# FilterTime vs Beagle for Property Managers

> FilterTime vs Beagle for SFR managers: a filter-only program you mark up, or filters as one line in a build-your-own resident package, and which PMS fits.

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Property Management Software · HVAC Filter Delivery

# FilterTime vs Beagle for Property Managers

By Ryan York · last verified 2026-10-05

FilterTime and Beagle, fact by fact, from the shared vendor database. Each fact links to its source and shows the date it was checked.
| Fact | FilterTime | Beagle |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it is | HVAC filter subscription and delivery for rental portfolios. [source](https://www.rentvine.com/blog/rentvine-now-integrates-with-filtertime-to-simplify-air-filter-management-for-property-managers) | Beagle, a Corgi company: renters insurance compliance for property managers plus resident programs (tenant liability waivers, contents protection, security deposit alternatives, pet liability), now expanding into landlord and commercial property insurance. [source](https://www.joinbeagle.com/blog/beagle-expands-into-commercial-insurance) |
| Pricing model | Not published; ask for the per-unit figure and the minimum. | Renters Kit: published starting base cost $5/month per tenant; the manager sets the resident price and the proposal confirms the package [source](https://www.joinbeagle.com/renters-kit) |
| PMS integrations | [Rentvine](/property-management-software/integrations/rentvine/) [source](https://www.rentvine.com/blog/rentvine-now-integrates-with-filtertime-to-simplify-air-filter-management-for-property-managers) | [Yardi](/property-management-software/integrations/yardi/), [Rent Manager](/property-management-software/integrations/rent-manager/), [Rentvine](/property-management-software/integrations/rentvine/) [source](https://www.joinbeagle.com/faq) |
| Segments | Single-Family Rental | Single-Family Rental, Small Multifamily |
| Also known as | Breathe Happy Pro, FilterTime Property Management Program | Renters Kit, Beagle by YRIG, Renter's Kit, Your Renters Kit |
| Website | [filtertime.com](https://www.filtertime.com/) | [joinbeagle.com](https://www.joinbeagle.com/) |
| Profile | [FilterTime review](/vendors/filtertime/) | [Beagle review](/vendors/beagle/) |

FilterTime and Beagle both ship air filters to rental doors on a schedule, and a single-family manager who has given up enforcing the filter clause in the lease can buy that from either one. One of the prompts we track asks it the way that manager would: FilterTime vs Beagle for filter delivery at a 150-door portfolio, do I need a whole resident benefits package or just the filters? That second clause is the comparison. FilterTime sells filters and nothing else. The manager buys them wholesale, ships them to each unit on a schedule, and decides what to charge the resident, since the box arrives with no invoice in it. Beagle is mainly an insurance and resident-programs company, and filters are one item in its Renters Kit, a build-your-own resident benefits package where Beagle sets a base cost per tenant and the manager sets the resident price and keeps the markup. So the decision is whether you want to run a package at all, then which property management system you run, then how much of the billing and support you want to hand off. This page sets the two side by side from our vendor database, the vendors’ own pages, and the research behind the [HVAC filter delivery guide](/property-management-software/hvac-filter-delivery/).

## Where each fits

FilterTime’s record describes HVAC filter subscription and delivery for rental portfolios. Its [property management program page](https://www.filtertime.com/partner-programs/property-management) says it ships filters to each unit or property on a schedule the manager sets and sends one monthly invoice covering all shipments, and that because residents do not see pricing, the cost can be marked up and billed as a revenue line. It ships three grades, MERV 8, 11 and 13, with free shipping and cancel anytime, and sells bulk wholesale filters for managers whose own technicians do the swap. The research adds a portal where the manager picks size, quality and schedule per property, custom sizes, a monthly shipment report and net 30 terms. FilterTime claims up to 40 percent fewer HVAC issues and more than 1.25 million filters shipped. One customer quoted on its site, a property management broker, describes FilterTime as a staple of his own resident benefits package, and Latchel resells it inside Latchel’s package. Its database segment is single-family rental only. The [FilterTime profile](/vendors/filtertime/) carries the dated sources.

Beagle’s record describes a build-your-own resident benefits package priced per unit, with the manager keeping the markup. Its [Renters Kit page](https://www.joinbeagle.com/renters-kit) lists the menu: move-in concierge, identity theft protection, credit reporting, AI tools, and air filters delivered to residents’ doors on a schedule. Beagle handles enrollment, billing and fulfillment. Benefits switch on when a lease begins and off at move-out, charges can go on the resident ledger or be billed separately, and the package can be a required lease addendum or an opt-in benefit. A March 2025 Beagle post put filters alone at “starting at just $4/month,” with reminders to residents and pre-labeled filters. The rest of Beagle’s site is insurance: a tenant legal liability program, deposit alternatives, pet damage waivers and, per a banner on its site, commercial insurance. Its database segments are single-family rental and small multifamily. The [Beagle profile](/vendors/beagle/) has the rest.

