QuickBooks Solopreneur
Sage Sole Trader
Comparison
QuickBooks Solopreneur vs Sage Sole Trader
A data-driven, side-by-side comparison for UK businesses. Provider data is verified by our research team and every review is moderated before publishing.
Updated 5 July 2026
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Starting price
US$20/mo
Starting price
£6/mo
At a glance
Who wins, category by category
Category-by-category winners based on verified user ratings, each scored out of 5.
QuickBooks Solopreneur
Sage Sole Trader
Analytics
Ratings, visualised
The four dimensions every reviewer rates, shown two ways — bars for side-by-side magnitude, gauges for the head-to-head on each.
Rating by category
Head to head by category
Sentiment
How reviewers feel
Positive (4 to 5 stars), neutral (3 stars) and negative (1 to 2 stars) sentiment across all verified reviews.
QuickBooks SolopreneurPositive sentiment
- Positive84%
- Neutral8%
- Negative8%
Sage Sole TraderPositive sentiment
- Positive83%
- Neutral9%
- Negative8%
Pricing
Pricing compared
Entry price, free plans and trials at a glance. A lower starting price is not everything, but it is where most UK businesses begin.
QuickBooks Solopreneur
US$20/month
Sage Sole Trader
£6/month
Prices are shown in each vendor's billing currency and aren't directly comparable — check the live exchange rate before deciding.
QuickBooks Solopreneur
Free trialIntuit's streamlined product for one person businesses, with automatic income and expense tracking, business and personal separation, quarterly tax estimates, mileage tracking and simple invoicing.
- Business and personal separation
- Quarterly tax estimates
- Automatic mileage tracking
Sage Sole Trader
Free trialLow cost cloud bookkeeping built for UK sole traders and the self employed, with expense tracking, a running tax estimate, bank feeds and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax submissions from one simple app.
- Running tax estimate
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax submissions
- Receipt capture and bank feeds
Features
Full feature comparison
Every data point we track for QuickBooks Solopreneur and Sage Sole Trader, side by side.
Head to head
Verified data & user ratings
- Business and personal separation
- Quarterly tax estimates
- Automatic mileage tracking
- Running tax estimate
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax submissions
- Receipt capture and bank feeds
Voices
What real users say
The strongest praise and the most common complaint, pulled from verified reviews of each product.
QuickBooks SolopreneurSean D.
Self employed, Self-employed employees
“Quietly does the work in the background.”
Amber G.
Small Business Owner, Self-employed employees
“Cannot handle paying a subcontractor.”
Sage Sole TraderLayla L.
Self employed Contractor, Self-employed employees
“Genuinely phone first, which suits how I work.”
Jessica S.
Side Business Owner, Self-employed employees
“Bank feed reliability let me down.”
Our verdict
Sage Sole Trader leads 2/5Which should you choose?
On the data we track, Sage Sole Trader leads in 2 of 5 categories. Weigh that against your budget and the features that matter most to your team.