PropStream Alternative — Skip the $99–$699/Month Tiers

What is Ava Data?

Ava Data is a PI-grade skip tracing API and data intelligence platform built for real estate investors, outbound sales teams, and developers. Every account includes the web dashboard, List Builder for quick-list property pulls (absentee owner, pre-foreclosure, tax-default, vacant, and more), bulk CSV processing, and the public REST API — no separate developer plan or approval step; API access is on for every account.

Pricing is per match: 1 credit ($0.02) for a phone-only Standard Search, 2 credits ($0.04) for phone + email, and 10 credits ($0.20) for a Deep Search that adds address history, aliases, age and date of birth when available, and the related-persons graph. Credits are only charged when a match is returned. The $9/month plan includes 100 credits and covers API use as well — there is no separate API plan.

What Ava Data does not do: property comps, rehab-cost estimation, or MLS-adjacent market analysis. It's the contact layer, not the research layer.

What is PropStream?

PropStream is a property-data and research platform used widely by real estate investors and agents for comps, ownership and lien history, equity estimates, and rehab-cost tools, alongside list building and marketing features. As of November 1, 2026, PropStream sells three plans: Essentials ($99/month), Pro ($199/month), and Elite ($699/month), each with monthly save/export caps (25,000, 50,000 and 100,000) and, on higher plans, more team seats — with a lower effective rate if billed annually. Skip tracing is 12¢ a contact on Essentials, or included through the PropStream Connect add-on (from $30/month); Pro and Elite include Connect, with additional skip tracing at 10¢ a contact.

PropStream offers a one-time 7-day free trial with 50 free leads; its FAQ says there is no obligation to subscribe, and its pages don't say whether the trial converts to a paid plan on its own. To cancel a subscription, its FAQ says to call Customer Support during business hours before the next billing date. PropStream is a Stewart Information Services (NYSE: STC) company and, since a July 2025 acquisition, now also owns BatchLeads and BatchDialer.

How Ava Data Knows the Numbers Are Good

There's a harder question than price: how do you know the numbers are good? Most skip tracing services never find out what happens after they hand you a phone number. Ava Data does — through partnerships with high-volume dialing networks placing over 100 million calls a month, Ava Data sees real connect signals and tests its data head-to-head against major data vendors. Every outcome gets scored: right-person connects, numbers that don't connect, wrong numbers. Those signals feed a custom ranking layer that orders every contact's phone numbers by real-world connect performance — so the number most likely to answer is first on your list.

These are aggregate network connect signals — no customer lists or uploaded records are ever shared, sold, or used.

Side-by-Side Comparison

How much does PropStream cost?

PropStream costs $99 to $699 a month on its three published plans, or $81 to $583 a month billed annually, and skip tracing is extra on the entry plan (as of November 1, 2026):

For comparison, Ava Data is one $9/month plan with 100 credits included, then 2¢ per match, with nothing charged when a search finds no one and every owner's phones ordered best number first. Over a year that's $108 against $1,188 for Essentials at monthly billing.

The Fine-Print Math: A Skip-Trace-Only Workflow

If property research isn't why you're paying — if you already have a list source (your own pulls, a wholesaler relationship, a prior export) and just need current contact data — the subscription-vs-per-match gap compounds fast:

• Ava Data: Trace 1,000 records at 2¢/match, pay only for what matches — $20 at the very most, less whatever share doesn't match, and $0 in months you don't trace anything.
• PropStream Essentials: $99/month before any tracing, busy month or slow, plus 12¢ a contact — $219 for 1,000 contacts — or from $129 with the Connect add-on, which includes skip tracing (as of November 1, 2026).

Over a year, PropStream's Essentials tier alone is $1,188 in fixed cost before a single record is traced. Ava Data's $9/month plan (100 credits included) plus match-based overage totals a fraction of that for teams whose volume is uneven month to month — the classic pattern for solo investors and small teams who aren't tracing on a steady weekly cadence. Against Essentials with Connect ($129 a month), Ava Data costs less until a month passes about 6,000 matches; the bundle is cheaper only if you reach that every month, because it bills the same in slow months.

This isn't an argument that PropStream is overpriced for what it does — its research tools are a genuinely different product. It's an argument that paying a property-research subscription price purely to get a contact-data feature is the expensive way to solve a narrower problem.

Is PropStream worth it for skip tracing?

PropStream is worth it if you use its research tools or trace more than about 73,000 contacts a year. Below that, Ava Data costs less, and it orders each owner's phones best number first. At published prices (as of November 1, 2026):

• 500 contacts in a month: PropStream Essentials $159 ($99 + 500 × 12¢). Ava Data $17 at most ($9 + 400 × 2¢).
• 1,000 contacts in a month: PropStream Essentials $219. Ava Data $27 at most.
• More than about 73,000 contacts a year (about 6,100 a month on average): Essentials with Connect ($129 a month, $1,548 a year) becomes the cheaper route for tracing alone. PropStream's FAQ says Connect's free tracing covers up to your plan's monthly save limit, 25,000 contacts on Essentials.

