Xero has raised Australian prices five times since 2022. Here is every change to the mid-tier plan, in dollars, against the Consumer Price Index.

Matt Crossley

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Xero's Australian price rises, charted

Xero raised its Australian prices again on 1 July. That's the fifth increase since 2022.

Each one was announced with notice, each was a few dollars, and each was defensible on its own. Taken one at a time, none was worth a meeting. Nobody adds them up.

So we did. Here's what four years of small, reasonable increases actually come to.

Retail prices in Australian dollars per month, at each change date. CPI: Australian Bureau of Statistics, annual movement to the June quarter, compounded.

The mid-tier plan has gone from $54 to $78 a month: $59 in September 2022, $65 in September 2023, $70 in July 2024, $75 in July 2025, and $78 from 1 July 2026. That is 44% in four years against CPI of 16.6%. Had the price only tracked inflation it would sit near $63 today. The top tiers moved harder.

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What changed on 1 July 2026

Plan	Was	Now	Change
Ignite	$35	$37	+$2
Grow	$75	$78	+$3
Comprehensive	$100	$107	+$7
Ultimate 10	$130	$143	+$13
Ultimate 20	$162	$180	+$18
Ultimate 50	$222	$250	+$28
Ultimate 100	$272	$300	+$28

The multi-organisation discount was also removed on 1 July 2026.

The rise is Xero’s decision. The work it creates belongs to the firm: pricing reviews, repeating invoices updated line by line, and emails explaining to clients a cost the firm did not set. None of it is billable, and it has now happened five times in four years.

Firms that absorb the increase, or keep passing on their full partner discount, pay twice: once in margin, once in admin.

Worked example: 300 clients on Grow

Not a benchmark. One plan, one count. Swap in your own.

Your annual Xero bill for the same 300 clients	Amount
What these clients cost you in 2022	$194,400
The share inflation would justify (to about $63)	+ $32,400
The rise above inflation ($15 a month, each)	+ $54,000
What the same clients cost you now	$280,800

That is $86,400 a year more, $7,200 every month, for exactly the same clients. The 1 July 2026 rise alone adds $10,800 of it.

That amount either reaches client billing, comes out of margin, or gets part-recovered through unbillable admin. There is no fourth option.

Firms on Rechargly do not touch anything when Xero re-prices. Client invoices regenerate at the new price automatically, so each increase passes straight through from day one.

Read the full 2026 breakdown

Sources: Xero Australia pricing updates as published (September 2022, September 2023, July 2024, July 2025, July 2026); Australian Bureau of Statistics Consumer Price Index, annual movement to the June quarter of each year, compounded (+16.6% June 2022 to June 2026). The mid-tier series follows the Standard plan to July 2024 and its designated successor plan Grow thereafter. The $63 counterfactual, the $15 per month gap and the worked example are calculated from these inputs ($54 × 1.166 = $62.96; figures rounded).

Matt Crossley

Strategic Accounts

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