DealMachine vs Propwire: free at a desk, $99 in the car
Updated September 2026. Independent. Neither company saw this before publication.
DealMachine
Pick it if
You drive for dollars, mail owners, or trace more than about 1,000 a month.
A $99 seat carries 10,000 data credits, the app is rated 4.79 on iOS from 5,002 ratings, and postcards go out from inside it.
- Price
- $99 a seat
- Skip tracing
- In the seat’s data credits
- Driving for dollars
- Built in
- iOS app
- 4.79 from 5,002
Propwire
Pick it if
You pull lists at a desk and trace a few hundred owners a month.
Searching and downloading up to 10,000 properties a month is free with no card, and a trace that finds no match costs nothing.
- Price
- Free, or $119 for Gold
- Skip tracing
- 10¢ a match, or 10,000 a month on Gold
- Driving for dollars
- Not listed
- iOS app
- 5.00 from 4
The short answer
Pick Propwire if you build lists at a desk and trace fewer than about 990 owners a month: searching and downloading cost nothing, and a trace is 10¢ a match. Pick DealMachine once you trace more than that, drive for dollars or mail, none of which Propwire lists.
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DealMachine vs Propwire, side by side
For a real estate investor, DealMachine vs Propwire is a question of how much you trace and whether you leave the desk. The marker in the middle shows each row where one tool is plainly ahead.
- Price
- DealMachine: $99 a seat a month
- Propwire: Free. Premium $99, Gold $119
- Ahead: Propwire
- What free covers
- DealMachine: Nothing. No free plan and no trial
- Propwire: Search, comps and 10,000 downloads a month
- Ahead: Propwire
- Signing up
- DealMachine: Asks for a phone number
- Propwire: Name and email, no card
- Skip tracing
- DealMachine: One credit a trace, 10,000 credits a seat
- Propwire: 10¢ per successful match
- Depends on volume
- 10,000 traces a month
- DealMachine: $99, Basic
- Propwire: $119, Gold
- Ahead: DealMachine
- Driving for dollars
- DealMachine: The core of the app, on every plan
- Propwire: Not listed on its site or app listing
- Ahead: DealMachine
- Direct mail
- DealMachine: Postcards from 75¢, sent from the app
- Propwire: Not listed
- Ahead: DealMachine
- New-match alerts
- DealMachine: Not something we checked
- Propwire: Free, by email or text
- Properties, by its own count
- DealMachine: 150M+ properties and 240M+ people
- Propwire: 157M+ properties
- iOS app
- DealMachine: 4.79 from 5,002 ratings
- Propwire: 5.00 from 4 ratings
- Android app
- DealMachine: 4.4 from 1,930 ratings
- Propwire: 3.8 from 21 ratings
- Ahead: DealMachine
- Publisher
- DealMachine: DealMachine Operations, Inc.
- Propwire: Propwire LLC, not connected to PropStream
How their users rate them
- App Store
- DealMachine: 4.795,002 ratings
- Propwire: 5.004 ratings
- Google Play
- DealMachine: 4.41,930 ratings
- Propwire: 3.821 ratings
- G2
- DealMachine: No listing
- Propwire: 0No reviews
- Recent iOS reviews at 3★ or below
- DealMachine: 15 of 49
- Propwire: Too few reviews
What each one is built for
One is a free property database you search from a desk. The other is a paid app you use from the car. They overlap on skip tracing, and that is where the price question sits.
DealMachine
Built for the car
- You pin a house from the car, it returns the owner, and the owner goes into a postcard campaign without leaving the app.
- 4.79 on iOS from 5,002 ratings and 4.4 on Google Play from 1,930.
- No free plan and no trial: the first month is $99.
Propwire
Built for the desk, and free
- Search 157 million+ properties, run comps and download up to 10,000 a month without paying or entering a card.
- Skip tracing is 10¢ for each successful match, paid from a wallet you top up in $20 steps. Gold, at $119, includes 10,000 a month.
- Almost nothing to check it against: no G2 page, and app bases of 4 ratings on iOS and 21 on Google Play.
One Propwire reviewer on Google Play, whose Android app would not open, adds: "I use it on a computer browser and it works pretty well."
Propwire vs DealMachine pricing: what a month actually costs
Propwire starts at nothing and DealMachine at $99, so the question is when free stops being cheaper. These five months are priced from DealMachine’s pricing page and Propwire’s FAQ and plan pages as they read in September 2026, before tax.
The list builder
One person. 5,000 properties searched and downloaded, no tracing.
DealMachine $99
One seat.
Propwire Lower$0
Inside the free 10,000 downloads a month.
Propwire lower by $99
The light caller
One person. 500 owners traced, all matched.
DealMachine $99
500 of the seat’s 10,000 credits.
Propwire Lower$50
500 × 10¢. A trace with no match costs nothing.
Propwire lower by $49
The desk caller
One person. 2,000 owners traced, no mail.
DealMachine Lower$99
2,000 of the 10,000 credits.
Propwire $119
Gold, with 10,000 traces a month. Paying 10¢ a match instead would be $200.
DealMachine lower by $20
The heavy tracer
One person. 10,000 owners traced.
DealMachine Lower$99
All of the seat’s 10,000 credits.
Propwire $119
Gold’s 10,000 traces.
DealMachine lower by $20
The driver
One person. 300 houses tagged from the car, traced and mailed.
DealMachine Lower$324
$99 seat + 300 × 75¢ postcards.
Propwire Not listed
Propwire lists no driving for dollars or direct mail feature on its site or its app listing.
