Xero offers Free Trial, but Tide does not.
Xero is designed for Freelancers, Medium Business and Small Business.
Tide is designed for Large Enterprises, Small Business and Medium Business.
The starting price of Tide begins at $16/month, while pricing details for Xero are unavailable.
Some top alternatives to Xero includes Quickbooks, Sage Accounting (Sage One), Zoho Books, Zoho Daybook, QuickFile, Sage Business Cloud Accounting, MYOB, QuickBooks Desktop Pro, QuickBooks Online Advanced and Sage 50cloud Accounting.
Some top alternatives to Tide includes and undefined.