ButterflyMX: Features, Pricing and Integrations

ButterflyMX started as a cloud video intercom and grew into a full access-control platform. Its 2025 year-in-review reports 20,000 buildings and 1.5 million units, and it acquired CloudKeyz along the way. It has one of the longest confirmed PMS lists of any vendor in our guide to multifamily access control, and it is the vendor most operators mean when they say they want to replace the buzzer. 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

ButterflyMX lists four segments: institutional multifamily, small multifamily, HOA communities, and student housing. That breadth is unusual in the category, and it reflects the product’s origin at the front door. A condo association replacing an unsupported intercom, a 200-unit garden community with a package room, and a student tower on Entrata are all in scope.

It does not list single-family rental or commercial facilities. An operator whose real problem is the unit door and the smart-home layer, rather than the entrance and the package room, is usually comparing ButterflyMX against a hub-and-lock platform and should read the institutional multifamily page for that list.

Pricing

Pricing is not published. Ask for the per-unit software figure, the per-entrance hardware figure for the intercom panel, the cost of adding readers to amenity doors and the package room, and the minimum. Ask whether the contract is month-to-month or annual. One integrator on a Low Voltage Nation thread objected that ButterflyMX offers installers no recurring revenue; that is their concern rather than yours, but ask how your integrator is compensated, because it shapes the support you get after install.

Integrations

The confirmed list is AppFolio, Entrata, RealPage, Yardi, and Rent Manager, per ButterflyMX’s own integrations page. Few vendors in the category confirm more; Quext names six, though Rent Manager is not among them. Buildium, ResMan, MRI, Propertyware, and Rentvine are not on it. The AppFolio integrations page and the Rent Manager integrations page show which other access-control vendors share those connections. Each PMS has its own resident portal; the question is whether the ButterflyMX credential is created when the lease is, and revoked when it ends.

RemoteLock and Salto both integrate with ButterflyMX, which is how a small building ends up with a ButterflyMX front door and a different vendor’s locks on the units.

Limitations and questions to ask

A management company reviewing the product on Trustpilot wrote that it felt like two separate systems that were not in sync, and that the hardware did not last. Ask a reference customer at your PMS whether the intercom, the readers, and the PMS sync behave as one system, and how old their panels are. Ask what data syncs, in which direction, and whether it is real-time or scheduled.

Ask what still works during an internet outage at the front door. Ask who owns setup and support, ButterflyMX or the integrator. Ask how a resident without a smartphone gets in; Washington’s ESSB 5937 requires a non-app key on request from January 2027, and a New York landlord who blocked a key cylinder was sued by older tenants. Ask about the building itself, since a two-wire intercom in a 1960s walk-up is a different install from a new-build lobby.

Alternatives

The most-published comparison is the ButterflyMX and Swiftlane head-to-head, the two video-intercom platforms head to head. Swiftlane is the direct substitute at the entrance. RemoteLock is the lock-agnostic partner for the unit doors. The ButterflyMX alternatives page groups the other vendors by which part of the stack they replace.

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. ButterflyMX was named in 83% of runs, on 19 of the 25 prompts, more than any other vendor in the category, and butterflymx.com was the most-cited domain at 43 of 263 citations. It was named first on the keyless entry shortlist, the video intercom, the Class A high-rise and the AppFolio integration prompts, and second when asked for alternatives to Brivo and to Gatewise. The live summary above and ButterflyMX’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.

Read beside this profile: Swiftlane, Brivo and RemoteLock, the ButterflyMX partner for unit locks.