Akaunting vs Pilot

Two accounting tools side by side. Prices are the starting plan a small business would pick, in USD.

Compare	AkauntingAkaunting	PilotPilot
In one line	Open-source accounting you can host yourself or rent from $8	Done-for-you bookkeeping and tax for startups
Starting price	From $8/mo	From $99/mo
Six-person team	$8/mo	$99/mo
Plans	Self-hosted free; Cloud Standard $8/mo (1 user + 1 accountant, 1,000 invoices); Premium $24/mo; Elite $56/mo; Ultimate $145/mo, billed yearly (monthly $12/$36/$84/$218)	Bookkeeping Essentials from $99/mo billed yearly (up to $100K monthly expenses); tax filing from $750/yr for newly formed companies, $2,000+ for partnerships and S-corps, $2,450+ for C-corps
Pricing model	Free tier	Paid
Free trial	—	—
Users	1 + accountant on Standard	n/a
Both connect to	No shared connections on record.
Also connects to	Square POS, Shopify, Stripe Invoicing, WooCommerce, PayPal Invoicing, Loyverse	Ramp10,000+ listed by the vendor
Team size	Just me · 2–10 people	2–10 people · 11–50 people
Available in	US · UK · CA · AU	US
Phone support	None listed	Core and up
Live chat	None listed	Every plan
Support hours	Not published	Not published
Incidents posted	We found no public status page for Akaunting.	We found no public status page for Pilot.
Capterra score	3.8 / 5 from 28 reviews	4.9 / 5 from 29 reviews
Trustpilot score	1.5 / 5 from 57 reviews	2.9 / 5 from 20 reviews
Fit: Retail shop	50	35
Fit: Restaurant or café	40	30
Fit: Service business	72	65
Fit: Agency or studio	65	78
Fit: Trades or contractor	60	40
Fit: Online store	45	75
Why people pick it	Open source and self-hostable Cheap cloud plans	A team does the books Tax filing from the same people
Where it falls short	Few bank feeds in the US Most features are paid add-on apps	Costs more than software Built around startups
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Six-person prices are what a team of six would pay on the published plans; "Not listed" means those plans don't cover six. How we calculate prices