CapScout vs Privy for agents with investor clients: flip comps or rental underwriting (2026)

Privy (privy.pro) and CapScout both sell to real estate agents whose clients are investors, and both put new listings in front of those clients.

What do Privy and CapScout each do?

Privy’s main tool is Comparative Search, its patented way of finding deals from what investors in a market have done. It maps where investors have been buying, and on completed flips it shows Before & After photos and numbers. Its LiveCMA runs the comps. Deal searches are organized by strategy: fix and flip, teardown, below market and long-term rental. Public-record data adds details such as absentee ownership. On the agent plan, an agent sees their own MLS’s data, including private remarks, and can set saved searches that email clients new listings meeting their criteria.

CapScout is an AI acquisition platform for investors and the firms that help them buy residential investment property on the open market. You search a market by the return a client needs: a minimum cap rate, a rent-to-price ratio or, for a flip, an ARV ratio. Every result carries a free ScoutScore band. The homes you pick get a ScoutSense underwrite and a negotiation target, and on the Team plan they go to the client under your brokerage’s name.

Side by side

Where is Privy stronger than CapScout?

For clients who flip, Privy has the better evidence. Its Before & After records on completed flips show what an investor bought, what they did to it and what it sold for. CapScout has no investor-activity data to set against that. It estimates ARV from nearby comparable listings, both active and recently off the market, with price-per-square-foot outliers trimmed. That is a different and thinner kind of evidence for a flip.

An agent on Privy’s agent plan also sees fields that CapScout does not show: private remarks and agent contact details from their own MLS, which Privy updates every 15 minutes where it has a direct MLS feed. Privy’s public-record data reaches off-market owners, and CapScout works only with listings for sale.

Through Agent Match, Privy introduces investors to up to three Certified Privy Pro Agents, free to the investor. CapScout has no equivalent.

Where does CapScout differ from Privy?

For a rental, CapScout estimates rent from nearby comparable rentals and gives it as a range. It checks that range against HUD fair-market rents and Census medians, and the report’s confidence drops when they disagree. Cap rates are after vacancy, maintenance, management, property tax, insurance and HOA, at your brokerage’s defaults. Privy’s help center describes a rebuilt rental engine, in an article dated June 2026, with cap rate, cash-on-cash and yield filters and a low-to-high rent range.

CapScout prices the offer. The negotiation target and each adjustment behind it print on the client’s copy, and the offer letter fills in from the deal at that target. Privy’s site and help center describe no offer tool.

To send a client a property, Privy’s help center describes emailing it or saving a LiveCMA as a PDF from the browser’s print dialog. On CapScout’s Team plan the client gets the full analysis under your firm’s logo, colors and disclaimer, with the sections you chose, and a deal room that holds every report you have sent them. You see which ones they opened.

Each client’s record holds their buy box, the homes you sent, which ones they opened and their verdict on each: wants it, maybe or out, with a reason such as price, taxes or condition. You can run your book in CapScout or keep the CRM you have.

How do pricing, trials and cancellation compare?

Privy’s accounts are single-user. At its October 2026 list price, three agents on the agent plan pay $291 a month, or $234 a month billed annually. CapScout’s Team plan is $129 a month for those three seats. Those are list prices. CapScout’s seats draw on a shared pool of 6,000 credits a month, and each new home in your results and each full underwrite spends credits.

Privy’s help center says there is no free trial, and that a refund is available within 30 days of a first purchase but never on a renewal. Its pricing page advertises a 30-day money-back guarantee on investor plans. When a Privy plan ends, saved properties, lists and searches are lost.

CapScout starts free with 500 credits and no card. The Team trial runs 7 days with 2,000 credits; it takes a card but charges nothing until the trial ends.

What to check before you pick either

• What do your clients buy? Flippers get more from investor-activity data; rental buyers, from rent evidence and a priced offer.
• What will the client see? Open what you would send a client from each product and read it as they would.
• How many agents will use it? Price the seats for the team you will have in a year.
• What happens to your saved work if you stop? Read the cancellation terms before your client lists go in.

Privy here means the real estate investing platform at privy.pro, not the ecommerce popup tool or the crypto wallet of the same name. Privy details come from privy.pro and Privy’s help center as of October 19, 2026. CapScout has no relationship with Privy. Check privy.pro and CapScout’s pricing page for current terms before you buy.