# Akaunting

> Open-source accounting you can host yourself or use in the cloud

Akaunting is open-source accounting software for small businesses and freelancers. The core handles invoices, bills, customers, vendors, sales tax, several currencies and reports, and features such as double-entry, bank feeds, payroll and inventory are added as apps. It can be installed free on your own server or used as a paid cloud service hosted by Akaunting.

- **Category:** Accounting & Invoicing
- **Made by:** Akaunting (since 2017)
- **Website:** https://akaunting.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Akaunting has a free plan. Paid plans start at $72 per year, self-hosted.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Standard On-Premise: the free, open-source edition you host yourself, for 1 company, 1 user plus 1 accountant and 1,000 invoices, with forum support. Apps cost extra.
- **Free trial:** Free trial of each cloud plan; the length is not stated.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Standard On-Premise | $0 | Free and open source, hosted on your own server. 1 company, 1 user plus 1 accountant, 1,000 invoices and forum support. |
| Premium On-Premise | $72 per year, self-hosted | Hosted on your own server. 10 companies, 10 users, 10,000 invoices and ticket support. Apps are bought separately. $756 as a one-time lifetime license. |
| Standard Cloud | $8 per month, billed yearly | $12 billed monthly. Hosted by Akaunting for 1 company, 1 user plus 1 accountant and 1,000 invoices, with 4 apps included. |
| Premium Cloud | $24 per month, billed yearly | $36 billed monthly. 10 companies, 10 users and 10,000 invoices, adding double-entry, bank feeds, expense claims, roles and a client portal. |
| Elite Cloud | $56 per month, billed yearly | $84 billed monthly. 30 companies, 30 users and 30,000 invoices, adding estimates, payroll, projects, inventory, CRM, receipt scanning, Shopify and Stripe. |
| Ultimate Cloud | $145 per month, billed yearly | $218 billed monthly. Unlimited companies, users and invoices, and all 50+ apps, including budgeting, purchase orders, point of sale and 1099 tools. |

Read from https://akaunting.com/plans on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Akaunting before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **4 months free with yearly cloud billing** (Annual discount): Yearly billing brings Standard Cloud from $12 to $8 a month, Premium from $36 to $24, Elite from $84 to $56 and Ultimate from $218 to $145. Source: https://akaunting.com/plans
- **Lifetime licenses for the self-hosted plans** (Lifetime license): Pay once instead of yearly: $756 for Premium On-Premise, $1,764 for Elite and $7,224 for Ultimate. Source: https://akaunting.com/plans-on-premise

## Key features

- **Invoices, bills and payments:** Unlimited customers, vendors and products, recurring payment reminders, sales tax calculation and multiple currencies on every plan.
- **Double-entry accounting:** Chart of accounts, general ledger, balance sheet, trial balance and manual journals come with the Double-Entry app, included from Premium Cloud.
- **Bank feeds:** Connect bank accounts in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Europe to import transactions; included from Premium Cloud.
- **App store:** 50+ apps add payroll with payslips, inventory, projects, CRM, expense claims and more. Self-hosted plans include no apps, so each is bought.
- **Multiple companies:** Run the books of several businesses from one account: 10 on Premium, 30 on Elite and unlimited on Ultimate.
- **Self-hosting:** Install it on your own server with the source code available, and Akaunting says it collects none of your financial data.

## Good for

- Businesses that want to own and host their accounting data
- Accountants managing books for many small companies
- Teams outside the US, with translations in 50+ languages

## Worth knowing

- The free self-hosted edition and Standard Cloud lack double-entry reports and bank feeds; those come from Premium Cloud or as paid apps.
- Self-hosted plans include no apps at all; Elite and Ultimate On-Premise cost $168 and $684 a year before any apps.
- Payroll, inventory, projects and estimates need Elite Cloud or separate app purchases on lower plans.
- The free self-hosted edition is supported only through the community forum; ticket support comes with the paid plans.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Akaunting is open-source accounting you can run on your own server for nothing, or have them host from $8 a month. The core does invoices, bills, sales tax and several currencies, and everything else comes as apps. That's the catch: double-entry reports and bank feeds aren't in the free edition or the cheapest cloud plan.

- **Value for money: C.** The cheap prices leave out the main bits. Self-hosting is free or $72 a year and Standard Cloud is $8 a month, but double-entry and bank feeds start on Premium Cloud at $24 a month yearly, about this category's middle.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** The open-source edition is free, but you run it on your own server, and it's 1 company, 1 user plus an accountant and 1,000 invoices, with no double-entry reports or bank feeds. Cloud plans have a trial of unstated length.
- **Features: C.** Invoices, bills, sales tax, currencies and reports in the core, with double-entry, bank feeds, payroll, inventory and projects as apps. The listing's own notes say the free and cheapest plans go without the ledger and bank feeds.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You either sign up for the cloud version or set up your own server, then choose which apps to add before the books are complete. That's a learning curve.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no phone or desktop app. What lifts it is the connections: Shopify, Stripe and Google, plus bank feeds in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Akaunting's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among accounting and invoicing tools

- Akaunting's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 1 of the 17 other accounting and invoicing tools we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 2 of 17) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $6 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $19 for the category: 1 of the 16 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/accounting

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Akaunting you would be making live feeds from your bank, which take an agreement with each bank or a service that has them. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 14 of the 17 other accounting and invoicing tools grade higher. It costs $72 a year. Akaunting is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself.

- You could make: Invoicing, expense tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Live feeds from your bank, which take an agreement with each bank or a service that has them.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Shopify, Stripe, Google

**Tags:** Open source, Self-hostable, Bookkeeping, Invoicing, Expense tracking, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Manager.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/manager-io): Free offline accounting for Windows, Mac and Linux, with a paid cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akaunting-vs-manager-io)
- [Odoo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/odoo): Business app suite whose Accounting app is free when used on its own. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akaunting-vs-odoo)
- [Wave](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wave): Free invoicing and bookkeeping for US and Canadian small businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akaunting-vs-wave)
- [Zoho Books](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-books): Online accounting from Zoho, with a free plan and six paid tiers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akaunting-vs-zoho-books)
- [QuickBooks Online](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickbooks): Cloud accounting from Intuit, from a free plan to 25-user Advanced. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akaunting-vs-quickbooks)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://akaunting.com/plans
- https://akaunting.com/plans-on-premise
- https://akaunting.com/
- https://akaunting.com/features

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/akaunting
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).