The package question splits them cleanly. At 150 doors, a manager who wants filters shipped and nothing else is FilterTime’s buyer, and a manager who has decided to sell residents a package and wants filters to be one line in it is Beagle’s. Two cases blur the line. A manager who already sells a package from someone else, or built one by hand, can add FilterTime as the filter supplier, which is what the broker quoted on FilterTime’s site did. And a manager who wants only filters through Beagle can build a kit with one item in it, though Beagle’s pitch and pricing assume more than one.

The property management system is the second filter. Beagle’s FAQ names three direct integrations, Yardi Voyager, Rent Manager and Rentvine, and says it works alongside your existing workflow on any other system. FilterTime’s record lists Rentvine, from Rentvine’s own announcement, and the research recorded a listing on the Buildium marketplace. So a Rentvine manager has both. A manager on Yardi Voyager or Rent Manager has a listed Beagle integration, and a Buildium manager has FilterTime’s marketplace listing to test. On AppFolio or Propertyware, neither names a connection, so ask each how unit sizes and charges get in and out. The [Rentvine](/property-management-software/integrations/rentvine/), [Rent Manager](/property-management-software/integrations/rent-manager/) and [Buildium](/property-management-software/integrations/buildium/) integration pages list the other vendors on each system. The integration matters because sizing is the part that breaks. Residents do not know their filter size, and a size kept in a spreadsheet goes stale the day a technician replaces an air handler.

Segment is the third, and a minor one. Beagle’s record carries small multifamily as well as single-family. FilterTime’s carries single-family only, so a small multifamily operator with in-unit HVAC should ask FilterTime whether it ships to apartment units at that scale.

## Pricing models

FilterTime does not publish pricing. Its pricing page is an estimate form, and its program page promises competitive pricing, free shipping and cancel anytime. The shape is wholesale. You pay FilterTime per filter shipped, on one monthly invoice, and you decide whether and how much to charge the resident. Ask for the per-filter price at your three most common sizes, the price of a custom size, how price changes by MERV grade, and any minimum order or portfolio size.

Beagle publishes a base. The Renters Kit starts at $5 a month per tenant, per the database, and the manager keeps all of the markup with no revenue share. Its FAQ says most managers charge residents $20 to $45 a month for the kit, which Beagle estimates at $15 or more of profit per tenant. The platform itself is free to managers; program costs depend on the benefits chosen. What the page does not give is the cost of each benefit, whether filters alone carry the $5 base, or the contract term, which its FAQ says your agreement sets. Ask for a per-benefit price sheet and the term in writing.

At 150 doors, do both sums. For FilterTime, multiply the per-filter price by your delivery cadence and door count, then decide the resident charge. For Beagle, take the base and per-benefit costs at the kit you would actually sell. Beagle’s own estimate of $15 a tenant comes to about $2,250 a month at 150 doors, but that assumes every door enrolled in a full kit at a $20-plus resident price, and one manager on BiggerPockets reported a package was not worth running at 50 doors. Whichever you choose, the resident charge is a fee, and the [FilterTime profile](/vendors/filtertime/) notes the disclosure rules Colorado, California and Massachusetts have passed for exactly this kind of line.

## What to ask each in a demo

1.  **Where does each unit’s filter size live?** Ask FilterTime whether the Rentvine connection or the Buildium listing carries sizes, or whether someone keys them into the portal. Ask Beagle the same for Yardi Voyager, Rent Manager and Rentvine.
2.  **Who supplies Beagle’s filters?** Beagle’s pages do not say. Ask the brand, the MERV grade, whether custom sizes are available, and the cadence. A Beagle blog post describes filter delivery generally as every 60 to 90 days.
3.  **What proof do we get?** FilterTime produces a monthly shipment report. Ask Beagle what it gives you on the day a compressor fails and someone asks whether the filter was delivered. Neither proves a filter was installed.
4.  **For FilterTime, how do other managers bill the resident?** Ask what lease language its customers use and how the charge appears on the resident ledger.
5.  **For Beagle, what does our team still do?** Beagle says it handles enrollment, billing and fulfillment. Ask who answers the resident who calls about the charge, and who handles a filter that arrived in the wrong size.
6.  **What happens if we stop?** FilterTime says cancel anytime. Ask Beagle what happens to filter delivery if you drop other benefits from the kit, or the kit itself.

## What the Index shows

The live table on this page carries both vendors’ figures from the current edition of the [AI Shortlist Index for filter delivery](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/). Our reading is that FilterTime is one of the two programs this category is built around, while Beagle reaches a filter buyer mainly when that buyer already has it in mind, which matches Beagle selling filters as one line in a package. The rows for [FilterTime on the Index](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/filtertime/) and [Beagle on the Index](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/beagle/) show each prompt and the sources behind the answers.

