--- title: "Only 2 of 9 SaaS management platforms print a price you can multiply" summary: "What nine SaaS management pricing pages, two Zylo indexes and Vertice's inflation tracker showed as of September 2026, and the GST, LRS and DPDP hooks for an Indian buyer." url: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/saas-management-platforms-compared-india format: Analysis desk: "SaaS & business software" published: 2026-09-08 facts_checked: 2026-09-30 author: TechBag (The TechBag Journal) tags: ["SaaS management","Zylo","Torii","Zluri","JumpCloud","ManageEngine","Vertice","SaaS waste","GST","DPDP"] cover: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/covers/saas-management-platforms-compared-india.png --- # Only 2 of 9 SaaS management platforms print a price you can multiply *What nine SaaS management pricing pages, two Zylo indexes and Vertice's inflation tracker showed as of September 2026, and the GST, LRS and DPDP hooks for an Indian buyer.* Analysis · SaaS & business software · By TechBag · Published 2026-09-08 · Facts checked 2026-09-30 · Canonical: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/saas-management-platforms-compared-india The short version - Of nine SaaS management vendors an Indian buyer will shortlist, four print any number on their pricing page and only two print a unit price you can multiply: JumpCloud at $3 a user a month for licence tracking alone, and ManageEngine at $250 a year for five managed apps.[7][8] - The sourced waste figure is 46% of licences unused in a 30-day window and $19.8 million a year for the average organisation in Zylo’s data, and that organisation spends $55.7 million a year on software. The “30% of SaaS spend is wasted” line has no report behind it.[11][12] - Five of the nine changed hands or closed in the two years to September 2026, and one of them, Productiv, destroyed every customer record four days after telling customers it was shutting. Exit terms are now the first clause to read, not the last.[14] The question has not changed since we first wrote about this category: a finance controller or IT head at an Indian company with 150 to 3,000 staff is paying for software nobody can list, and wants a tool that lists it, prices it and stops the waste. What has changed is the evidence. Our earlier version compared six vendors on their brochures. This time we read nine pricing pages, the two industry reports that publish a method, and the regulator text that decides how a rupee-billed or dollar-billed subscription is taxed. The vendors are Zylo, Torii, Zluri, BetterCloud, CloudEagle.ai, Vendr (now part of Vertice), Matrix42 SaaS Management (the former Viio), JumpCloud AI & SaaS Management and ManageEngine SaaS Manager Plus. Productiv, which our earlier version recommended for its usage analytics, no longer exists. ## Four of nine print a number; two print one you can multiply Zylo names three tiers, Core, Premium and Enterprise, and prints no amount for any of them.[1] Torii’s pricing page lists its IGA, SaaS management and AI Management offerings and every button leads to a demo request.[2] Zluri’s shows four modules and no figure.[3] CloudEagle.ai’s shows five modules, a free trial and “talk to a product specialist”.[5] Matrix42 sells the Viio platform on quote; its product page offers a demo, not a price.[9] That is five vendors whose pricing page exists to collect your email address. The other four print something. BetterCloud prints a $0-a-month “Spend Optimization Basic” tier and quotes everything else.[4] Vertice, which absorbed Vendr’s pricing page in 2026, prints a floor: SaaS Purchasing “starting from $40,000”, with no period stated.[6] JumpCloud prints $3 a user a month on annual billing ($4 monthly) for SaaS License Management, and “Contact Sales” for the Platform Prime package that the discovery, access-control and insight features actually need.[7] ManageEngine SaaS Manager Plus, still badged Beta, is free for two managed apps, then $250 a year for five, $960 for 25, $2,000 for 50 and $7,500 for 200, in dollars with no currency code.