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FreshBooks pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

FreshBooks (freshbooks.com) is a accounting tool. Flat monthly plans tiered by number of billable clients and features, plus $11/mo per extra team member.. No free plan.

What FreshBooks costs

  • Solo: $43/mo (Lite ($23) has bank import but no bank reconciliation, so Plus $43/mo (50 billable clients, reconciliation, accounting reports). Intro 80%-off promo ignored.)
  • 3 users: $92/mo (Premium $70 (accounts payable needed; unlimited clients) + 2 extra team members x $11 = $92/mo)

Plan compared: Plus. Prices are the software subscription in USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) at the regular list price, ignoring introductory discounts, for two fixed bookkeeping scenarios. Payment-processing, bank and bill-pay fees, payroll and done-for-you bookkeeping or tax services are left out.

What FreshBooks does

Core: Invoices & online payment, Projects & tracking categories (partly).

Important: Bank & card feeds, Double-entry ledger & statements, Bills & accounts payable, Receipt capture & OCR, Accountant access & services, Mobile apps.

Also has: AI transaction coding (partly), Sales tax & VAT (partly), Payroll with tax filing, Inventory tracking (partly), Multi-currency (partly), Sales channel & payout sync (partly), App marketplace & API.

FreshBooks price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to FreshBooks

At a one-person business, FreshBooks costs $43/mo. 2 accounting tools cost less:

  • Xero: $27/mo (Early), covers 100% of FreshBooks
  • QuickBooks Online: $38/mo (Simple Start), covers 100% of FreshBooks

FreshBooks alternatives: 2 accounting tools compared, at every size.

Every change we logged

  • Mar 5, 2026 · Price increase: FreshBooks raised all US plan prices on March 5, 2026: Lite $21 to $23, Plus $38 to $43 and Premium $65 to $70 per month.

Sources

Pricing page: freshbooks.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from the official US pricing page (monthly billing); the March 2026 increase is from FreshBooks' price-change FAQ, with pre-increase prices from CostBench snapshots. Exact yearly prices were not shown (page states an extra 10% off yearly).