European Alternatives to Brex, Ramp - Spend Management (2026) | European Purpose

European Spend Management Alternatives

Twelve European spend management platforms, verified against each vendor's own imprint, licence and pricing page. Corporate cards, accounts payable, procurement and SaaS spend — with the hosting named, not implied.

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12 European Spend Management

Moss

Berlin cards and accounts payable with Frankfurt as the only processing region

Germany Free for 3 users, paid modular
BaFin licence 159024GCP Frankfurt onlyISO/IEC 27001:2022

Pleo

The largest European card and spend platform, with prices you can read without a call

Denmark From €8/user/month
40,000+ businessesEU hosting on three cloudsFCA-authorised UK arm

Payhawk

Cards, invoices, travel and procurement in four modules you buy separately

United Kingdom Quote-only, £149/mo small-team plan
Own EMI in Lithuania and UKFour separate modulesNo implementation fee

Spendesk

Paris-built spend platform that does not charge per active user

France Quote-only
ISO 27001:2022Unlimited cards and usersREGAFI registered 74593

Soldo

Published flat pricing and its own e-money licences in Ireland and the UK

United Kingdom From £21/month + VAT
30-day free trialCentral Bank of IrelandPCI DSS Level 1 since 2017

Pliant

Berlin credit cards issued out of Helsinki, with cashback on the Standard plan

Germany Quote-only
Finnish FIN-FSA supervisionISO 27001:2022 and PCI DSSCards-as-a-Service API

Qonto

A French business account with team cards and budgets on top, at a flat monthly price

France From €49/month for teams
ACPR licence 16958600,000+ customersUnlimited team members

Onventis

Source-to-pay procurement from Stuttgart, running since 2000 on a supplier network

Germany Quote-only
4.5 million suppliersAzure EU Data BoundaryFounded 2000

Medius

Swedish accounts payable automation at enterprise invoice volumes

Sweden Quote-only
6m invoices per monthISO 27001:2022 and SOC 23,000+ customers

Sastrify

Cologne-based SaaS spend management with human negotiators attached

Germany From €12,500/year
Vendor benchmark databaseExpert procurement serviceSoftware only

Cledara

One virtual card per subscription, so cancelling actually stops the payment

United Kingdom From £100/month
1,000+ customersSOC 2 Type IICard per application

Weproc

Purchase requests and orders for French SMEs, on a server in Clermont-Ferrand

France From €50–75/user/month
Hosted in France at o2switchThree-way matchingNo cards, no payments

Key takeaways

  • Moss ranks #1 among the European spend management tools in this directory, because Moss is the only one that names a single data processing region — Google Cloud in Frankfurt, with customer data hosted exclusively in the EU — alongside a BaFin licence with a published number (159024) and ISO/IEC 27001:2022.
  • Six of the twelve publish prices and six do not. Pleo (€8–€18 per user per month), Soldo (£21 and £33 a month), Qonto (€49–€199 a month), Weproc (€50–€75 per user per month), Sastrify (from €12,500 a year) and Cledara (£100 a month) are readable without a sales call. Moss, Spendesk, Payhawk, Pliant, Onventis and Medius quote.
  • Not one of the twelve is open source, and that is structural rather than accidental: issuing a card requires an e-money licence that no community project can hold, and procurement software is worth little without a supplier network behind it.
  • "European" and "not on American infrastructure" are different claims, and only Weproc satisfies both — hosted at o2switch in Clermont-Ferrand. Everything else runs on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, and the useful distinction is between vendors that name a region (Moss: Frankfurt; Pleo: Ireland and the EU; Onventis: the Azure EU Data Boundary) and vendors that say only "AWS" (Spendesk, Cledara) or nothing at all (Pliant, Qonto, Soldo).
  • Three of the twelve issue no cards at all. Onventis, Weproc and Medius handle requests, orders and supplier invoices, which is the half of spend management that Brex and Ramp reached last and that most European buyers already have a system for.
  • Moss is the only free plan in the category: $0 for three users with unlimited cards and up to 20 invoices a month, with the wallet restricted to debit.

European spend management software is the set of systems that control company money before it leaves — purchase requests, corporate cards, supplier invoices, subscription renewals and the approvals in front of each — operated by a company established in Europe, where the card issuing sits under a named European financial supervisor and the contracting party is inside EU or UK jurisdiction rather than represented by a local sales entity.

European spend management compared

European spend management tools compared on position, country, entry price and best use
PositionToolEstablishedEntry priceBest for
#1 Moss Germany Free plan at $0 for up to 3 users; paid plans are modular — a platform fee plus a variable fee on transaction volume, not per user — and are quoted rather than published European finance teams that need a named data centre, not a named continent
#2 Pleo Denmark Start €8 per user per month (monthly billing), Build €14 and Optimise €18 per user per month on annual billing; Build and Optimise require a minimum of three users Companies that want to compare prices before they talk to anyone
#3 Payhawk United Kingdom Quoted per module — Travel, Cards & Expenses, Accounts Payable and Procurement — on a foundation fee plus usage; one published package, the Growth Program, is £149 a month for UK and EEA businesses under 20 employees Companies that want cards, invoices, travel and procurement from one vendor
#4 Spendesk France Quoted: a fixed monthly platform subscription plus variable fees on card purchases, invoice payments and expense claims; card orders and monthly card fees are free and there is no per-active-user charge Companies with many occasional spenders and a finance team tired of per-seat maths
#5 Soldo United Kingdom Standard £21 a month plus VAT (1 wallet, 3 users, 3 cards, up to 20 bank transfers a month), Plus £33 a month plus VAT (3 wallets, up to 30 transfers), Unlimited quoted; minimum three users and extra cards cost extra Small teams that want a fixed monthly bill and 30 days to test it
#6 Pliant Germany Three plans — Light, Standard and Custom — all calculated individually; no prices are published. The Standard plan includes unlimited cashback, with the percentage not stated German companies that want a credit card product with cashback rather than a debit wallet
#7 Qonto France Business plans at €49, €109 and €199 a month on annual billing (€588, €1,308 and €2,388 a year), each with unlimited team members; self-employed plans at €9, €19 and €39 a month European SMEs that would rather have one provider for the account and the cards
#8 Onventis Germany Not published — Onventis has no pricing page and quotes on request Mid-sized European buyers whose spend leaves as purchase orders, not card payments
#9 Medius Sweden Not published — two packages, Medius AP Essentials and Medius AP 360, both quoted, with additional modules at extra cost Finance teams drowning in supplier invoices rather than employee receipts
#10 Sastrify Germany Software Management from €12,500 a year, Vendor Benchmarks from €15,000 a year, Expert Procurement from €25,000 a year; quoted in EUR, GBP and USD Companies whose software bill is large enough to hire someone to argue about it
#11 Cledara United Kingdom Basic £100 a month for up to 20 applications, waived in the first month if you pay for ten applications with Cledara virtual cards; Premium (up to 75 applications) and Pro quoted; add-ons at £150–£200 a month Finance teams that want cancelling a subscription to actually stop the payment
#12 Weproc France Starter €75 per user per month for 1–14 users with all modules included, Professional €60 for 15–25, Enterprise €50 for 26–50, Unlimited quoted above 51 French SMEs and public-adjacent buyers who need the server in France too

