Once a Thai freelancer's income becomes steady, the same question comes up: should I move to real accounting software? PEAK is usually the first name mentioned. Here's an honest comparison — because these two products answer different questions.
What PEAK does well
PEAK is a full online accounting platform built by PUUN Intelligent. Its core audience is SME owners, accountants, and bookkeeping firms.
Things PEAK does that we don't:
- Full double-entry accounting — automatic journal entries from documents, trial balances, balance sheets, and profit and loss statements.
- Bank reconciliation via bank API connections to match transactions.
- Inventory and cost tracking, with integrations to Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop.
- PEAK Tax for VAT and withholding tax reporting, plus e-Tax Invoice and e-Receipt support on the higher tiers.
- Accountant collaboration with role-based permissions and simultaneous multi-user editing. This is the single biggest reason Thai bookkeeping firms standardise on it.
If you've incorporated, need to close statutory accounts, carry inventory, or have an accounting firm that needs to work inside the same system as you — PEAK is the correct answer, and we're not going to argue otherwise.
PEAK's pricing is tiered by feature level and user count, from a free entry plan up to higher tiers in the low thousands of baht per month, with one package covering one business entity and a 30-day trial. Prices change, so check PEAK's current pricing page before deciding.
What MANA does well
MANA is not accounting software and isn't trying to become it. MANA is a workspace for a solo freelancer, where documents are one part of a larger job.
- Projects, tasks and clients live beside the documents. A quotation is attached to a project and a contact, not floating in a separate documents module.
- Thai fields built into documents — withholding tax rate, WHT certificate number, VAT registration status, and PromptPay details on the sender profile.
- Genuinely bilingual. Thai and English interface and documents, with the Buddhist calendar and Thai date formats as the default when the region is set to Thailand.
- Receipt import from photos. Snap several receipts at once; extracted data waits for your review rather than being trusted blindly.
- A calendar that shows document deadlines — invoice due dates, quotation expiry, and recurring document generation dates, alongside tasks and milestones.
- An AI assistant and MCP access, so you can drive the workspace in Thai or English and connect it to the tools you already use.
MANA's pricing: Free, Mana at THB 290/month or 2,900/year, and Aether at THB 890/month or 8,900/year. Annual billing is charged as ten months.
Side by side, by job
| Job | PEAK | MANA |
|---|---|---|
| Closing statutory company accounts | Yes — core strength | No |
| Working with a bookkeeping firm | Very strong | Export data, but not a shared workspace |
| Inventory and e-commerce | Yes | No |
| Quotations, invoices, receipts | Yes | Yes |
| Project and task tracking | Not the focus | Yes |
| Client history and relationship | Accounting-oriented | Relationship and work oriented |
| Full Thai/English interface | Thai-first | Bilingual by design |
How to choose
The fastest deciding question is: have you incorporated?
If you have a company, an accountant, statutory accounts to close and stock to track — use PEAK, without hesitation. MANA will not improve that part of your life.
If you operate as an individual, work project by project with a handful of recurring clients, and your actual problems are remembering which quotation went unanswered, which invoice is overdue, and what came in this month — that's the case MANA was built for.
And if you're growing towards incorporation, it's perfectly normal to run client and project work in MANA while the company's books live in full accounting software. The two aren't in conflict.
We don't think every freelancer should pay for accounting software on day one, and we don't think a company owner with inventory should use MANA instead of one. Choose by the shape of your business, not by the length of the feature list.
Pricing and feature details are drawn from PEAK's public website at the time of writing. Check their current pricing page before deciding.