Bigcapital
58 · CautionDouble-entry accounting with financial reports, inventory and invoicing.
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Bigcapital
Double-entry accounting with financial reports, inventory and invoicing.
Will it still be around?
Health 58/100 · Caution
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
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Savings proposal
A 25-user team on QuickBooks Advanced pays about $340 a month. Self-hosting Bigcapital costs about $264 a month to run plus $1,200 to set up, so it pays for itself in month 16 and saves about $1,536 over three years.
List price: QuickBooks Advanced, billed monthly. Prices after the August 2026 increase. Each plan includes a set number of users; Advanced covers up to 25. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Saved over 3 years
$1,536
Pays for itself
Month 16
Extra cost in year one
$288
Each month
$340 → $264
Show as a table
| Month | QuickBooks | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $1,200 | −$1,200 |
| Month 3 | $1,020 | $1,992 | −$972 |
| Month 6 | $2,040 | $2,784 | −$744 |
| Month 9 | $3,060 | $3,576 | −$516 |
| Month 12 | $4,080 | $4,368 | −$288 |
| Month 18 | $6,120 | $5,952 | $168 |
| Month 24 | $8,160 | $7,536 | $624 |
| Month 30 | $10,200 | $9,120 | $1,080 |
| Month 36 | $12,240 | $10,704 | $1,536 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting Bigcapital usually means an app server, a database and a cache or worker. Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of Bigcapital (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 58/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 1053 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 47 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
21/100
- Top contributor wrote 84% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
- 7 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
28/100
- 57% of all issues are closed (173 open, 233 closed) (46/100).
- 5 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (17/100).
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 · Open source (copyleft)
OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
Detected by GitHub as AGPL-3.0.
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Unknown |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Unknown |
| Role-based access control | Unknown |
| Multi-tenancy | Unknown |
We haven't verified which of these features are free for this project yet.
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 3.9k | Forks | 537 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | Commits, 12 months | 1.1k |
| Releases, 12 months | 47 | Last release | today |
| Contributors | 46 | Active authors | 7 in last 100 commits |
| Open issues | 173 | Closed issues | 233 |
Funding: patreon
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.