Carta pricing
Carta pricing and what it adds up to
Quoted privately, with a per-stakeholder fee and a minimum annual charge.
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The plans
What Carta charges
Carta does not publish a full price list for New Zealand or Australian companies. Your bill is built from a fee per stakeholder, a minimum annual charge and the package your company uses.
Launch
Quoted privately
Carta names this package, but does not publish a New Zealand or Australian price.
Build
Quoted privately
Carta names this package, but does not publish a New Zealand or Australian price.
Grow
Quoted privately
Carta names this package, but does not publish a New Zealand or Australian price.
Scale
Quoted privately
Carta names this package, but does not publish a New Zealand or Australian price.
How the bill is built
Fee per stakeholder
Carta counts stakeholders such as founders, investors, staff with options and advisers. The bill rises as you add people to your option plan, so a growing register can cost more even if the company stays on the same package.
Package selection
Carta prices each company using its package as well as its number of stakeholders. It names four packages: Launch, Build, Grow and Scale. There is no public New Zealand or Australian price list to compare their costs.
Annual minimum
Carta applies a minimum annual fee, so the charge is not simply a per-person amount with no floor. The minimum applies each year, while the total can also rise as your stakeholder count grows.
A year of Carta
Your annual Carta bill
Carta does not publish a full price list for New Zealand or Australian companies, so you cannot work out a public yearly total. The bill is quoted privately and includes a minimum annual fee. The package your company uses and its number of stakeholders drive the charge, with each added person on the option plan increasing the per-stakeholder cost.
Underneath the bill
What you are really paying for
A view over the ledger
Each issue, transfer, exercise and cancellation is a dated entry, and ownership follows from those entries. Carta charges for the platform view of that ledger. You are paying to use its screens to see and manage records about your own company.
Access for each holder
Staff can log in to see their grants, and Carta charges per stakeholder. That means the people whose records appear in the system can also add to the bill, including staff with options, investors, founders and advisers.
A platform shaped by US rules
Much of Carta is shaped by United States filings, including 409A valuations and 83(b) elections. New Zealand and Australian companies deal with the Companies Office, ASIC, the ATO and Inland Revenue, so local requirements are not the focus described for the platform.
The owned alternative
Own your share register instead
Enterprise DNA builds your business its own share ownership system around how it runs, brings your Carta data across and runs the system for you. You pay one setup fee, then a monthly retainer, not a per-seat plan. The records sit in a database your business owns and you can work with it in plain language. There is also a free version you can run yourself.
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One setup fee, then a monthly retainer. No per-seat plans, no tiers, and the system is yours.
Make it yours
Design your own Carta replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Carta. Try it here, and we build the real one.
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Questions
Carta pricing, answered
How does Carta calculate its price? expand_more
Carta charges a fee per stakeholder, with a minimum annual fee, and prices each company based on its package and stakeholder count. Founders, investors, staff with options and advisers all count. Carta does not publish a full price list for New Zealand or Australian companies.
Can I estimate my yearly Carta spend from a public price? expand_more
No public New Zealand or Australian price list is available to calculate a yearly total. Carta quotes the price privately. Your package and number of stakeholders drive the bill, and the annual minimum means there is a floor to the charge.
What does the owned alternative cost? expand_more
Enterprise DNA builds and runs a version for your business for one setup fee, then a monthly retainer. There is no per-seat plan. If you prefer to run it yourself, there is also a free version. Enterprise DNA charges a setup fee and monthly retainer.
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