Best Flat Fee MLS Companies in Austin, TX (2026 Rankings)

Updated October 2026. Prices checked on each company’s own site on October 20, 2026.

Austin homes are listed on Unlock MLS, the system run by the Austin Board of REALTORS. A flat fee listing there costs $85 to $399 upfront with the nine companies below. Some add a fee at closing of 0.1% to 0.5%. On a typical Austin home value of $492,000, that is up to $2,460 more. Check photos and listing term too, not just the price.

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Austin flat fee MLS prices, entry plan to entry plan

This table compares each company’s cheapest plan that puts you on the MLS. The total column adds any closing fee on the typical Austin home value. The last column shows the name each company gives the Austin MLS on its own site.

Two companies charge $99. They are not the same listing. Beycome Basic gets the most photos Unlock MLS allows and a term of up to 24 months. Brokerless at $99 gets 6 photos and 6 months. Its $188 plan adds more photos and 12 months.

What the cheap plans actually include

Price is one line. This is the rest of the package for the same entry plans, as each company describes it.

“Not stated” means we could not find it on the company’s own pages. It does not mean the company lacks it.

Austin plans that come with a person to help

Some sellers want a licensed pro to price the home and handle the back and forth. These are the top plans, compared on the same typical Austin home value.

Beycome Concierge is $999 for a limited time (list price $1,399), with nothing due at closing. On Basic and Enhanced, offer and negotiation help comes from Artur, our AI assistant, not a person. A person handles negotiation only on the Concierge package.

Why listing term matters more in Austin right now

Austin is the slow market in Texas this year. The Texas Real Estate Research Center put it plainly in its September 2026 report: prices were weakest in Austin, down 1.4% in July. Zillow’s index puts the typical Austin home value at $492,000 in September 2026, down 3.2% over the year (Zillow Research).

Here’s what that means for a flat fee listing. If your plan runs 6 months and your home sells in a few months, you’re fine. But a home priced a bit high can take much longer. Then you pay again to renew, or your listing drops off and comes back as “new,” which buyers’ agents notice.

Read the term line before you pay. A 6-month plan at $89 can end up costing more than a longer plan once you add a renewal and a closing fee.

According to Unlock MLS, 777 homes sold in the city of Austin in September 2026, down 12.7% from a year earlier, at a median of $570,958.

How Unlock MLS works for an Austin listing

Unlock MLS used to be called ACTRIS, and before 1998 it was the Austin Multiple Listing Service. It’s run by the Austin Board of REALTORS. Its media kit counted 18,280 MLS subscribers in July 2025. Those are the agents whose buyers see your home first.

It covers 18 counties, from Travis and Williamson out to Hays, Bastrop, Bell and Llano. So one Austin listing reaches buyers’ agents across Central Texas, not just inside the city.

You can’t enter a listing on Unlock MLS yourself. A member brokerage has to do it. That is the job a flat fee broker does for you. From there, the listing feeds sites like Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin.

Taxes and paperwork an Austin seller deals with

The energy audit (ECAD)

This one is unique to Austin. Under the city’s Energy Conservation Audit and Disclosure ordinance, a home inside Austin city limits, served by Austin Energy and 10 years old or older, needs an energy audit when it’s sold. The buyer must get the results at least three days before the option period ends. Austin Energy estimates the audit at about $200 to $300 for a typical single-family home. Book it early so it doesn’t hold up your contract.

Property tax proration

Texas has no state transfer tax on a home sale. The Texas Constitution bars any new one. Your big local cost is property tax, which is split at closing. The TREC resale contract says taxes for the current year “will be prorated through the Closing Date.”

For 2026, Travis County lists its rate at 0.38621 per $100 and the City of Austin at 0.579948. Together that’s about $4,754 a year on a $492,000 home, before school district taxes and exemptions. Close at the end of June and you’d credit the buyer roughly half of that year’s bill. Austin ISD’s 2025 rate was 0.9252 per $100, so the full bill is higher.

The seller’s disclosure

Texas Property Code §5.008 requires most sellers of a single-family home to give the buyer a Seller’s Disclosure Notice. TREC’s current version is form 55-1. If you deliver it late, the buyer can end the contract for any reason within seven days of getting it. Hand it over before the contract is signed.

Closing in Texas? Beycome Title handles Texas closings for a $299 settlement fee. Title insurance premiums themselves are set by the Texas Department of Insurance, so every title company charges the same rate.

Each company in two minutes

Beycome

Basic is $99, with $0 at closing. You get the most photos Unlock MLS allows, a listing term of up to 24 months, unlimited free changes, e-sign and ShowingTime scheduling when it’s available. Artur, our AI assistant, helps with offers. Enhanced ($399) adds 25 professional photos. We also run Beycome Title in Texas. The trade-off is that a person only negotiates for you on Concierge.

Brokerless

Brokerless matches the $99 price and says it never charges closing fees. It names ACTRIS on its Texas coverage page. The $99 plan has 6 photos and 6 months, and ShowingTime is a $50 add-on. You handle all buyer talks yourself. It’s a solid fit for a home you expect to sell fast with few photos.

Congress Realty

A Texas-focused broker with plans from $299. Basic includes DocuSign and up to 5 changes. Its pages differ on Basic photos (4 on the Texas table, 6 on the product page). Listings run 6 months, and its FAQ says extensions are available up to two years. Full Service is $399 plus 0.5% at closing.

Homecoin

$149 in Texas, with “never” a fee at closing, max photos, 12 months and 10 free changes. That’s a lot of listing for the money. Help with the listing itself is a paid add-on, and its Texas seller-agent option is a 2.5% commission.

HomeZu

HomeZu’s Texas Basic is $399 with 20 photos and 6 months, unlimited free edits and DocuSign. Its Texas page lists a 0.1% fee at closing ($492 on the typical Austin home value), but another line on the same page says there is never a fee at closing. Ask them which applies before you sign.

Houzeo

Bronze at $399 is a true flat fee: $0 at closing, 25 photos, 6 months, 10 changes. Every plan above it adds 0.5% to 1.25% at closing, with a $999 minimum, per Houzeo’s Texas page. Platinum on the typical Austin home value comes to $6,649. Houzeo’s footnote says that if offers came in while you were listed, the commission may still be owed after you cancel.

ISoldMyHouse

$299 gets 6 to 10 photos and 6 months; $399 gets max photos and 12 months. No closing fee is stated. You negotiate on your own. Its site doesn’t name Texas specifically, so confirm Austin coverage first.

List With Freedom

$89 upfront, plus a 0.5% compliance fee at closing. On $492,000 that’s $2,549 in total. Changes are free and unlimited, and its Texas page names ACTRIS. Offer review is a $595 add-on.

Unreal Estate

$85 upfront and a 0.5% compliance fee if you close, so $2,545 on the typical Austin home value. Basic has 15 photos, 6 months and 2 free edits, plus email questions to a broker. There is no cancellation fee.

If you want to see the whole process before you pick a company, our guide on listing on the MLS without a realtor walks through it step by step. Ready to list? Start on our Austin flat fee MLS page. Selling somewhere else in the state? See how Texas flat fee companies compare statewide.

Austin seller questions