What You Are Actually Paying For, Beyond the App Itself
Driving for dollars is famous as the cheapest way into wholesaling, mostly free once you own a phone and a car. DealMachine is the paid layer stacked on top of that free strategy, and understanding its price means understanding what it is actually replacing: manual note-taking, a separate skip-tracing purchase, and a spreadsheet to track which streets you have already driven.
The Starter Plan, and the Real Annual Discount
DealMachine’s official Starter plan is $119 a month, or $1,190 for the year, which averages out to $99 a month. Paying annually instead of monthly saves $238 over twelve months, roughly a 17% discount for committing up front. For that price, Starter covers up to 20,000 total leads, one full-access user, the core driving-for-dollars pin-and-photo feature, unlimited contact-info, phone, and email lookups, MLS and county comps, daily data updates, direct mail as low as $0.72 a piece, and one included call-tracking number.
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Book a Real Estate Fit CallWhat the Pro Tier Adds, and Whether the Extra $60 a Month Is Worth It
The Pro tier prices at $179 a month, or roughly $149 a month billed annually, saving $360 a year over the monthly rate. That step up raises the lead cap to 60,000, adds two additional full-access users on top of the first, a built-in AI assistant, and a custom mail designer for sending follow-up mail directly to properties flagged while driving.
The feature that actually changes how the driving itself works is real-time driving routes with route planning, the genuine automation layer on top of manual driving-for-dollars. Starter has you picking streets by instinct or memory. Pro plots an efficient route through them, which matters most once a single driver is covering more ground than one memorized neighborhood a week.
What a Solo Driver Actually Needs Versus a Small Team
A single operator driving one territory rarely needs the Pro tier’s extra two seats or its 60,000-lead ceiling, since Starter’s 20,000-lead cap and single seat cover most solo driving-for-dollars volume comfortably. The route-planning feature is the real deciding factor: an operator covering multiple neighborhoods a week, or running bird-dogs who need the app’s virtual driving feature to log houses from anywhere, gets more out of Pro’s automation than the extra lead headroom alone would justify.
The Real Cost Comparison Is Not the App, It Is Your Time
Neither tier’s price is the actual cost of driving for dollars. The real cost is the hours spent behind the wheel, and the honest question is not "can I do this for free instead" but whether $99 to $149 a month buys back enough of that time, through built-in skip tracing, comps, and route planning, to be worth it against driving the same streets with a notepad and a separate skip-tracing bill.
Once the pins are logged and the phone numbers are pulled, someone still has to call every one of them. That is where VA Horizon picks up: trained callers work the list, an in-house SDR qualifies whoever is interested, and a follow-up system keeps working the rest, so qualified seller conversations come out of the list your driving already built, without adding another per-seat cost to make the calls yourself.
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