Pricing
Freecost is free. Not free-for-ten-recipes, not free-for-thirty-days — free, with every feature, on every account.
Freecost is free. Not free-for-ten-recipes, not free-for-thirty-days — free, with every feature, on every account.
No credit card. No trial clock. No feature held back for a tier that doesn't exist.
Because the honest answer is more useful than a marketing one: Freecost is the front door to a family of restaurant software. Brobata also builds ApronOps for full restaurant operations and CaterOps for catering — both paid. Kitchens that outgrow recipe costing tend to need those next.
That's the whole model. Nothing is crippled to nudge you upward, there is no seat count to trip over, and if recipe costing is all you ever need from us, that's a perfectly good outcome.
If you need labor scheduling, purchase-order approval workflows, vendor management across several locations, or catering event and BEO management, you've outgrown a costing tool. That's ApronOps and CaterOps. Everything on this page stays free either way.
The free calculators — recipe cost, food cost percentage, menu price, yield, labor, prime cost — run in the browser with no signup at all. The guides and glossary are open too.
Nothing. Freecost is free recipe-costing software — there is no paid tier, no per-seat pricing, no usage cap, and no credit card required to create an account.
There is no trial, because there is nothing for a trial to expire into. Every feature is available on every account from the day you sign up.
Freecost is the entry point to Brobata’s restaurant software. Kitchens that outgrow recipe costing and need full operations — scheduling, ordering workflows, multi-location management, catering events — move up to ApronOps or CaterOps, which are paid. Until that day, Freecost costs nothing and no feature is withheld to push you there.
No. Creating a Freecost account takes an email address and a password.
Yes. The Android app is the same account as the web app — sign in and your kitchen syncs to your phone, including full offline mode for counting inventory in the walk-in.
When recipe costing stops being the problem. If you need labor scheduling, purchase-order workflows, vendor approvals across multiple locations, or catering event management, that is ApronOps and CaterOps territory. If you mainly need to know what your dishes cost and keep that number honest, Freecost is the whole answer.