PropStream alternatives if you only need skip tracing
If you only need skip tracing, eight services trace a list without a PropStream plan: per-record or credit services like Skipmatch, DataSkip, Tracerfy and Bulk Skip Trace, or other platforms' bundled plans. As of Sept 2026, PropStream charges 12¢ per contact on Essentials ($99 a month) and includes tracing on Pro and Elite.
Key facts
- Price
- a flat $0.03 a record at any list size from 50 to 100,000 records.
- Unit
- Priced per matched record.
- Minimum order
- 50 records
- Minimum charge
- Minimum charge $0.50 when any record matches.
- Single search
- Single search: $0.10, charged only on a match, paid from prepaid credit ($10 minimum top-up).
- Prepaid credit
- Prepaid credit expires 12 months after your last credit purchase, single search or credit-paid list, and unused credit is refundable on request within 90 days of purchase.
- Free tool
- Check your list free at /tools/skip-trace-csv-checker. Check columns, split addresses and download a fixed CSV in your browser before tracing at $0.03 a record. No account needed.
- Subscription
- None. A list order is paid for on its own by card or prepaid credit.
- Max per order
- 100,000 rows or 50 MB per file
- Output
- Up to 10 phones per owner, each with its line type (mobile, landline or VoIP), plus emails where found
- Sources
- 3 core providers: idiCORE, Enformion and Delvepoint
- Not for
- FCRA uses: credit, insurance, employment or tenant screening
- Prices last changed
- Last updated
Short answer
It depends on which PropStream plan you are on. On Pro or Elite, tracing up to the plan's included amount is already part of what you pay. Past that it is 10¢ per contact, and PropStream does not publish how many traces are included. Moving tracing elsewhere saves the plan fee only if you also drop the plan. On Essentials, every contact you trace costs 12¢ on top of the $99 plan, and that is the case where tracing elsewhere pays off fastest.
The eight options below fall into three groups by how you pay: per record or per hit with no plan (Skipmatch, DataSkip, Tracerfy), credits with no plan (Bulk Skip Trace), and tracing bundled into another platform's monthly plan (REsimpli, PropertyRadar, DealMachine, Propwire). Each price is the company's own published figure with its unit, and the table further down works each one out at 1,000 and 10,000 traces a month. Skipmatch is one of the services compared.
This page is the wide view across eight options. For PropStream against Skipmatch alone, with the cost worked at three list sizes, see Skipmatch vs PropStream.
What PropStream charges for skip tracing
PropStream states its skip tracing rule on two pages, in two different wordings. Both were read on , and each is quoted with its own page.
- Its skip tracing page (propstream.com/skip-tracing (opens in a new tab)) says skip tracing is "free with the Pro or Elite plan, or when you add Lead Automator to your Essentials plan", and that without that add-on it is "$0.12 per contact" on Essentials.
- Its pricing page (propstream.com/pricing (opens in a new tab)) lists: Plans at $99, $199 and $699 a month ($81, $165 and $583 a month billed annually). Skip tracing is 12¢ per contact on Essentials, free through PropStream Connect (an add-on from $30 a month on Essentials, included on Pro and Elite); additional skip tracing on Pro and Elite is 10¢ per contact.
The two pages name the Essentials add-on differently (Lead Automator on one, PropStream Connect on the other), so check the pricing page for which add-on applies to your account before you count on free tracing.
Alternatives by how you pay
The unit matters as much as the price. A contact, a hit, a credit and a record are counted differently, so the table names the unit each company charges on. The full published terms and sources for each follow below it.
| Service | How you pay | Published price and unit | Monthly plan needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skipmatch | Per record or per hit, no plan | $0.03 a record at any list size | No |
| DataSkip | Per record or per hit, no plan | 4¢ per hit from a prepaid balance; optional $9.99 a month membership | No |
| Tracerfy | Per record or per hit, no plan | $0.02 per credit pay-as-you-go, 1 credit per normal hit; optional plans $0.01-$0.014 a credit | No (plans optional) |
| Bulk Skip Trace | Credits, no plan | $0.14 down to $0.08 per credit by volume, charged per match | No |
| REsimpli | Bundled into another platform's plan | From $299 a month with 10,000 skip tracing credits; $0.15 per record beyond | Yes |
| PropertyRadar | Bundled into another platform's plan | From $119 a month with 250 contacts; then 8¢ to 4¢ per contact by plan | Yes |
| DealMachine | Bundled into another platform's plan | From $99 a seat a month with 10,000 data credits a seat; no per-record price published | Yes |
| Propwire | Bundled into another platform's plan | Gold $119 a month with 10,000 skip traces; 10¢ per successful skip trace beyond | Yes, for Gold's included traces |
Per record or per hit, no plan
You pay per record or per hit for the list you trace, with no monthly plan and nothing in a month you do not trace.
