Pricing
Free in early access. Then cheap enough that you never reconsider it.
Today Keep costs nothing.
Keep is in early access: it is open, it is not finished, and there is no billing. Creating an account charges nothing and asks for no card. When billing begins, the prices are the two below, a year at a time, and nothing is charged until you have been told and have agreed. If you would rather not pay then, you take your records with you.
Individual Keep
Free in early access. It will renew a year at a time; cancel any time, and export first.
Form 1040 continuity for a person or a household.
- Identity, spouse and dependents, addresses with effective datesWorks today
- Employers, brokers, lenders and other recurring relationshipsWorks today
- W-2, 1099, 1098 and 5498 forms — original, reading, and confirmationWorks today
- Exchange with Gideon Tax in both directions, for Form 1040Works today
- Documented export of your recordsWorks today
- K-1s and prior returns read for youNot yet
- Carryforwards with history, the adoption credit explicitly includedNot yet
- Elections and basis where they matterNot yet
Business Keep
Free in early access. It will renew a year at a time; cancel any time, and export first.
Business tax continuity across every return the business files.
- A business account, and the forms it receives — original, reading, and confirmationWorks today
- Documented export of your recordsWorks today
- Entity records: EIN, type, formation, owners, addresses with historyNot yet
- Business income tax facts and attributes: NOLs, credits, basis, at-riskNot yet
- Employment tax history and employee relationshipsNot yet
- Excise tax: vehicles by VIN with status and historyNot yet
- Information returns: contractors and vendors as reusable recordsNot yet
- Assets and depreciation with provenanceNot yet
- Exchange with Gideon Tax for the business's returnsNot yet
The subscription pays for
- software
- storage
- structured tax data
- automated continuity
- document processing
- automated verification workflows
- product features
- reasonable product support
It does not include
- human tax preparation
- tax research or consulting
- bookkeeping or reconciliation
- manual data-entry work
- tax, legal or financial advice
Human professional services stay separately priced. The product is not designed around extensive human labor hiding inside a $20 or $80 subscription — that is how the price stays honest.
Why the price is what it is
You are not paying for bytes.
The raw number of bytes stored is not the value. The value is structured tax knowledge, verified current-year information, year-to-year continuity, reusable relationships, persistent attributes, carryforward tracking, document association, provenance, audit history, interoperability, reduced repetitive entry, easier preparation — and, eventually, returns that mostly prepare themselves.
The plan is for Gideon Tax to become free as its development costs are recovered. Keep is the part that stays paid: the continuity layer, priced so that it is never the thing you cut. If Keep ever fails to be worth $20 or $80 a year, the right answer is to fix Keep, not to raise the price.
Two prices. No tiers within tiers.
Individual Keep $20 a year, Business Keep $80 a year — and neither is charged during early access.
Free while Keep is in early access. The price when billing begins: $20 a year for a person or a household, $80 a year for a business.