Cledara
Cledara gives finance teams a place to discover, buy, manage, and cancel software subscriptions.
What Cledara is
Cledara gives finance teams a place to discover, buy, manage, and cancel software subscriptions. Its Basic plan provides spend visibility, renewal alerts, budgets, spend limits, and software payment and cancellation management, covering up to 20 applications. Premium covers up to 75 applications and adds automatic invoice capture and reconciliation. Pro is a tailored package with Okta SSO, bank-transfer expense payments, and a dedicated Implementation and Success Manager. Pricing for these plans is available on request, and there is no free plan. Separate monthly plans cost £150 a month each: Spend Optimization offers usage and seat insights, duplicate-tool and price-increase alerts, benchmarks, and negotiation and renewal support; IT Management covers access workflows, shadow IT, onboarding and offboarding, and HR tool integration; Software Compliance includes vendor compliance tags, questionnaires, and templates. An API for subscription data comes with every plan at no extra cost. Cledara lists accounting and HR integrations, and its mobile app supports card details and PINs, receipt uploads, and reimbursement claims. It is available on Android, iOS, web, as an extension, and through an API.
Good
- Basic includes budgets, spend limits, and renewal alerts.
- Premium automates invoice capture and reconciliation.
- API access is included on every plan at no extra cost.
- Mobile app supports receipts and reimbursement claims.
Watch out
- No free plan is available.
- Basic covers up to 20 applications.
- Premium covers up to 75 applications.
- Pricing for Basic, Premium, and Pro is on request.
Who it suits
Cledara suits finance teams that need to manage software subscriptions, spending, and renewals. Its separate IT Management and Software Compliance plans may also suit teams handling access workflows or vendor checks.
Verdict
Cledara combines subscription spending controls with invoice, access, and compliance options. Check application limits and request pricing to determine which plan fits your needs.
Plans and prices
From Cledara's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Basic (G2 listing) | $75 a month | pricing shown by G2 directory |
| Get Started / Basic | £100 a month | up to 20 applications · spend visibility · virtual cards · directory · renewal alerts · budgets · Xero and QuickBooks · Charged when fewer than 10 applications are paid with Cledara virtual cards in the first month |
| Software Compliance | £150 a month | ISO 27001 and SOC 2 vendor tags · delegated questionnaires · compliance templates |
| Spend Optimization | £150 a month | usage and seat insights · duplicate and price alerts · pricing benchmarks · AI Negotiation Copilot |
| IT Management | £150 a month | access workflows · shadow-IT visibility · onboarding and offboarding · HR integrations |
| Premium | Priced on request | up to 75 applications · Basic features · approval workflows · invoice capture and reconciliation · advanced reporting · NetSuite · video support · 1% first-year cashback capped at plan price · Book a demo |
| Basic | Priced on request | Up to 20 software applications · Virtual cards · Software directory and renewal alerts · Spend limits and budgets · Xero and QuickBooks integrations · Monthly or annually; contact Cledara for pricing |
| Pro | Priced on request | custom package · Premium features · Okta SSO · bank-transfer expenses · dedicated implementation and success manager · From; book a demo |
The facts
Each one read from Cledara's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- The public API is GET-only and read-only, with endpoints for applications, transactions and invoices.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API access
- Support must enable API access; keys require SaaS Admin/Finance or Spend Admin/Accountant roles, inherit creator permissions and are account-specific.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API documentation
- Endpoint specifications, schemas and AI-optimized documentation are provided at api-docs.cledara.com.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API launch news
- Cledara announced its public API as live on 27 August 2026 and included on every plan without an extra charge.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Automation
- Cledara automates access requests, budget changes, contracts, invoices and accounting tasks.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Business spend
- Cledara Spend supports physical and virtual cards, receipt scanning, reimbursements, mobile payments and accounting connections.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cards
- Cledara's virtual cards are issued by Mastercard and tokenized by Very Good Security and MeaWallet.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Developer limits
- The official API and help pages do not describe SDKs, webhooks, self-hosting or an open-source repository.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Engage limitation
- Cledara documents that Engage can miss usage from desktop applications and requires an up-to-date Chrome browser.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding news
- TechCrunch reported on 12 September 2022 that Cledara raised a $20 million Series A led by CommerzVentures.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Google Play listing
- The Android app has 100+ downloads; the listing does not display a star rating or rating count.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- Cledara says its service is built and hosted exclusively on AWS and undergoes regular security reviews, including active penetration testing.checked 7 Oct 2026
- HR integrations
- The integrations page lists HR systems including BambooHR, HiBob, Personio, and CharlieHR for software access workflows.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Official integrations include Gmail, Microsoft 365, Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Tripletex, Okta, Google, Slack and many HR systems.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Invoice automation
- Premium includes automatic software invoice capture and reconciliation.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Limit: cards and permissions
- G2 reviewers describe card transfers between old and replacement cards as awkward and request clearer roles, permissions and exports.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser extension
- Cledara Engage monitors use of curated SaaS sites while keeping other browsing data on the device.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founding
- Cledara Limited says it was founded in London in July 2018.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- The legal footer gives Cledara's London address as 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, EC2A 4NE.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company identity
- The group consists of Cledara Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Cledara Limited, UK company number 11455373.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Cledara as a privately held company with 51–200 employees and headquarters in New York.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2018checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- London, England, United Kingdomchecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