Skipmatch
- What: bulk skip tracing by CSV upload. The file comes back with your columns unchanged, up to 10 phones per owner, each labelled mobile, landline or VoIP, and emails where they exist.
- Price: $0.03 a record at any list size. The whole list is priced at that one rate, and the total is shown before you pay.
- Billed: per matched record, per order; no subscription; card or prepaid credit payment.
- Limits: 50 to 100,000 records per list. Minimum charge $0.50 when any record matches.
- Source: Skipmatch pricing.
DataSkip
- What: Pay-as-you-go skip tracing from a prepaid balance. Not the same company as DataSkip411 (dataskip411.com).
- Price: A flat 4¢ per hit at any volume from a prepaid balance. A $9.99 a month membership adds 100 free skips a day, up to 3,000 a month.
- Billed: Per hit. Subscription: No (prepaid balance).
- Source: dataskip.io/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked . Skipmatch vs DataSkip.
Tracerfy
- What: A credit-based real estate data platform with pay-as-you-go credits and optional monthly plans.
- Price: $0.02 per credit pay-as-you-go; monthly plans work out to $0.010-$0.014 per credit. A normal skip trace uses 1 credit per hit and an advanced trace 2 credits per hit. Purchased credits never expire; monthly plan credits reset each billing cycle. Advanced trace $0.04 per hit; Enhanced $0.30 per hit (15 credits); Parcel (APN) trace 5 credits per hit; Phone Intelligence 5 credits per hit; DNC scrubbing 1 credit per phone. Monthly plans: Growth $700 for 50,000 credits, Scale $1,500 for 125,000, Business $3,000 for 300,000.
- Billed: Credits, per hit. Subscription: Optional (pay as you go, or monthly plans).
- Source: tracerfy.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked . Skipmatch vs Tracerfy.
Credits, no plan
You buy credits up front and spend them as you trace.
Bulk Skip Trace
- What: Bulk skip tracing for real estate with no subscription, sold as credits.
- Price: $0.14 (1-5,000), $0.12 (5,000-10,000), $0.10 (10,000-100,000) and $0.08 (100,000+) per credit, charged per match. Its pricing FAQ gives a whole order one rate by record count: orders of 1-4,999 records are $0.14 per match, 5,000-9,999 are $0.12, 10,000-100,000 are $0.10, and orders above 100,000 records are $0.08. New customers get their first deposit matched in credits.
- Billed: Per match, from a credit balance. Subscription: No.
- Source: bulkskiptrace.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), bulkskiptrace.com (opens in a new tab), checked . Skipmatch vs Bulk Skip Trace.
Bundled into another platform's plan
Tracing comes with a monthly plan, the same shape as PropStream's.
REsimpli
- What: All-in-one investor CRM with skip tracing included in every plan.
- Price: $299, $899 or $2,199 a month billed monthly ($249, $699 or $1,799 billed annually). Each plan includes 10,000, 20,000 or 50,000 skip tracing credits a month that do not roll over; additional skip tracing is $0.15 per record. 14-day free trial.
- Billed: Monthly plan with included credits; $0.15 per record beyond. Subscription: Yes.
- Source: resimpli.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), resimpli.com/features/skip-tracing (opens in a new tab), checked . Subscription platforms compared.
PropertyRadar
- What: A property and owner data platform with list building.
- Price: Plans at $119, $249 and $599 a month billed monthly ($99, $199 and $549 a month prepaid annually). Phones and emails are capped at 250, 500 or 2,500 a month by plan, then 8¢, 6¢ or 4¢ per contact. Included contacts do not roll over. 5-day free trial.
- Billed: Monthly plan, then per contact. Subscription: Yes.
- Source: propertyradar.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked . Subscription platforms compared.
DealMachine
- What: Driving-for-dollars and lead platform; skip tracing draws on plan data credits.
- Price: Basic $99 a seat a month with 10,000 data credits a seat; Pro $149 a seat a month with 20,000; Scale $599 a month for a 100,000-record package with 10 seats. No separate per-record price is published.
