FreshBooks Pricing
- Finance pricing
- $23/mo at the smallest
FreshBooks pricing starts at $23 a month, which is $276 over twelve months. There is no free plan, but there is a trial: 30 days. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 19 August 2026, and 2 charges that the headline price does not include are set out below.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 19 August 2026.
FreshBooks ranking and coverage
- In Finance
- #6 of 7
- Overall
- #99 of 122 tied
- Terms score
- 4.6 /10
- Referenced here
- 0 pages
Cost position 2.9 · Portability 5 · Subscription flexibility 6 - Ranked on published terms only: entry price against category peers, portability and subscription flexibility, equally weighted. This is not a quality score.How the rank is calculated.
FreshBooks pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Lite $23/month, Plus $43, Premium $70 |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $23 a month, or $276 a year |
| How that is reached | Lite at $23 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | No |
| Free trial | 30 days |
| How it charges | subscription |
| Priced plans published | 7 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 19 August 2026 |
Every FreshBooks plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 19 August 2026. Charged as subscription. Free trial: 30 days.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | $23 | per month | Invoice up to 5 clients. Expenses, estimates, tax reports |
| Plus | $43 | per month | Invoice up to 50 clients. Adds recurring invoices and proposals |
| Premium | $70 | per month | Unlimited clients, plus project profitability and deeper reporting |
| Select | Contact sales | Negotiated | Unlimited clients, 2 team member accounts included, dedicated support |
| Team Members Add-on | $11 | per month | per user - Every additional user beyond the account owner |
| Payroll Add-on | $40 | per month | Plus $6 per user a month |
| Advanced Payments Add-on | $20 | per month | Card payments taken over the phone, recurring billing and a virtual terminal |
What FreshBooks costs beyond the advertised price
Each of these is a figure you can check on the vendor's own page. The arithmetic is shown so you can redo it rather than take our word for it.
- Charged on top of a plan$480 a year
Payroll is charged on top of a plan rather than instead of one: $40 a month, which is $480 a year on top of whichever tier you hold.
Working$40 a month x 12 = $480 a year, added to a tier price rather than replacing it.
Computed from the plan table on FreshBooks pricing , read 19 August 2026
- Charged on top of a plan$240 a year
Advanced Payments is charged on top of a plan rather than instead of one: $20 a month, which is $240 a year on top of whichever tier you hold.
Working$20 a month x 12 = $240 a year, added to a tier price rather than replacing it.
Computed from the plan table on FreshBooks pricing , read 19 August 2026
Fixed mechanics above add $720 a year to the advertised price. Usage-dependent charges are listed but not summed, because a figure that depends on how much you use cannot be added to one that does not.
What FreshBooks actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | per month | $23 | $276 |
| Plus | per month | $43 | $516 |
| Premium | per month | $70 | $840 |
| Team Members add-onper user | per month | $11 | $132 |
| Payroll add-on | per month | $40 | $480 |
| Advanced Payments add-on | per month | $20 | $240 |
FreshBooks pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against FreshBooks |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreshBooks | $23 a month | No | This product |
| Xero | $25 a month | No | +$2 a month (+9%) |
| QuickBooks Online | $38 a month | Yes | +$15 a month (+65%) |
Which FreshBooks plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You invoice five clients or fewer | Lite | $23 a month. Count your clients first, because client six forces the jump to $43 regardless of invoice volume. |
| You invoice up to fifty clients | Plus | $43 a month, and where recurring invoices and proposals arrive. |
| You need unlimited clients and project profitability | Premium | $70 a month, and the tier that answers whether a project actually made money. |
| You have team members | Add $11 per person to whatever tier you choose | Only the account owner is included. A three-person agency on Premium is $92 a month before payroll. |
| You sell physical products | Do not buy FreshBooks | There is no inventory management. QuickBooks Online or Xero instead. |
| Your team is larger than two people | Price Xero as well | Xero includes unlimited users, which can outweigh FreshBooks' better invoicing. |
Verdict by who you are
Freelancer billing for timeYes
Time tracking flows into invoices without re-entry, and automatic late-payment chasing is the feature that actually gets you paid.
Small service agencyCompare first
Excellent at invoicing, but $11 per extra seat adds up. Run the comparison against Xero's unlimited users.
Product or retail businessNo
No inventory. This is accounting for selling hours, not things.
Consultant with seven clientsCompare first
You are pushed to Plus at $43 by the client cap alone, which is poor value at that volume. Compare alternatives.
Should you buy FreshBooks?
