Price history · Tax preparation
Drake Tax price history: reported prices since 2018
How Drake Tax’s US list prices have moved, with the source and date for each figure.
Drake Tax is tax-preparation software for accountants, licensed per tax year in several editions (Tax Pro, 1040, pay-per-return and Online).
This page collects the dated list prices we could document for Drake Tax, each with the source it came from. StackWatch has also recorded Drake Tax’s own pricing page on 30 days since September 12, 2026.
Reported prices by source
Tax-software prices are reported by different publishers, each with its own definition of a package (returns included, states, list price, promotion or MSRP). To avoid mixing definitions, each table below comes from one source and compares only its own editions. Do not subtract a figure in one table from a figure in another.
Vendor page
The vendor’s own pricing page.
| Package | Oct 5, 2026 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|
| Drake Tax Online per tax-year 2026 licence, first user included; additional users $99 each; returns $49.99 individual / $74.99 business | $299.99 | — |
| Pay-Per-Return, 10 individual returns included per tax-year 2026 licence including 10 individual returns; additional $49.99 individual / $74.99 business (per-return fees) | $379.99 | — |
Fit Small Business
Fit Small Business’s product reviews (prices for 2024 returns, page updated in early 2025).
| Package | Feb 14, 2025 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|
| Drake Tax Pro, multi-user per tax-year 2024 licence | $2,495 | — |
| Drake Tax Pro, single-user per tax-year 2024 licence | $2,195 | — |
| Pay-Per-Return, 10 individual returns included per tax-year 2024 licence including 10 individual returns; additional $34.99 individual / $49.99 business (per-return fees) | $350 | — |
The CPA Journal survey
The CPA Journal’s annual survey of tax-software prices, as of the month shown. The survey does not say whether a price is a list price or a promotion.
| Package | Sep 2018 source | Oct 2019 source | Nov 2020 source | Oct 2021 source | Oct 2022 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-return package, 15 returns included per licence year including 15 returns; additional returns $22 each (per-return fee) | $330† | — | — | $345† | — | +$15 (+4.5%) over 3 years |
| Unlimited-returns package (as listed by The CPA Journal) per licence year (tax year not stated) | $1,595† | $1,595† | $1,595† | $1,625† | $1,725† | +$130 (+8.2%) over 4 years |
| Per-return package, 10 returns included per licence year including 10 returns; additional returns $30 each (per-return fee) | — | — | — | — | $345† | — |
Plan and policy changes
Changes that matter for what you pay but do not come with a single price figure.
| When | Scope | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tax year 2024 | Drake Tax Pro, Drake Tax 1040 | Drake’s support article says single-user and multi-user versions of Drake Tax Pro Unlimited and Drake Tax 1040 Unlimited became available starting with Drake Tax 2024. Pro 250, 1040 150 and Pay-Per-Return use the multi-user format by default. | Drake support article vendor |
How to read this page
† The source gives the figure without stating the billing period or unit; we show it as reported. Dates are the vendor’s effective date where a source states one. “Announced” means the date of the announcement and “as reported” means the date of the article when no effective date is stated. Prices are US list prices in US dollars, excluding promotions, taxes and add-ons. “First-party” rows are StackWatch’s own reads of the vendor’s page.
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What does Drake Tax cost today?
As of October 11, 2026, the Drake Tax pricing page lists Drake Tax Pro $2,375, $2,695 or $3,145 a year (several price points by return count and single- or multi-user licence; current prices, each shown beside a higher struck-through retail price that Drake says applies from Dec. 1); Drake Tax 1040 $1,895, $2,075 or $2,325 a year (several price points by return count and single- or multi-user licence; current prices, each shown beside a higher struck-through retail price that Drake says applies from Dec. 1); Pay-Per-Return $379.99 a year; Drake Tax Online $299.99 a year. See Drake Tax pricing for what each price covers.
Has Drake Tax raised its prices?
We have not found a dated price change for Drake Tax. The figures on this page are prices reported by the sources shown, and the vendor’s own page was last checked on October 11, 2026.
Where do these figures come from?
Every row names its source and links to it: the vendor’s own pages and announcements, trade press, and review sites, plus StackWatch’s own daily reads of the vendor’s pricing page. Each figure was re-checked against its source by an independent second pass. How we verify prices