Is Jaggaer or Unanet better?

Neither clearly leads. Jaggaer starts at On request and Unanet at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Jaggaer or Unanet?

Jaggaer starts at On request and Unanet at On request.

Does Jaggaer or Unanet run on more platforms?

Jaggaer runs on Web. Unanet runs on Web, Cloud, iOS, Android.

What is Jaggaer best used for?

Jaggaer is most often used for a university or research institution that must enforce restricted fund and grant rules at the point of requisition rather than at audit, a multi site organisation trying to consolidate fragmented purchasing onto negotiated contracts it already has but does not use, a regulated manufacturer that must document supplier qualification and keep an auditable record of the sourcing decision, a finance team that can report what was spent but cannot say what it was spent on or with whom by category. Of those, a university or research institution that must enforce restricted fund and grant rules at the point of requisition rather than at audit and a multi site organisation trying to consolidate fragmented purchasing onto negotiated contracts it already has but does not use are not what Unanet is typically brought in for.

What can Jaggaer do that Unanet cannot?

Jaggaer covers Supplier management, Sourcing, Contract lifecycle, Guided buying and catalogues. Unanet covers DCAA-oriented timekeeping, Indirect rate management, Contract type support, Project accounting.

ERP · head to head

Jaggaer vs Unanet

Jaggaer

ERP

Source to pay procurement suite that sits on top of an existing ERP

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

Unanet

ERP

Project ERP and CRM built for government contractors and architecture and engineering firms

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Jaggaer this is a spend layer and not an ERP, so it must integrate with the finance system for vendor master, cost centres, budgets and invoice posting, and that integration is a build with ongoing maintenance rather than a configuration setting.; Unanet no pricing is published for any Unanet product; every line is quoted per user per month with separate implementation fees, so a small contractor cannot budget the first year without a full sales cycle.
They diverge on capability: Jaggaer covers Supplier management, Unanet covers DCAA-oriented timekeeping.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Jaggaer and Unanet actually diverge.

Attributes where Jaggaer and Unanet differ
Attribute	Jaggaer	Unanet
Platforms	Web	Web, Cloud, iOS, Android

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (ERP).

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 Jaggaer

Supplier management
Sourcing
Contract lifecycle
Guided buying and catalogues
Requisition and purchase order processing
Invoicing and matching
Spend analytics
Supplier network

Only in Unanet

DCAA-oriented timekeeping
Indirect rate management
Contract type support
Project accounting
Resource planning
Unanet CRM
Compliant invoicing
Unanet ERP AE

What people use each for

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

Jaggaer

A university or research institution that must enforce restricted fund and grant rules at the point of requisition rather than at auditnot Unanet
A multi site organisation trying to consolidate fragmented purchasing onto negotiated contracts it already has but does not usenot Unanet
A regulated manufacturer that must document supplier qualification and keep an auditable record of the sourcing decisionnot Unanet
A finance team that can report what was spent but cannot say what it was spent on or with whom by categorynot Unanet

Unanet

A federal contractor moving from QuickBooks and spreadsheets because it has won its first cost-reimbursable contract and needs an accounting system that survives a DCAA adequacy reviewnot Jaggaer
A services firm that must calculate and true up provisional indirect rates each year and cannot do it credibly in Excel any longernot Jaggaer
An architecture and engineering practice tracking utilisation and project profitability across dozens of concurrent jobsnot Jaggaer
A government contractor consolidating a separate CRM, timekeeping tool and accounting package into one system so pipeline and backlog reconcilenot Jaggaer

Where each one falls short

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

Jaggaer

This is a spend layer and not an ERP, so it must integrate with the finance system for vendor master, cost centres, budgets and invoice posting, and that integration is a build with ongoing maintenance rather than a configuration setting.
The suite is licensed by module, so a demonstration that shows sourcing, contracts, analytics and invoicing working together may represent four separate purchases and a quote for one module tells you little about the cost of the working system.
Savings depend on buyer compliance rather than on software, so an organisation without the authority to stop off system purchasing ends up paying a subscription for a reporting tool that describes the leakage it was bought to prevent.
Supplier enablement is slow and unglamorous work, because every supplier you want transacting electronically has to be contacted, configured and tested, and low enablement rates leave you running two processes at once.
Spend analytics is only as good as the classification behind it, so historic data with inconsistent supplier names and missing category codes needs a cleansing exercise before any report from it can be shown to a board.

