How much does Carta cost?

Carta publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Launch up to $360/year for Seed. The cheapest paid tier is Free.

Does Carta have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Carta is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Launch and Seed on Carta?

Seed costs $360/year against Free, and adds 409a valuations, option exercising, scenarios.

Which accounting tools can I use without paying?

1 of the 8 accounting tools listed alongside Carta have a free tier: Mesh Payments.

Does Carta charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Carta prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Carta against before paying?

The closest accounting tools in this directory are Rydoo, Happay, Moss, Mesh Payments. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Carta covering price, platforms and features.

Accounting · pricing

Carta pricing

Carta publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Carta pricing is $29/month across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: $29/month
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Not on record

Carta plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Carta pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Launch	Free	2	Entry tier
Seed	$360/year	3	+$360/year, 3 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Launch

Free

The entry tier. It covers cap table, stakeholder management.

Seed

$360/year

Over Launch, this tier adds:

409A valuations
Option exercising
Scenarios

Where Carta stops being free

Launch, Free

Cap table
Stakeholder management

Seed, $360/year

The first thing you pay for:

409A valuations
Option exercising
Scenarios

What the product covers

The full Carta feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Cap table of record
409A valuations
Electronic issuance
Vesting and exercise
Employee portal
Scenario modelling
Waterfall analysis
ASC 718 expense reporting
Investor access
Diligence and audit exports
Fund administration
SPV administration
Board consent workflow

People bring Carta in for a startup that has just closed a priced round and whose investors and counsel expect the cap table to live somewhere they can read it, a company issuing options to employees for the first time and needing a defensible 409a before it can set a strike price, a finance team preparing its first audit and needing asc 718 stock compensation schedules that tie to the grant records, a venture fund that wants lp reporting, capital calls and spv administration handled outside a spreadsheet. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Carta are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Accounting

Across the 3 accounting tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $13/month. Carta starts at $29/month, which puts it above the middle of its category.

Carta entry price against other Accounting tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Carta (this page)	$29/month	subscription	-
Rydoo	$10/month	Per user per month	-	vs Carta
Happay	On request	quote	-	vs Carta
Moss	On request	quote	-	vs Carta
Mesh Payments	Free, then $13/month	Per user per month	-	vs Carta
Medius Expense	On request	quote	-	vs Carta
Ottimate	On request	quote	-	vs Carta

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Carta badges page.

Before you pay for Carta

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $360/year, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Carta against the tools that do have one before committing.

Carta runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Carta Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Carta review, and the rest of the category is under best accounting tools.

Carta pricing on the vendor's own site

Carta pricing questions

How much does Carta cost?: Carta publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Launch up to $360/year for Seed. The cheapest paid tier is Free.
Does Carta have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold: Carta is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
What is the difference between Launch and Seed on Carta?: Seed costs $360/year against Free, and adds 409a valuations, option exercising, scenarios.
Is Carta expensive for a accounting tool?: It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 3 accounting tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $13/month; Carta starts at $29/month.
Which accounting tools can I use without paying?: 1 of the 8 accounting tools listed alongside Carta have a free tier: Mesh Payments.
What am I actually paying for with Carta?: The record lists 13 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a startup that has just closed a priced round and whose investors and counsel expect the cap table to live somewhere they can read it, a company issuing options to employees for the first time and needing a defensible 409a before it can set a strike price, a finance team preparing its first audit and needing asc 718 stock compensation schedules that tie to the grant records.
Does Carta charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Carta prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Carta against before paying?: The closest accounting tools in this directory are Rydoo, Happay, Moss, Mesh Payments. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Carta covering price, platforms and features.