Brivo: Features, Pricing and Integrations

Brivo is cloud access control that came from the commercial side and built a Multifamily Edition for apartment communities and mixed-use. It sells readers, credentials, schedules, and an audit trail the way a commercial platform does, and adds PMS provisioning for residents. It is one of the vendors operators name first in our multifamily access control guide, and one of the few in the category that list commercial facilities alongside multifamily, with Avigilon Alta, 2N, Verkada and Kastle. The facts panel below is rendered from our vendor database with a source URL and verification date on each entry.

Who it fits and who it does not

Brivo lists institutional multifamily and commercial facilities. The buyer is an operator with a mixed-use tower, an office building in the same fund, or a security team that already thinks in readers and schedules and wants the residential lobby on the same platform. The commercial facilities page is written for that operator.

It does not list small multifamily, single-family rental, or student housing. It also does not sell the per-unit hub and smart-home stack that SmartRent or PointCentral does, so an operator who wants thermostats and unit locks from the same contract is looking elsewhere or pairing Brivo on the common doors with a unit-lock platform.

Pricing

Pricing is not published. Ask for the per-door reader figure, the per-credential or per-unit software figure, the cost of the Multifamily Edition versus the commercial product, and the minimum. Ask whether the contract is month-to-month or annual, and whether the PMS integration is included or billed separately.

Integrations

The confirmed PMS list is Yardi, RealPage, Rent Manager, and Entrata, per Brivo’s multifamily page. That is the widest native multifamily coverage of any commercial-first vendor in the category, and it is the reason Brivo is on multifamily shortlists at all. AppFolio, Buildium, ResMan, and MRI are not on it. The Rent Manager integrations page shows which other access-control vendors share that connection. Each PMS has its own resident portal; ask whether Brivo creates the credential when the lease starts and revokes it when the lease ends, and whether that is real-time or scheduled.

The research notes also record Brivo appearing with EliseAI in self-guided touring, which is adjacent to this category rather than in it.

Limitations and questions to ask

Ask whether one credential can open a commercial door on a schedule and a residential door by lease, since that is the whole point of buying one platform for a mixed-use asset. Ask how contractors and vendors get temporary access on both sides. Ask what still works during an outage, because a retail tenant locked out at opening is a different problem from a resident locked out at night.

Ask how a resident without a smartphone gets in. Washington’s ESSB 5937 requires a non-app key on request from January 2027, and New York has already seen litigation on the point; commercial-first platforms tend to assume everyone carries a phone. Ask who owns setup and support, Brivo or an integrator, and whether the same integrator covers both the commercial and residential sides of the building. Ask about fobs, what they cost, and whether a lost one can be killed from the office.

Alternatives

The comparison most buyers run is how Brivo compares with Avigilon Alta, two commercial-first platforms with multifamily products. Avigilon Alta is the former Openpath under Motorola Solutions. The research notes also record Brivo being compared against Kisi, which has a weaker multifamily fit. For gates and perimeter doors in garden-style communities, Gatewise is the specialist. The SmartRent alternatives page places Brivo among the full category.

AI visibility

The 2026-09 edition holds 25 ChatGPT runs for multifamily access control, one per prompt, captured from the ChatGPT app on 19 September 2026. Brivo was named in 75% of runs, on 18 of the 25 prompts, third in the category, and brivo.com tied for the second most-cited domain at 20 of 263 citations. It was named first on the portfolio standardization prompt and on the Entrata integration prompt, and it led the answer when asked for its own alternatives. The live summary above and Brivo’s row in the Index carry the prompts and the sources behind each answer. What shapes that result is on our page on AI visibility for proptech companies.

Other access-control profiles worth reading beside this one: Avigilon Alta, ButterflyMX and SmartRent.