AirDNA Alternative for Short-Term Rental Owner Contacts

AirDNA is the best-known source of short-term rental market data in the United States. Many people assume it has no owner contact details, because for years it was a pure analytics product. That is no longer the full picture: AirDNA now sells owner contact lookups inside its Property Manager package. This page sets out what AirDNA offers, what it costs where it publishes a price, and how public permit registers compare as a source of STR owner contacts.

Every AirDNA fact below comes from AirDNA's own pages, read on October 23, 2026. Check them again before you buy, because plans change.

What AirDNA is and who it is built for

AirDNA calls itself "the short-term rental data and analytics platform." Its home page says it was founded in 2014, is based in Denver and is independent of Airbnb. It says it collects publicly available listing, calendar, rate and review data daily from Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, and combines it with data from property managers, channel managers and hosts who connect their listings. It claims more than 15 million active listings and 45 million total listings tracked across more than 150 countries.

Its core users are hosts, investors and property managers, with tourism boards, hotels, booking platforms, real estate agents, lenders and researchers also listed. The product answers questions such as what a three-bedroom earns in a given ZIP code, how seasonal a market is, and how a listing performs against its competitors. For those questions it is a leading source.

What AirDNA gives you for STR owner contacts

AirDNA's Owner Contact Details page describes a lookup that starts from a listing. AirDNA says it matches listings to physical addresses by cross-referencing sites that display listing addresses, such as Booking.com and Zillow. It then returns owner contact data from a third-party provider that, in AirDNA's words, compiles verified data from county and public records.

The page lists four outcomes:

• Full match: owner name, address, email and phone.
• Partial match: owner name, address, and either an email or a phone.
• Name and address: owner name and address only.
• No info found: no charge.

The same page says you need the AirDNA Property Manager package to use the feature, and that it is available only for listings in the United States. AirDNA's March 2026 article on finding Airbnb owners adds that not every listing will have contact information, that the tool can identify owners behind LLCs and trusts, and that it flags contacts on do-not-contact lists.

So for a property manager who already uses AirDNA to spot weak listings, the path from "this listing is underperforming" to "here is the owner's phone" now runs inside one product. That is a real capability and worth knowing about.

What the lookup cannot reach is a rental that is not yet listed. AirDNA's starting point is a live listing on a booking site. A homeowner who has applied for a permit but has not published a listing is invisible to a listing-based tool. And the contact data is matched to the property owner from public and third-party records, which may differ from the person who registered to operate the rental.

AirDNA pricing as published

The AirDNA pricing page, read on October 23, 2026, showed:

• Free: $0, "Free forever," with a limited Rentalizer revenue calculator and limited market insights.
• Market Research: $34 a month billed annually ($400 a year), or $125 a month on monthly billing. Adds historical market data, comparable sets, future demand, property performance and top-market search.
• Adapt dynamic pricing: $20 a month per listing, with a 30-day free trial.
• Property Manager: for portfolios of six or more properties. No published price; custom pricing through sales.

For owner contacts specifically, the Owner Contact Details page says contacts run on credits, where $1 equals one credit, credits do not expire, you are charged only for data returned, and full pricing is shared in a demo. The page we read did not say how many credits each match type costs, so we cannot give a per-contact price.

How permit-register data differs

Permit data starts at the other end. When a city, county or state requires short-term rentals to register, the operator files an application with the property address and their name, and sometimes a phone number and email. Many agencies publish those registers. The record exists because the person registered, not because a model matched a listing to an address. Our guide to public STR registers lists which places publish them.

The practical differences:

• Who you reach. A permit names the applicant, who is usually the operator. AirDNA's lookup returns the property owner from public and third-party records.
• When you reach them. A permit application can come before a listing goes live. PermitPulse currently holds 4,147 pending applications and 26,549 records filed in the last 12 months. AirDNA sees a property once it is listed and has a track record.
• What it costs. Permit files are sold flat by state. AirDNA owner lookups are credit-based inside a custom-priced package.
• Where contact details come from. Permit phones and emails are what the owner gave the government, where the register publishes them. Lead Mining Company does not verify them. AirDNA's come from its third-party provider.

