The real cost of QuickBooks, 2014 to 2026

The turning points

• 2014 to 2020: two ways to buy. Pro and Premier were sold as one-time licences ($249.95 to $299.95 for Pro, $399.95 to $499.95 for Premier) beside Pro Plus and Premier Plus subscriptions at similar yearly prices. Intuit's list prices barely moved for six years.
• 2020: the last one-time versions. Pro 2021 listed at $399.99 and Premier 2021 at $649.99, the highest one-time prices in the series.
• September 2021: subscription only. Intuit said Pro, Premier and Mac 2022 would not be sold as one-time licences. The 2021 versions stayed available until December 10, 2021, through Solution Providers.
• August 2022: no more discounts, and a jump. With the 2023 release, Pro Plus went to $549 and Premier Plus to $799, sold at full list price in every channel.
• 2023 and 2024: two more steps. $649 and $949 from October 3, 2023; $999 and $1,399 from October 1, 2024.
• September 30, 2024: closed to new US customers. Intuit stopped selling Pro Plus, Premier Plus, Mac Plus and Enhanced Payroll to new US subscribers. Existing subscribers renew; new customers are offered QuickBooks Online or Enterprise.
• 2026: two increases in one year. $1,149 and $1,609 from February 1, 2026, and, as reported, $1,351 and $1,891 from October 1, 2026. Read more in our note on the 2026 Desktop increases and the 2026 Online increase.

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

Enterprise is the one Desktop edition still sold to new US customers. These are the per-user yearly prices Intuit's Enterprise pricing page showed on each capture date. Intuit's current page asks you to request custom pricing, so treat the latest row as a guide, not a quote.

Gold rose 40% between June 2020 and March 2026. Every extra user needs its own licence, and payroll adds per-employee fees.

What $399.99 once compares to

AcboBooks Pro is $399.99, paid once, for one business on two computers, with twelve months of updates. It keeps working after that; renewing updates is optional, though payroll users need it for each year's new tax tables. Here is what today's QuickBooks list prices add up to over the same years, before payroll or add-ons:

$399.99 is less than 3 months of QuickBooks Online Plus at $140 a month. The multi-year columns use today's prices; if the past twelve years are a guide, the real totals would be higher. Work out your own numbers with the cost calculator, or see what a one-time licence includes.

Questions

How we built this

• List prices only. Intuit usually shows a discount for a new customer's first few months. We record the price after the promotion, the one a customer pays from then on.
• Intuit first. Where possible, each figure comes from Intuit's own US pricing page as captured by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine; the link opens that capture. Since about 2020 Intuit's pages carry prices in page scripts and hidden fields, which we read directly. Where Intuit's pages no longer show a price (Desktop Plus since the 2024 stop-sell), we use the trade press and Intuit resellers and name them.
• Dates. "From" is an announced effective date. "Seen" is the first capture we found showing the price, so the change may have happened a little earlier.
• Disagreements. Insightful Accountant reported in May 2025 that Pro Plus would go from $999 to $1,049 on October 1, 2025, and Premier Plus to $1,469. Accounting firms reporting the February 2026 increase give the price before it as $999 and $1,399, so we have left the October 2025 step off the chart. Similarly, a July 1, 2025 Online increase was reported, but Intuit's public page still showed the old prices in early August 2025 and the new ones by September 2, 2025; we use the date Intuit's page changed.
• Not included. Payroll, multi-user seats, Canadian prices, Accountant editions and Mac. Prices are in US dollars before tax and are not adjusted for inflation.

Spotted an error or have an Intuit price notice we should add? Email us through the contact page and we will correct the table and note the change. You are welcome to cite or reproduce the figures with a link to this page.

Sources

• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2014-07-01
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2015-02-02
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2020-11-01
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2014-07-17
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2015-01-30
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2020-10-31
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2020-10-15
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2022-03-25
• Insightful Accountant: QuickBooks Desktop price increase with 2023 release (announced Aug 9, 2022)
• Porte Brown: QuickBooks Online Essentials and Plus increases, Aug 1, 2023 (new) and Sep 1, 2023 (existing)
• Rightworks: QuickBooks Desktop 2024 price increase (Jun 2024); same figures on CPA Practice Advisor's Accounting Technology Lab
• Brady Martz: QuickBooks Desktop price increase Feb 1, 2026 (Dec 19, 2025)
• Insightful Accountant: Intuit announces Desktop pricing changes for fall 2026 (Jul 2026); dollar figures reported by resellers, not confirmed against an Intuit list
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2014-09-18
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2016-10-12
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2018-07-17
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2019-11-05
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2022-08-02
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2024-08-16
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2025-09-02
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2017-09-28
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2019-06-11
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2022-03-15
• Intuit QuickBooks Online pricing page (Wayback Machine), captured 2023-08-15
• Intuit: QuickBooks Online August pricing changes (renewals from Aug 1, 2026); prices from Intuit's pricing page, Oct 24, 2026
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2020-06-28
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2022-10-05
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2023-09-24
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2024-11-07
• Intuit QuickBooks page (Wayback Machine), captured 2026-03-08
• Insightful Accountant: QuickBooks 2022 changes, transition to subscription (Sep 7, 2021)
• Intuit: QuickBooks Desktop stop-sell for new US subscribers after Sep 30, 2024
• Insightful Accountant: QuickBooks price hikes (May 27, 2025)

Corrections

Spotted a wrong price or date? Email [email protected] with a link to your source, and we will check it and correct the page within 2 business days. We re-check every figure each January.

Prices checked Oct 25, 2026. Your own renewal notice or quote from Intuit is the only price that binds you. QuickBooks® is a registered trademark of Intuit Inc. AcboBooks is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Intuit.