Accounting pricing across 13 tracked products: entry-tier median $20, top-tier median $97. Cheapest: QuickBooks Online. Most premium: Synder. Updated October 2026.
Accounting pricing varies across per-seat, per-usage, and enterprise-quoted tiers. Published list prices on vendor pricing pages form the basis of this benchmark; quote-only products are listed but left out of the medians.
Entry-tier median is $20, top-tier median $97 (products with published prices only).
| Product | Entry | Median | Top | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AccountEdge | $5.00 | $28 | $50 | month |
| Bench Accounting | $55 | $399 | $599 | month |
| Dext | $18 | $21 | $25 | month |
| FreshBooks | $23 | $46 | $70 | month |
| OneUp | Custom | Custom | Custom | month |
| Patriot Accounting | $20 | $25 | $30 | month |
| Pilot | $99 | $399 | $399 | month |
| QuickBooks Online | $0 | $75 | $275 | month |
| Sage | Custom | Custom | Custom | month |
| Synder | $65 | $275 | $600 | month |
| Xero | $27 | $59 | $97 | month |
| Zoho Books | $0 | $70 | $275 | month |
Low is the entry-tier price (often a free or starter plan). Median is the middle price across published tiers. High is the top published tier. Custom means the vendor publishes no list price (quote only); those rows are left out of the medians.
Across 13 tracked products, the entry-tier median is $20 and the top-tier median is $97. Individual products vary significantly — see the per-product table above.
QuickBooks Online has the lowest entry-tier price in our tracked set.
Synder has the highest top-tier list price among tracked products.
Prices are sourced from vendor pricing pages and automatically re-checked. Any tier marked 'custom' has no public list price; negotiated deals aren't shown here.