Corma versus Vertice
Looking for a more holistic alternative to Vertice that goes beyond procurement? Vertice optimises what you spend on SaaS and cloud. 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.
Spend-first SaaS and cloud management. Purchasing, benchmarks, and negotiated savings.
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Vertice is a London-based SaaS and cloud spend optimisation platform. It centralises purchasing from intake to contract, benchmarks prices against a large vendor database, adds expert buyers who negotiate on the customer's behalf, and runs a cloud cost module alongside the SaaS one.
Companies with substantial SaaS and cloud spend
2021 in London by Roy and Eldar Tuvey
Comparing Corma and Vertice? Both bring down the cost of a sprawling software stack, but they work on different parts of it. This comparison covers SaaS discovery, access governance, provisioning, license optimization, contracts, negotiation, cloud spend and total cost.
Vertice is spend-first. Purchasing runs from intake to signed contract, prices are benchmarked against a database covering thousands of vendors, expert buyers negotiate on your behalf with a savings guarantee attached, and a cloud cost module tackles AWS, Azure and GCP in the same place. For a company spending heavily on both software and infrastructure, that combination is genuinely unusual.
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. Unused licenses surface from access data rather than from invoices, leavers are deprovisioned automatically across every connected app, and access reviews produce the evidence an auditor asks for under ISO 27001, SOC 2 or NIS2.
The dividing line is what happens after the contract is signed. Vertice makes sure you paid a fair price. Corma makes sure you are only paying for people who actually use the tool, and that the ones who left no longer have a way in. Read the full Corma versus Vertice comparison to see which fits your team.
The Comparison
Vertice is a spend optimisation platform for finance and procurement: purchasing from intake to contract, price benchmarks from a large vendor database, expert buyers in the negotiation, and a cloud cost module alongside the SaaS one. Corma starts one layer earlier, at identity and access, and automates what happens across the stack. Both reduce the same bill, but from different ends.
Identity-first: every app, license and cost is tied to a person and their access.
Spend-first: SaaS and cloud purchasing, benchmarks and negotiation, built for finance and procurement.
Native provisioning and deprovisioning from your identity provider and HR system, in every plan.
Not part of the solution; no provisioning into connected apps.
Self-service catalog with approval workflows; approved access is provisioned automatically.
Intake-to-procure workflows: a request routes to a purchase, not to an account.
Built-in review campaigns with exportable evidence for ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIS2.
Not part of the solution; compliance covers contracts and vendors rather than user access.
Identity provider, finance data and browser extension — including apps that never touch SSO or an invoice.
SaaS discovery and shadow IT detection from integrations and spend data; no browser extension.
Ungoverned tools surface together with the accounts behind them, so you can revoke access, not just report it.
Unsanctioned spend is flagged; the accounts behind it stay outside the platform.
Unused licenses surface from access data and can be revoked or canceled in one click.
Usage analytics surface zombie seats; removing them still happens in each vendor's own admin.
Renewal dates, notice periods and spend forecasts in one view.
Contract centre, renewal tracking and price benchmarks drawn from thousands of vendors — the core of the product.
Connected in minutes, productive within days to weeks, no professional services required.
More upfront configuration, and it pays off where a structured procurement process already exists.
Free tier, then per-user plans — you can start without talking to sales.
Quoted per contract; third-party listings put entry pricing at around $30,000 per year, scaling with your SaaS spend.
No negotiation service — savings come from removing the licenses nobody uses.
Expert buyers negotiate with vendors, with a cost-savings guarantee and savings of up to 25 to 30 percent claimed.
Growing IT teams and mid-market organizations, roughly 50 to 5,000 employees.
Companies with substantial SaaS and cloud spend, typically from several hundred thousand per year.
IT, Security and Compliance.
Finance and Procurement, with IT as a stakeholder.
Which platform fits your team?
Corma is best for
Teams whose money leaks through unused licenses and accounts nobody closed
IT, security and compliance teams that have to prove who has access to what
Companies that want onboarding and offboarding automated end to end
Mid-market teams that want to start free, without a procurement project
Vertice is best for
Companies with substantial SaaS spend and a renewal calendar worth negotiating
Teams that want SaaS and cloud spend optimised in the same platform
Buyers who want price benchmarks and expert negotiation with a savings guarantee
Organisations with a procurement process to optimise rather than build
Setup at a glance
Deployment in days to weeks for SMBs
More upfront setup around procurement workflows and spend tracking
Connects to your existing identity provider and HR system
Integration with finance systems, ERP and cloud accounts
RBAC policies and approval workflows configured
Approval workflows configured along your purchasing policy
Ongoing maintenance mostly automated by the platform
Best results where a structured procurement process already exists
User training focused on self-service access requests
Ongoing spend analysis, renewal reviews and vendor management
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
Cheaper software, or fewer open doors?
Vertice works on the price: benchmarks, intake-to-contract workflows, expert buyers and cloud spend in the same place. Corma works on what happens after the contract is signed: who holds a license, who stopped using it, what gets revoked the day someone leaves and what an auditor gets to see. One keeps you from overpaying, the other keeps you from paying for nothing. A demo on your own stack shows which gap is larger in your case.
Book a demoDoes Vertice manage identity and access control?
Vertice focuses on procurement and spend management, with limited identity and access management features. Corma excels in IAM and license provisioning.
How 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.
How does Corma's IGA solution work?
Corma's IGA solution connects to your SaaS stack to automate provisioning, enforce least-privilege access and run scheduled access reviews. As an EU-native platform, it aligns identity governance with GDPR and NIS2 requirements out of the box.
