Both produce a valuation from real data. The difference is who the report is written for, and what it costs to run more than a handful a month.
The short version. HouseCanary is a national data company selling an AVM, priced per report, aimed largely at institutions — lenders, investors, iBuyers. Truppraisal is built for the agent–client conversation: a report you can hand to a homeowner that shows every comparable sale, scored and adjusted, in language they will read.
The gap that matters most is volume. HouseCanary's Teams plan is $199 a month for forty reports, and $9 to $12 for each one after that. Truppraisal's is $49 a month for eighty-five, and cents after that — 200 reports costs $78.
This is the single largest difference between the two products.
$4.98
$199 a month for forty reports. The forty-first report costs $9 to $12 while the first forty average $4.98 — so a busy month becomes a decision rather than a habit.
$0.495
$49 a month for eighty-five reports. Past eighty-five, twenty-five cents, falling to twenty, then seventeen, then lower as volume rises. Running one more report is never a decision you have to weigh.
HouseCanary list prices as published September 2026: Basic $19/mo for 2 reports, Pro $79/mo for 15, Teams $199/mo for 40, overage $9–12 per report. Truppraisal Agent is $29/mo including 30 reports; Agent + Database is $49/mo including 85 reports, then 25¢ a report falling with volume. Both include unlimited agents and no setup fee. Check both current price lists before relying on any figure.
Both start from real transactions. They are written for different readers.
| HouseCanary | Truppraisal | |
|---|---|---|
| An estimate of the home's value | Yes | Yes |
| Comparable sales shown to the reader | In some report types | Every one, ranked |
| Dollar adjustments for living area, lot, parking, pool, bedrooms, baths, proximity and market conditions — eight lines on every comp | No | Line by line on every comp |
| A similarity score per comparable | No | TruComp Rating, 0–100 |
| Confidence measure | A score, not its basis | Graded, and explained |
| Written to hand to a homeowner | Built for institutional users | Yes — that is the whole design |
| Branded to you, sent under your name | No | Yes |
| Sends automatically to your database | No | Every quarter |
| Tells you who opened it and asked a question | No | Yes — that is the lead |
| National coverage | Yes — their strength | One MLS at a time |
Reflects each product's standard agent-facing output as advertised in September 2026. HouseCanary offers several report types with different contents; check the current specification before relying on any row.
Worth knowing before you spend any time on this, because these are not on our roadmap:
Yes. It is an automated valuation model, and it says so on every report. The difference is that it shows the comparable sales and the dollar adjustments that produced the number, rather than presenting a figure on its own.
No. It is not prepared or reviewed by a licensed appraiser and is not prepared under USPAP, and it cannot be used for lending, mortgage, credit, tax, legal, insurance or estate purposes. It uses the same sales comparison method an appraiser uses, which is why it shows its work.
Your own brokerage's MLS feed, under your broker's licence. In a non-disclosure state like Arizona, public records are not a reliable source of sale prices, which is why MLS data rather than an aggregated national dataset is the only sound basis for a valuation there.
Less per report than a quiet one. The rate falls as volume rises — twenty-five cents, then twenty, then seventeen, and lower again on the Team rate — so running more reports never requires a conversation with us or a plan upgrade.
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