[8] TechBag countHow TechBag counted We read the nine vendors’ own pricing pages in September 2026. A vendor “prints a number” if any amount appears for a SaaS management tier, module or floor; it “prints a unit price” if the amount has a unit you can multiply by your own head-count or app count. Third-party estimates of Torii, Zylo and CloudEagle prices circulate online; none appears on the vendor’s page, so none is used here. **Figure: For a 100-person company with 25 apps, the printed prices run from $0 to $40,000 a year; five vendors print nothing** *Published list price applied to 100 staff and 25 managed apps, US$ per year, pricing pages as published at review* Vertice SaaS Purchasing (ex-Vendr) starting from; period not stated US$40,000 JumpCloud SaaS License Management 100 users × $36 a year, annual billing US$3,600 ManageEngine SaaS Manager Plus up-to-25-apps band, billed yearly US$960 BetterCloud Spend Optimization Basic $0 tier; paid modules on quote US$0 Zylo quote only US$0 Torii quote only US$0 Zluri quote only US$0 CloudEagle.ai quote only US$0 Matrix42 SaaS Management (Viio) quote only US$0 | | Value (US$) | | --- | --- | | Vertice SaaS Purchasing (ex-Vendr) | 40,000 | | JumpCloud SaaS License Management | 3,600 | | ManageEngine SaaS Manager Plus | 960 | | BetterCloud Spend Optimization Basic | 0 | | Zylo | 0 | | Torii | 0 | | Zluri | 0 | | CloudEagle.ai | 0 | | Matrix42 SaaS Management (Viio) | 0 | Source: Vendor pricing pages (sources 1 to 9), TechBag arithmetic · as of 30 September 2026 · JumpCloud's figure buys licence tracking only; discovery and controls need a Platform Prime quote. Vertice's is a floor with no period stated. A zero-length bar marked quote only means no amount is printed. The pattern is the category’s business model. A SaaS management platform is sold on the savings it will find, and a vendor who prints $4 a user has told you the ceiling of what those savings are worth to it. The two that do print a unit price are the two for whom this product is a side-door into a larger platform: JumpCloud wants you on its directory, ManageEngine wants you in the Zoho estate. The specialists, with nothing else to sell you, keep the number for the call. ## What the platform actually does, and where the money is Strip the brochures and every product on this list does the same four things in the same order. It discovers applications from sources the business already has: single sign-on logs, a browser extension or device agent, accounts-payable and expense feeds, and OAuth grants. It measures use per seat, typically on a 30-day window. It reclaims or downgrades seats that fail the test and flags accounts that outlived their owner. And it keeps a renewal calendar with notice periods, so the negotiation starts before the auto-renewal clause does. **Figure: Discovery feeds measurement, measurement justifies reclaim, and reclaim is what you take into the renewal** *The mechanism every SaaS management platform on this list implements, with the source each step depends on* 1. 01DiscoverSSO logs, a browser extension or device agent, AP and card feeds, OAuth grants. Finance-only discovery misses the free tiers that were never invoiced. 2. 02MeasureLast login and feature use per seat, usually over 30 days. This is the step a spend tool cannot do, because an invoice does not say who logged in. 3. 03ReclaimDowngrade or remove idle seats; flag or revoke the leaver’s accounts. Zluri can reclaim automatically below a usage threshold; JumpCloud flags and leaves the change to you. 4. 04RenewA calendar with notice periods and, on the higher tiers, price benchmarks. Matrix42 and Vertice add people who negotiate for you; the rest hand you the data. Source: Vendor product pages as published at review, including JumpCloud's Resmo release and Matrix42's SaaS Management page · as of 30 September 2026 The money is in steps three and four, and the vendors split on which one they sell. Zluri, Torii and JumpCloud are identity-side products: discovery comes from the directory and the browser, reclaim can be automated, and access governance is a module next door.[2] [3] [27] Zylo, Vertice and Matrix42 are finance-side: discovery leans on spend data, the deliverable is the renewal, and two of them put a human negotiator in the loop.