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Halden vs Ledgerly: which should you choose in 2026?

Both serve small software and services businesses, at opposite ends of the customer relationship. Halden manages the relationship; Ledgerly measures what it produced.

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Halden

A self-hosted CRM for consultancies that will not put client data in the cloud

Open sourceOpen source588 upvotes
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Ledgerly

Revenue analytics that tells you what changed instead of showing forty charts

Subscription942 upvotes
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Halden vs Ledgerly at a glance

Halden and Ledgerly compared attribute by attribute
AttributeHaldenLedgerly
Pricing modelOpen sourceSubscription
Entry priceOpen source$39/mo
Open sourceYesNo
Self-hostableYesNo
CategorySaaS, Open SourceSaaS, Marketing
Upvotes588942
Discussion77 comments51 comments
Launched20262026
VerifiedNoYes

Pros and cons

Halden

Strengths

  • Client data never leaves your infrastructure
  • Zero telemetry, in an auditable codebase
  • Retainer and time tracking built for consultancies
  • Runs on a $6 VPS

Trade-offs

  • You operate it — no hosted option, deliberately
  • No marketing automation or sequences
  • AGPL may conflict with some corporate policies

Ledgerly

Strengths

  • Ranked daily movements instead of a chart wall
  • Cohort-aware baselines and a real noise floor
  • Read-only billing access, enforced
  • Seat-independent pricing

Trade-offs

  • Hosted only
  • Requires a supported billing provider
  • Not a CRM — no place for the relationship itself

Interface comparison

Halden interface — main workspace
Halden
Ledgerly interface — main workspace
Ledgerly

The detail

Different halves of the same business

A consultancy needs both eventually: a place to manage engagements, and a way to see whether the engagements add up to a healthy business.

The deployment difference is the real story

Halden is self-hosted because its users often cannot legally use hosted software. Ledgerly is hosted and connects with read-only keys to billing providers that are themselves hosted — self-hosting it would not remove the third party that already has the data.

If you are evaluating both, that asymmetry is the thing to reason about, not the feature lists.

The verdict

Not competitors. Halden if client confidentiality is a hard constraint and you need somewhere to keep the relationship. Ledgerly if you already know who your customers are and need to know what changed this month.

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Halden vs Ledgerly — FAQ

Which is better, Halden or Ledgerly?

Not competitors. Halden if client confidentiality is a hard constraint and you need somewhere to keep the relationship. Ledgerly if you already know who your customers are and need to know what changed this month.

Is Halden or Ledgerly cheaper?

Halden has the lower entry price at Free versus $39 for Ledgerly. Entry price is rarely the whole story though — check how each one scales, since seat-based and usage-based pricing diverge sharply as a team grows.

Can I self-host Halden or Ledgerly?

Halden is open source and can be self-hosted. Ledgerly is a hosted product with no self-hosted option.

What are the main differences between Halden and Ledgerly?

Both serve small software and services businesses, at opposite ends of the customer relationship. Halden manages the relationship; Ledgerly measures what it produced.

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