ERPNext
86 · HealthyFull ERP suite covering accounting, inventory, sales, purchasing and HR, with a CRM module for leads and opportunities.
Open source Accounting & invoicing
Bigcapital
58 · CautionDouble-entry accounting with financial reports, inventory and invoicing.
Source-available and unverified licenses
The code for these is public, but the license is not an OSI open source license, or we have not verified it yet. Check the license notes on each project before relying on it.
Akaunting
87 · HealthyAccounting app for small businesses with invoicing, expenses and an app store.
Invoice Ninja
74 · StableInvoicing, quotes, payments and time tracking for freelancers and small businesses.
Akaunting
Accounting app for small businesses with invoicing, expenses and an app store.
Alternative to
Will it still be around?
Healthy
Score 87/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free up to a limit
Business Source License 1.1 · source-available, not open source · relicensed stricter in 2023
Flat Rate Deploy
A 25-user team on QuickBooks Advanced pays about $340 a month. Akaunting on OpenTools costs $15 a month, setup included, so you save $325 a month, about $11,700 over three years.
Monthly cost
- Akaunting on OpenTools
- $15
- QuickBooks
$340
You save each month
$325/mo
96% less than today
Saving from month one
You save
- Over 3 years
- $11,700
- In year one
- $3,900
List price checked 7 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer
Health score: 87/100
Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit yesterday (100/100).
- 573 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 7 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight60/100
- Top contributor wrote 55% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
- 7 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight97/100
- 100% of all issues are closed (3 open, 1317 closed) (100/100).
- 21 of 22 recent issues got a reply or were closed (95/100).
License
Free up to a limit
Business Source License 1.1 · Source-available, not open sourceRelicensed 2023
What you need to do
Free only below usage limits set in the license. Past them, production use needs a paid license.
For Akaunting
Production use is free only up to two users, one company and 1,000 invoices. No white-labeling and no offering it as an accounting service. Each version becomes GPL-3.0 four years after publication.
Business Source License 1.1 (GPL-3.0 after four years) · Source-available, not open source. The code is public, but the license restricts how you can use it, usually by banning competing hosted services or capping production use. Not open source.
License text checked 2026-10-07 · Read it
License history
- GPL-3.0 → BUSL-1.1 · Changed with Akaunting 3.1. · commit
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 10k
- Forks
- 3.0k
- Commits, 12 mo
- 573
- last yesterday
- Releases, 12 mo
- 7
- last 22 days ago
- Contributors
- 114
- 7 in last 100 commits
- Open issues
- 3
- 1.3k closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-08 · Funding: patreon
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into Akaunting and reviews of them since 10 October 2025. Building something another user asked for earns more. 14 people have points on Akaunting in all.