[9][6] A buyer whose problem is 400 unaccounted-for logins needs the first kind. A buyer whose problem is a 14% uplift on the Salesforce renewal needs the second. Most Indian mid-market firms we speak to have the first problem and are being sold the second. Our view Our view: start where discovery is cheapest, which is the identity provider you already pay for. If you run Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, the sign-in logs already list most of your SaaS. A platform earns its fee on the seats that logs alone cannot measure and on the renewal calendar nobody keeps, not on telling you that Slack exists. ## The waste figures with a report behind them, and the one without The original version of this piece repeated two numbers the category lives on: that 40% of SaaS spend is invisible to IT, and that companies save 20 to 30% in year one. We could not find a dated report for either. What does exist is narrower and more useful. Zylo’s SaaS Management Index is the only recurring study that states its base. The 2025 edition, released 16 January 2025, was built on more than 40 million licences and $40 billion of spend under Zylo’s management; it put SaaS spend at $4,830 per employee, up 21.9% in a year, and waste on unused licences at $21 million a year for the average organisation, up 14.2%.[10] The 2026 edition, the eighth, puts the average portfolio at 305 applications with a median of 240, average annual SaaS spend at $55.7 million with a median of $20.6 million, total spend growth at 8% and spend on AI-native applications up 108%.[12] Zylo’s accompanying analysis, updated 19 March 2026, puts unused licences at 46% of seats over a 30-day window and the average organisation’s waste at $19.8 million a year: $3.8 million for a company under 500 staff, $9.5 million between 501 and 2,500.[11] Vertice measures the other half of the problem: price. Its inflation tracker, built on the spend it processes, recorded a record 16.4% year-on-year rise in SaaS prices in June 2026, easing to 12.9% in July and 12.7% in August.[13] Both firms sell the cure for the disease they measure, which is why the chips on this page say “reported” and not “count”. But both state a base and a date, which is more than the folklore does. **Figure: The sourced figures are 46% of seats idle in a month and prices up 12 to 16% a year; the 30% waste number has no report behind it** *Each bar is a different measure from the named report, per cent, latest edition available by September 2026* Licences unused in a 30-day window (Zylo, Mar 2026) 46% SaaS spend per employee, growth in a year (Zylo Index 2025) 21.9% SaaS price inflation, year on year, June 2026 peak (Vertice) 16.4% SaaS price inflation, year on year, August 2026 (Vertice) 12.7% Total SaaS spend, growth in a year (Zylo Index 2026) 8% | | Value (%) | | --- | --- | | Licences unused in a 30-day window (Zylo, Mar 2026) | 46 | | SaaS spend per employee, growth in a year (Zylo Index 2025) | 21.9 | | SaaS price inflation, year on year, June 2026 peak (Vertice) | 16.4 | | SaaS price inflation, year on year, August 2026 (Vertice) | 12.7 | | Total SaaS spend, growth in a year (Zylo Index 2026) | 8 | Source: Zylo SaaS Management Index 2025 and 2026 and Zylo analysis updated March 2026; Vertice SaaS inflation tracker, data to August 2026 · as of 30 September 2026 · Read each bar against its own label; the measures are not comparable with each other. Zylo and Vertice sell SaaS management and procurement tools. ReportedWhat the 46% does and does not say It is a utilisation measure on Zylo customers’ portfolios, not a share of spend, and a seat idle for 30 days is not necessarily a seat to cancel: a quarterly reporting tool fails the test three months in four. The honest translation for a buyer is that roughly half the seats you pay for will not have been touched this month, and the platform’s job is to tell you which half and why.[11] ## A spend tracker is not a management platform, and the market just proved it Half the tools sold under this label are spend trackers: they read the card feed and the invoices, tell you what you paid, and negotiate the next renewal. The other half connect to identity and tell you who used what. The difference used to be a product nuance. In the eighteen months to September 2026 it became a survival question. Productiv, the usage-analytics specialist our earlier version recommended, made a general assignment for the benefit of creditors effective 25 June 2026, told customers on 2 August that the platform would close, ended access on 5 August and ceased operations on 6 August, stating that all production systems, data stores and backups had been permanently destroyed.[14] The account is a competitor’s, Torii’s, and Productiv itself published no reason, so treat the framing with care; the dates are not disputed. Vertice announced its acquisition of Vendr on 1 June 2026, terms undisclosed.