Unanet

No pricing is published for any Unanet product; every line is quoted per user per month with separate implementation fees, so a small contractor cannot budget the first year without a full sales cycle.
Implementation is a project rather than a signup, involving chart of accounts design, indirect pool structure and data migration, and third parties report implementation fees reaching five figures for mid-sized deployments, an amount easily missed when comparing per-user rates.
The interface is dated compared with modern SaaS finance products, which raises training time for staff who only touch it to enter a timesheet and increases the support burden on the finance team.
ERP and CRM are separate products with separate contracts, so a firm that wants pipeline, backlog and actuals in one place pays twice and still deals with an integration boundary between them.
Its value is concentrated in United States federal and state contracting compliance, so a firm that does no public-sector work is paying for indirect rate machinery and DCAA audit behaviour it will never use, and a non-US firm gets almost nothing from the product’s main differentiator.

Pricing, plan by plan

Jaggaer

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Jaggaer review.

Unanet

On request

Unanet ERP GovCon$undefined/year
- Project accounting with indirect rate pools
- DCAA-oriented daily timekeeping and audit trail
- Cost-plus, T&M and fixed price contract billing
Unanet ERP AE$undefined/year
- Project accounting configured for architecture and engineering firms
- Resource planning and utilisation reporting
- Priced per user per month, quoted
Unanet CRM$undefined/year
- Pursuit and opportunity tracking
- Proposal content library and reuse
- Sold separately from ERP; quoted

Which should you pick?

Choose Jaggaer if

You need supplier management.
You also want sourcing.

Jaggaer review

Choose Unanet if

You need dcaa-oriented timekeeping.
You work on Web, Cloud, iOS, Android.
You also want indirect rate management.

Unanet review

Questions people ask

Is Jaggaer or Unanet better?: Neither clearly leads. Jaggaer starts at On request and Unanet at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Jaggaer or Unanet?: Jaggaer starts at On request and Unanet at On request.
Does Jaggaer or Unanet run on more platforms?: Jaggaer runs on Web. Unanet runs on Web, Cloud, iOS, Android.
What is Jaggaer best used for?: Jaggaer is most often used for a university or research institution that must enforce restricted fund and grant rules at the point of requisition rather than at audit, a multi site organisation trying to consolidate fragmented purchasing onto negotiated contracts it already has but does not use, a regulated manufacturer that must document supplier qualification and keep an auditable record of the sourcing decision, a finance team that can report what was spent but cannot say what it was spent on or with whom by category. Of those, a university or research institution that must enforce restricted fund and grant rules at the point of requisition rather than at audit and a multi site organisation trying to consolidate fragmented purchasing onto negotiated contracts it already has but does not use are not what Unanet is typically brought in for.
What can Jaggaer do that Unanet cannot?: Jaggaer covers Supplier management, Sourcing, Contract lifecycle, Guided buying and catalogues. Unanet covers DCAA-oriented timekeeping, Indirect rate management, Contract type support, Project accounting.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Jaggaer: Do I need this if my ERP already has a purchasing module?

ERP purchasing records transactions well and influences them poorly. If your problem is that buyers ignore negotiated contracts, or that you cannot analyse spend by category, a dedicated suite adds something. If your problem is purchase order processing, your ERP module is cheaper and already integrated.

Unanet: What does Unanet cost?

Nothing is published. Pricing is per user per month and quoted, with implementation fees charged separately on top of the subscription.

Jaggaer: How does it compare with SAP Ariba or Coupa?

All three cover the same ground. The differences that matter in practice are which one your ERP integrates with most cheaply, which has real depth in your sector, and which suppliers are already transacting on the network. JAGGAER has an unusually deep footprint in higher education and research purchasing.

Unanet: Does Unanet make you DCAA compliant?

No software does. Unanet provides the timekeeping controls, audit trail and indirect rate accounting that an adequacy review looks for; the policies and their enforcement are still yours.

Jaggaer: What does implementation actually involve?

Supplier data cleansing, category taxonomy design, approval workflow design, ERP integration and supplier enablement. The software configuration is the smallest of those. Expect the services engagement to be comparable to the first year of subscription.

Unanet: Is Unanet CRM included with the ERP?

No. Unanet CRM, built on the acquired Cosential platform, is a separate product with its own contract.

Jaggaer: Is it sold direct or through partners?

JAGGAER sells direct and also works with implementation partners on larger programmes. Whichever route you take, ask specifically who will hold the integration work and whether that team has connected to your ERP version before.

Unanet: How does it compare with Deltek?

Unanet typically targets smaller contractors than Deltek Costpoint and is quicker to implement, but has less depth for very large multi-segment organisations.

Jaggaer vs Unanet

Jaggaer

Unanet

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Jaggaer

Only in Unanet

What people use each for

Jaggaer

Unanet

Where each one falls short

Jaggaer

Unanet

Pricing, plan by plan

Jaggaer

Unanet

Which should you pick?

Choose Jaggaer if

Choose Unanet if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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