Stripe
stripe.com
Payments infrastructure for the internet
Custom pricingPaid
Wave
Free accounting and invoicing
Free plan availableAccounting & FinanceSince 2010
from $19/moVisit waveapps.com
What Wave is
Genuinely free bookkeeping and unlimited invoicing for small businesses, monetised through payments and payroll.
Wave's Pro plan has read $19 a month on every one of the 3 times we have checked this page, from Aug 2026 to Sept 2026. It has not moved while we have been looking. See the source
People use it to
Current offers
Free plan
Free plan, no card required
Ongoing free tier published by the vendor. Limits vary by plan.
Wave alternatives
Other tools in accounting & finance that cover similar ground. Full comparison.
QuickBooks
quickbooks.intuit.com
Small business accounting standard
from $19/moFree trial
Xero
xero.com
Cloud accounting with a huge app ecosystem
from $25/moFree trial
Where Wave 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 The median is taken across the 6 verified prices in Accounting & Finance. 3 more tools in this category do not publish an entry price and are not plotted.
Wave pricing questions
- How much does Wave cost?
- Wave starts at $19 a month on its Pro plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from waveapps.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does Wave have a free plan?
- Yes. Wave publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
- What is Wave used for?
- Genuinely free bookkeeping and unlimited invoicing for small businesses, monetised through payments and payroll. People mainly use it to send invoices, do bookkeeping, accept payments.
- What are the best alternatives to Wave?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero, Paddle.