Jedox vs LivePlan

Jedox is web-based software for business planning from Jedox, a company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. It provides budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, variance analysis, workforce planning and financial consolidation. Users can compare forecasts with actual results. The paid service has three listed plans, with pricing available on request. Business provides full users and basic models; planners, viewers, connectors, and performance or support upgrades are optional. Professional includes Business features plus enterprise add-ons, additional security, premium cloud onboarding, and the Jedox AIssisted Planning and Forecasting model. Professional Plus is designed for high performance with large concurrent user counts and supports complex planning models. Teams can use these plan descriptions to identify the planning functions, scale and add-ons they need before requesting a quotation.

LivePlan is a web-based service for creating business plans and monitoring financial performance. Its income statement, cash flow, and balance sheet forecasts are connected, so changing an assumption updates them together. The service includes AI-based idea validation and geography-specific market research that LivePlan says draws on more than 50 verified sources. Users can turn plans into presentations, edit them in LivePlan, and export them as PDF or PowerPoint files. QuickBooks Online and Xero connections bring accounting data into forecasts and dashboards, and the service includes more than 550 sample plans. Standard and Premium each list one active company, five contributors, and unlimited guests; only one company may be active at a time. LivePlan works on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows, but requires an internet connection for all functions and has no mobile app. It lists chat and weekday email support. There is no free trial; LivePlan advertises a 35-day money-back guarantee. Standard is $20 a month and Premium is $40 a month, both billed monthly.