Best Drake Tax Software Hosting Providers for CPA Firms (2026)

Verito puts every firm on its own dedicated server rather than a shared box. Drake itself is not a heavy application, but when a multi-preparer office is all in the software during filing season and reading and writing to Drake Documents at the same time, isolation from other tenants is what keeps things responsive. Flat monthly pricing also fits how value-focused Drake firms like to budget.

The trade-off is cost and scale. A dedicated server is more than a lean solo shop needs, and Verito is a smaller company than the category giants. For a growing Drake firm that wants consistent speed and a predictable bill, it is the strongest option we tested. For a one-person practice filing part time, a shared plan lower on this list may be plenty.

Rightworks, formerly Right Networks, hosts more accounting firms than anyone else. Its deepest ties are to Intuit rather than Drake, but it hosts Drake widely, and its real strength shows when a firm runs Drake for tax work and QuickBooks Desktop for client bookkeeping in the same hosted space.

The standard product is shared multi-tenant, which keeps entry pricing reasonable but means performance is not fully in your control. Firms that outgrow it can move to dedicated options. If your practice is QuickBooks-heavy with Drake sitting alongside it, the ecosystem is hard to beat.

Cetrom treats hosting as a full managed IT relationship rather than a commodity server. A larger Drake firm that also runs document management, a practice-management tool, and other applications will appreciate having one team own the whole environment.

Cetrom sits at the premium end of CPA hosting, and you will sit through a sales conversation to learn the price. Core hosting is priced separately from add-ons like hosted email and file services, so the total climbs as you add services. Ask in writing which support is included in the monthly fee and which is billed by the hour or by project. A small Drake shop will likely find the engagement heavier than it needs. For a firm that wants a partner rather than a portal, Cetrom earns its spot near the top.

Ace Cloud competes hard on price and answers the phone at 2 a.m. in March, which is exactly when a Drake preparer needs it. It hosts Drake and a long list of other applications, and its value pitch matches the kind of firm Drake tends to attract.

As with most budget hosts, standard plans share servers, and the advertised rate is not always the final rate once add-ons stack up. Read the quote line by line and a lean Drake shop gets genuinely good value here.

Netgain sells a managed relationship rather than a rented seat. Its CPA Cloud Essentials platform runs on Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop and bundles endpoint protection, firewall management, and round-the-clock security monitoring into one per-user subscription. For a Drake firm that has no in-house IT and wants hosting and security owned by one outside team, that package has real appeal.

The fit with Drake's typical buyer is the problem. Pricing is quote-only, which cuts against a firm that chose Drake to control costs, and costs on an Azure-based platform can scale quickly as users, storage, and computing power grow. If you get a quote, get in writing how the quote changes when you add users, storage, or more powerful sessions for tax season. Netgain also splits its focus across accounting, healthcare, and legal, and the apps it names publicly are UltraTax CS, CCH Axcess, and QuickBooks, not Drake. Azure Virtual Desktop is also a different model from a firm-owned dedicated server. A larger Drake office that wants a full IT partner should get a written quote, but most lean Drake shops will find a better match higher on this list.