Every European spend management tool reviewed

#1 Moss

Berlin, Germany Founded 2019 Free plan at $0 for up to 3 users; paid plans are modular — a platform fee plus a variable fee on transaction volume, not per user — and are quoted rather than published Free plan for up to three users with unlimited cards and up to 20 invoices a month; the wallet is debit-only on that plan

Best for: European finance teams that need a named data centre, not a named continent

  • Operating company. Nufin GmbH (software) and Moss GmbH (card issuing and payment services)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. Germany — customer data hosted exclusively in the EU on Google Cloud Platform, with Frankfurt named as the sole data processing region
  • Independent checks. ISO/IEC 27001:2022; BaFin-regulated under licence no. 159024; states DORA compliance
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Ramp, Brex, SAP Concur, Expensify

Moss answers the question this whole directory exists to ask, and answers it in one sentence: customer data is hosted exclusively in the European Union on Google Cloud Platform, with Frankfurt as the sole data processing region. Not "the EU", not "EU regions" — one city. Almost nothing else in spend management is that specific, and for a German or Austrian buyer whose procurement rules reach the sub-processor, it converts a diagram into a line.

The corporate structure is split in the way German fintechs usually are, and the imprint says so.

Nufin GmbH (HRB 209209, Berlin) builds and sells the software; Moss GmbH (HRB 219201) issues the cards and is authorised and regulated by BaFin under licence number 159024. Both sit at Saarbrücker Str. 37A in Berlin. Dutch credit facilities run through GetMoss NL B.V. in Amsterdam. Founded in 2019, Moss now serves more than 10,000 businesses across six European offices and states €7bn in annual spend processed.

The product is cards plus accounts payable plus approvals, with Reimbursements, Advanced Controlling, Procurement and ERP as add-ons. Pricing is the weak point for anyone who wants to compare before talking: the free plan is published ($0 for three users, unlimited cards, 20 invoices a month, debit-only wallet) and everything above it is modular and quoted, built on a platform fee plus transaction volume rather than per active user.

What Moss does well

  • Names Frankfurt as the sole data processing region, with customer data hosted exclusively in the EU
  • BaFin-regulated card issuing with the licence number published (159024)
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and states DORA compliance
  • The only free plan in this category: three users, unlimited cards, 20 invoices a month
  • Priced on platform fee plus transaction volume rather than per active user

Where Moss falls short

  • Google Cloud underneath, so a US hyperscaler is in the chain even though the region is European
  • Paid pricing is not published — every plan above free requires a call
  • The free plan's wallet is debit-only, so it does not test the credit product
  • Procurement, reimbursements and advanced controlling are add-ons, not included
  • Strongest in German-speaking and Benelux markets; thinner coverage in southern Europe

Standout feature. One city, not one continent. Moss is the only tool in this category that names a single data processing region, which turns the residency question into a one-line answer.

#2 Pleo

Copenhagen, Denmark Founded 2015 Start €8 per user per month (monthly billing), Build €14 and Optimise €18 per user per month on annual billing; Build and Optimise require a minimum of three users Free trial on Start and Build; no free plan

Best for: Companies that want to compare prices before they talk to anyone

  • Operating company. Pleo Technologies A/S, reg. 36538686
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Denmark)
  • Where the data sits. EU — sub-processor list names Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure in the EU and AWS in Ireland for hosting, with payment processing at Enfice in Frankfurt; Anthropic and HubSpot are named as US sub-processors
  • Independent checks. Pleo Financial Services UK Ltd is authorised by the FCA under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011, reference 1020730
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Brex, Ramp, Expensify, SAP Concur

Pleo is the largest European company in this category and the one that behaves least like an enterprise vendor about money: €8 per user per month on Start, €14 on Build, €18 on Optimise, printed on the page. In a category where six of twelve tools will not give you a number, that alone decides a lot of evaluations.

Pleo Technologies A/S (reg. 36538686) has been in Copenhagen since 2015, founded by Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra, both early at Tradeshift. More than 40,000 businesses across 16 European countries use it, with 800-plus staff and offices from Lisbon to Chennai. The UK arm, Pleo Financial Services UK Ltd, is FCA-authorised under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 with reference 1020730.

The sub-processor list is unusually forthcoming and repays reading. Hosting is Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure in the EU plus AWS in Ireland; payment processing is Enfice in Frankfurt and open banking is Saltedge, also Frankfurt.

It also names Anthropic in the US for AI product features and HubSpot in the US for CRM — the sort of disclosure most vendors bury, and the sort a procurement team will ask about. Three clouds is more surface than Moss's one, and it is the price of Pleo's size.

What Pleo does well

  • Per-user prices published — €8, €14 and €18 a month — with no sales call to see them
  • The largest European deployment here: 40,000-plus businesses across 16 countries
  • Sub-processor list names every hosting provider and region, including the US ones
  • FCA-authorised e-money arm with the reference number published
  • Ten years of product behind it, with cards, expenses, invoices and reimbursements in one place

Where Pleo falls short

  • Spread across Google Cloud, Azure and AWS, so three US hyperscalers are in the chain
  • No free plan — only a trial on Start and Build
  • Build and Optimise require a minimum of three users, so a two-person company pays the monthly Start rate
  • Anthropic and HubSpot process data in the US, which a strict procurement policy will flag
  • Priced per seat, so occasional spenders cost the same as daily ones

Standout feature. It publishes both the price list and the full sub-processor list. Almost nothing else in this category does either, and Pleo does both.