- Billed: Monthly plan with included data credits. Subscription: Yes.
- Source: dealmachine.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), dealmachine.com/features/skip-tracing (opens in a new tab), checked . Subscription platforms compared.
Propwire
- What: Free property-data platform with a paid Gold membership.
- Price: Gold membership $119 a month includes 10,000 skip traces a month; beyond that, 10 cents per successful skip trace. Month-to-month, cancel anytime. The non-member per-trace price is not stated on the live page.
- Billed: Monthly membership with included skip traces; 10¢ per successful skip trace beyond. Subscription: Gold at $119 a month (platform itself free).
- Source: propwire.com/gold (opens in a new tab), checked .
Cost at 1,000 and 10,000 traces a month
Each figure is the published price times the volume, for one month, billed monthly. The per-hit and per-match rows assume every record hits, which is the most those services can charge; fewer hits cost less. Skipmatch's row is the most one list of that size can cost. Where a company does not publish how many traces a plan covers, the row shows the plan's starting price as "from" and is left out of the comparison under the table.
| Option | Unit and assumption | 1,000 a month | 10,000 a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| PropStream Essentials + 12¢ per contact | $99 a month plus 12¢ per contact | $219.00 | $1,299.00 |
| PropStream Essentials + Connect add-on | $99 a month plus the add-on from $30 a month | from $129.00 | from $129.00 |
| PropStream Pro | $199 a month, tracing included; 10¢ per contact additional | from $199.00 | from $199.00 |
| Skipmatch | Per matched record, as one list | $30.00 ($0.03) | $300.00 ($0.03) |
| DataSkip | 4¢ per hit, every record hits | $40.00 | $400.00 |
| DataSkip with membership | $9.99 a month, 3,000 free skips used | $9.99 | $289.99 |
| Tracerfy | Pay-as-you-go credits, normal trace, every record hits | $20.00 | $200.00 |
| Bulk Skip Trace | Credits charged per match, every record matches | $140.00 | $1,000.00 |
| REsimpli | Entry plan billed monthly, one credit per record | $299.00 | $299.00 |
| PropertyRadar | Whichever plan costs least at that volume, billed monthly | $179.00 ($119 plan) | $819.00 ($249 plan) |
| DealMachine | One seat; credits used per trace not published | from $99.00 | from $99.00 |
| Propwire Gold | $119 a month, 10,000 skip traces included | $119.00 | $119.00 |
At 1,000 traces a month, PropStream Essentials with per-contact tracing comes to $219.00 and Skipmatch to $30.00. On these published terms, DataSkip with its membership and Tracerfy come to less than Skipmatch at this volume.
At 10,000 traces a month, PropStream Essentials with per-contact tracing comes to $1,299.00 and Skipmatch to $300.00. On these published terms, DataSkip with its membership, Tracerfy, REsimpli and Propwire Gold come to less than Skipmatch at this volume.
A plan's included traces only help in months you use them. A per-record or per-hit service has no fee in a month you send no list, while a plan's fee recurs either way.
When PropStream is the better fit
- You build your lists in PropStream. Its list building, filters and comps are what the plan pays for, and if you use those every week, keeping the plan is reasonable. Skipmatch traces a list you already have and does not build lists; check each other service's page for what else it offers.
- You are on Pro or Elite. Tracing is part of the plan price there, up to an included amount PropStream does not publish; past it, additional tracing is 10¢ per contact. Moving tracing elsewhere saves the plan fee only if you also drop the plan.
- You trace a few records at a time. Tracing a handful of owners inside the tool you found them in is simpler than exporting a file. Skipmatch's minimum order is 50 records, so it does not do single lookups.
An alternative fits best when you already have the list, from a county export, a list broker or a past PropStream export, and want it traced without keeping a plan running for that alone. On Skipmatch that is $0.03 a record for a small list, with the total shown before you pay.
How we checked
Each company's terms were read from its own pages on the date next to it (2026-09-25 for every service here) and are quoted as of Sept 2026. PropStream's rule is quoted from both of its pages because they word it differently. The cost table multiplies each published unit price by the volume; where a page allows two rates the cell shows both, and where a page does not say how many traces a plan covers the cell shows only the plan's starting price. No hit or match rate is assumed for any service, and this page says nothing about any company's data quality or match rates. Skipmatch's figures come from the same price ladder checkout uses. Skipmatch is one of the services compared. Company names are used only to identify each service. Prices change; check the linked pages before you buy.
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