Is Billin or Circula better?

Neither clearly leads. Billin starts at €6.6/month and Circula at €15/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Billin or Circula?

Billin starts at €6.6/month and Circula at €15/month.

Does Billin or Circula run on more platforms?

Billin runs on Web. Circula runs on Web, iOS, Android.

What is Billin best used for?

Billin is most often used for invoice management, multi-user accounting for freelancers and small businesses. Of those, invoice management and multi-user accounting for freelancers and small businesses are not what Circula is typically brought in for.

What can Billin do that Circula cannot?

Circula covers German per diem engine, Receipt capture and OCR, Corporate credit cards, Employee benefits.

Accounting · head to head

Billin vs Circula

Billin

Accounting

Spanish online invoicing software for freelancers and small businesses

From: €6.6/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

Circula

Accounting

Expense, travel and employee benefit management for German speaking finance teams

From: €15/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Billin plan Basico caps usage at just 5 clients, 1 user and 10 products for EUR 6.60/month, well below what most active small businesses need; Circula the module pricing stacks: expenses at fifteen euro per licence plus ninety nine euro for cards plus a hundred and forty nine euro for accounts payable means a fifty person company pays well over a thousand euro a month before add ons.
Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Billin and Circula actually diverge.

Attributes where Billin and Circula differ
Attribute	Billin	Circula
Starting price	€6.6/month	€15/month
Pricing model	subscription	Per user per month
Platforms	Web	Web, iOS, Android

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Accounting).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Billin

Nothing recorded that Circula does not also cover.

Only in Circula

German per diem engine
Receipt capture and OCR
Corporate credit cards
Employee benefits
Accounts payable
Mileage and travel
DATEV and ERP export
Approval workflows

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Billin

Invoice managementnot Circula
Multi-user accounting for freelancers and small businessesnot Circula

Circula

A German company that must apply statutory per diem rates and meal deductions correctly to avoid payroll tax exposurenot Billin
A finance team wanting card spend, expense claims and benefits in one DATEV exportnot Billin
An employer offering the tax free monthly benefit allowance and needing auditable records of itnot Billin
A mid sized business replacing spreadsheet mileage claims with rule enforced distance calculationsnot Billin

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Billin

Plan Basico caps usage at just 5 clients, 1 user and 10 products for EUR 6.60/month, well below what most active small businesses need
Plan Pro still caps clients at 50 and users at 3 for EUR 14/month, so any business with more clients must move to the unlimited EUR 23/month tier

Circula

The module pricing stacks: expenses at fifteen euro per licence plus ninety nine euro for cards plus a hundred and forty nine euro for accounts payable means a fifty person company pays well over a thousand euro a month before add ons.
A minimum of ten licences excludes small teams, and the flexible licensing model for occasional claimants makes monthly cost harder to forecast than a flat per seat price.
Strength is in German tax rules, so companies with significant operations outside the DACH region gain little from the feature that justifies the price.
The accounts payable module includes only a hundred invoices per month, so invoice heavy businesses face metered overage on top of the platform fee.
Card issuing carries a per card transaction ceiling and depends on partner issuing, so high value procurement spend can hit limits that a bank issued corporate card would not.

Pricing, plan by plan

Billin

€6.6/month

Plan Básico$80/year
- 0-5 clients
- 1 user
- Max 10 products
Plan Básico$96/month
Plan Pro$168/year
- 6-50 clients
- 3 users
- Max 50 products
Plan Pro$204/month

Circula

€15/month

Employee and Travel Expenses$15/month
- Per licence, billed annually
- Minimum 10 licences
- OCR receipt capture
Credit Cards$99/month
- Platform fee, unlimited cards
- Per card spend limits
- Transaction limit of EUR 750,000 per card
Accounts Payable$149/month
- Platform fee
- Includes 100 invoices per month
- Supplier invoice capture and approval
Benefits$1/month
- Per licence
- Tax free benefit allowances
- Mobility and meal benefits

Which should you pick?

Choose Billin if

Nothing in the data separates Billin from Circula on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Billin review

Choose Circula if

You need german per diem engine.
You work on Web, iOS, Android.
You also want receipt capture and ocr.

Circula review

Questions people ask

Is Billin or Circula better?: Neither clearly leads. Billin starts at €6.6/month and Circula at €15/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Billin or Circula?: Billin starts at €6.6/month and Circula at €15/month.
Does Billin or Circula run on more platforms?: Billin runs on Web. Circula runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Billin best used for?: Billin is most often used for invoice management, multi-user accounting for freelancers and small businesses. Of those, invoice management and multi-user accounting for freelancers and small businesses are not what Circula is typically brought in for.
What can Billin do that Circula cannot?: Circula covers German per diem engine, Receipt capture and OCR, Corporate credit cards, Employee benefits.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Billin: What are Billin's plan costs?

Billin offers three plans: Básico at €80/year (€6.60/month), Pro at €168/year (€14/month), and Ilimitado at €276/year (€23/month). Annual billing includes 18% savings compared to monthly.

Source

Circula: Does Circula calculate German per diems automatically?

Yes, by destination country and trip duration, including meal and accommodation deductions, which is the main reason DACH finance teams buy it.

Billin: Is there a free trial for Billin?

Yes, Billin offers a 30-day free trial with all features included. No credit card is required to start.

Source

Circula: What does it actually cost for fifty employees?

Roughly seven hundred and fifty euro a month for expense licences alone at the fifteen euro rate, before the ninety nine euro card platform fee and any accounts payable module.

Billin: How many users does each Billin plan include?

Básico includes 1 user, Pro includes 3 users, and Ilimitado includes unlimited users.

Source

Circula: Is there a minimum commitment?

Yes. A minimum of ten licences and annual billing on the published rates.

Billin vs Circula

Billin

Circula

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Billin

Only in Circula

What people use each for

Billin

Circula

Where each one falls short

Billin

Circula

Pricing, plan by plan

Billin

Circula

Which should you pick?

Choose Billin if

Choose Circula if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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