AppFolio's built-in AI, or an independent leasing assistant?
Either way, AppFolio stays your system of record. This page compares its bundled AI, Lisa and the Realm-X Leasing Performer, with Tallo, the independent assistant that plugs into AppFolio and only bills on completed showings.
The bundle or the specialist
What Lisa and Realm-X are
Lisa is AppFolio's original text-based leasing assistant. Through 2025 and 2026 AppFolio rolled out the Realm-X Leasing Performer, which answers over email, text, and voice inside AppFolio Property Manager. If you live in AppFolio it is the default choice, and defaults deserve scrutiny.
What the bundle costs
AppFolio does not publish pricing for its AI leasing assistant. Third-party reviews report roughly $45 per month for 10 units, ranging up to $1,500 per month. Tallo publishes one number: $5 per qualified completed showing, with no subscription.
What independence buys
Tallo is customized to your rules and tone, not to a platform's roadmap, escalates to your team when it is unsure, and works the same if you ever run doors outside AppFolio. Your leasing brain does not have to deepen platform lock-in.
Tallo and AppFolio's AI, side by side
What it is
TalloAn independent AI leasing assistant that plugs into AppFolio. Listings import; guest cards and calendars stay in sync.
AppFolio AIA bundled feature of AppFolio Property Manager: Lisa, plus the Realm-X Leasing Performer rolling out across the platform.
Pricing
Tallo$5 per qualified completed showing, published. Free to sign up, no subscription.
AppFolio AINot published by AppFolio. Third-party reviews report from $45 per month for 10 units up to $1,500 per month for unlimited units.
Channels
TalloSMS and email, 24/7, answered in the renter's own language. Team plans add a dedicated phone number.
AppFolio AILisa is text-based. The Leasing Performer adds email and voice, made generally available in June 2026.
Customization
TalloYour criteria, tone, and showing windows, set up with a founder. Unknown questions route to your team and become memory.
AppFolio AITuned for the AppFolio platform; configuration lives inside AppFolio's settings.
Screening
TalloConversational screening verified by TransUnion, processed into a decision-ready file. Applicant-paid.
AppFolio AIScreening and applications run through AppFolio's own flow.
Active waitlist
TalloQualified runners-up stay screened and engaged, matched to upcoming vacancies automatically.
AppFolio AINo equivalent listed.
If you ever mix systems
TalloWorks across AppFolio, Buildium, Yardi, Rent Manager, Propertyware, and Rentvine.
AppFolio AIAvailable only inside AppFolio Property Manager.
Checked against AppFolio's public pages and third-party reviews in July 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
A bundled add-on bills by the unit, every month. Tallo bills when a qualified renter completes a showing.
$5 per qualified completed showing. Free to sign up. No platform fee, no per-unit subscription, no per-lead charges. If nothing moves, you pay nothing. See pricing →The AppFolio AI questions
No. AppFolio stays your system of record, and we like it that way. Tallo takes over the leasing conversations, screening, and tour scheduling, then hands everything back to your team in AppFolio.
AppFolio's assistants are built into the platform and priced with it; AppFolio does not publish numbers, and third-party reviews report per-unit monthly costs. Tallo is independent, customized to your rules and tone, keeps an active waitlist of qualified runners-up, and bills $5 per qualified completed showing, only when it happens.
Because the expensive thing is not software, it is vacancy. A vacant $1,450 unit loses about $48 every day it sits empty. If better conversation, follow-up, and an active waitlist cut even one week of vacancy, that covers more than sixty completed showings.
Keep AppFolio. Choose your leasing brain.
You only pay when a qualified renter completes a showing. $5, and only then.
Demos are run by a founder, not a sales team.