Permit data also has clear limits. It covers only jurisdictions that publish a register, not every market AirDNA tracks. Rentals operating without a permit are missing. It carries no occupancy, revenue or review data. And Idaho and Iowa have no local registers at all (why).

When AirDNA is the right tool

• You need performance data: occupancy, nightly rates, revenue estimates, seasonality, comparable sets.
• You are a property manager pitching owners on results, and you want to show an owner how their listing compares to the market before you call.
• Your market has no public register, or many unregistered listings, and a listing-based match is the only route to the owner.
• You want market research and owner lookups in the same product your team already uses.

When permit data is the right tool

• You want every registered operator in a city or state, not just the listings you search one by one.
• You sell something a new operator buys before the first guest arrives: furnishing, setup cleaning, locks, insurance, photography. Pending applications reach them earliest (timing guide).
• You want a published, fixed price and a full file you can load into your own CRM.
• You work a market whose register publishes phones and emails. As of October 2026, our Louisiana file had 29,350 contactable records out of 34,063 and our Florida file had 39,708 out of 53,152.

Using AirDNA and permit data together

For a short-term rental management company, the two sources answer different halves of the sales question: who is out there, and who needs help.

1. Build the universe from the register. Take the permit file for your city. In New Orleans, for example, the city publishes an STR permit applications register that includes current and historical applications. Every row is an address and an applicant name.
2. Split by stage. Pending and recently filed permits go to a new-owner sequence: these homeowners are deciding now whether to self-manage. Older active permits go to the performance sequence.
3. Use AirDNA on the performance group. Look up the listings in AirDNA to see which ones trail the market on occupancy or rate. Those owners have a reason to hear from a manager.
4. Fill contact gaps where it is worth it. Where the register published no phone or email, and AirDNA shows a listing worth pursuing, an AirDNA owner lookup can supply one. You pay only for the matches you choose to run.

To see how the two sources overlap in your own market before you pay for either at scale, take 25 listings you would target in AirDNA and look up each address in the free permit lookup. The share that appears on the register tells you how much of your target list a permit file already covers, and the share that does not tells you how much a listing-based tool adds. Run the same test in each city you work, because the answer changes with how strictly each city enforces registration.

Mail is the safest first touch for both groups (mail playbook). If you call or text, remember that many STR owners are individuals using personal mobiles. The TCPA and the National Do Not Call Registry rules apply: scrub every number, use no autodialers or artificial or prerecorded voices, and do not text without consent. Email follows CAN-SPAM. The details are in our TCPA and DNC guide. This is general information, not legal advice.

AirDNA and permit data compared

Where Lead Mining Company fits

Our product for this job is PermitPulse: 283,611 short-term rental permit records from public registers, 127,924 of them with a phone or email as published. It costs $99 a month for one state, $299 for all states, or $149 for a one-time state download. You can test any address with the free STR permit lookup, and property managers can see how others use the file on our page for managers.

Frequently asked questions

Does AirDNA have Airbnb host contact information?

Yes, in the United States. AirDNA's Owner Contact Details feature, part of its Property Manager package, matches a listing to an address and returns the owner's name and address, and an email and phone where it finds them. You pay only when data is returned. This is AirDNA's description as of October 23, 2026.

How much do AirDNA owner contacts cost?

AirDNA says owner contacts use credits at $1 per credit, credits do not expire, and full pricing is given in a demo. The Property Manager package itself is custom-priced. The pages we read did not state the credits per contact, so we cannot quote a per-contact cost.

Why use permit data if AirDNA already has contacts?

Permit data reaches homeowners who registered but have not listed yet, names the applicant who operates the rental, and comes as a full city or state file at a flat price. AirDNA covers listings in places without registers and adds performance data. Many managers will want both.

Does permit data include revenue or occupancy?

No. A permit record has the address, the applicant's name, the permit number and status, the filing date and, where the register publishes them, a phone and email. For revenue and occupancy you need a listing-data product such as AirDNA.

Can I call STR owners from either list?

Yes, within the TCPA, Do Not Call and state telemarketing rules. Scrub numbers against the National Do Not Call Registry and state lists, avoid autodialers and prerecorded or artificial voices, and do not text without consent. Start with mail where you can.

AirDNA is a trademark of its owner. Lead Mining Company is not affiliated with or endorsed by AirDNA.