#3 Payhawk

London, United Kingdom (origins and engineering in Sofia, Bulgaria) Quoted per module — Travel, Cards & Expenses, Accounts Payable and Procurement — on a foundation fee plus usage; one published package, the Growth Program, is £149 a month for UK and EEA businesses under 20 employees Optional 7-day free trial on the Growth Program for eligible customers; no free plan

Best for: Companies that want cards, invoices, travel and procurement from one vendor

  • Operating company. Payhawk Limited, company no. 11747263
  • Jurisdiction. UK, with EEA card issuing under Lithuanian supervision
  • Where the data sits. AWS and Google Cloud; Payhawk does not name the regions
  • Independent checks. EMI licence from the Bank of Lithuania granted 11 July 2023 (Payhawk Financial Services UAB) and from the FCA granted 13 January 2024 (Payhawk Financial Services Limited); hosting providers certified ISO 27001, PCI DSS Service Provider Level 1 and SOC 1/2
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Brex, Ramp, SAP Concur, Coupa

Payhawk is the broadest product in this category and sells it in four pieces: Travel, Cards & Expenses, Accounts Payable and Procurement, bought separately and priced on a foundation fee with a usage layer on top. That structure is the reason it appears on shortlists against Coupa as often as against Ramp, and the reason its pricing page mostly says "contact us".

Payhawk Limited (company no. 11747263) is registered at Chancery House on Chancery Lane in London, with the company's origins and engineering in Sofia — three founders at a shared desk, now Bulgaria's first unicorn, with 450-plus staff across nine offices and availability in 33 countries on $239m raised.

Unusually for this category it holds its own licences on both sides: Payhawk Financial Services UAB received an EMI licence from the Bank of Lithuania on 11 July 2023, and Payhawk Financial Services Limited received one from the FCA on 13 January 2024. US cards run through Cross River Bank.

The infrastructure answer is the weakest part of an otherwise well-documented vendor.

Payhawk states that it hosts on AWS and Google Cloud and that both providers are ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1 and SOC 1/2 certified — a claim about the providers rather than about Payhawk, with no region named. There is one published price: the Growth Program at £149 a month for UK and EEA businesses under 20 employees, with 10 cards, 10 seats and up to 15 invoices and 15 reimbursements a month, on an optional 7-day trial.

What Payhawk does well

  • The widest scope here — travel, cards, accounts payable and procurement from one vendor
  • Holds its own EMI licences in both Lithuania (July 2023) and the UK (January 2024)
  • Modules are bought separately, so you can leave one without replacing everything
  • States there is no flat setup or implementation fee
  • One published entry price, £149 a month, aimed squarely at companies under 20 people

Where Payhawk falls short

  • Runs on AWS and Google Cloud with no region named anywhere
  • Security certifications quoted are the hosting providers', not Payhawk's own
  • Pricing above the Growth Program is quoted, on annual or multi-year contracts
  • A UK contracting entity, so an EU buyer is dealing with a non-EU counterparty even though the card issuer is Lithuanian
  • Does not publish its founding year anywhere on its own site

Standout feature. Two licences, two regulators, one vendor. Payhawk is the only tool here that issues cards under both Bank of Lithuania and FCA authorisation in its own name.

#4 Spendesk

Paris, France Founded 2016 Quoted: a fixed monthly platform subscription plus variable fees on card purchases, invoice payments and expense claims; card orders and monthly card fees are free and there is no per-active-user charge No free plan or trial published

Best for: Companies with many occasional spenders and a finance team tired of per-seat maths

  • Operating company. Spendesk SAS, RCS Paris 821 893 286
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. AWS; Spendesk does not name the region
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001:2022; registered on the French Financial Firms Register under number 74593; states DORA compliance and PCI-DSS certified partners
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Brex, Ramp, Coupa, SAP Concur

Spendesk's commercial argument is a single sentence on its pricing page: unlimited cards, unlimited users, no per-active-user charge. Card orders are free and monthly card fees are free. For a company where 200 people each buy something twice a year, that inverts the economics of every per-seat competitor — and it is why Spendesk keeps beating tools that are cheaper on paper.

Spendesk SAS is registered in Paris under RCS 821 893 286 at 7 Rue de Madrid in the 8th, and appears on the French Financial Firms Register under number 74593. Founded in 2016, it now supports over 200,000 users across offices in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin and London. It holds ISO 27001:2022, states DORA compliance, and notes that its card partners are PCI-DSS certified.

What it will not tell you is the price or the region. Pricing is a fixed monthly platform subscription plus variable fees on card purchases, invoice payments and expense claims, with Procurement, Accounts Payable and Business features as add-ons — all quoted. Hosting is AWS, and the security page says so without naming a region, which for a French company with a French regulator is a conspicuous gap.

What Spendesk does well

  • No per-active-user charge, with unlimited cards and users on every plan
  • Card orders and monthly card fees included rather than billed
  • ISO 27001:2022 certified, with DORA compliance stated
  • French contracting entity, registered on the national financial firms register
  • Procurement and accounts payable available as add-ons on the same platform

Where Spendesk falls short

  • No price published at all, and no free plan or trial
  • Hosted on AWS with no region named
  • Variable fees on transaction volume make the bill hard to forecast before you sign
  • The interesting modules — procurement, AP — are add-ons rather than included
  • Card issuing sits with partners rather than a Spendesk-owned licensed entity

Standout feature. Unlimited users at no per-seat cost. Spendesk is the only card platform here where giving an occasional buyer their own card costs nothing per month.

#5 Soldo

London, United Kingdom, with a Milan office Founded 2015 Standard £21 a month plus VAT (1 wallet, 3 users, 3 cards, up to 20 bank transfers a month), Plus £33 a month plus VAT (3 wallets, up to 30 transfers), Unlimited quoted; minimum three users and extra cards cost extra 30-day free trial on Standard and Plus

Best for: Small teams that want a fixed monthly bill and 30 days to test it

  • Operating company. Soldo Software Ltd, company no. 09233754, with Soldo Italia S.r.l. and two regulated entities
  • Jurisdiction. UK, with EEA card issuing under Irish supervision
  • Where the data sits. Not disclosed — Soldo publishes certifications but does not name a cloud provider or region
  • Independent checks. ISO/IEC 27001 group-wide since 2019, ISO 9001 since 2019, PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider since 2017, Cyber Essentials Plus; Soldo Financial Services Ireland DAC is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland and Soldo Financial Services Ltd is an FCA-authorised EMI, FRN 900459
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Brex, Ramp, Expensify, corporate card programmes from incumbent banks

Soldo is the most straightforward purchase in this category. Standard is £21 a month plus VAT for one wallet, three users, three cards and up to 20 bank transfers; Plus is £33 for three wallets and 30 transfers; Unlimited is quoted. There is a 30-day free trial, and you can read all of that without giving anyone your email address.

The group structure is layered but fully published. Soldo Software Ltd (no. 09233754) at 119 Marylebone Road in London provides the software to all customers, with Soldo Italia S.r.l. (no. 11864540965) in Milan alongside it.

