Everlance vs Keeper Comparison 2026
Everlance runs in the background all year, logging drives automatically for $10.99 a month on Starter after a free tier of 30 trips a month. Keeper works the opposite direction: it connects to the accounts you already spend from, proposes deductions transaction by transaction, then a tax professional reviews and files the return, priced once a year at $199 for a Standard filing. One is a habit kept all year. The other is a bill paid once, in return for someone else finding the deductions and signing the return.
Mileage and expenses tracked for freelancers
Tax filing that hunts for freelance write-offs
At a glance
- Everlance starts cheaper, at $10.99.
- Only Everlance has a free tier.
Side by side
Everlance | Keeper | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $10.99 | From $199 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | One-time purchase |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing (they differ) | Monthly or annual | One-time purchase |
| Free trial | 7 days | Not stated |
| API |
Everlance
Mileage and expenses tracked for freelancers
Everlance runs in the background on a phone and logs drives automatically, which is the part of a mileage deduction nobody does by hand for long. Swiping classifies a trip as work or personal, and the year's log exports in the shape a tax return wants. The free plan caps automatic detection at 30 trips a month, and a working week eats that.
Our note
The free tier's 30 trips is the number to check yourself against. Two client visits a week uses it up, and a partially tracked year is worth less at tax time than a fully tracked one.
Keeper
Tax filing that hunts for freelance write-offs
Keeper connects to the accounts a freelancer actually spends from and proposes deductions transaction by transaction, then files the return at the end of it. A tax professional reviews and signs what gets sent. The pricing is per filing rather than per month, so it is bought once a year and the deduction hunting is what you are paying for in between.
Our note
Priced per filing rather than per month, which is the whole comparison against Wave or FreeAgent. Two hundred dollars once a year suits anybody whose Schedule C is the only return they file. It is poor value for somebody who also needs the books kept in between, and that is a different purchase.
Why people weigh these two
- Keeper instead of Everlance
- Keeper goes after freelance write-offs and files the return at $199, which is the end Everlance's mileage log feeds into.
- Everlance instead of Keeper
- Everlance tracks mileage and expenses through the year with a free tier and plans from $10.99, the log Keeper's transaction-by-transaction deduction hunt would otherwise have to build from bank data alone.
Which one should you pick
Pick Everlance if your work involves driving and you want a maintained mileage log across the year, at a modest monthly price with a free tier to start.
Pick Keeper if you are a US freelancer filing a Schedule C who would rather pay once a year than keep books all year. Two hundred dollars for Standard suits anybody whose Schedule C is the only return they file. It is poor value for somebody who also needs the books kept in between, and a straightforward W-2 filer is overpaying for what they need.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper?
- It depends what you are buying. Everlance is $10.99 a month, roughly $132 a year, for ongoing mileage tracking. Keeper is $199 once, for one Standard tax filing with deduction hunting included. One is a habit, the other is an annual event.
- Does Keeper track mileage the way Everlance does?
- Not as described here. Keeper connects to your spending accounts and proposes deductions from the transactions themselves; Everlance is the one logging drives automatically in the background all year.
- Is Keeper worth it for a simple W-2 return?
- No, by its own guidance. It is priced per filing at $199 or more, aimed at freelancers filing a Schedule C, so somebody with a straightforward W-2 return is paying for deduction-hunting they do not need.
- Could I use both?
- Reasonably. Everlance keeps the mileage log through the year, and Keeper turns transactions, mileage included, into a filed return once a year. Everlance's export is built for exactly the shape a tax return wants.
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