Cledara
Software management platform for finance and IT teams to control SaaS spend, payments and risk.
By Cledara · 4.5/5 verified-buyer score
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Finance and IT teams that need one live view of every SaaS subscription, its owner, cost and renewal date
- Companies paying for 20-75+ SaaS tools that want virtual cards, spend limits and one-click cancellation
- Teams that want software purchasing requests, approvals and budgets in the same place as payments
- Businesses looking to cut duplicate or underused software and renegotiate before auto-renewal
- Finance teams that need software transactions and invoices synced to Xero, QuickBooks or NetSuite
- Mid-market firms with a lean finance function and no dedicated procurement team
Ideal size: 25-1,000 staff people · Scale-up with a finance or ops owner for software and no dedicated procurement function
Not for
- Teams looking for a full ERP or source-to-pay suite rather than software subscription management
- Very small businesses with only a handful of subscriptions and no separate software budget
- Enterprises that require FedRAMP or US public-sector authorisation today
- Companies wanting on-premise deployment or deep customisation of the underlying code
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About 1 month
~30 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$7,500/yr
Starts at $1,500 · Tiered subscription by staff size and app count, billed monthly or annually (annual saves 16%); list prices published in GBP. Optional paid modules; free virtual cards.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Buyer Score
out of 5 · verified buyers
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Basic: 25-50 staff, up to 20 apps; Premium: 51-150 staff, up to 75 apps; Pro: 151+ staff; Cledara Spend: 10 members (Premium) / 50 (Pro)
Add-on costs
- Spend Optimization module: £200/mo or £1,500/yr (usage and seat insights, duplicate and price-increase alerts, benchmarks, AI renewal copilot)
- IT Management module: £1,500/yr (access requests, shadow IT insights, onboarding/offboarding, HR integration)
- Software Compliance module: £1,500/yr (vendor ISO 27001/SOC 2 tags, delegated questionnaires, policy templates)
- Extra Cledara Spend active members: £5 per member per month beyond the included seats
Company & support
Who is behind Cledara, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2018 · 8 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailPlan not stated
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Premium adds videocall support; Pro adds a dedicated implementation and success manager plus spend reviews. The pricing FAQ directs questions to [email protected].
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Cledara sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Cledara
- N2F
- Vendr
- Substly
- Ramp
- Navan
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Cledara. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Cledara ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
The Spend Optimization module includes a Negotiation and Renewal Copilot (AI), and Cledara has announced AI-powered SaaS pricing benchmarks and a procurement copilot. No detail is published on model hosting, customer data use, or AI audit logging.
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Cledara is a software management platform for finance and IT teams. It pairs a live directory of every SaaS subscription with payments built for software: virtual cards, spend limits, approvals, budgets, renewal alerts and one-click cancellation. Optional modules cover spend optimisation (usage insights, benchmarks, negotiation copilot), IT management (access requests, shadow IT, onboarding) and software compliance (vendor cert checks, questionnaires). It reports 1,000+ customers across 32 countries and SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance.
Frequently asked questions
What does Cledara actually do?
Cledara combines SaaS management with payments built for software. Teams get a live directory of every subscription, virtual cards and spend limits, purchasing approvals, budgets, renewal alerts and one-click cancellation, plus optional modules for spend optimisation, IT management and software compliance.
How much does Cledara cost?
Cledara sells tiered subscriptions by staff size and number of applications: Basic (typically 25-50 staff, up to 20 apps), Premium (51-150 staff, up to 75 apps) and Pro (151+ staff). Billing is monthly or annual, with annual saving 16%. Optional modules are priced at £200/mo or £1,500/yr (Spend Optimization) and £1,500/yr (IT Management and Software Compliance). List prices are published in GBP.
How long does implementation take?
Cledara does not publish a fixed go-live time. Onboarding is built around issuing virtual cards and paying for software in the first month, so teams typically see subscription visibility within the first weeks rather than after a long implementation project.
Is Cledara secure and compliant?
Cledara states it is SOC 2 Type I and Type II certified and fully compliant with GDPR. Its security page says the platform is hosted exclusively on AWS, that card data is tokenised so Cledara never handles it, and that the system undergoes regular penetration testing.
Which tools does Cledara integrate with?
Cledara integrates with Gmail and Microsoft 365 for invoice capture, Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite and Tripletex for accounting, Okta and Google for SSO, Slack for approvals and renewals, and 35+ HR systems including Workday, BambooHR, HiBob and Personio. An open API is included on every plan.
Does Cledara include AI features?
Yes. The Spend Optimization module includes a Negotiation and Renewal Copilot (AI), and Cledara has announced AI-powered SaaS pricing benchmarks and a procurement copilot. Cledara does not publish details on model hosting, customer data use or AI audit logging.