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Firefly III pricing
Firefly III publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the personal finance tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Firefly III pricing is free. 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
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Firefly III 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.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefly III | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Firefly III stops being free
Firefly III, Free
- Full functionality, self-hosted
- No usage limits
- Community support, donations accepted
No paid tier on record
Firefly III lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Firefly III 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
- Double-entry style ledger
- Multi-currency accounts
- Bill and subscription tracking
- Rule engine
- Reports and charts
- API access
People bring Firefly III in for a self-hoster already running a home server or nas who wants their financial ledger on the same infrastructure, someone who wants double-entry style accuracy rather than simple envelope budgeting, a privacy-focused user who refuses to put financial data on any third-party server, hosted or otherwise, a developer who wants api access to build custom bank import scripts for accounts with no standard connector. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Firefly III are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Personal Finance
Too few personal finance tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefly III (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Monzo | Free | Free core current account; paid Plus and Premium tiers add features | - | vs Firefly III |
| Revolut | Free | Free standard tier; paid plans add higher limits, insurance and perks | - | vs Firefly III |
| Strands | On request | quote | - | vs Firefly III |
| Affirm | Free | Free for short Pay in 4 plans; longer plans carry a disclosed APR up to roughly 36 percent, merchant pays a transaction fee | - | vs Firefly III |
| Lunch Money | $60/year | Pay what you want, annual, above a published minimum | - | vs Firefly III |
| Starling Bank | Free | Free personal current account; business accounts have free and paid tiers | - | vs Firefly III |
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 Firefly III badges page.
Before you pay for Firefly III
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Firefly III runs on web, linux, docker, and is published by Firefly III (open source project) of Netherlands (maintainer). The full record is on the Firefly III review, and the rest of the category is under best personal finance tools.
Firefly III pricing questions
- How much does Firefly III cost?
- Firefly III publishes a single tier, Firefly III, at Free.
- Does Firefly III have a free plan?
- Yes. The Firefly III tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, self-hosted, no usage limits, community support, donations accepted.
- Which personal finance tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 personal finance tools listed alongside Firefly III have a free tier: Monzo, Revolut, Affirm, Starling Bank, IRS2Go.
- What am I actually paying for with Firefly III?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a self-hoster already running a home server or nas who wants their financial ledger on the same infrastructure, someone who wants double-entry style accuracy rather than simple envelope budgeting, a privacy-focused user who refuses to put financial data on any third-party server, hosted or otherwise.
- Does Firefly III charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Firefly III 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 Firefly III against before paying?
- The closest personal finance tools in this directory are Monzo, Revolut, Strands, Affirm. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Firefly III covering price, platforms and features.