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Average Rent Data API

Apartment rent data. Ready for your application.

172,646 listed units across 10,982 buildings in 1,158 US cities, refreshed every 24 hours. Query asking rents, concessions, last-known listings, and price changes through a read-only API.

Make your first request

  1. Sign in and create a free API key. Save the full key when it appears.
  2. Replace YOUR_API_KEY in the command below, then run it. This request uses one data call.
  3. Check your shared allowance in your data account or with GET /api/v1/me.

Start with 1,000 data calls per month. No credit card needed. See call limits.

Endpoints

Everything is a GET with JSON out. Full parameter detail lives in the OpenAPI 3 spec.

Endpoint Returns
GET/api/v1/cities Every covered city with inventory counts and current market average.
GET/api/v1/cities/{city}/stats Average, min, max rent plus the per-bedroom breakdown.
GET/api/v1/cities/{city}/history?days=90 Daily market-average series, outlier-trimmed.
GET/api/v1/cities/{city}/price-cuts Units whose asking rent dropped in the trailing 7 days.
GET/api/v1/cities/{city}/price-changes Confirmed cuts, increases, budget options, and coverage over 7 or 30 days. Filter by neighborhood, bedrooms, rent, and change size.
GET/api/v1/cities/{city}/properties Paginated building directory with pricing summary.
GET/api/v1/properties/{id} One building with every listed unit: rent, plan, sqft, fees, concessions.
GET/api/v1/properties/{id}/history?days=180 Daily min/avg/max/median pricing for one building.
GET/api/v1/search?zip=78704&max_rent=2000 Find apartment listings by location, property name, bedroom count, and rent.
GET/api/v1/national/summary?state=TX National and state asking rent statistics for the tracked sample.
GET/api/v1/me Your plan, limits, and month-to-date usage.

Authentication

Pass your key as a bearer token or an X-API-Key header. Create a free key in your data account. Paid-plan keys are delivered by email. We store only a hash, so save your full key. Admitted requests include X-RateLimit-* and X-Quota-* headers, and GET /api/v1/me reports month-to-date usage.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ar_live_..." \
  "https://average-rent.com/api/v1/cities/austin-tx/price-cuts?limit=5"

Lost your key?

Replace a free key from your data account. For a paid key, sign in with the email on your Whop account. Then POST your Whop membership id to /api/v1/keys/recover with your website session cookie. The buyer email must match your signed-in account. We email a fresh key and revoke the old key.

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "city": "austin-tx",
    "avg_rent": 1996,
    "min_rent": 773,
    "max_rent": 12845,
    "properties": 107,
    "units": 3462,
    "by_bedroom": [
      { "bedrooms": 0, "label": "Studio", "units": 411, "avg_rent": 2451 },
      { "bedrooms": 1, "label": "1BR", "units": 1743, "avg_rent": 1748 },
      { "bedrooms": 2, "label": "2BR", "units": 1015, "avg_rent": 2163 }
    ],
    "updated_at": "2026-07-03T05:12:44Z"
  },
  "meta": { "generated_at": "2026-07-03T12:00:01Z" }
}

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Pricing

Month to month, cancel anytime. Payments and subscriptions run on Whop.

Free

$0/mo

Personal searches and noncommercial research.

  • 1,000 data calls / month
  • 10 data calls / minute
  • All endpoints, all 1,158 cities
  • Daily refresh, unit-level detail
Get a free API key

Developer

$49.99/mo

Commercial prototypes and internal dashboards.

  • 25,000 data calls / month
  • 60 data calls / minute
  • All endpoints, all 1,158 cities
  • Daily refresh, unit-level detail
Subscribe

Growth

Popular

$199.99/mo

Commercial apps and market research by city.

  • 250,000 data calls / month
  • 300 data calls / minute
  • All endpoints, all 1,158 cities
  • Daily refresh, unit-level detail
Subscribe

Scale

$499.99/mo

Commercial products and multi-market analysis.

  • 1,000,000 data calls / month
  • 600 data calls / minute
  • All endpoints, all 1,158 cities
  • Daily refresh, unit-level detail
Subscribe

API keys and ChatGPT share the plan allowance. It resets on the first day of each month at 00:00 UTC. Requests stop at the limit with no automatic overage charges. Website Pro is a separate subscription.

Free access is for noncommercial use. For business work, customer products, or paid services, choose a paid Data API plan. Read the data-use conditions.

Need bulk exports, historical backfills, or custom markets? Email us about enterprise licensing.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

Prices come from each building's public listings and are refreshed every 24 hours, unit by unit. Coverage today: 172,646 units across 10,982 buildings in 1,158 cities, with per-unit price history back to March 2026.

How is this different from other rent data?

Most rent indexes publish city medians monthly. This API exposes the underlying unit-level observations daily: individual asking rents, concessions, availability dates, and week-over-week price cuts per unit.

How do I get an API key?

Sign in to your Data API account and create a free key. Save it when it appears; you cannot view the full key again. Paid subscriptions run through Whop and include key delivery by email.

Can I show the data in my product?

Commercial display and analysis require an active paid Data API plan and remain subject to source rights. Include attribution ("Data: Average Rent" linked to average-rent.com). Reselling or republishing the raw dataset requires permission.

Is there a free tier?

Yes, for noncommercial use. A verified account includes 1,000 data calls per month and 10 calls per minute. API keys and ChatGPT connections share this allowance. It resets on the first day of each month at 00:00 UTC.

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