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Alternatives to Workiva
22 accounting tools sit alongside Workiva in this directory. Below is what separates each from Workiva on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 3
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Workiva starts at
- On request
Why people look past Workiva
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Workiva entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Workiva carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 3 of the 22 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Workiva publishes a single plan, Workiva Platform at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Close automation that sits on top of your ERP, covering reconciliations, journals and close task control
- Publishes an entry price of $29/month, where Workiva does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
Close management software for accounting teams
- Publishes an entry price of $29/month, where Workiva does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
Connected planning platform with an in-memory calculation engine for large multidimensional models
Priced and rated the same as Workiva on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Expense reporting and travel management at three dollars per user per month
- Can be used without paying; Workiva cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $3/month, where Workiva does not.
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Workiva's 1.
Virtual card and spend management platform aimed at SaaS and travel spend
- Can be used without paying; Workiva cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $13/month, where Workiva does not.
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Workiva's 1.
SaaS and cloud spend management that charges a share of the savings it finds rather than a licence
- Can be used without paying; Workiva cannot.
- Sold on a Free card tier, plus a share of savings on the managed plan model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Workiva's 1.
Every Workiva alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workiva (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| BlackLineIf your problem is the financial close and reconciliation rather than external report assembly | $29/month | Subscription | 1 | vs Workiva |
| FloQastIf you want close management for a mid-market finance team at far lower cost | $29/month | Subscription | 1 | vs Workiva |
| AnaplanIf your requirement is planning and forecasting rather than regulated disclosure | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| Zoho Expense | Free, then $3/month | Per user per month | 3 | vs Workiva |
| Mesh Payments | Free, then $13/month | Per user per month | 3 | vs Workiva |
| Spendbase | Free | Free card tier, plus a share of savings on the managed plan | 2 | vs Workiva |
| Rydoo | $10/month | Per user per month | 3 | vs Workiva |
| Moss | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| Medius Expense | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| Happay | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| Kodo | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| Circula | €15/month | Per user per month | 4 | vs Workiva |
| Soldo | £21/month | Per user per month | 3 | vs Workiva |
| Ottimate | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| Yooz | $199/month | Per month by invoice volume | 2 | vs Workiva |
| Basware | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| Vena Solutions | On request | Quote | 2 | vs Workiva |
| Tropic | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| DATEV | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Workiva |
| insightsoftware | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| Causal | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
| Medius | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Workiva |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Workiva badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (3)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Zoho Expense , Free, then $3/month
- Mesh Payments , Free, then $13/month
- Spendbase , Free
What you would be giving up
Workiva is most often brought in for a newly public company facing its first 10-k where the tie-out process in word and excel is not survivable at the deadline, a european group preparing csrd sustainability disclosure that must be assurance-ready rather than a marketing document, a finance team whose auditors keep raising review points about version control and unsupported changes in the reporting pack, a group with several statutory filers that wants one set of numbers feeding many jurisdictional reports. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Workiva is broadly right and the question is cost, the Workiva pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Accounting category lists everything the directory holds, and best accounting tools ranks them.
Workiva runs on web. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Workiva alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Workiva?
- 22 other accounting tools are listed in this directory, led by BlackLine, FloQast, Anaplan, Zoho Expense. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Workiva?
- 3 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Zoho Expense, Mesh Payments, Spendbase.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Workiva?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Workiva?
- Workiva is most often brought in for a newly public company facing its first 10-k where the tie-out process in word and excel is not survivable at the deadline, a european group preparing csrd sustainability disclosure that must be assurance-ready rather than a marketing document, a finance team whose auditors keep raising review points about version control and unsupported changes in the reporting pack, a group with several statutory filers that wants one set of numbers feeding many jurisdictional reports. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Workiva?
- None of the accounting tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Workiva alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Accounting, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Workiva against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Workiva covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every accounting tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Accounting category, 22 tools beside Workiva. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.