Akaunting

Akaunting

Open-source accounting you can host yourself or rent from $8

Akaunting covers invoices, bills, banking, and reports. The software is open source, so a technical owner can host it for free, or use the cloud version from $8 a month for one user plus an accountant. It suits budget-minded owners outside the US accountant ecosystem.

Free tier1 + accountant on StandardUS · UK · CA · AU

Cost at your size

Akaunting costs $8 a month for one seat.

Akaunting costs $15 less than the median accounting tool for one seat ($23).

Akaunting pays for itself if it saves less than an hour a month at $30 an hour, our assumption.

Change assumptions

Figures from the vendor's published prices. How we calculate prices

What Akaunting connects to

Point of sale, payroll & HR, e-commerce, banking, invoicing & payments and expense management tools in our catalog · found on vendor and marketplace pages, October 2026 · 6 of 6 checked by us

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Getting help with Akaunting

How to reach them
  • Web form: every paid plan
  • Community forum: every plan
  • Help center: every plan
  • Web form: plans not stated
Hours
Hours not published
Response time
48 hours with the Dedicated Support Lite add-on ($49/mo) (plans not stated); 24 hours with Dedicated Support Plus ($199/mo) (plans not stated); 12 hours with Dedicated Support Pro ($399/mo) (plans not stated); 6 hours with Dedicated Support VIP ($699/mo) (plans not stated)
Onboarding
  • Dedicated Support add-on: installation and configuration help from Akaunting staff (plans not stated) · from $49/mo

We found no public status page for Akaunting.

From Akaunting's support and pricing pages, October 2026 · checked by us 2026-10-14 · How we gather this

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What reviewers say about Akaunting

Each site has its own reviewers, so we show the scores side by side and never average them. App ratings cover the mobile app only. Scores read Oct 28, 2026. How we show reviews

Why people pick it

  • Open source and self-hostable
  • Cheap cloud plans

Where it falls short

  • Few bank feeds in the US
  • Most features are paid add-on apps

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