Count the whole year, not your busiest month. The subscription bills the same in a slow month, and PropStream's pricing page says unused saves and exports don't roll over. Take a year with four busy months at 6,000 contacts and eight slow months at 1,000, 32,000 contacts in all. Essentials with Connect costs $1,548, about 4.8¢ per contact you actually used, with Connect's free tracing covering every one of them. Ava Data costs $724 at most, about 2¢ per contact. The subscription works out to roughly twice the price per contact.

Ava Data figures assume phone-only matches; searches that find no one cost nothing, so the real bill is usually lower.

You don't have to choose one. Keep PropStream for comps and research, export the list, and trace it with Ava Data at 2¢ per match, with each owner's numbers ranked by real-world connect results. Test it first on the last 100 records you traced: the $9 plan's 100 credits cover 100 phone matches, and the History page shows the match rate on the job.

When PropStream Is the Right Choice

If comps, rehab-cost estimation, equity analysis, and ownership/lien history are core to your workflow — if you're evaluating deals as much as sourcing them — PropStream's all-in-one research platform does work Ava Data was never built to do. Paying a flat monthly rate also makes sense if you trace more than about 73,000 contacts a year, where a subscription with included tracing beats per-match pricing on raw math.

Ava Data is the better fit when the job is narrower: you already know what property you're chasing, or you're getting your lists from List Builder or elsewhere, and the bottleneck is turning a name and address into a phone number that answers — without paying for comps tools that sit unused.

Switching From PropStream

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Ava Data cheaper than PropStream?

For a skip-tracing-only workflow at low or uneven volume, yes. PropStream's published plans run $99–$699/month regardless of usage, and Essentials adds 12¢ a contact to skip trace unless you buy the Connect add-on (as of November 1, 2026). Ava Data is $9/month with 100 credits included — one plan for dashboard and API — then 2¢ per match. Against Essentials with Connect ($129 a month, $1,548 a year), Ava Data costs less unless you trace more than about 73,000 contacts a year, about 6,100 a month on average. PropStream includes property research tools Ava Data doesn't offer, which is the tradeoff behind the price gap.

Does Ava Data have an API like PropStream?

Ava Data offers a public REST API on the $9/month plan, included on every account. PropStream does not publish a self-serve developer API for building custom integrations. If programmatic access to skip tracing or list data is a requirement, Ava Data is the more direct option of the two.

Did PropStream acquire BatchLeads?

Yes. PropStream, a Stewart Information Services company, acquired BatchLeads and BatchDialer in July 2025. The two products continue to operate as separate logins and subscriptions as of this writing, but now share ownership and increasingly overlapping data infrastructure.

Can I use Ava Data for the same quick-lists PropStream offers?

Ava Data's List Builder ships quick-list filters for the core off-market segments — absentee owner, pre-foreclosure, tax-default, vacant, tired landlord, and more. See the full set at /lists/. It doesn't include PropStream's comps or rehab-estimate tools.

Is PropStream worth it for skip tracing?

PropStream is worth it if you use its research tools (comps, rehab estimates, ownership and lien history) or trace more than about 73,000 contacts a year. Below that, Ava Data costs less. Essentials with Connect is $129 a month, $1,548 a year, however many you trace. Ava Data is $9 a month with 100 credits included, then 2¢ per match, and orders each owner's phones best number first. Without Connect, Essentials is $99 plus 12¢ a contact, so 1,000 contacts cost $219 against $27 at most on Ava Data (as of November 1, 2026).

Is skip tracing free on PropStream?

Only through PropStream Connect. Connect is included on Pro ($199/month) and Elite ($699/month) and is an add-on for Essentials ($99/month) from $30/month. PropStream's FAQ says the free skip tracing covers the main account holder up to the account's monthly save limit: 25,000 on Essentials, 50,000 on Pro and 100,000 on Elite, and searches that find nothing don't count. Extra tracing is 10¢ a contact on Pro and Elite; without Connect, Essentials charges 12¢ a contact (as of November 1, 2026).

Does PropStream have a free trial?

Yes. PropStream offers a one-time 7-day free trial with 50 free leads on each plan, and its FAQ says there is no obligation to subscribe. Its pages don't say whether the trial turns into a paid plan on its own, so check at sign-up (as of November 1, 2026).

Does PropStream have an API?

PropStream's website doesn't describe a public, self-serve developer API (as of November 1, 2026). Its listed integrations include a BatchDialer connection that uses a key generated in BatchDialer. Ava Data's REST API is included on every account on the $9/month plan, with public documentation at /docs/.

How do I cancel PropStream?

PropStream's FAQ says to call its Customer Support during business hours (Monday to Friday, 6 AM to 6 PM PT) before your next billing date. Its terms say the plan renews month to month until canceled and the monthly fee is non-refundable (as of November 1, 2026). If skip tracing is the part you'll still need, Ava Data is $9/month with 100 credits included, then 2¢ per match.

Further reading: List Builder Quick-Lists · Skip Tracing API · Bulk Skip Tracing · BatchLeads Alternative · Skip Tracing Cost Guide · Absentee Owner · How to Find the Owner of a Property · PropStream Alternatives Compared · PropStream vs PropertyRadar vs BatchLeads vs DealMachine