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GnuCash pricing
GnuCash 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 30 August 2026, GnuCash 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
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
GnuCash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where GnuCash stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Double-entry bookkeeping
- Multi-currency support
- Reports and graphs
No paid tier on record
GnuCash lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full GnuCash 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 bookkeeping
- Multi-currency support
- Reports and graphs
- Budget tracking
Integrations
- Import/Export
- OFX format
Platform
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Linux support
People bring GnuCash in for personal finance tracking with a checkbook register interface, double-entry bookkeeping for a small business, tracking stocks, bonds and mutual fund accounts, importing transactions via qif, ofx or hbci, scheduled recurring transactions and financial reports. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to GnuCash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GnuCash (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Monzo | Free | Free core current account; paid Plus and Premium tiers add features | - | vs GnuCash |
| Revolut | Free | Free standard tier; paid plans add higher limits, insurance and perks | - | vs GnuCash |
| Strands | On request | quote | - | vs GnuCash |
| 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 GnuCash |
| Firefly III | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs GnuCash |
| Lunch Money | $60/year | Pay what you want, annual, above a published minimum | - | vs GnuCash |
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 GnuCash badges page.
Before you pay for GnuCash
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.
GnuCash runs on windows, mac, linux, and is published by GnuCash Project of Open Source Community. The full record is on the GnuCash review, and the rest of the category is under best personal finance tools.
GnuCash pricing questions
- How much does GnuCash cost?
- GnuCash publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does GnuCash have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers double-entry bookkeeping, multi-currency support, reports and graphs.
- Which personal finance tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 personal finance tools listed alongside GnuCash have a free tier: Monzo, Revolut, Affirm, Firefly III, Starling Bank.
- What am I actually paying for with GnuCash?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for personal finance tracking with a checkbook register interface, double-entry bookkeeping for a small business, tracking stocks, bonds and mutual fund accounts.
- Does GnuCash 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 GnuCash 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 GnuCash against before paying?
- The closest personal finance tools in this directory are Monzo, Revolut, Strands, Affirm. Each has a side-by-side comparison with GnuCash covering price, platforms and features.