The regulated side is Soldo Financial Services Ireland DAC (no. 610705, Dublin), regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, and Soldo Financial Services Ltd (no. 09495650), an FCA-authorised electronic money institution under FRN 900459. Founded in London in 2015, Soldo now serves more than 25,000 organisations across 31 countries.

Its certification list is the longest here — ISO/IEC 27001 group-wide since 2019, ISO 9001 since 2019, PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider since 2017 and Cyber Essentials Plus — and it is paired with silence on hosting.

Soldo does not name a cloud provider or a region anywhere on its security page, which is an odd omission for a vendor that documents everything else so carefully. The product is also narrower than Moss or Payhawk: cards, wallets and expense capture, without accounts payable or procurement.

What Soldo does well

  • Flat published pricing from £21 a month plus VAT, with no sales call needed
  • 30-day free trial on both published plans
  • Card issuing regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, with a separate FCA-authorised UK entity
  • ISO/IEC 27001 since 2019, ISO 9001, PCI DSS Level 1 since 2017 and Cyber Essentials Plus
  • Wallet structure suits departments, sites or vehicles with separate budgets

Where Soldo falls short

  • Does not disclose its cloud provider or hosting region anywhere
  • Every plan bills a minimum of three users, and extra cards cost extra on top
  • Transfer limits are capped at 20 and 30 a month on the published plans
  • No accounts payable or procurement — this is a card and wallet product
  • Published prices are in pounds; a euro buyer is reading a converted number

Standout feature. A fixed monthly price and thirty days to change your mind. In a category built on quotes and annual contracts, Soldo is the one you can simply buy.

#6 Pliant

Berlin, Germany Founded 2020 Three plans — Light, Standard and Custom — all calculated individually; no prices are published. The Standard plan includes unlimited cashback, with the percentage not stated No free plan or trial published

Best for: German companies that want a credit card product with cashback rather than a debit wallet

  • Operating company. Pliant GmbH, HRB 217281 B Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany, with card issuing in Finland)
  • Where the data sits. Not disclosed — Pliant publishes its licences and certifications but not its hosting location
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001:2022 and PCI DSS service provider; EU cards issued by Pliant Oy (business ID 3266913-9) in Helsinki under Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority supervision, UK cards by Transact Payments Limited under the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Brex, Ramp, corporate card programmes from incumbent banks

Pliant is a credit card company first and a spend platform second, which makes it the closest European analogue to how Brex started. Pliant GmbH sits at Prenzlauer Allee 242-247 in Berlin under HRB 217281 B, run by Malte Rau, Fabian Terner and Friedrich Hubel, and has been at this since 2020. Alongside the direct product it sells Cards-as-a-Service, letting banks and platforms issue Pliant-powered cards under their own brand.

The licensing is arranged across borders and published clearly. EU cards are issued by Pliant Oy, business ID 3266913-9, at Pohjoisesplanadi 19 in Helsinki, recognised as an authorised e-money payment institution and supervised by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority. UK cards are issued by Transact Payments Limited under the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. Pliant itself is certified as a PCI DSS service provider and holds ISO 27001:2022.

Two things are missing and both matter. Pliant publishes no prices — Light, Standard and Custom are all calculated individually — and it advertises unlimited cashback on the Standard plan without stating the percentage, which is the single number a buyer choosing a credit card product actually needs. It also publishes no hosting location: no cloud provider, no region, nothing on the compliance and security page beyond certifications.

What Pliant does well

  • A real credit card product rather than a prepaid wallet, with cashback on the Standard plan
  • EU issuing through Pliant Oy under Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority supervision
  • ISO 27001:2022 and PCI DSS service provider certification
  • Cards-as-a-Service lets banks and platforms issue under their own brand
  • German company with the imprint, HRB number and managing directors fully published

Where Pliant falls short

  • No prices published on any plan, and no free plan or trial
  • Advertises unlimited cashback without stating the percentage anywhere
  • Does not disclose where it hosts data — no provider, no region
  • UK cards are issued by a Gibraltar-regulated third party rather than by Pliant
  • Narrower than Moss or Payhawk: cards and controls, not accounts payable or procurement

Standout feature. Card issuing split across two regulators by design: a Berlin company with a Finnish e-money institution behind every EU card it puts in a wallet.

#7 Qonto

Paris, France Founded 2017 Business plans at €49, €109 and €199 a month on annual billing (€588, €1,308 and €2,388 a year), each with unlimited team members; self-employed plans at €9, €19 and €39 a month One month free on every plan

Best for: European SMEs that would rather have one provider for the account and the cards

  • Operating company. Qonto SA, Paris Trade Register 819 489 626
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. Not disclosed — Qonto names its banking partners but not its hosting provider or region
  • Independent checks. Licensed payment institution authorised by the French ACPR, registration 16958 granted 21/06/2018; French State certified e-invoicing platform
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Brex, Ramp, Mercury

Qonto is the only tool in this category that is also where your money lives. Founded in 2017 by Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi and now serving more than 600,000 customers across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Portugal and the Netherlands, it combines a business account with team cards, budgets, expense reports and reimbursements — which is the Brex shape rather than the Ramp one.

Qonto SA is a French société anonyme registered in Paris under 819 489 626, and it is a licensed payment institution authorised by the ACPR under registration number 16958, granted on 21 June 2018.

That is not a banking licence, and Qonto is unusually clear about the consequence: funds sit with partner banks — Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Société Générale, Natixis or Rothschild Martin Maurel — protected to €100,000 per institution per client by the FGDR, with the remainder covered by standalone guarantees from Crédit Agricole CIB and BNP Paribas. It is also a French State certified e-invoicing platform, which matters as the French mandate lands.

Pricing is flat and published: €49, €109 and €199 a month for business plans on annual billing, each with unlimited team members and customised roles, and €9 to €39 a month for the self-employed tiers. Every plan comes with a month free. What Qonto does not publish is anything about where it hosts data — the security page covers funds, fraud and regulation and says nothing about a cloud provider, a region or an ISO certification.

What Qonto does well

  • Account, cards and spend controls from a single ACPR-licensed French provider
  • Flat monthly pricing at €49, €109 and €199 with unlimited team members
  • One month free on every plan, including the business tiers
  • Unusually clear about how customer funds are protected and by whom
  • French State certified e-invoicing platform, ahead of the French mandate

Where Qonto falls short

  • A payment institution, not a bank — deposit protection runs through partner banks rather than directly
  • Publishes no hosting location, cloud provider or security certification
  • Card counts are capped per plan: 5 physical on Essential, 10 on Business, 30 on Enterprise
  • No accounts payable or procurement module — spend control stops at the card and the budget
  • Available in eight European markets, so a company outside them cannot buy it

Standout feature. The account and the spend controls are the same product. Qonto is the only tool here where switching spend management does not mean reconciling against someone else's bank.

