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FloQast vs Numeric: a close management head-to-head for 2026
Both platforms close the books faster - but one preserves your Excel stack and the other wants to replace the workflow underneath it.
FloQast and Numeric cross-shop each other constantly, and the reason is that they are solving the same problem from opposite philosophies. FloQast, founded in 2013 by CPAs who lived the close pain firsthand, is built on a simple bet: accounting teams run the close in Excel and are not going to stop, so the right move is to organize that Excel workflow rather than displace it. Numeric, founded in 2020 and still founder-led with 89 million dollars raised, bets the other way - that a modern close should pull live transaction data from the ERP and automate the work above it, flux commentary and all.
BY THE NUMBERS
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78/100 AF SCORE, FLOQAST |
77/100 AF SCORE, NUMERIC |
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2013: founded FLOQAST IN MARKET SINCE |
2020: founded NUMERIC IN MARKET SINCE |
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FloQast vs Numeric
From the Audit Friendly reviews of each; follow the links for sources.
| FloQast | Numeric | |
| AF SCORE | 78/100 | 77/100 |
| IN MARKET SINCE | 2013: founded in Los Angeles by CPAs Mike Whitmire and Chris Sluty with engineer Cullen Zandstra, after Whitmire lived the month end close pain as a senior accountant at Cornerstone OnDemand. Still... | 2020: founded by Parker Gilbert (CEO), Anthony Alvernaz (CPO) and Andrew Bihl (CTO), with offices in San Francisco, New York and London. Still independent and founder led, with 89 million dollars... |
| HIRED FOR | job: Month end close orchestration area: Close management detail: A shared close checklist with task | job: Month end close orchestration area: Close management detail: A customizable close checklist with tasks |
| PRICING MODEL | model: Annual subscription, quote only, scoped by users, legal entities, and modules. Core Close Management | model: Annual subscription priced per user across three published tiers. Essentials is the only tier with a |
| IMPLEMENTATION | note: Reported timelines cluster at 4 to 6 weeks, with third party averages of 1.3 to 1.7 months and some | note: The fastest in the category on the available evidence. Numeric markets teams going live in under two |
| AGENT READINESS | detail: FloQast's own agentic stack is the most shipped in close management. AI Agents launched March 25 | detail: Existence first: yes, it is real and live. Numeric announced a first party remote MCP server at |
| WHERE IT LOSES | Enterprises that need high volume transaction matching, complex intercompany processing, and hands off auto | Groups that need statutory consolidation or intercompany elimination and matching: Numeric ships neither, and |
On pricing, Numeric is the rare vendor that publishes a number: Essentials starts at 30 dollars per user per month, though the features that matter most - live ERP integration, auto reconciliation, AI flux analysis - start at Growth, which is custom quoted. FloQast publishes nothing; reported figures from contract aggregators put typical mid-market teams at 30,000 to 80,000 dollars all-in per year, with entry deployments around 12,000 dollars and larger multi-entity deals at 60,000 to 120,000 dollars or more. Both are annual subscriptions. FloQast's cost driver is modules - AutoRec alone is reported at 15,000 to 50,000 dollars or more per year depending on volume - while Numeric's driver is tier and seat count.
Implementation favors Numeric on speed: it markets teams going live in under two weeks, and one published customer states they were closing on the platform in the same month they signed. FloQast's reported third-party averages are 1.3 to 1.7 months, with some deployments under 30 days. Both are low-IT projects - ERP credentials and SSO are roughly the extent of it. On ERP coverage, FloQast has the broader footprint: NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, and QuickBooks are all confirmed. Numeric confirms NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Sage Intacct; there is no SAP, Oracle EBS, or Microsoft Dynamics support, and numeric.io/integrations currently returns a 404.
The agent story is where the comparison gets interesting for teams thinking a year out. FloQast shipped AI agents for journal entries and data transformation in March 2025, added a no-code Agent Builder in September 2025, and the drag-and-drop Visual Agent Builder went GA on March 31, 2026, composing agents from modular skills with human-in-the-loop review checkpoints. Numeric's approach is different in kind: it runs a first-party MCP server at api.numeric.io/mcp (live since April 20, 2026, OAuth authenticated) exposing more than 20 tools, giving Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and others read-and-write access to the close workflow. That means an AI client can reassign tasks, post flux explanations, and submit work inside Numeric - a connection depth no other close vendor currently ships. The decision rule is practical: if your team needs SAP or Dynamics coverage, credible SOX audit trail, or a wider reference set beyond venture-backed technology companies, FloQast is the defensible pick. If your ERP is NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Xero, or Sage Intacct, and you want AI tools reading and writing your close data today rather than through a proprietary builder, Numeric is worth a serious look - especially if the published entry price matters before you will take a sales call.
HOW TO DECIDE
| Check ERP first: Numeric has no confirmed SAP, Oracle EBS or Dynamics support; FloQast covers all three. | |
| Numeric publishes an entry price (30 dollars per user per month); FloQast is quote-only with reported baselines starting around 12,000 dollars per year. | |
| Numeric's MCP server lets external AI clients write to the close workflow; FloQast's agents run inside its own platform only. |
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QUESTIONS THIS ANSWERS
How much does FloQast really cost per year?
There is no public price list. Reported figures: Vendr's median contract is about 24,000 dollars per year across 305 purchases, entry deployments start around 12,000 dollars, and typical mid-market teams land at 30,000 to 80,000 dollars all in once add ons are included, with larger multi-entity deployments at 60,000 to 120,000 dollars or more (all reported and estimated). AutoRec alone is reported at 15,000 to 50,000 dollars or more per year by volume, and per user estimates run 125 to 150 dollars per month. Renewal uplifts are reported at a modest 3 to 7 percent.
How much does Numeric actually cost?
Numeric is one of very few vendors in this category that publishes anything at all. Essentials starts at 30 dollars per user per month (published on numeric.io/pricing). Growth and Enterprise are custom quoted with no figures published, and that matters because live ERP integration, auto reconciliation and flux analysis start at Growth, while transaction monitoring, custom reporting, SAML, live bank feeds and the whole Cash Management product are Enterprise only. Real contract data from Vendr shows a median of about 15,000 dollars per year across 44 purchases with a range of 4,320 to 36,471...
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Then the Numeric review; both link their sources.
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