Accounting & Finance · head to head
BlackLine vs FreeAgent
FreeAgent
Accounting & Finance
Accounting software for small businesses and freelancers
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The short version
- Each has a real cost: BlackLine listed on UK G-Cloud 13 at £1,150 to £2,160 per user per year for the public sector, with no free trial offered, per BlackLine's Finance Operations Management Solution pricing document; FreeAgent priced in GBP from around £10 to £13.75 per month, and the software is built around UK tax rules (VAT, Self Assessment) rather than other jurisdictions
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which BlackLine and FreeAgent actually diverge.
Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), free tier (No), platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Accounting & Finance).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in BlackLine
- Account reconciliation
- Journal entries
- Task management
- Variance analysis
- Financial close
- SAP
- Oracle
- NetSuite
Only in FreeAgent
Nothing recorded that BlackLine does not also cover.
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
BlackLine
- Financial closenot FreeAgent
- Reconciliationnot FreeAgent
- Continuous accountingnot FreeAgent
FreeAgent
No use cases recorded yet. See the FreeAgent review.
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
BlackLine
- Listed on UK G-Cloud 13 at £1,150 to £2,160 per user per year for the public sector, with no free trial offered, per BlackLine's Finance Operations Management Solution pricing document
FreeAgent
- Priced in GBP from around £10 to £13.75 per month, and the software is built around UK tax rules (VAT, Self Assessment) rather than other jurisdictions
Pricing, plan by plan
BlackLine
$29/month- EnterpriseFree
- Custom pricing
- Account reconciliation
- Task management
FreeAgent
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the FreeAgent review.
Which should you pick?
Choose FreeAgent if
Nothing in the data separates FreeAgent from BlackLine on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Questions people ask
- Is BlackLine or FreeAgent better?
- Neither clearly leads. BlackLine starts at $29/month and FreeAgent at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, BlackLine or FreeAgent?
- BlackLine starts at $29/month and FreeAgent at On request.
- Does BlackLine or FreeAgent run on more platforms?
- Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
- What is BlackLine best used for?
- BlackLine is most often used for financial close, reconciliation, continuous accounting. Of those, financial close and reconciliation are not what FreeAgent is typically brought in for.
- What can BlackLine do that FreeAgent cannot?
- BlackLine covers Account reconciliation, Journal entries, Task management, Variance analysis.