#8 Onventis

Stuttgart, Germany Founded 2000 Not published — Onventis has no pricing page and quotes on request None published

Best for: Mid-sized European buyers whose spend leaves as purchase orders, not card payments

  • Operating company. Onventis GmbH, HRB 21731 Stuttgart
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. Germany, on Microsoft Azure within the EU Data Boundary — Onventis states in its own words that it uses "an American hyperscaler for our cloud data infrastructure", with development, operations, consulting and support all in Europe
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Coupa, SAP Ariba, Jaggaer, the procurement half of Ramp

Onventis is the oldest company in this category by fifteen years and the one that looks least like a fintech. Founded in Stuttgart in 2000, Onventis GmbH (HRB 21731, Gropiusplatz 10) runs a source-to-pay network connecting around 1.2 million users at more than 1,000 buying organisations to 4.5 million suppliers, from offices in Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Paris, The Hague, Vienna and Stockholm.

That network is the product. Procurement software without connected suppliers is a form-filling exercise; with them, a purchase request becomes an order in someone else's system without a PDF in between. It puts Onventis in the SAP Ariba and Coupa bracket rather than the Ramp one, and it is the reason a European mid-market buyer would choose it over the American incumbents.

On infrastructure Onventis is refreshingly blunt. Its SaaS runs in Microsoft Azure data centres exclusively within the EU Data Boundary, and the company writes in its own words that it uses "an American hyperscaler for our cloud data infrastructure" — while noting that development, operations, consulting and support all take place in Europe.

Ownership is private equity: Main Capital Partners took a majority in 2018 and Keensight Capital acquired the company in 2023. There is no pricing page and no trial, and no security certification is published.

What Onventis does well

  • A supplier network of 4.5 million connected to more than 1,000 buying organisations
  • Twenty-five years in the market, with German incorporation and full imprint disclosure
  • States plainly that its cloud is an American hyperscaler, within the Azure EU Data Boundary
  • Development, operations, consulting and support all located in Europe
  • Offices in six European countries, so local implementation support exists

Where Onventis falls short

  • Runs on Microsoft Azure, so a US provider sits under a German company
  • No pricing published, no trial, and no self-service entry point at all
  • Publishes no ISO 27001 or comparable security certification
  • Issues no cards, so employee spend remains someone else's problem
  • Private-equity owned since 2018 and sold again in 2023, which is a continuity question worth asking

Standout feature. It says "American hyperscaler" out loud. Onventis describes its own infrastructure the way this directory would describe it, which is rarer than it should be.

#9 Medius

Linköping, Sweden Not published — two packages, Medius AP Essentials and Medius AP 360, both quoted, with additional modules at extra cost None published

Best for: Finance teams drowning in supplier invoices rather than employee receipts

  • Operating company. Medius Sverige AB, reg. 556820-2765
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Sweden)
  • Where the data sits. Microsoft Azure — "All customer data in Microsoft Azure is stored in Europe, US or Australia depending on the customer's primary location"
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001:2022, ISO 9001, SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Coupa, SAP Concur Invoice, Tipalti, the bill-pay half of Ramp

Medius is the accounts payable half of spend management at a scale nothing else here reaches: 3,000-plus customers, six million invoices processed a month and more than $400bn in annual spend under management. If the problem is a queue of supplier invoices waiting for a coding decision and an approval, this is the category's specialist.

Medius Sverige AB is registered in Sweden under 556820-2765 with its registered office at Platensgatan 8 in Linköping. It holds an unusually complete certification set for this category — ISO 27001:2022, ISO 9001, SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 — which is the profile an enterprise procurement team expects and most of the fintechs here cannot match.

The residency answer needs reading twice. Medius runs on Microsoft Azure and states that "all customer data in Microsoft Azure is stored in Europe, US or Australia depending on the customer's primary location".

For a European customer that should mean Europe, but it is a routing rule rather than a guarantee, and it is worth getting in writing. Pricing is two quoted packages, AP Essentials and AP 360, with extra modules at additional cost, and no trial. Medius does not publish its founding year on its own site.

What Medius does well

  • Six million invoices a month and $400bn in annual spend under management
  • ISO 27001:2022, ISO 9001, SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 — the fullest certification set here
  • Swedish incorporation with the registration number and registered office published
  • Purpose-built for accounts payable rather than bolting AP onto a card product
  • Modular, so AP automation can be bought without a whole procurement suite

Where Medius falls short

  • Runs on Microsoft Azure, and stores data in Europe, the US or Australia depending on customer location
  • No pricing published for either package, and no trial
  • Issues no cards and does not handle employee expenses
  • Enterprise scale means enterprise implementation — this is not a self-service purchase
  • Does not state its founding year or group headquarters anywhere on its own site

Standout feature. It is the only tool here built for the invoice rather than the card, which is where the majority of most companies' money actually leaves.

#10 Sastrify

Cologne, Germany Founded 2020 Software Management from €12,500 a year, Vendor Benchmarks from €15,000 a year, Expert Procurement from €25,000 a year; quoted in EUR, GBP and USD No free plan or trial published

Best for: Companies whose software bill is large enough to hire someone to argue about it

  • Operating company. Sastrify GmbH, HRB 102066 Cologne
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. European Economic Area, or a jurisdiction with an Article 45 GDPR adequacy decision, per the privacy policy; the marketing site itself runs on Webflow with Amazon CloudFront and Fastly, and US tools are named under standard contractual clauses
  • Independent checks. SOC 2 badge published; no ISO 27001 certification claimed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Vendr, Zylo, Productiv, the SaaS management half of Ramp

Sastrify treats SaaS spend as a negotiation problem rather than a dashboard problem, and prices accordingly. Software Management starts at €12,500 a year, Vendor Benchmarks at €15,000 and Expert Procurement at €25,000 — at which point you are not buying software, you are buying a procurement team with a benchmark database behind it. That floor decides who this is for faster than any feature list.

Sastrify GmbH is registered in Cologne under HRB 102066 at Subbelrather Straße 15a, founded in 2020 by Maximilian Messing and Sven Lackinger after their previous company, the mobility startup Evopark, was acquired. The platform covers automated software inventory, usage analytics, renewal workflows and AI-assisted risk monitoring, with more than 50,000 users on it.

The transparency is thinner than the price suggests. Sastrify publishes a SOC 2 badge but claims no ISO 27001. Its privacy policy commits to hosting within the EEA or a jurisdiction with an Article 45 adequacy decision, which is a legal standard rather than a location, and the marketing site itself runs on Webflow with Amazon CloudFront and Fastly while naming Google Analytics, Mailchimp, SendGrid, HubSpot and Clearbit as US processors under standard contractual clauses.