## Which fits you

FilterTime fits a manager who wants filters and nothing else, runs Rentvine or Buildium, and is comfortable buying wholesale and setting the resident charge. It also fits a manager who already sells a package from another vendor and wants to choose the filter supplier. No contract makes it the lower-commitment trial.

Beagle fits a manager on Yardi Voyager, Rent Manager or Rentvine who has decided to sell residents a package and wants to set the price and keep the markup, with Beagle running enrollment and billing. Its small multifamily tag widens the fit a little.

At 150 doors, the answer to the prompt’s own question decides it. If you want just the filters, start with FilterTime. If you want a package, compare packages before you compare filters.

If neither fits, the [FilterTime alternatives page](/property-management-software/hvac-filter-delivery/filtertime-alternatives/) covers Homestock USA, Filters Direct USA and the other bundlers, and the [filter delivery vendor list](/property-management-software/hvac-filter-delivery/vendors/) has every vendor in one table. [Second Nature and FilterTime compared](/property-management-software/hvac-filter-delivery/second-nature-vs-filtertime/) is the managed-package version of this question, and the [resident benefits platforms guide](/property-management-software/resident-benefits-platforms/) covers what goes into a package and how it is disclosed.

Filter and benefits vendors who want to know why they are or are not in that conversation can read [how WebPossible approaches AI visibility for proptech vendors](/ai-visibility-for-proptech-companies/).

## How often do AI answers put FilterTime and Beagle side by side?

In the October 2026 edition, ChatGPT and Claude gave 50 answers to the HVAC Filter Delivery questions, and 20 of them named both FilterTime and Beagle. When both were named, FilterTime came first in 18 and Beagle in 2.

FilterTime and Beagle in the HVAC Filter Delivery answers, October 2026 edition, one run per prompt on each engine.
| Answers that | ChatGPT | Claude | All |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| named FilterTime | 24 of 25 | 24 of 25 | 48 of 50 |
| named Beagle | 6 of 25 | 14 of 25 | 20 of 50 |
| named both | 6 of 25 | 14 of 25 | 20 of 50 |
| put FilterTime first | 6 | 12 | 18 |
| put Beagle first | 0 | 2 | 2 |

### What the answers say about the pair

> “At 150 doors, FilterTime is my first call for filters alone; Beagle is my first call for building an ancillary-revenue program.”
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> ChatGPT, answering hfd-cmp-02 “FilterTime vs Beagle for filter delivery at a 150-door portfolio: do I need a whole resident benefits package or just the filters?”

> “Suggested next step: Get written quotes from both for 150 units, including a filter-only price from Beagle and a portfolio price from FilterTime.”
> 
> Claude, answering hfd-cmp-02 “FilterTime vs Beagle for filter delivery at a 150-door portfolio: do I need a whole resident benefits package or just the filters?”

The answers that named both cited 118 sources: 77 vendor websites, 36 other sites, 4 roundup articles and 1 directory or marketplace.

These counts come from one run per prompt on each engine, so one answer moves them, and they update with each edition. Quotes are verbatim sentences from the recorded answers, picked by rule rather than by hand. Each vendor's prompts and sources are on its Index row: [FilterTime](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/filtertime/) and [Beagle](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/beagle/). All HVAC Filter Delivery rows: [HVAC Filter Delivery in the AI Shortlist Index](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/).

## Where do FilterTime and Beagle rank in AI answers?

HVAC Filter Delivery, October 2026 edition: 50 runs, one run per prompt on each engine. Mention rate is the share of runs that named the vendor, leaving out prompts that name it in their own text; rank is among all 11 vendors in the category's ranking. These figures update each edition.
| Vendor | Mention rate | Rank | Prompts naming it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [FilterTime](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/filtertime/) | 95% | 1 | 21 |
| [Beagle](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/beagle/) | 35% | 5 | 15 |

The prompts that named each vendor, and the sources behind them, are on its row. Full table: [HVAC Filter Delivery in the AI Shortlist Index](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/).

## What do these vendors leave off their own pages?

-   [FilterTime](/vendors/filtertime/#claim): no published pricing

Vendors can fill these in by claiming their profile; claimed details appear as a labeled vendor-supplied section next to the sourced facts.

## Which vendors do AI answers name most in this category?

In the October 2026 edition, across 50 recorded runs, the engines named FilterTime (95%), Second Nature (82%) and Filterbuy (54%).

The live ranking, source map and every vendor row: [HVAC Filter Delivery in the AI Shortlist Index](/ai-shortlist-index/hvac-filter-delivery/).

Part of [/property-management-software/hvac-filter-delivery/](/property-management-software/hvac-filter-delivery/).

Last verified 2026-10-05