Renewly

Cledara

Renewly vs Cledara

Renewal tracking with contract extraction at $99 a month vs Cledara's virtual-card subscription management at $75-500 a month. Contract layer vs payment layer.

Renewly:Renewal-Focused • $99/mo • 5-min Setup

Cledara:SaaS Spend Management • $75/month

Last updated: 2026-05-05Competitor pricing sourced from public websites and G2

Renewly

Proactive Renewal Tracking

$99/month flat pricing (or $0 for 5 contracts)

Under 10-second automatic contract extraction

Pre-built alerts at 7/30/60/90 days

5-minute setup - no IT, no training

Best for:

Operations and procurement teams (1-500 employees) who need simple, affordable renewal tracking without the complexity of full CLM

Cledara

SaaS Subscription Management with Virtual Cards

Category: SaaS Spend Management

Pricing: Three published tiers: Basic at $75/mo (up to 20 apps), Premium at $200/mo (up to 75 apps), Pro from $500/mo (advanced automation, integrations, dedicated support).

Target Market: SMBs and finance teams managing SaaS subscriptions (1-200 employees)

G2 Rating: 4.7/5

Best for:

SMBs and startup finance teams whose primary problem is SaaS subscription chaos and who want virtual cards to gate spend

Feature-by-Feature Comparison

Detailed breakdown of capabilities and features

Setup & Usability

Feature	Renewly	Cledara
Self-Serve Setup
No Sales Call Required
Transparent Pricing
Instant Time-to-Value
All Contract Types

Renewal Tracking

Feature	Renewly	Cledara
Automatic Extraction from Master Agreement
Automated Renewal Alerts
Auto-Renewal Clause Detection
Notice Period Extraction
Portfolio Health Score
Voice of Vendor leverage signals

Self-Serve Product Surface

Feature	Renewly	Cledara
Renewly Inbox: forward vendor emails to a per-account alias
Term Library: cross-contract clause search
MCP server with OAuth 2.1 (Claude Desktop, Cursor)
Public REST API

Subscription Payment Control

Feature	Renewly	Cledara
Virtual Cards per Subscription
Cancel by Freezing Card
Accounting Integrations (Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite)
Invoice Capture and Coding
Approval Workflows for New Apps

Pricing & Value

Feature	Renewly	Cledara
Free Tier
Entry Price	$0/month	$75/month
Pro Price	$99/month	$200-500+/month
All Contract Types Covered

Cledara: Strengths & Limitations

Strengths

Virtual card per subscription gives finance direct payment control
Easy cancellation by freezing or deleting a card
Accounting integrations (Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite)
Real-time directory of software in use
Simple SMB-friendly pricing tiers
Markets a 23% reduction in SaaS spend on average

Limitations

SaaS-only - no support for services, leases, or non-SaaS vendor contracts
Subscription/payment-driven, not contract-extraction-driven (no notice period or auto-renewal clause extraction from your actual paperwork)
App caps on lower tiers (20 apps on Basic, 75 on Premium)
Renewal context comes from invoices, not the contracts themselves
Premium and Pro tiers needed for serious automation
No leverage signals (vendor M&A, layoffs) tied to your renewal window

Not a good fit if:

Teams that need contract-level visibility (notice periods, auto-renewal clauses, term lengths) extracted directly from the master agreement

Pricing Comparison

Renewly Pricing

$0/month

Free Plan (5 contracts)

$99/month

Pro Plan (Unlimited contracts)

Transparent, public pricing
No sales calls required
Cancel anytime

Cledara Pricing

$75/month

Three published tiers: Basic at $75/mo (up to 20 apps), Premium at $200/mo (up to 75 apps), Pro from $500/mo (advanced automation, integrations, dedicated support).

Note: Cledara pricing typically requires custom quotes and may include implementation fees, training costs, and per-user charges.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between Renewly and Cledara?

Different angles on vendor cost. Cledara is a subscription-payment platform - issue a virtual card per SaaS app, see what is being charged, freeze the card to cancel. Renewly is a contract-tracking platform - upload the actual master agreement, extract the renewal date, auto-renewal clause, and notice period, get alerted before each window closes. Cledara catches the invoice. Renewly catches the clause that triggered the invoice in the first place.

Is Cledara cheaper than Renewly?

Cledara starts at $75/month for up to 20 apps. Renewly is $99/month for the Pro tier (or free for up to 5 contracts). The relevant question is what each tool actually does for you. If the problem is unmonitored SaaS spend, Cledara's virtual cards solve it. If the problem is missed notice periods and surprise renewals, Renewly solves that. Many finance teams need both.

Can I use Renewly and Cledara together?

Yes - they cover different layers. Cledara controls the payment side (virtual cards, accounting integration). Renewly tracks the contract side (renewal dates, notice periods, auto-renewal clauses across SaaS, services, leases). Use Cledara for spend control, Renewly for renewal control.

Does Renewly extract notice periods and auto-renewal clauses from my contracts?

Yes - this is the core of the product. Upload a contract PDF and Renewly extracts the renewal date, auto-renewal clause, notice period, term length, and contract value. Cledara works from invoices and subscription metadata, which means notice periods buried in the master agreement are not surfaced. If you want to know which contracts auto-renew in 30 days unless you give 60 days notice, Renewly answers that.

Which is better for a 50-person startup?

It depends on the problem. If your finance lead is drowning in SaaS invoices and wants to gate every payment with a virtual card, Cledara at $75/month is purpose-built for that. If your finance lead has been burned by an auto-renewal nobody flagged, Renewly at $99/month is purpose-built for that. The two are complementary more than competitive.

The Bottom Line

Choose Renewly if...

Your bottleneck is missed renewals and surprise auto-renewal invoices, you need notice periods and auto-renewal clauses extracted from your actual contracts (not just invoices), and you have non-SaaS vendor contracts (services, leases) that need tracking too.

Choose Cledara if...

Your bottleneck is unmonitored SaaS subscription spend, you want to gate every payment with a virtual card, and your stack is small enough (under 75 SaaS apps) to fit Cledara's tiers.

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