What Sastrify does well

  • Benchmark database of real contract prices, which is the leverage a buyer normally lacks
  • Expert Procurement puts a named person on your renewals rather than an alert
  • German company with imprint, HRB number and managing directors published
  • Covers inventory, usage analytics, renewals and risk monitoring in one platform
  • Return-on-investment guarantee stated on the benchmark and procurement tiers

Where Sastrify falls short

  • Starts at €12,500 a year, which rules out most companies under a hundred people
  • No free plan, no trial, and no self-service signup
  • Publishes SOC 2 but no ISO 27001 certification
  • Hosting is described as "the EEA or an adequate jurisdiction" rather than a named region
  • Covers software subscriptions only — no cards, travel, fuel or supplier invoices

Standout feature. You are buying negotiators, not a dashboard. Sastrify's top tier assigns a procurement expert to your renewals, which is what the benchmark data is actually for.

#11 Cledara

London, United Kingdom, with offices in Barcelona and New York Founded 2018 Basic £100 a month for up to 20 applications, waived in the first month if you pay for ten applications with Cledara virtual cards; Premium (up to 75 applications) and Pro quoted; add-ons at £150–£200 a month No free trial; the first month of Basic can be earned rather than bought

Best for: Finance teams that want cancelling a subscription to actually stop the payment

  • Operating company. Cledara Limited, company no. 11455373, with Cledara Inc. (Delaware) for US operations
  • Jurisdiction. UK, with a Delaware entity for US customers
  • Where the data sits. AWS — "Cledara is built and hosted exclusively on Amazon Web Services"; the region is not named
  • Independent checks. SOC 2 Type II; registered with the FCA as an EMD Agent (ref. 902831) of PayrNet Limited, with cards issued by Modulr FS Limited (FCA, FRN 900573) and Modulr Finance B.V. (DNB, R182870)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Vendr, Zylo, Brex, the SaaS management half of Ramp

Cledara's mechanism is one idea executed well: every software subscription gets its own virtual card. Cancel the tool and you cancel the card, and the vendor cannot keep charging you through a renewal you meant to stop. Anyone who has tried to end a SaaS contract by email will recognise why that matters more than another spend chart.

Cledara Limited (company no. 11455373) is registered at 86-90 Paul Street in London, founded by Cristina Vila in 2018, with offices in London, Barcelona and New York and more than 1,000 customers across 32 countries covering 5,600-plus software vendors.

Basic is £100 a month for up to 20 applications — waived in the first month if you pay for ten applications with Cledara cards — and Premium and Pro are quoted, with add-ons for spend optimisation, IT management and compliance at £150 to £200 a month each.

Two structural caveats belong on the record. Cledara is not itself a licensed issuer: it is an FCA-registered EMD Agent (ref. 902831) of PayrNet Limited, with the actual cards issued by Modulr FS Limited in the UK and Modulr Finance B.V. under Dutch central bank supervision, and by CBW Bank in the US.

And Cledara Inc. is a Delaware corporation handling US operations, so a European customer should check which entity is on their contract. Hosting is AWS, exclusively, with no region named; certification is SOC 2 Type II rather than ISO 27001.

What Cledara does well

  • A separate virtual card per subscription, so cancellation is enforced rather than requested
  • Published entry price of £100 a month, the cheapest way into SaaS spend management here
  • SOC 2 Type II certified, with over 1,000 customers across 32 countries
  • Invoice capture and reconciliation, purchasing workflows and renewal alerts in one place
  • First month of Basic can be earned by moving ten applications onto Cledara cards

Where Cledara falls short

  • Not a licensed issuer itself — an FCA EMD Agent of PayrNet, with cards issued by Modulr
  • Hosted exclusively on AWS with no region named
  • A Delaware entity handles US operations, so the contracting party needs checking
  • Add-ons at £150–£200 a month each turn a £100 bill into a £550 one quickly
  • Software subscriptions only, with no travel, supplier invoices or general employee spend

Standout feature. One card per subscription. It is the only tool in this category where cancelling a tool is a technical act rather than a polite request.

#12 Weproc

Toulon, France Founded 2019 Starter €75 per user per month for 1–14 users with all modules included, Professional €60 for 15–25, Enterprise €50 for 26–50, Unlimited quoted above 51 None published

Best for: French SMEs and public-adjacent buyers who need the server in France too

  • Operating company. Weproc SAS, RCS Toulon 853 469 161, capital €46,000
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. France — hosted at o2switch SARL in Clermont-Ferrand, a French provider, with the software described as designed and hosted in France
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Coupa, SAP Ariba, Precoro, the procurement half of Ramp

Weproc is the only tool in this category with no American infrastructure anywhere in the answer. Weproc SAS (RCS Toulon 853 469 161, capital €46,000) is registered at 2 parvis des écoles in Toulon, and its legal notice names o2switch SARL in Clermont-Ferrand as the host — a French provider, on French soil, with a French company on the contract. For a buyer with a sovereignty clause rather than a sovereignty preference, that ends the conversation early.

The product is procurement in the classical sense: purchase requests, purchase orders, goods receipt, supplier management, a collaborative supplier portal, product catalogues, punchout connections, mobile approvals, customisable approval workflows and three-way matching. Optional modules add requests for quotation, offer comparison and supplier invoice processing and approval. It issues no cards and moves no money.

The trade-offs are size and price, and both are real. Weproc has been at this since 2019 and its own site shows around 50 equipped companies, which is a small reference base for a system that will sit between your buyers and your suppliers.

Pricing is €75 per user per month for 1 to 14 users, falling to €60 for 15 to 25 and €50 for 26 to 50 — roughly nine times Pleo's per-seat price, because a procurement licence is a buyer's workstation rather than a cardholder's app. There is no free trial and no published certification.

What Weproc does well

  • Hosted in France at o2switch, with no American cloud provider in the chain
  • French company, French legal notice, French support and French hosting end to end
  • Full procurement scope including three-way matching and punchout catalogues
  • All modules included on the Starter tier rather than sold separately
  • Prices published per user per band, so the bill is predictable before you talk to sales

Where Weproc falls short

  • Around 50 customers, which is a thin reference base for a core purchasing system
  • €75 per user per month on the entry tier — the most expensive per seat in this category
  • No free trial and no self-service signup
  • Publishes no ISO 27001 or comparable security certification
  • French-first in interface, documentation and support, and no cards or payments at all

Standout feature. A French company on a French server. Weproc is the only tool in this category where the sovereignty answer needs no asterisk about which cloud sits underneath.

Card-led or procurement-led — which half of the problem do you actually have?

