underwrite every deal on its own numbers.