Freelance income doesn’t arrive in a straight line. Some months three projects land at once and the account looks healthy. Other months a client goes quiet, an invoice sits unpaid, and you’re watching the same recurring charges leave your account with far less coming in to meet them. The yearly total might be perfectly fine — but the rhythm is what makes it stressful.
Software pricing usually ignores that rhythm entirely. A flat monthly fee assumes every month looks the same, when for a business of one, almost none of them do. So we sat with a simple question: what should the money side of your business cost when you’re having a dry month?
Our answer is that it should cost almost nothing to worry about. Billable is now $9 a month, or $90 a year — down from $19 and $190.
Billable pricing is now $9 a month or $90 a year, down from $19 and $190. The free tier still covers your first active project, with quotes, invoices, time tracking and branded PDFs. The paid plan adds unlimited active projects and emailing documents to clients, with no seats, tiers or add-ons. We cut the price so the tool stays affordable in quiet months.
Why we cut the price instead of raising it
The obvious move for a growing product is to charge more over time. We went the other way, and the reason is straightforward: at $9, keeping Billable through a quiet month is a non-decision. It’s less than a couple of coffees. When work slows down, the last thing you should be doing is cancelling the tool that tracks who owes you money and chases your overdue invoices — that’s exactly when you need it most.
A price you’d think twice about in a lean month is a price working against you. We’d rather be the line on your statement you never bother to question.
Priced for the valleys, not the peaks
It’s easy to price a product for the customer on their best month. That customer will pay almost anything. But that’s not who we’re building for, and it’s not honest to the reality of solo work.
We’re building for the freelancer in the middle of a slow stretch, refreshing their bank feed, wondering what to trim. If our pricing only made sense when you were flush, we’d be just another fixed cost adding to the squeeze. At $9, Billable is designed to make sense on the quiet months as much as the busy ones — because those are the months that actually test whether a tool is on your side. If those months are a regular feature of your year, managing irregular freelance income and building a financial buffer are worth a read too.
What’s included in Billable’s free tier
Billable stays free for your first active project — enough to build a real client’s quotes and invoices, track the time and download the branded PDFs, and see exactly how the whole thing works before you pay a cent. When you’re juggling more than one live project at a time, the flat plan lifts the cap: unlimited active projects, no seats, no tiers, no add-ons. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.
We think that’s the honest shape of it. Free to genuinely try with real work; then one small, flat price when you’re running a proper book of business — the same price whether it’s your best month or your slowest.
Profit follows trust, not the other way round
We could make more, in the short term, by charging what the market would bear. Plenty of tools do. But a business of one doesn’t need a vendor optimising its monthly extraction — it needs a tool it can trust to still be the right call when money’s tight.
Cutting the price in half is us betting that if we treat that trust as the point, the rest follows. We’d rather earn a little from a lot of freelancers who genuinely want us around than squeeze the few who can’t easily leave.
Frequently asked questions
Is Billable free?
Yes — Billable is free for one active project on a single organisation, with no credit card and no trial clock. On the free plan you can build quotes and invoices, track time, manage clients and projects, and download every document as a branded PDF. You only need the paid plan once you’re running more than one live project or want Billable to email documents for you.
What does the paid plan add?
The $9 plan adds emailing invoices, quotes and overdue reminders straight to clients, unlimited active projects and multiple organisations. It also removes the Billable credit from your documents. It’s one flat price for the whole account — there are no seats, no per-user fees and no higher tiers to upgrade into later.
What counts as an active project?
An active project is any project you haven’t archived. Once a job is finished, archiving it keeps its history and frees the slot, so a long record of completed work never pushes you onto the paid plan. Only the projects you’re currently working on count towards the free tier’s limit of one.
Can I cancel the paid plan anytime?
Yes — you can cancel from your account settings whenever you like. You keep paid access until the end of the billing period you’ve already paid for, then drop back to the free plan. That makes it easy to pause in a genuinely quiet stretch and come back when work picks up.
Where Billable comes in
The whole reason irregular income feels manageable is visibility — knowing what you’ve earned, what’s outstanding, and what’s due to land. Billable gives solopreneurs that clear, calm view of the money moving through the business, tracks every invoice, and chases overdue payments automatically so you’re not the one sending the awkward reminder.
Now it does all of that for $9 a month, flat — a price built for the way freelancers actually earn, quiet months and all. Take a look.