Brex and Ramp are card companies that grew into spend management, and the European tools split along the same line. Pleo, Moss, Spendesk, Payhawk, Soldo, Pliant and Qonto start with a card in an employee's hand and work backwards to the approval. Onventis, Weproc and Medius start with a purchase request or a supplier invoice and never issue a card at all.

The test is where your money actually goes. If most of it leaves as salaries plus a long tail of subscriptions, travel and small purchases by many people, the card-led tools solve it and the procurement suites are overkill. If most of it leaves as supplier invoices against orders — manufacturing, construction, wholesale, public bodies — a card platform will control the visible 5% and leave the other 95% in the ERP where it already was.

Payhawk is the only one here that sells both halves, in four modules you buy separately: Travel, Cards & Expenses, Accounts Payable and Procurement. That modularity is genuinely useful and it is also why Payhawk will not quote you a number on a web page.

The mistake worth avoiding is buying a card platform to fix an accounts payable problem. The receipts get tidier and the invoice backlog does not move.

What does the e-money licence actually buy you, and who here does not have one?

A card platform is two businesses stapled together: software, and a regulated payment institution that issues the card and holds the money. Which entity does the second job determines who is answerable when funds go missing, and European vendors publish it because they are required to.

Moss GmbH is authorised and regulated by BaFin under licence 159024. Payhawk holds its own licences on both sides of the Channel — Payhawk Financial Services UAB from the Bank of Lithuania, granted 11 July 2023, and Payhawk Financial Services Limited from the FCA, granted 13 January 2024.

Soldo Financial Services Ireland DAC is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, with a UK sibling holding FCA FRN 900459. Pliant issues EU cards through Pliant Oy in Helsinki under Finnish supervision, and UK cards through Transact Payments Limited in Gibraltar. Qonto SA is an ACPR-licensed payment institution, number 16958.

Cledara is the exception and says so: it is an FCA-registered EMD Agent (ref. 902831) of PayrNet Limited, with the cards themselves issued by Modulr FS Limited in the UK and Modulr Finance B.V. under the Dutch central bank. That is a perfectly normal arrangement, but it means your money sits with a company you did not choose and whose name is not on the product.

Qonto adds a detail the others do not have to: it is a payment institution, not a bank. Funds sit with Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Société Générale, Natixis or Rothschild Martin Maurel, protected to €100,000 per institution per client by the FGDR, with the remainder covered by standalone guarantees from Crédit Agricole CIB and BNP Paribas. It is a thorough answer, and it is still not deposit insurance in the way a bank account is.

Where is the data, really?

Spend data is among the most revealing datasets a company holds: every supplier, every contract value, every employee's travel pattern, and the timing of anything commercially sensitive. So "EU-hosted" is worth reading closely, because in this category it usually means an American hyperscaler with a European region selected.

Moss gives the cleanest answer: customer data hosted exclusively in the EU on Google Cloud Platform, with Frankfurt as the sole data processing region.

Pleo publishes a full sub-processor list naming Google Cloud and Azure in the EU and AWS in Ireland, with payment processing at Enfice in Frankfurt — and honestly lists Anthropic and HubSpot in the US for AI features and CRM. Onventis states that its SaaS runs in Microsoft Azure data centres exclusively within the EU Data Boundary, and describes that provider as "an American hyperscaler" in its own words rather than leaving you to work it out.

The vaguer answers are Spendesk and Cledara, both of which name AWS without naming a region, and Payhawk, which names AWS and Google Cloud without naming regions.

Medius is specific in an uncomfortable way: customer data is stored in Europe, the US or Australia depending on the customer's primary location, so a European customer of a Swedish company should still confirm which of the three applies to them. Soldo, Pliant and Qonto publish licences and certifications but not a hosting location at all.

Weproc is the only tool in this category with no American infrastructure anywhere in the answer: the software is hosted at o2switch, a French provider in Clermont-Ferrand. For a French public body or a buyer with a sovereignty clause in the contract, that is the whole argument — and it comes attached to the smallest vendor here.

Why is there no open-source option, and what replaces one?

Every other category in this directory has at least one project you can download and run. This one has none, and the reason is worth understanding before you go looking.

Half of spend management is issuing payment instruments. That requires an e-money or payment institution licence, capital requirements, safeguarding accounts and a regulator — none of which a GitHub repository can hold. You can self-host an approval workflow; you cannot self-host a Visa card.

The other half, procurement, could in principle be open source, and a few projects exist. What they lack is the supplier network. Onventis is worth 4.5 million suppliers connected to 1,000 buying organisations, and that graph, not the software, is what a buyer is paying for. Weproc, at around 50 customers, shows what the same software looks like without it.

What replaces the open-source exit route is data portability and modularity. Payhawk's four separate modules, Spendesk's add-on structure and Medius's two AP packages all mean you can leave one part without replacing everything. It is a weaker guarantee than an AGPL licence, and in this category it is the only one on offer.

What do these tools cost once you get past the pricing page?

The published numbers are a narrow and useful slice. Pleo is €8 per user per month on Start, €14 on Build and €18 on Optimise, with a three-user minimum on the two annual plans.

Soldo is £21 a month plus VAT for three users, three cards and 20 transfers, or £33 for three wallets and 30 transfers. Qonto charges flat — €49, €109 or €199 a month — with unlimited team members, which is the only genuinely seat-independent pricing among the card tools.

The quoted ones follow a pattern. Spendesk and Moss both charge a fixed platform fee plus a variable fee on transaction volume rather than per active user, which is better for companies with many occasional spenders and worse for companies with high payment volume and few staff. Payhawk prices per module with a usage layer on top and publishes exactly one number: £149 a month for UK and EEA businesses under 20 employees, with ten cards and ten seats.

The procurement and SaaS tools are a different order of magnitude. Sastrify starts at €12,500 a year for software management, €15,000 for vendor benchmarks and €25,000 for its expert procurement service — a tool for companies whose SaaS bill is large enough that a five-figure fee pays for itself.

Weproc is €75 per user per month for a small team, which is roughly nine times what Pleo charges per seat, because a procurement user is a buyer rather than a cardholder. Cledara sits in between at £100 a month for up to 20 applications, with add-ons at £150 to £200 each that add up quickly.

The cost nobody prices is the accounting integration. Every tool here syncs to an ERP or bookkeeping package, and every implementation runs aground on the chart of accounts, VAT codes and cost centres for a few weeks. Payhawk at least states there is no separate setup or implementation fee; most of the others leave it to the quote.

How we selected and ranked these 12 tools

Every tool on this page is in the European Purpose directory, which means the operating company is established in Europe and we have verified that from the company register or the vendor's own legal notice rather than from a marketing page. Tools headquartered outside Europe are not eligible, however good they are.

