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.

What am I actually paying for with Carta?

The record lists 13 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for equity management, 409a valuations, fund administration.

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?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Carta to make a useful price comparison.

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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.

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.

Core

Cap table management
409A valuations
Equity plans
Investor reporting
Fund administration

Integrations

QuickBooks
Gusto
Slack

Security

SOC 2
Bank-level encryption

Platform

Web support
Ios support
Android support

People bring Carta in for equity management, 409a valuations, fund administration. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Carta are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

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.

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.
What am I actually paying for with Carta?: The record lists 13 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for equity management, 409a valuations, fund administration.
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?: Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Carta to make a useful price comparison.

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