Why free
Why Origentic has a free plan — and what the catch isn't.
Every free tool in commercial real estate has trained you to ask the same question: what's the catch? So start with the promise we made when Origentic launched completely free — that nothing free would ever be retroactively paywalled — and what happened to it: every organization created before July 21, 2026 keeps everything free, forever. The promise stands. For everyone who signs up after that date, Origentic has a permanent free plan — the full deterministic engine, GP/LP waterfalls, sensitivity, deal CRM, investment memos, and LP share links across all seven asset classes, for up to 3 active deals with 1 seat — plus flat paid plans from $89/month when your pipeline grows. No trial wall on the free plan, no credit card, no sales call. This page explains exactly what free means here, what changed, and the honest business logic behind both.
What the free plan includes
The free plan is the complete engine, not a demo tier of it. Everything below is included at $0 and none of it expires — the free plan caps how many deals are active at once (3), never what the engine can do. Paid plans add capacity and team features, not correctness.
- •The full deterministic underwriting engine, verified against a frozen suite of golden test vectors — same inputs, same outputs, every time
- •All 7 asset classes: multifamily, retail, office, industrial, self-storage, hospitality, and residential (SFR/BTR)
- •GP/LP waterfalls — preferred return, catch-up, promote, clawback — plus preferred equity, junior debt, and mid-hold refinance
- •Two-variable sensitivity grids with full engine runs, not interpolation
- •Deal CRM and pipeline, contacts, and tasks
- •Investment memo generation and Excel/CSV export of the full pro forma
- •Read-only, watermarked, revocable LP share links
- •3 active deals and 1 seat, with unlimited scenarios — close or delete a deal and the slot frees up
- •No credit card at signup, no trial clock on the free plan, no demo gate — and every new organization gets a 14-day full-featured trial of the paid features
The free-forever promise, and what happened to it
From launch until July 2026, Origentic was completely free — the entire platform, for everyone — and this page said plainly that nothing free would ever be retroactively paywalled. On July 21, 2026 we introduced paid plans, and the promise held in the most literal way we could build it: every organization created before July 21, 2026 keeps everything free, forever. Not a discount, not a legacy tier with an expiry date — the grandfather is written into the platform's entitlement logic, so founding organizations resolve to everything-unlocked no matter what plans exist. If you were with us in the free era, nothing changed for you. If you're evaluating us now, that record is the best evidence we can offer for how we'll treat you.
What other 'free' CRE tools actually gate (as of July 2026)
The skepticism free CRE software earns is deserved, because 'free' in this market almost always means a funnel. A.CRE gives away genuinely useful Excel models, but the models exist alongside a business that monetizes training — the Accelerator program is the product, and the free spreadsheets are the top of that funnel. Tactica publishes free versions of its multifamily models with the parts institutional users need most, like equity waterfalls, reserved for the paid versions. CoreCast offers a free tier but gates its full feature set behind per-user subscriptions that run roughly $50–$100 per user per month. PropertyMetrics uses free articles and templates to sell its paid pro-forma software. None of this is dishonest — funnels are a normal way to sell software — but it means every 'free' label in this category needs a footnote. Origentic's footnote is short: the free plan runs the whole engine. The paid plans gate capacity and team features — active deals, seats, post-close actuals tracking — never the math. The engine you use on day one is the whole engine.
The honest business model
Here is the part most pricing pages won't say plainly. Origentic launched free while it built its user base — a genuinely complete free underwriting platform is how we earned the attention of an industry that has been burned by crippled trials — and the plan was always that revenue, when it came, would be additive rather than a bait-and-switch. That is what shipped in July 2026: a permanent free plan with the full engine and 3 active deals; Analyst at $89/month for unlimited active deals; Syndicator at $189/month with up to 5 seats and portfolio actuals; and Institutional annual contracts from $7,500/yr. Flat, published prices — never a per-seat surprise, never a demo gate. Two commitments carried over intact. First, organizations from the free era keep everything free, forever — the no-retroactive-paywall promise, honored in code. Second, your data is exportable at any time on every plan, including free, so if you ever disagree with a decision we make, leaving is a download, not a negotiation. A free plan only works as a strategy if users can trust it, and trust doesn't survive a bait-and-switch.
