How much does Pilot cost?

Pilot publishes 10 tiers, from Free for Bookkeeping Core up to $5250/month for CFO Services Custom. The cheapest paid tier is Free.

Does Pilot have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Pilot 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 Bookkeeping Core and Bookkeeping Essentials on Pilot?

Bookkeeping Essentials costs $99/month against Free, and adds up to $100,000 in monthly expenses, ai-powered transaction categorization, monthly closing.

Is the CFO Services Custom plan on Pilot worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is weekly calls with cfo, strategic planning and fundraising support. It costs $5250/month against $99/month for Bookkeeping Essentials. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which recruitment tools can I use without paying?

1 of the 8 recruitment tools listed alongside Pilot have a free tier: Indeed.

What am I actually paying for with Pilot?

The record lists 12 features across 4 areas: other, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for small business bookkeeping and accounting, tax preparation and filing, cfo consulting for startups.

Does Pilot charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 10 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 Pilot 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 Pilot against before paying?

The closest recruitment tools in this directory are SeekOut, hireEZ, ZipRecruiter, Oracle Taleo. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Pilot covering price, platforms and features.

Recruitment · pricing

Pilot pricing

Pilot publishes 10 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, Pilot pricing is on request across 10 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: On request
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 10
Free tier: Not on record

Pilot 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.

Pilot pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Bookkeeping Core	Free	5	Entry tier
Bookkeeping Essentials	$99/month	3	+$99/month, 3 more features
COO/Operations Starter	$750/month	1	+$651/month, 1 more feature
COO/Operations Essentials	$850/month	2	+$100/month, 2 more features
Tax Single Member LLC	$1000/year	2	+$150/year, 2 more features
CFO Services Basic	$1750/month	2	+$750/month, 2 more features
Tax Partnerships & S-Corps	$2000/year	2	+$250/year, 2 more features
Tax C-Corps	$2450/year	2	+$450/year, 1 more feature
CFO Services Essentials	$3150/month	2	+$700/month, 2 more features
CFO Services Custom	$5250/month	2	+$2100/month, 2 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.

Bookkeeping Core

Free

The entry tier. It covers dedicated us-based bookkeeper, cash or accrual-basis bookkeeping, bill management for up to 10 vendor bills monthly, reports by the 10th business day, integrations included.

Bookkeeping Essentials

$99/month

Over Bookkeeping Core, this tier adds:

Up to $100,000 in monthly expenses
AI-powered transaction categorization
Monthly closing

COO/Operations Starter

$750/month

Over Bookkeeping Essentials, this tier adds:

Business setup and banking configuration

COO/Operations Essentials

$850/month

Over COO/Operations Starter, this tier adds:

HR, payroll, benefits administration
Invoice collection and bill payment services

Tax Single Member LLC

$1000/year

Over COO/Operations Essentials, this tier adds:

Federal and state income tax filing
Schedule C reporting

CFO Services Basic

$1750/month

Over Tax Single Member LLC, this tier adds:

Custom financial modeling with KPI dashboard
Monthly CFO consultation

Tax Partnerships & S-Corps

$2000/year

Over CFO Services Basic, this tier adds:

Federal and state filings
Up to 25 1099-NEC filings

Tax C-Corps

$2450/year

Over Tax Partnerships & S-Corps, this tier adds:

Up to 10 1099-NEC filings

CFO Services Essentials

$3150/month

Over Tax C-Corps, this tier adds:

Cash and runway optimization
Bi-weekly CFO calls

CFO Services Custom

$5250/month

Over CFO Services Essentials, this tier adds:

Weekly calls with CFO
Strategic planning and fundraising support

Where Pilot stops being free

Bookkeeping Core, Free

Dedicated US-based bookkeeper
Cash or accrual-basis bookkeeping
Bill management for up to 10 vendor bills monthly
Reports by the 10th business day
Integrations included

Bookkeeping Essentials, $99/month

The first thing you pay for:

Up to $100,000 in monthly expenses
AI-powered transaction categorization
Monthly closing

What the product covers

The full Pilot 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

Bookkeeping
CFO services
Tax preparation
R&D tax credits
Financial reporting

Integrations

QuickBooks
Stripe
Brex
Gusto

Security

SOC 2
Bank-level encryption

Platform

Web support

People bring Pilot in for small business bookkeeping and accounting, tax preparation and filing, cfo consulting for startups, payroll and hr administration. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Pilot are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Recruitment

Too few recruitment 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.

Pilot entry price against other Recruitment tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Pilot (this page)	On request	subscription	-
SeekOut	On request	Per user per month, self-serve entry tier then per seat by quote	-	vs Pilot
hireEZ	On request	quote, enterprise pricing set against the tool stack replaced	-	vs Pilot
ZipRecruiter	On request	Per active job slot per month, quoted individually	-	vs Pilot
Oracle Taleo	On request	quote	-	vs Pilot
Codility	On request	Per year by candidate invite volume, with platform user limits per tier	-	vs Pilot
Karat	On request	quote	-	vs Pilot

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 Pilot badges page.

Before you pay for Pilot

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: 10 tiers between Free and $5250/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Pilot against the tools that do have one before committing.

Pilot runs on web, and is published by Pilot.com Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Pilot review, and the rest of the category is under best recruitment tools.

Pilot pricing on the vendor's own site

Pilot pricing questions

How much does Pilot cost?: Pilot publishes 10 tiers, from Free for Bookkeeping Core up to $5250/month for CFO Services Custom. The cheapest paid tier is Free.
Does Pilot have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold: Pilot 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 Bookkeeping Core and Bookkeeping Essentials on Pilot?: Bookkeeping Essentials costs $99/month against Free, and adds up to $100,000 in monthly expenses, ai-powered transaction categorization, monthly closing.
Is the CFO Services Custom plan on Pilot worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is weekly calls with cfo, strategic planning and fundraising support. It costs $5250/month against $99/month for Bookkeeping Essentials. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which recruitment tools can I use without paying?: 1 of the 8 recruitment tools listed alongside Pilot have a free tier: Indeed.
What am I actually paying for with Pilot?: The record lists 12 features across 4 areas: other, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for small business bookkeeping and accounting, tax preparation and filing, cfo consulting for startups.
Does Pilot charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 10 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 Pilot 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 Pilot against before paying?: The closest recruitment tools in this directory are SeekOut, hireEZ, ZipRecruiter, Oracle Taleo. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Pilot covering price, platforms and features.