The self-hosted Invoice Ninja (hosted) alternative
Invora: Self-hosted recurring invoicing for freelancers and small firms: every cycle lands as a draft you approve before it goes out, and each unpaid invoice carries your own payment link. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Invoice Ninja (hosted) every month.
Stop renting Invoice Ninja (hosted).
Invora8 months of Invoice Ninja (hosted) costs what Invora costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: Hosted Ninja Pro; an open-source self-host option also exists free. Enterprise from $18/mo (1-2 users) up to $300/mo (51-100 users); Premium Business from $280/yr. Both billing states were walked 2026-09-07: the monthly figures stood, and the annual state the card only shows once you flip it - Pro $140/yr, Enterprise $180/yr, two months free - is recorded here for the first time. The stored cents stay the monthly price.
Invoice Ninja's hosted Enterprise tier scales price directly with the number of account users, from $18/month up to $300/month.
“Enterprise pricing is based on the number of account users — from $18/month for 1–2 users up to $300/month for 51–100 users.”, their own page, read 2026-08-11
Invoice Ninja offers native mobile and desktop apps across major platforms.
“Yes! Invoice Ninja has native apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.”, their own page
If you need recurring/auto-billing with built-in online payment collection, stay with Invoice Ninja — Invora drafts recurring invoices for you to approve rather than charging a stored card, and collects no card payments itself.
What Invora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting Invoice Ninja (hosted).
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Invoice Ninja (hosted)'s cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Invora vs renting comparison.
Questions about moving off Invoice Ninja (hosted).
Does Invora support recurring invoices?
Does it email invoices automatically?
Can it collect online payments?
What do I need to run it?
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- Invoice Ninja (hosted): price checked 2026-09-03, source“Pro is $14/month billed monthly, or $140 billed annually (equivalent to $11.67/month).”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.