Darcy vs Yardi Voyager: pricing, AI, and which to choose (2026)

Quick verdict

Yardi Voyager is an enterprise system for real estate. It serves large owners, operators, and investors that need end-to-end accounting, customizable reporting, and modules such as Revenue IQ. Darcy is a full property management system with AI agents that do routine leasing, maintenance, and accounting work, at a published $2 per unit per month.

If you run thousands of units across residential and commercial assets and depend on custom reports and Yardi's wider suite, Voyager is built for you. If your team struggles with Voyager's learning curve and setup cost, and you want agents in daily work, compare Darcy.

Side-by-side

Where Yardi Voyager is stronger

Voyager earns its place in large portfolios.

• Reporting and dashboards. Capterra reviewers praise its customizable reporting tools and dashboards.

• Breadth. Reviewers value the breadth of the platform for multi-property management. Yardi also sells a commercial suite that includes Forecast Manager, Facility Manager, and Investment Manager.

• A growing AI program. In September 2025, Yardi launched Virtuoso AI Agents, a marketplace of pre-built agents, and Virtuoso Composer, a no-code builder for custom agents. In June 2026, it announced Virtuoso Enterprise agents for multifamily leasing, resident services, maintenance, and accounting, such as work order categorization and invoice approval.

• Chat IQ. Chat IQ handles prospect and resident conversations from first inquiry through renewal across chat, email, text, and voice. It uses live Voyager data.

• Custom agents. Composer lets your team build its own agents. Darcy does not list a custom agent builder.

Where Darcy is stronger

• A published price. Yardi does not publish Voyager prices. Darcy charges $2 per unit per month for the whole system and its agents.

• Training by role. G2 reviewers describe a steep learning curve in Voyager that requires significant training. Capterra reviewers call the interface dated and hard to navigate. Darcy's team trains leasing, maintenance, and accounting staff on their own workflows.

• Setup cost and time. Capterra reviewers say Voyager setup and customization take a long time and cost a lot. Darcy's team does staging, cleanup, importing, balance checks, and setup of automations and agents.

• Agents with a clear trust model. Darcy starts by preparing work for your team to review. As it learns your policies, you hand it more tasks one type at a time, and every action shows the records it used.

• Stability and support. Capterra reviewers report glitches and errors and an inconsistent support experience in Voyager.

What each costs

Yardi publishes no Voyager prices as of October 2026, so we do not show a side-by-side cost table. Vendr, a software buying platform, publishes directional ranges that are not Yardi prices: $50,000 to $150,000 per year for the core subscription at 1,000 to 5,000 units, and $100,000 to $300,000 per year at 2,000 to 10,000 units. For 10,000+ units, Vendr cites both $200,000 to $500,000+ and more than $300,000 per year. Vendr also reports first-year costs of $500,000 to more than $1 million for complex implementations at 10,000+ units. Use these only to frame a conversation, and get a written quote.

Darcy charges $2 per unit per month: $200 at 100 units, $1,000 at 500 units, and $4,000 at 2,000 units, or $48,000 per year at 2,000 units. Payment processing is billed per transaction: $2.50 per ACH payment and 2.85% + $0.30 per card payment.

When you request a Voyager quote, ask for the subscription, each module, implementation, training, AI agents, and payment fees as separate lines. See the Yardi Voyager pricing guide.

Legal news buyers ask about

Yardi faces antitrust litigation over its Revenue IQ rent-pricing software. It matters most if you plan to use Revenue IQ. The facts as sources state them:

• October 2025. A California state court granted Yardi summary judgment in Mach v. Yardi, a Revenue IQ antitrust case.

• March 2026. In Duffy v. Yardi, the federal court dismissed 10 out-of-state property managers for lack of jurisdiction. Yardi remained a defendant.

• October 2026. The judge in Duffy v. Yardi (W.D. Wash.) denied Yardi's motion for summary judgment. The class action moves to further discovery. Yardi denies wrongdoing.

Ask your counsel how pending cases and your state's rules affect your use of any pricing tool.

How a move from Yardi Voyager to Darcy works

Darcy confirms imports from Yardi exports. The process has five parts.

1. Plan around your contract. Darcy schedules the migration around your Voyager renewal date, so you do not pay for two systems longer than needed. Yardi does not publish its export or data-return terms, so ask in writing what data you receive and in what format.

2. Export and upload. Upload your Voyager exports and your lease PDFs.

3. Staging. Darcy's Migration agent stages every record and flags errors and duplicates.

4. Reconciled batches. The agent proposes the import in batches that reconcile to your files' totals to the cent. Nothing is imported until you approve it. Each batch can be undone until other records depend on it.

5. Setup and training. Darcy's team does the cleanup, importing, and balance checks for every property. It sets up automations and agents and trains staff by role.

Darcy migrates properties, units, unit types, owners, tenants and leases, opening balances, security deposits, and vendors. Ask us about general ledger history and custom Voyager reports. The Yardi Voyager migration guide has a full checklist.

Who should pick each

Pick Yardi Voyager if you run a very large or complex portfolio, need custom reporting and Yardi's commercial and investment modules, and have the staff to train and maintain it.

Pick Darcy if you want a published price, agents that take on resident messages, collections, renewals, maintenance triage, and the close, and a team that trains your staff by role.

Compare Voyager with RealPage, Entrata, and MRI Software, or see the best property management software for large portfolios. To see a Yardi import on a portfolio like yours, book a demo.