For eXp Agents Curious About Real
You built a revenue share network. Enter it by level and see, side by side, what it pays at eXp and what the same network would pay at Real. Same math for both, no thumb on the scale.
Fair warning: sometimes eXp wins this calculator. Rev Share 2.0 made eXp's first three tiers automatic, and below 15 producing frontline agents that usually beats Real. This tool will tell you that. It will also show you where the lines cross. And whatever year one says, check the five-year attrition picture below: rev share is only paid by agents who stay.
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The numbers loaded here are an example network. Replace them with yours. GCI counts up to $80,000 per agent, which is where both brokerages stop paying on an agent (Real's $12K cap at 85/15, eXp's $16K cap at 80/20).
Synced with Level 1 on the left. This number unlocks tiers at both brokerages: eXp calls a producer FLQA ($5K GCI or 2 transactions in 6 months), Real requires $450 of company dollar in 6 months, roughly $3K GCI, an easier bar.
Both brokerages let production and attraction open tiers early. Check what applies to you; network-size unlocks switch on automatically from your totals above.
Rev share is only one line of the comparison. Real's rev share is willable, the cap is $12K vs $16K, there is no monthly brokerage fee against eXp's $85, and both companies award stock on different terms. If the calculator says eXp wins your network today, those are the lines that decide whether that lead holds. Ask the Real agent who sent you this to walk through your actual numbers.
Plans as modeled. Real: 5 tiers at 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1% of GCI. Tier 1 is automatic; tiers 2 through 5 unlock at 5 / 15 / 20 / 25 producing frontline agents. Accelerators per Real's published unlock paths: capping ($12K) opens tiers 1-3 and Elite status opens all 5 for the remainder of that year (both reset annually, so the checkboxes assume you re-earn the status each year), and network size opens tiers automatically: 750+ agents opens tiers 1-3, 1,000+ opens tiers 1-4, 1,500+ opens all 5, re-checked as your network grows or shrinks. Max $12,000 per capping tier-1 agent across all tiers. eXp Rev Share 2.0 (effective May 2024): 7 tiers at 3.5 / 4 / 2.5 / 1.5 / 1 / 2.5 / 5%. Tiers 1 through 3 are automatic; tier 4 unlocks at 5 FLQA, tier 5 at 10, tier 6 at 15, tier 7 at 30. Accelerators: personally capping ($16K) opens tiers 4-5 and ICON status opens tiers 6-7 for 13 months (checkboxes assume the status is maintained). Locked eXp tiers still trickle 0.1 to 0.5% (eXpansion shares). Max $16,000 per capping agent, but $6,000 of it sits at tiers 6 and 7.
Attrition model. The five-year projection shrinks each brokerage's payout by the attrition rate annually, applied evenly across levels, with no new recruiting added for either side. The producing frontline shrinks at the same rate, and tier unlocks are re-checked every year against it, so a tier that needs 15 or 30 producing frontline agents locks again once attrition takes the frontline below that bar. Because the model decays payout dollars, defaults are revenue-based where disclosure allows. Real 8%: annualized from the quarterly revenue churn Real discloses in its MD&A (2.4% Q1 2026, 1.9% Q2 2026, defined as commission revenue from departed agents over trailing-six-month company commissions); Real also discloses quarterly agent churn of 8.0% (Q1 2026) and 6.1% (Q2 2026), which mostly reflects low producers leaving. eXp 33%: the most recent publicly available figure, from trade-press estimates of ~29,000 departures in 2024 on an ~87,500 base; it is a headcount rate, and eXp discloses no revenue churn to refine it, so lower the slider if you believe eXp's departing agents skew low-producing the way Real's do. Both sliders are yours to change. Cross-check from published agent counts, both companies' own releases: eXp reported 82,704 agents at Q2 2025 and 87,338 at Q2 2026, but ~4,900 of those came from acquiring NextHome, so the organic count was ~82,438, slightly down year over year. Real reported 28,034 at Q2 2025 and 35,348 at Q2 2026, up 26% organically. Both brokerages lose a large share of headcount every year (Real disclosed 6 to 8% per quarter; eXp's only public figure is the ~29,000 estimate); the difference is that Real's recruiting outruns its churn and its leavers barely produce, while eXp's organic count has been flat to down since its ~89K peak in 2023.
Verified Sept 2026 against eXp's Revenue Share 2.0 announcement and Real's published plan. Plans change; confirm current terms with each brokerage. Estimates only, not a compensation guarantee.