Of the 7 accounting software providers we track in Australia, 6 publish a price you can look up and 1 quote on request. Among those that publish, the numbers below are what they charged as at 30 Sep 2026. Every figure is verified at the vendor's own pricing page and frozen at that date: this is a dated record, not a live table.
How many accounting software providers publish a price?
We track 7 accounting software providers in Australia. Of those, 6 publish a price you can look up without talking to a salesperson, and 1 quote on request. That split is the single most useful thing to know before you start comparing: 86% of this market will tell you what it costs up front.
- Publishes a price
- 686%
- Quotes on request
- 114%
Entry plan /mo
$26.50median
Published by 6 of 7 providers we track
Payroll cost
$6median
Published by 3 of 7 providers we track
Mid plan /mo
$43median
Published by 5 of 7 providers we track
Top plan /mo
$134median
Published by 6 of 7 providers we track
The spread matters more than the middle. On every figure above, the gap between the cheapest and the dearest provider is what a comparison is for, and it is arithmetic on published rates rather than a negotiating position.
What does accounting software cost in Australia?
Estimated monthly cost at three merchant profiles, computed with the same cost engine that powers our comparison tables. Providers that quote on request are counted separately rather than treated as free.
| Merchant profile | Providers with a computable cost | Median | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sole trader | 6 | $26.50 | $11 to $37 |
| Small team | 4 | $87.50 | $56 to $107 |
| Growing SMB | 4 | $155 | $84 to $245 |
The range is the honest headline here. In a market where the median is $26.50, the gap between cheapest and dearest is what a comparison is actually for.
How we compiled this report
Every figure is read from the vendor's own published pricing page and frozen at 30 Sep 2026, so this is a dated record of that market rather than a live table, last reviewed on 2026-09-04. Full method, definitions and limitations: how we compile these reports.
Conclusion
The most useful thing in this market is not a price. It is that transparency falls away exactly as your decision gets more expensive.
Six of the seven providers publish a price a sole trader can act on. Only four still publish one that covers a business at ten users and twenty employees. The rest stop quoting publicly somewhere in between and ask you to talk to sales. So the practical cost of growth here is not only that the bill rises, it is that the market gets harder to compare at the point where comparing matters most. If you expect to cross that threshold within the year, price the plan you will need rather than the one you need today.
The spread supports the same conclusion. The entry rung runs from $11 to $37 a month, so the dearest is a little over three times the cheapest. The top rung runs from $46 to $319, where the dearest is nearly seven times the cheapest. A decision made at sole-trader scale, when the options look close together, commits you to a ladder whose rungs are very far apart.
Two figures in the cost table are worth reading together. At sole trader the median is $26.50 and every provider that publishes can be costed; at growing SMB the median is $155 and only four can. The number that grew fastest between those two rows is not the price. It is the share of the market that stopped answering.
