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What QuickBooks is
Bookkeeping, invoicing, payroll and tax for small businesses, and the format most accountants expect to receive.
What QuickBooks has cost
We have read this pricing page 14 times since Jan 2021, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $15†Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · Self-Employed · 3 readings · archived page
The entry plan changed name here, from Self-Employed to Simple Start. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.
$25†Jul 2022 · Simple Start · 1 reading · archived page- $30/moJan 2023 · Simple Start · 1 reading · archived page
- $9/moJul 2023 · Simple Start · 1 reading · archived page
- $15/moJan 2024 · Simple Start · 1 reading · archived page
- $30†Jul 2024 · Simple Start · 1 reading · archived page
- $35†Jan 2025 – Jul 2025 · Simple Start · 2 readings · archived page
- $19†Jan 2026 · Simple Start · 1 reading · archived page
- $19/moJul 2026 · Simple Start · 1 reading · archived page
- $3.8/moAug 2026 · Simple Start · 1 reading · source
- $19/moSept 2026 · Simple Start · 1 reading · source
† The page showed this figure beside a monthly/annual switch and did not say which one it belonged to, so we publish the number without claiming a billing period. Readings like this are shown but never compared, which is why they never produce a price change.
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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QuickBooks alternatives
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Where QuickBooks sits on price
Entry prices across Accounting & Finance, cheapest first.
- BrexFree
- Ramp$15
- QuickBooks$19
- Wave$19
- FreshBooks$23
- Xero$25
- Chargebee$249*
6 of these 7 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page; the rest are marked * and are indicative. The median is taken across the 6 verified prices in Accounting & Finance. 3 more tools in this category do not publish an entry price and are not plotted.
QuickBooks pricing questions
- How much does QuickBooks cost?
- QuickBooks starts at $19 a month on its Simple Start plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from quickbooks.intuit.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does QuickBooks have a free plan?
- No ongoing free plan. QuickBooks offers a free trial, after which a paid plan is required.
- What is QuickBooks used for?
- Bookkeeping, invoicing, payroll and tax for small businesses, and the format most accountants expect to receive. People mainly use it to do bookkeeping, send invoices, run payroll, file taxes.
- What are the best alternatives to QuickBooks?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Stripe, Xero, Paddle, Ramp. Ramp starts lower at $15 a month. Ramp publishes a free plan.