Xero

What Xero has cost

We have read this pricing page 10 times since Mar 2021, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.

1. $20/moMar 2021 · Starter · 1 reading · archived page
2. $20†Jul 2021 · Starter · 1 reading · archived page
3. $22†Aug 2022 · Starter · 1 reading · archived page
4. $25†Mar 2023 · Starter · 1 reading · archived page
5. $29†Jun 2024 – Jul 2025 · Starter · 2 readings · archived page

6. The entry plan changed name here, from Starter to Early. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.

   $25†Aug 2026 · Early · 1 reading · source

7. The entry plan changed name here, from Early to Lite. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.

   $7†Aug 2026 – Aug 2026 · Lite · 2 readings · source

8. The entry plan changed name here, from Lite to Early. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.

   $25†Sept 2026 · Early · 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.

People use it to

• do bookkeeping
• send invoices
• reconcile bank accounts

Current offers

Xero alternatives

Other tools in accounting & finance that cover similar ground. Full comparison.

Stripe

stripe.com

Payments infrastructure for the internet

Custom pricingPaid

QuickBooks

quickbooks.intuit.com

Small business accounting standard

from $19/moFree trial

Paddle

paddle.com

Merchant of record for software sellers

Custom pricingPaid

Where Xero sits on price

Entry prices across Accounting & Finance, cheapest first.