Buy FreshBooks if…
- Freelancers and agencies billing for time
- Service businesses that need project profitability
- Anyone whose main accounting pain is getting invoices paid
Do not buy FreshBooks if…
- Product businesses needing inventory management
- Companies with many clients on a cheap plan
- Teams wanting free additional user seats
What leaving FreshBooks would cost
moderate lock-in
FreshBooks scores on public API. Portability 5/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
The advertised price was 90% off when we checked
On 9 August 2026 the FreshBooks pricing page led with “Get 90% off FreshBooks for 3 months”, displaying Lite at $2.30, Plus at $4.30 and Premium at $7.00 a month, with the list prices struck through beside them.
The list prices are $23, $43 and $70 per month, and those are the figures recorded on this profile, because they are what you pay from month four onwards. The advertised savings - $62.10, $116.10 and $189.00 across the three months - are 90% of three months of each plan.
Promotions of this kind are close to permanent at FreshBooks, in the sense that there is usually one running. That does not make them fake, and it does mean the first-year cost and the steady-state cost are different numbers. Budget the second one.
Billable clients, not features, decide the tier
This is the constraint people hit:
| Plan | Price | Clients you can invoice |
|---|---|---|
| Lite | $23/month | 5 |
| Plus | $43/month | 50 |
| Premium | $70/month | Unlimited |
A consultant with six clients cannot use Lite, regardless of how few invoices they send. The step from five to fifty is also the step from $23 to $43 a month, so the middle ground is expensive for someone with seven clients.
Count your clients first. It determines your plan more reliably than any feature comparison.
Seats are charged, and that is the Xero comparison
The account owner is included; every additional team member is $11 a month. Payroll is $40 a month plus $6 per user, and Advanced Payments is $20 a month.
For a three-person agency on Premium that is $70 plus $22, so $92 a month before payroll. Xero includes unlimited users on every plan. If your team is larger than one or two people, run that comparison properly, because it can outweigh FreshBooks’ better invoicing.
Where it genuinely wins
Time to invoice. Track hours against a project, mark them billable, and generate an invoice that reflects them without retyping anything. Then let FreshBooks chase the payment with reminders and late fees you configured once.
For a business whose product is hours, that loop is the whole job, and neither QuickBooks Online nor Xero does it as smoothly. If your product is physical goods, neither of those observations matters and you want inventory, which FreshBooks does not have.
FreshBooks questions, answered
- Is FreshBooks worth it?
- FreshBooks is the best of these tools at the specific job of billing for time and getting paid.
- How much does FreshBooks cost?
- Lite $23/month, Plus $43, Premium $70. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Lite, published at $23 a month, which works out at $23 a month or $276 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does FreshBooks have a free plan or free trial?
- FreshBooks has no free plan. A free trial is available: 30 days.
- What is the best FreshBooks alternative?
- It depends on the job. QuickBooks Online: Deeper accounting and the format most accountants prefer. Xero: Unlimited users included, which changes the maths for teams. Wave: Free, and adequate if invoicing volume is low.
- Can I self-host FreshBooks?
- No. FreshBooks is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 19 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about FreshBooks. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from FreshBooks's own pricing page on 19 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
7 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Desk research from FreshBooks' own pricing page, read on 19 August 2026 through a United States egress. Nobody here has billed a client through FreshBooks, so the claim that tracked time becomes an invoice line without re-entry is the vendor's own description of its workflow rather than something we ran.
Where FreshBooks appears on this site
No buyer guide, article or other profile here references FreshBooks yet. Its own record is verified and dated, but it has not been placed against alternatives in a comparison, so there is nothing further to link to. Until then the category index is the best place to see what it sits beside.
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
- Pricing ·
- Plans ·
- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
- Company details
Individually sourced claims
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Lite is $23 a month, Plus $43 and Premium $70, with Select quoted on request
FreshBooks pricing ↗ · checked
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Lite covers 5 billable clients, Plus 50 and Premium unlimited, and every team member beyond the owner is $11 a month
FreshBooks pricing ↗ · checked
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Payroll is $40 a month plus $6 per user, and Advanced Payments is $20 a month
FreshBooks pricing ↗ · checked
What has changed
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August 2026
- Prices re-read and unchanged - Lite $23, Plus $43 and Premium $70 a month
- Split Advanced Payments out as its own $20-a-month add-on row
- Re-verified the 90%-off-for-three-months promotion, still running with no published end date
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August 2026
- Re-verified the 90% three-month promotion, still running. List prices unchanged at $23, $43 and $70, so the recorded figures stand. Re-check date moved to 31 October.
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August 2026
- List prices recorded; a 90% three-month promotion was running at the time of checking
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- FreshBooks pricing - checked 19 August 2026
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