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Bigcapital vs Stigg
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Bigcapital and Stigg — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Bigcapital vs Stigg: at a glance
What is Bigcapital?
Bigcapital adds cash and accrual basis accounting to its open-source books.
Bigcapital is an open-source accounting product releasing every week or two. v0.25.45 (October 23) brings cash and accrual basis accounting across journals, bills, credit notes and vendor credits, with a basis switch on the journal and trial balance reports. The releases before it added bank rules that apply to all accounts, report date presets and Plaid sync fixes, alongside a long run of report-correctness fixes.
What is Stigg?
Stigg moves its entitlements and credit checks inside agent orchestrators and gateways.
Stigg now runs inside agent orchestration layers, applying entitlements, credits and budgets to each step of an agent run, and its Agent SDK supports solo.io and agentgateway out of the box. It also lets customers bill subscriptions through Airwallex invoices and payment links. This lands a day after new pricing with a free plan and monthly billing, and three days after Usage Governance went GA.
Bigcapital vs Stigg: editorial side-by-side
Bigcapital
5.0FINANCE
Bigcapital adds cash and accrual basis accounting to its open-source books.
◆ Current state
Bigcapital is an open-source accounting product releasing every week or two. v0.25.45 (October 23) brings cash and accrual basis accounting across journals, bills, credit notes and vendor credits, with a basis switch on the journal and trial balance reports. The releases before it added bank rules that apply to all accounts, report date presets and Plaid sync fixes, alongside a long run of report-correctness fixes.
◆ Where it's heading
The work is moving from features to accounting correctness: aging summaries, cash flow, ledger running balances and sales tax liability were all fixed in September, and the accounting-basis work extends that into how every transaction posts. Security fixes such as secure invite tokens show a codebase hardening for wider self-hosting.
◆ Prediction
Expect the accounting-basis switch to reach more reports and transaction types in the next releases. Version labels are inconsistent (v0.15.43 sits between v0.25.42 and v0.25.44), so tag numbers are not a reliable guide.
Stigg
7.5FINANCE
Stigg moves its entitlements and credit checks inside agent orchestrators and gateways.
◆ Current state
Stigg now runs inside agent orchestration layers, applying entitlements, credits and budgets to each step of an agent run, and its Agent SDK supports solo.io and agentgateway out of the box. It also lets customers bill subscriptions through Airwallex invoices and payment links. This lands a day after new pricing with a free plan and monthly billing, and three days after Usage Governance went GA.
◆ Where it's heading
Stigg is placing its billing engine at the points where AI agents spend money: the orchestrator, the gateway and credit reservation before each operation. Billing-backend breadth, now Airwallex invoicing, keeps pace in the background.
◆ Prediction
Expect more gateway and orchestrator integrations in the Agent SDK and its move out of beta. Billing backends will likely keep widening around Airwallex and its peers.
Alternatives to Bigcapital and Stigg
Other Finance products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Bigcapital or Stigg.
Shift4
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Payhawk
Payhawk adds SWIFT payment tracking and a DualEntry ledger sync as ERP coverage widens
TaxDome
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LNbits
LNbits 1.7.1 follows the urgent 1.7.0 fix by rotating auth keys.
Kolleno
Kolleno is stretching from collections software toward the whole cash cycle.
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Recent activity from Bigcapital and Stigg
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 9d agoStiggStigg Now Runs Inside Your Agent Orchestrator
- 9d agoStiggSupport for solo.io and agentgateway in the Agent SDK
- 10d agoStiggBill subscriptions using invoices and payment links with Airwallex
- 10d agoStiggStigg's New Pricing Is Now Generally Available ⚡
- 12d agoStiggUsage Governance Is Now Generally Available
- 15d agoStiggIntroducing Stigg's New Navigation
- 22d agoBigcapitalv0.25.45: cash and accrual basis accounting
- 29d agoBigcapitalv0.25.44: bank rules for all accounts, payment link fix
- 1mo agoBigcapitalv0.15.43: mail label and report localization fixes
- 1mo agoBigcapitalv0.25.42: Plaid sync fixes and report date presets
- 1mo agoBigcapitalv0.25.41: aging, ledger and tax report fixes
- 2mo agoBigcapitalv0.25.40: editable inventory adjustments, secure invites
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Bigcapital and Stigg?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Stigg is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Bigcapital better than Stigg?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Stigg is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Finance products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Bigcapital?
Top Bigcapital alternatives in Finance are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Bigcapital alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/bigcapital for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Stigg?
Top Stigg alternatives in Finance are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Stigg alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/stigg for the full list with editorial commentary on each.