Numeral vs Sovos Tax Determination

Numeral provides sales tax, VAT, and GST services through an API. Listed capabilities include sales-tax calculation, tax registration, and automated return filing. Its free Monitoring plan has no listed price and includes a nexus study, physical and economic nexus monitoring, threshold alerts, and exposure and historical-liability audits. Professional costs $75 a month; standard accounts run month-to-month and are billed as filings occur. That plan covers registrations, filings, remittance, autofile and autoregister, virtual-mailbox monitoring for tax mail, AI product classification, and exemption-certificate management. Professional registration costs $150 a month as a one-time registration fee per state and covers state registrations and support. Enterprise has no listed price and adds global coverage, a tax engine, API access, tax-lawyer consultations, and advanced reporting and analytics. Numeral was founded in 2022. The listed platform is API, so the available interface is intended for software integration rather than a separately described web application.

Sovos Tax Determination calculates sales and use tax, excise tax, VAT and GST in real time for business transactions. Its product page describes rate and rule updates for more than 185 federal, state and local jurisdictions. Access is available through web and API, including a REST API for systems without a listed adapter. Certified adapters are named for SAP and Oracle; other listed connectors include Coupa, NetSuite SuiteTax, NetSuite Legacy Tax and Oracle Fusion Cloud. Sovos also says it can connect with other ERP, ecommerce and purchasing systems. The product can identify missing, invalid or expiring exemption certificates and help request replacements; CRM integration can check customer exemption documents before tax exemptions are applied. Sovos describes cloud performance during peak transaction periods and flexible deployment options. Professional Services creates and configures customer accounts, while the customer’s IT professional installs an ERP connector. Sovos sets up user permissions, with access requests submitted as support cases. Pricing requires contacting Sovos.