Corma versus Cledara
Looking for a more holistic alternative to Cledara? Cledara manages software through the card that pays for it. Corma starts with identity, so every app, license and euro is tied to a person and their access.
Identity-first SaaS management. Access, compliance, and spend through governance.
Payment-first SaaS management. Subscriptions, virtual cards, and spend visibility.
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Cledara is a London-based SaaS management platform that centralizes software subscriptions, payments and renewals, issuing a virtual card per vendor so finance and IT teams can see and control spend in one place.
Startups and scaling companies
2018 by Cristina Vila and Brad van Leeuwen in London
Comparing Corma and Cledara? Both manage SaaS, but they start at opposite ends of the problem. This comparison breaks down where each one is strong across SaaS discovery, access governance, provisioning, license optimization, contracts, spend control and total cost.
Cledara is payment-first. It issues a virtual card per subscription, captures the invoices, alerts you before renewals and lets you stop a tool at the card. That gives finance a single view of software spend with very little technical setup, and it is why Cledara suits startups and scaling companies that want predictable subscription costs.
Corma is identity-first. It connects to the identity provider and HR system you already run, and ties every application, license and euro to a person and their access. That is what turns access reviews, joiner-mover-leaver automation and license clean-up into one workflow instead of three, and what produces the evidence an auditor asks for under ISO 27001, SOC 2 or NIS2.
The practical question is which bottleneck you are solving. If software spend is the problem, a payment-led tool answers it. If the problem is who has access to what, and proving it, the identity layer is where that answer lives. Read the full Corma versus Cledara comparison to see which fits your team.
The Comparison
Cledara gives finance teams and IT leaders a single dashboard for SaaS spend, with a virtual card per subscription and renewal alerts on top. Corma starts one layer earlier, at identity and access, and automates what happens across the stack rather than tracking what it costs. Which one fits depends on whether your bottleneck is spend or access.
Identity-first: every app, license and cost is tied to a person and their access.
Payment-first: subscriptions are managed through the virtual card that pays for them.
Native provisioning and deprovisioning from your identity provider and HR system, in every plan.
Onboarding and offboarding sit in the IT Management add-on, priced separately.
Self-service catalog with approval workflows; approved access is provisioned automatically.
Access request workflows in the IT Management add-on, routed towards purchase and card issuance.
Built-in review campaigns with exportable evidence for ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIS2.
Software Compliance add-on covers vendor questionnaires and ISO 27001 or SOC 2 checks, not user access certification.
Identity provider, finance data and browser extension — including apps that never touch SSO or a card.
Discovery runs through the cards and invoices Cledara issues; apps paid elsewhere stay out of view.
Ungoverned tools surface together with the accounts behind them, so you can revoke access, not just report it.
Shadow IT insights in the IT Management add-on, built on spend signals.
Unused licenses surface from access data and can be revoked or canceled in one click.
Usage alerts and duplicate detection; seat optimization sits in the Spend Optimization add-on.
Renewal dates, notice periods and spend forecasts in one view.
Renewal alerts, and a subscription can be stopped at the card itself in one click.
Connected in minutes, productive within days to weeks, no professional services required.
Operational within days, with a low technical barrier for non-technical teams.
Free tier, then per-user plans — you can start without talking to sales.
Published tiers from around £100 per month, with IT management, compliance and spend optimization as paid add-ons.
Reads spend from your finance tools, so you keep paying the way you pay today.
A virtual card per subscription with spend limits, so spend is controlled at the payment itself.
Growing IT teams and mid-market organizations, roughly 50 to 5,000 employees.
Startups and scaling companies that want predictable subscription spend.
IT, Security and Compliance.
Finance and Operations, with IT as a secondary audience.
Which platform fits your team?
Corma is best for
Teams whose bottleneck is access and compliance, not spend
IT, security and compliance teams that have to prove who has access to what
Companies that want onboarding and offboarding automated end to end
Estates with apps that have no usable API, covered through agent-driven connectors
Cledara is best for
Finance-led teams that want SaaS spend controlled at the payment
Startups and scaling companies that need a low technical barrier
Card-level spend limits and one-click cancellation of a subscription
Companies willing to move their software payments onto one provider
Setup at a glance
Deployment in days to weeks for SMBs
Streamlined onboarding with minimal technical requirements
Connects to your existing identity provider and HR system
Software payments migrated onto Cledara virtual cards
RBAC policies and approval workflows configured
Accounting integration connected for invoice capture and reconciliation
Ongoing maintenance mostly automated by the platform
Quick time to value for basic subscription tracking
User training focused on self-service access requests
Operational within days rather than weeks
Why IT teams rely on Corma
Automation
employees onboarded and offboarded automatically
Time spent
spent less with Corma per week for management
Cost Efficiency
saved monthly by optimizing SaaS licenses
Shadow IT
to detect Shadow IT applications
What IT teams say about Corma
“Corma is very useful and user friendly. It helps us save money and prevent potential security threats.”
Chief Operating Officer, Media
“I like how it’s very easy to see all the apps that have been accessed by our employees.”
Chief Engineering Officer, Healthcare and Biotech
“I think Corma is a really great app that has lots to offer and working with them has been great.”
IT & Security Administrator, Software
Spend or access?
Cledara answers the spend question at the payment: a card per subscription, invoices captured, renewals flagged, cancellation in one click. Corma answers the access question at the identity layer: who holds what, what it costs, what gets revoked when someone leaves and what an auditor gets to see. A demo on your own stack shows which gap is actually costing you more.
Book a demoHow does Corma help prevent Shadow AI?
Corma surfaces every AI tool in use, flags potential data exposure and lets you govern access from one place. For mid-market teams under GDPR or NIS2, this turns ungoverned AI use into a controlled, auditable process.
How does Corma automate access reviews?
Corma automates access reviews by pulling real access data from all your SaaS apps, launching review campaigns, reminding reviewers and logging every decision. Certification and revocation happen in one click, with a complete audit trail for compliance.
Why do mid-market companies need IGA?
Mid-market companies face the same compliance pressure as enterprises, from ISO 27001 to NIS2, but with smaller IT teams. IGA automates the access governance work that manual processes cannot scale to, reducing risk and audit effort.
What is the difference between IGA and IAM?
IAM controls authentication and grants access, while IGA adds the governance layer, deciding who should have access, reviewing it regularly and proving compliance. IGA answers who has access to what, why, and whether it is still appropriate.
