The only full stack Pleo alternative for tech companies
Cledara is for software.
Pleo is for expenses.
Manage your entire software stack and your team's travel expenses in one platform. Stop paying for duplicate tools. Consolidate your spend with Cledara.
Get a complete view of your software stack- Control spend with approval flows and smart cards
- Reduce costs by removing unused and duplicate tools
- Manage your general and travel spend on the same platform as your SaaS spend
One Platform. Zero Redundancy.
Historically, finance teams used Cledara for software and Pleo for travel. That era is over.
With Cledara Spend, you get physical cards and a mobile app for on-the-go expenses—client dinners, travel, and incidentals—integrated into the same platform that governs your million-dollar software budget.
“We were using a spend management platform but it wasn’t great because we couldn’t see who owned each subscription or who was using it. Cledara changed how we managed software and made life a lot easier.”
Peter Fallowfield, Solidatus
“I love having the ability to give control to other department leads. It empowers them and takes so much off our plate. I know it’s secure and we can still control the spend.”
Medina Mammadova, Seatfrog
“Cledara immediately surfaced 15% more subscriptions we hadn't heard of and automatically linked them to our account so that I could look for the owner, understand the costs, and reach out to the provider to renegotiate.”
Nathan Humphreys, Jiminny
Why pay for two subscriptions when one does it better?
Don’t Let a Coffee Charge Crash Your Cloud
Generalist cards like Pleo commingle your spend. If a travel expense triggers a fraud freeze, your critical infrastructure cards can go down with it. Cledara isolates your mission-critical SaaS spend on dedicated virtual rails, ensuring your AWS bill is never vulnerable to a flagged transaction at a bar.
Control the Volatility of AI Spend
Pleo’s soft limits can’t stop a runaway API script. Cledara allows you to set Hard Budget Caps on consumption-based tools like OpenAI and Midjourney. If an engineer’s script hits the limit, the card stops—acting as a circuit breaker for your budget.
Intent-Based Control vs. "Clean Up Later"
Pleo relies on delegated authority: spend first, justify later. That works for lunch, but it’s dangerous for software. Cledara uses a Request-to-Pay model. You approve the budget, the owner, and the renewal terms before a single cent leaves the account.
Why Cledara is the Upgrade
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FAQ
Cledara is a platform for finance teams that gives visibility of your organisations software stack, provides data and insights to cut excess spend, and streamlines software-related admin.
Now you have a detailed view of your software spending, you can see which tools are being used and where you could cut spend, painlessly.
We don’t stop at savings, managing purchases and renewals is easy with simple workflows for requesting and approving new tools.
Finally, with payments for software built-in you have controls to ensure application owners can manage payments while you keep control with spend limits and budgets. We’ll even capture the invoices automatically, match them to payments, and sync with Xero and Quickbooks.
Software is one of your biggest expenses, now you have the tools to reduce that expense by 30% and save 20 hours a month on admin.
Yes. Cledara now issues physical corporate cards and offers a mobile app for receipt capture. You can manage employee travel, client entertainment, and general office expenses alongside your software subscriptions in a single dashboard.
SaaS management is the process of managing the software tools and expenses in a company.
It’s a relatively new term, born out of the rise of SaaS solutions. With new tools emerging daily and tech stacks growing out of control, companies are now seeing software as their second highest expense behind payroll and it comes with significant administrative overheads for Finance and IT teams managing the purchasing, payments and access.
The goal of SaaS management is to bring this back under control by providing the tools to reduce spend, manage the purchasing and approvals and empower IT to manage access, compliance and shadow IT.
Cledara helps finance teams get full visibility over their stack, cut excess spend and streamline software-related admin.
Here’s why companies choose Cledara:
- Save costs on software: Get alerted to under utilized tools and seats, catch duplicate tools and features and get alerted to every change in price.
- Automate the admin: Capture invoices automatically, reconcile against payments and sync to Xero and Quickbooks
- Buy and renew with confidence: Set up smart approval flows to evaluate new applications and renewals, to make sure every cent is spent right.
- Payments built for software: Now you have controls to ensure application owners can securely manage payments while you keep control with spend limits and budgets.