Fondo's plans are priced by how often your books get closed. The cheapest one closes them once a year, which tells you exactly what bookkeeping is assumed to be for.
Fondo’s pricing page is unusually honest about a thing most of this category leaves implied.
The tiers are not feature ladders. They are cadences. Monthly close, $399 a month. Quarterly close, $1,198 a quarter. Annual close, $950 a year.
For $950 a year, someone brings your books up to date once, after the year is over.
For a pre-seed company with a corporate card, a payroll run, and forty transactions a month, that is a defensible purchase and Fondo is right to offer it. Nobody needs a February close to decide anything when there is nothing yet to decide.
But it makes the underlying assumption visible: the books are a compliance artifact. They exist so a return can be filed and a diligence request answered. They are not an instrument anyone operates the company with, because for eleven months of the year they do not exist in a usable state.
That assumption is correct right up until it isn’t, and the transition is not signposted. Nobody sends a notice saying the annual close has stopped being enough.
Going from an annual close to a monthly one is not a settings change. It is $950 a year to roughly $4,800, plus the catch-up work on whatever period you were not closing properly, which Fondo prices separately from as low as $950.
That is not a criticism of Fondo’s pricing, which is fair for the labour involved. It is an observation about what you are buying: the cost scales with how often a person has to sit down with your transactions, because a person sitting down with your transactions is the entire mechanism.
TaxPass covers Delaware C-corps — federal, state, and franchise filings, with add-ons for forms 5471, 5472, and 114. It is a well-built product for exactly that entity.
If you file a T2, this is the wrong shape, and no amount of feature comparison changes that.
We do not sell you a cadence, because we do not think close frequency should be a purchasing decision. Entries get proposed with the evidence attached as transactions arrive, you confirm them, and the books are current continuously rather than as of whenever someone last worked on them.
The result is that “what did we spend on infrastructure last month” is a question you answer by looking, in any month, including the ones you would not have paid $399 to close.
| Capability | Equated | Fondo |
|---|---|---|
| What sets the price | Nothing — one subscription | How often your books are closed |
| Close cadence | Continuous | Monthly · quarterly · annual |
| Entry price | $49/month USD | $950/year for an annual close |
| Monthly close | Yes | $399/month plan |
| Humans doing the work | No | Dedicated accountant on every plan |
| Year-end filing | $649 flat, optional add-on | $1,450/year, Delaware C-corps |
| Canadian tax and filing | Yes | US only |
The monthly plan is listed at $399, discounted from $499, and is aimed at seed-stage and later. The quarterly plan is $1,198 per quarter and the annual plan $950 per year, both aimed at pre-seed. Tax is separate — TaxPass is listed at $1,450, discounted from $1,950, for Delaware C-corps.
Your books are brought up to date once, after the year has ended. For a pre-revenue company with a corporate card and a payroll run that may be entirely reasonable. It also means that at no point during the year do you have a current set of numbers to make a decision against.
Its tax product is scoped to Delaware C-corps, with federal, state, and Delaware franchise filings and add-ons for international forms like 5471 and 5472. A Canadian corporation filing a T2 is not the entity these plans are built around.
A service. Every plan includes a dedicated accountant, and the finance dashboard is how you see what they produced. The product is the person.
Claims about Fondo last verified August 25, 2026