Where AI fits — and what it costs
AI document extraction is the one feature with a real per-use cost behind it. AI features require an Anthropic API connection, and every plan includes a daily AI allowance — the free plan includes AI extraction for up to 3 documents and 3 memo drafts a day, with higher limits on paid plans. Everything the extraction produces stays glass-box — every field shows its source and confidence, and a human signs off before anything enters the model — and if AI isn't connected, the entire platform still works; you simply type inputs in yourself.
Your data is yours — and it leaves with you
Free software is only trustworthy if it doesn't hold your work hostage. Origentic treats exportability as a feature, not a leak: the full year-by-year pro forma exports to Excel and CSV, investment memos export in full, and your deals and scenarios are yours to take at any time. There is no export paywall, no 'contact us to retrieve your data' tier, and no proprietary format you can only read inside the app. If Origentic stops being the right tool for you, the cost of leaving is the time it takes to download your files. We think that's the strongest guarantee a free plan can offer, because it means we have to keep earning your use rather than relying on lock-in.
Free doesn't mean casual about security
A $0 price tag doesn't lower the bar for handling deal data. Origentic ships the security controls institutional teams expect as part of the free plan, not as an enterprise upsell.
- •Two-factor authentication on every account
- •Role-based access so analysts, partners, and viewers see what they should
- •An audit log of who changed what, and when
- •Organization isolation — each org's deals, contacts, and documents are walled off from every other org
- •Revocable, watermarked, passcode-protected LP share links with expiry
Why teams choose Origentic
Frequently asked questions
- What's the catch?
- The free plan caps how many deals can be active at once — 3 — and includes 1 seat; recording post-close portfolio actuals is a Syndicator feature. That is the whole catch: the engine, waterfalls, sensitivity, memos, exports, and sharing are all included, nothing expires, and no card is required. Paid plans from $89/month add capacity, seats, and post-close tracking — not correctness.
- How does Origentic make money if it's free?
- Through flat, published paid plans introduced in July 2026: Analyst at $89/month (unlimited active deals), Syndicator at $189/month (up to 5 seats, portfolio actuals), and Institutional annual contracts from $7,500/yr. The free plan is a permanent product, not a funnel trick — and organizations created before July 21, 2026 keep everything free, forever.
- Will features I use now move behind a paywall later?
- The record matters more than the promise here: when paid plans launched in July 2026, no existing organization lost anything — everyone from the free era keeps everything free, forever, enforced in the platform's entitlement logic. And your data is exportable at any time on every plan, so there is no lock-in either way.
- Is 'free' a limited trial or a feature-gated tier?
- Neither. The free plan has no trial clock and no credit card at signup, and it runs the full engine — the only limits are 3 active deals and 1 seat. Origentic was entirely free from launch until July 21, 2026, when flat paid plans arrived ($89–$189/month, Institutional from $7,500/yr); organizations created before that date keep everything free, forever. Every new organization also gets a 14-day full-featured trial — no card.
- How is this different from other free CRE tools?
- As of July 2026, most 'free' CRE tools are funnels: A.CRE's free models feed a paid training business, Tactica reserves equity waterfalls for paid versions, CoreCast gates its full feature set at roughly $50–$100 per user per month, and PropertyMetrics uses free templates to sell software. Origentic's free plan gates capacity (3 active deals, 1 seat), never the modeling — the waterfalls, sensitivity, memos, and exports other tools reserve for paid versions are all in the free plan.
- Can I get my data out?
- Yes, at any time. The full pro forma exports to Excel and CSV, memos export in full, and there is no export paywall or retrieval fee. Leaving Origentic is a download, not a negotiation.
- Is a free plan secure enough for deal data?
- The free plan includes two-factor authentication, role-based access, an audit log, organization isolation, and revocable watermarked share links — security is part of the product on every plan, not an enterprise upsell.
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