Both produce an estimate 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 offering an AVM priced per report, with much of its business serving institutions — lenders, investors, portfolio buyers. Truppraisal is built for the agent–client conversation: an estimate you can hand to a homeowner that shows every comparable sale, scored and adjusted, in language they will read. Truppraisal finds the comps and makes all the adjustments automatically — and the agent can make it their own CMA.
The other difference is volume. HouseCanary’s Teams plan is published at $199 a month for forty reports, with $9 to $12 for each one after. Truppraisal’s Pro plan is $79 a month for two hundred reports, and twenty-five cents after that — 200 reports costs $79, and 500 costs $154.
The number that decides whether you run one more or talk yourself out of it.
$4.98
$199 a month for forty reports, at published list price. Past forty, each report is $9 to $12 — so a busy month becomes a decision rather than a habit.
$0.40
$79 a month for two hundred reports. Past two hundred, twenty-five cents — and it is still twenty-five cents at report five hundred. 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 plans: Basic $29/mo including 30 reports then 50¢ each; Grow $49/mo including 85 then 25¢; Pro $79/mo including 200 then 25¢; Team / Top Producer $249/mo at 15¢ a report from the first. Every Truppraisal plan includes unlimited agents and no setup fee. (The two products share some plan names — the figures are labeled by company.) Prices change — check both current price lists before relying on any figure.
Both start from real transactions. They are written for different readers.
| HouseCanary | Truppraisal Estimate | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 size, lot, parking, pool, baths, view, busy road and style on every comp | Not in the standard report | Line by line on every comp |
| A similarity score per comparable | Not in the standard report | TruComp Rating, 0–100 |
| Confidence measure | A confidence score | Graded, and explained |
| Written to hand to a homeowner | Serves institutional users too | Yes — that is the whole design |
| Branded to you, sent under your name | Check current options | Yes |
| Change the comps (remove, add, or put back a set-aside sale) | Not in the standard report | Yes, on every plan — every change re-adjusts automatically |
| Your own suggested list or offer price, as your CMA | Not in the standard report | Yes, on every plan — prepared by you, supported by Truppraisal |
| Runs your whole database on a schedule | Not its focus | Every quarter |
| National coverage | Yes — their strength | Maricopa County today, more Arizona counties next |
Reflects HouseCanary’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:
Yes — that is the legal category it belongs to, and every estimate says it is generated automatically by a computer model. The difference is that a Truppraisal Estimate shows the comparable sales and the dollar adjustments behind the number, rather than presenting a figure on its own.
No. An appraisal is an opinion of value prepared by a licensed appraiser. A Truppraisal Estimate is generated automatically, no appraiser prepares or reviews it, and it cannot be used for lending, tax, legal or estate purposes.
County public records and recorded home sales. Arizona records the sale price of a home on the affidavit filed when the deed is recorded, so every sale used in an estimate is shown with its sale date and recorded price.
Less per report than a quiet one, because the monthly fee spreads further. On Grow and Pro every report past the included block is twenty-five cents, flat; on Team / Top Producer every report is a flat fifteen cents. There are no volume bands and no conversation to have with us.
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