DealMachine covers it
- Propwire charges for successful matches only. DealMachine’s skip tracing page shows each trace using one credit, and does not say whether a trace with no result uses one.
- Propwire says its match rate is close to 80%, and DealMachine claims 95% or more. Both are the vendors’ own figures.
- The crossover: Propwire’s 10¢ a match costs the same as DealMachine’s $99 seat at 990 matches a month. Past about 1,190, Propwire’s Gold plan is its cheaper route.
- DealMachine has no free trial, so its first month is paid.
So Propwire is the smaller bill until you trace about a thousand owners a month, and it is $0 for anyone who does not trace at all. Past that, DealMachine’s seat covers the same tracing for $20 less than Gold, and the car and the mail come with it.
Price your own month
Skip tracing, no mail. Move the slider to your own volume, or read the chart for every volume at once.
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DealMachine
$99
Basic
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Propwire
$119
Gold
At most: billed per successful match
At 2,000 owners a month for one person, the smallest published bill is DealMachine, $99.
List prices from each vendor’s pricing page, read September 2026. Monthly billing, before tax, no mail. Every published plan is priced and the smallest one that fits is shown. Where a vendor publishes no price for a volume or a team size, it says so instead of guessing.
The car decides it
DealMachine is built around driving for dollars. Every plan includes route tracking, team driving, tap-to-tag and instant owner lookups, and a tagged house can go straight into a postcard campaign.
Propwire lists no driving for dollars feature on its homepage, its FAQ, its plan pages or its app listing, and no mail either. Its lists are made to be downloaded and used in another marketing tool, and it sends free alerts by email or text when new properties match a saved search.
The phone apps are not close. DealMachine’s iOS app is rated 4.79 from 5,002 ratings. Propwire’s shows 5.00 from 4 ratings, too few to mean anything, and 3.8 on Google Play from 21.
Per match or per credit
Propwire’s skip tracing is pay as you go on the free plan. You fund a wallet in $20 steps with a card, and each trace costs 10¢ if it finds a match and nothing if it does not. Results carry DNC and TCPA flags, which Propwire describes as a compliance aid, not permission to call. Gold, at $119, includes 10,000 traces a month, with extra matches at the same 10¢.
DealMachine puts contact data in the seat. Basic carries 10,000 data credits and Pro 20,000, a trace uses one, and the same credits pay for property lookups. There is no published rate past them.
Where each one falls down
The short version of each review’s complaint list, limited to what matters when choosing between these two.
DealMachine
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No free trial
None as of September 2026, although older reviews and comparisons still describe one. You pay before you can test anything.
DealMachine signup and pricing pages
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The first price you see is $149
The pricing page opens on 20,000 records, so the first figure it shows is the Pro plan, not the $99 seat it advertises.
DealMachine pricing page
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A redesign locked some users out of the app
"I paid for a year and now I can't seem work classic login within the app only on desktop." A separate DealMachine Classic app appeared in August 2026, and its listing does not say whether it fixes this.
App Store
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Holding the account costs money
One reviewer reports that keeping the account on hold costs $24 a month, and that the other way to stop paying is deleting it.
Google Play review
Propwire
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Almost nothing to check it against
No G2 page and no Capterra listing, and app store bases of 4 ratings on iOS and 21 on Google Play.
G2, Capterra, App Store and Google Play
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An Android app that will not open
"Does not work at all on my Android phone... installs fine, but will not open." One report, not a pattern.
Google Play
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No CRM
"Also, doesn't have CRM," one reviewer writes, and none of its paid plans lists one.
Google Play and Propwire plan pages
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Downloads expire
Plain CSV downloads and comp reports are kept for 30 days. Skip traced lists are kept for good.
Propwire FAQ
When neither one fits: the alternatives
PropStream
$99 with nationwide county data, and 12¢ traces or $30 a month for up to 25,000.
Read the review
DealMachine vs Propwire questions people actually ask
Is Propwire really free?
Searching, comps and downloading up to 10,000 properties a month cost nothing, and signing up asks for a name and an email. Skip tracing costs 10¢ per successful match, and there are two paid plans, Premium at $99 and Gold at $119.
Is Propwire the same company as PropStream?
No. Propwire is published by Propwire LLC, the company named in its Terms of Use and on both app stores. Nothing either company publishes connects the two.
Which is cheaper for skip tracing?
Propwire, up to 990 matches a month at 10¢ each. At that point both cost $99, and past it DealMachine’s seat covers up to 10,000 traces for $99 against Gold’s $119.
Can Propwire do driving for dollars?
It lists no driving for dollars feature on its site, its plan pages or its app listing. DealMachine is built around it, on every plan.
Can I send mail from Propwire?
Propwire lists no direct mail feature, and its lists are downloaded for use in another tool. DealMachine sends postcards from 75¢ each.
Does DealMachine have a free trial?
No, not as of September 2026, and there is no free plan. Propwire’s free plan has no trial clock at all.
How we compared them
| Line | Source | What we read |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Pricing | DealMachine’s pricing page and skip tracing page, read September 2026 |
| 02 | Pricing | Propwire’s homepage, FAQ, Gold and Premium pages and both checkouts |
| 03 | App stores | Both app store listings and their review feeds |
| 04 | Terms | Propwire’s Terms of Use and app listings, for who publishes it |
What we did not do. We have not subscribed to DealMachine or traced owners on Propwire, so neither match rate has been tested. Every price here is a list price and every month is arithmetic on published rates. Sales tax is left out.