  1. Feature verification (weight: 40%). We check each capability against the vendor's own documentation and product pages, and record what the tool does rather than what the category is assumed to include.
  2. Ease of adoption (weight: 30%). Integrations, published API access, trial availability and how much configuration stands between signing and a usable result.
  3. Value and transparency (weight: 30%). Published pricing counts in a vendor's favour; quote-only pricing is recorded as quote-only rather than estimated. We weigh what a buyer gets for the entry price, not the headline feature count.
  4. Editorial review. Three people touch every page: one writes it, a second edits it, and a third checks the compliance and pricing claims against the vendor's documentation. The three weights above decide the order; a position is a ranking against the other European tools in this category, not an absolute score.

Vendor-reported outcomes — ROI figures, margin uplift, time saved — are labelled as vendor claims wherever they appear on this page. We have not audited them, and neither has anyone else who quotes them. Read our full editorial process for how pages are re-verified.

Frequently asked questions

Moss holds #1 among the European spend management tools in this directory, because Moss is the only one that names a single data processing region — Google Cloud in Frankfurt, with customer data hosted exclusively in the EU — while holding a BaFin e-money licence with a published number (159024) and ISO/IEC 27001:2022.

The right answer depends on the shape of your spend: Pleo if you want published per-user pricing and the largest European deployment, Payhawk if you need cards and accounts payable and procurement in one vendor, Soldo if you want a flat monthly price and a 30-day trial, Onventis or Weproc if the problem is purchase orders rather than cards, Medius if it is supplier invoices, and Sastrify or Cledara if it is software subscriptions.

Yes, and several. Pleo is the closest in scale, used by more than 40,000 businesses across 16 European countries from Copenhagen, with cards, expenses and invoices in one product at €8 to €18 per user per month.

Moss covers the same ground from Berlin with a BaFin licence and a free plan for three users. Qonto is the closest to the Brex model of an account plus cards plus spend controls, as an ACPR-licensed French payment institution with 600,000 customers. What none of them replicates is Brex's US banking and credit underwriting — Qonto in particular is a payment institution, not a bank.

Moss and Payhawk come closest. Moss matches the Ramp pattern of cards plus accounts payable plus approvals in one platform, from Berlin, with pricing built on a platform fee and transaction volume rather than per seat.

Payhawk goes further on breadth, selling Travel, Cards & Expenses, Accounts Payable and Procurement as four separate modules with its own e-money licences in Lithuania and the UK. Neither offers the aggressive card-interchange rebates that fund Ramp's free tier; Pliant is the one here that advertises cashback, on its Standard plan, without publishing the percentage.

Moss is the only one with a free plan: $0 a month for up to three users with unlimited cards, up to 20 invoices a month and customisable approval steps, with the Moss wallet restricted to debit. Everything else is a trial or a paid entry point.

Soldo gives 30 days free on its £21 and £33 plans, Qonto gives one month free on every plan, Pleo offers a trial on Start and Build, and Payhawk offers an optional 7-day trial on its £149 Growth Program. Spendesk, Pliant, Onventis, Medius, Sastrify, Cledara and Weproc publish neither a free plan nor a trial.

Moss GmbH is authorised and regulated by BaFin under licence 159024. Payhawk Financial Services UAB holds an EMI licence from the Bank of Lithuania granted on 11 July 2023, and Payhawk Financial Services Limited one from the FCA granted on 13 January 2024.

Soldo Financial Services Ireland DAC is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland and Soldo Financial Services Ltd is FCA-authorised under FRN 900459. Pliant Oy in Helsinki is supervised by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority.

Qonto SA is an ACPR-licensed payment institution, number 16958. Pleo Financial Services UK Ltd is FCA-authorised under reference 1020730. Cledara is not a licensed issuer — it is an FCA EMD Agent of PayrNet Limited, with cards issued by Modulr.

Moss holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022, Spendesk holds ISO 27001:2022, Pliant holds ISO 27001:2022 alongside PCI DSS service provider status, Soldo has held ISO/IEC 27001 group-wide since 2019 plus ISO 9001 and PCI DSS Level 1 since 2017, and Medius holds ISO 27001:2022, ISO 9001, SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2.

Cledara and Sastrify publish SOC 2 rather than ISO 27001. Payhawk states that its hosting providers are ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1 and SOC 1/2 certified, which is a claim about AWS and Google rather than about Payhawk. Onventis, Qonto and Weproc publish no security certification.

Weproc, and only Weproc. Its legal notice names o2switch SARL in Clermont-Ferrand as the host, and the product is described as designed and hosted in France. Every other tool in this category sits on AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

The meaningful distinction among the rest is how specific they are: Moss names Frankfurt as its sole processing region, Pleo names AWS Ireland plus Google Cloud and Azure in the EU, and Onventis names the Azure EU Data Boundary and calls its provider an American hyperscaler outright. Spendesk, Cledara and Payhawk name the cloud but not the region, and Soldo, Pliant and Qonto name neither.

Onventis, Weproc and Medius. Onventis GmbH in Stuttgart has run since 2000 and connects around 1.2 million users at more than 1,000 buying organisations to 4.5 million suppliers, which is the network effect that makes a procurement suite worth anything.

Weproc is the small-company version: a French SAS in Toulon covering purchase requests, orders, supplier portals, punchout catalogues and three-way matching at €50 to €75 per user per month, with about 50 customers. Medius Sverige AB handles the invoice end, with 3,000 customers, six million invoices a month and more than $400bn in annual spend under management. None of the three issues a card.

Sastrify and Cledara, and they solve it differently. Sastrify GmbH in Cologne combines a software inventory with a vendor benchmark database and, at the top tier, a dedicated procurement expert who negotiates renewals for you — from €12,500 a year, which sets a floor on company size.

Cledara Limited in London issues a separate virtual card per subscription, so cancelling a tool actually stops the payment rather than filing a ticket, from £100 a month for up to 20 applications. Cledara is the cheaper entry point and the narrower product; Sastrify is a procurement service with software attached.

Sometimes, and the honest answer depends on where the money goes. At twenty people, Moss's free plan for three users covers a finance team but not the company, Pleo at €14 per user per month on Build is around €3,400 a year, Soldo at £33 a month plus per-card fees is the cheapest published option, and Payhawk's £149-a-month Growth Program is aimed exactly at this size with ten cards and ten seats.

What is not worth it at twenty people is the procurement and SaaS tier: Sastrify from €12,500 a year and Weproc at €75 per user per month are priced for companies whose spend problem already costs more than the software.