Sphere
Sphere is a cross-border tax compliance platform for global businesses, commerce platforms, and tax advisers.
What Sphere is
Sphere is a cross-border tax compliance platform for global businesses, commerce platforms, and tax advisers. It automates indirect tax work across more than 130 jurisdictions, including exposure monitoring, registration, calculation, return filing, and payment remittance. The platform extracts input VAT, GST, and use tax from accounts payable and expense data, applies local deductibility rules, and nets approved deductions against output tax. Its e-invoicing tools generate and receive compliant invoices, validate and exchange them through local channels, report where required, and retain audit trails. The TRAM engine researches tax law, rates, and rulings, with tax experts approving determinations before a deterministic engine applies them in real time. Integrations include Stripe, PayPal, Chargebee, QuickBooks, NetSuite, and Xero. A RESTful API supports custom billing setups. Starter costs $100 per region per month, covering fewer than 10 regions and up to 50,000 transactions.
Good
- Covers more than 130 tax jurisdictions
- Supports registration, filing, and remittance
- Includes advanced e-invoicing workflows
- Offers integrations with major finance tools
- Provides a RESTful API
Watch out
- No free plan
- Starter is limited to fewer than 10 regions
- Custom pricing applies to Growth and add-ons
- Customs and Withholding Tax are marked coming in 2027
Who it suits
Sphere is aimed at global businesses, billing and commerce platforms, and accounting or tax advisory firms managing obligations across jurisdictions.
Verdict
Sphere brings jurisdictional tax calculation, filing, remittance, input-tax recovery, and e-invoicing together. Its $100-per-region Starter plan has stated region and transaction limits, while broader services use custom pricing.
Plans and prices
From Sphere's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $100 a month | < 10 regions · Calculation up to 50,000 transactions · Monitoring · Registration · Filing & remittance · Local rails & integrations · $100/region /month |
| E-invoicing add-on | Priced on request | Issue compliant e-invoices in each market’s required format and reporting model · Contact us |
| Growth | Priced on request | 10+ regions · Everything in Starter · Dedicated account manager · Tax team on demand · Slack support 24/7 · Back tax calculations included · Custom |
| Input tax add-on | Priced on request | Recover input VAT, GST and use tax from business expenses · Contact us |
The facts
Each one read from Sphere's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI engine
- TRAM researches tax law, rates and rulings, with tax experts approving determinations before a deterministic engine applies them in real time.checked 30 Sep 2026
- API
- Sphere provides a RESTful API for custom billing setups to calculate, register and file in real time.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Coming soon
- The site labels Customs and Withholding Tax as coming in 2027.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Coverage
- Sphere says it connects directly to 130+ tax authorities for registration, filing and remittance.checked 30 Sep 2026
- E-invoicing
- Sphere generates and receives compliant e-invoices, validates and exchanges them through local channels, reports where required, and archives them with audit trails.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Indirect tax
- Its platform monitors exposure, manages registration, calculates tax, files returns and remits payments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Input tax
- Sphere extracts input VAT, GST and use tax from AP and expense data, applies local deductibility rules and nets approved deductions against output tax.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include Stripe, PayPal, Chargebee, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Xero and other billing and finance tools.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- Sphere presents the platform for global businesses, billing and commerce platforms, and accounting and tax advisory firms.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Pricing limit
- Starter includes calculation for up to 50,000 transactions and is listed for fewer than 10 regions.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Product
- Sphere automates cross-border tax compliance across 130+ jurisdictions.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- The Growth plan includes a dedicated account manager, an on-demand tax team and 24/7 Slack support.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2024checked 28 Sep 2026