[15] CoreStack announced it had acquired BetterCloud on 31 March 2026.[16] Matrix42 announced the Viio deal on 1 October 2025 and now sells it as Matrix42 SaaS Management.[17] JumpCloud’s product is the Resmo acquisition of March 2024.[27] That is five of nine vendors that are not the company you would have evaluated two years ago, and one that is not a company at all. **Figure: In ten months three vendors on this list changed owner and one closed, destroying its data four days after telling customers** *Ownership changes and closure among the nine vendors, by announcement date, October 2025 to August 2026* | Date | Event | Detail | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 Oct 2025 | Matrix42 buys Viio | now sold as Matrix42 SaaS Management | | 31 Mar 2026 | CoreStack buys BetterCloud | | | 1 Jun 2026 | Vertice buys Vendr | terms undisclosed | | 25 Jun 2026 | Productiv assignment | for the benefit of creditors | | 6 Aug 2026 | Productiv ceases operations | customers told 2 August; access ended 5 August; data and backups destroyed | Source: Matrix42, CoreStack and Vertice announcements; Torii's account of the Productiv closure (sources 14 to 17) · as of 30 September 2026 **Figure: A spend tracker knows what you paid; a management platform knows who logged in, and only one of those survives a vendor's exit** *What each class of tool can and cannot do for an Indian mid-market buyer, as of September 2026* Spend tracker: card feed, AP and negotiators - Knows what was paid, not who logged in; a seat is a line on an invoice - Finds the renewal when the invoice lands, which is after the notice period - Negotiates the price well; cannot shrink the seat count with usage evidence - Nothing happens on a leaver's last day - Free tiers and card-paid tools never invoiced stay invisible Management platform: identity-connected - Sees the app at first login via SSO, browser or agent, invoiced or not - Measures use per seat and reclaims with evidence the vendor cannot argue with - Flags or revokes the leaver's accounts the day the directory says they left - Keeps the renewal calendar with notice periods, benchmarks on higher tiers - Its inventory doubles as the DPDP processor list you will need anyway Source: Vendor product and pricing pages (sources 1 to 9); Torii's account of the Productiv closure (source 14) · as of 30 September 2026 The Productiv episode changes the shortlist in one specific way. Any platform you choose will hold a map of every application, every account and every contract in your company. Ask, before the demo, three questions: can the full inventory be exported on demand in a documented format; how many days’ notice does the contract give before data is deleted at termination; and who the vendor’s owner is today. Productiv’s customers had four days.[14] ## Who can keep the data in India One of the nine is an Indian company: ManageEngine is a brand of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd, which has run from its Estancia campus in Chennai since 2015.[20] One names an Indian hosting region: JumpCloud lets an organisation pick India (Mumbai) at sign-up, with the caveat that logs, telemetry and support metadata may leave the country.[19] One rules India out by design: Matrix42 says the former Viio service is built and hosted in the EU.[9] Zylo, Torii, Zluri and CloudEagle.ai name no hosting region on the pages read for this piece.[1] [2] [3] [5] 1 of 9 India-headquartered vendor (ManageEngine, Zoho Corporation) Zoho company history 1 of 9 Names an Indian hosting region (JumpCloud, Mumbai) JumpCloud India data-centre FAQ 1 of 9 EU-only by design (Matrix42 SaaS Management) Matrix42 SaaS Management page 6 of 9 No region on the website, or not checked by us TechBag count TechBag countOn Zluri Zluri is widely described as an Indian-founded company, and we expected to count it as the second Indian vendor here. Its own pricing and product pages print a Milpitas, California address and nothing about India, and we could not find a dated company page that states an Indian headquarters, so it is not counted. If the vendor confirms it in writing, that is a point in its favour for a buyer who wants an Indian counterparty.[3] Residency matters here because of what the tool holds: a named employee, the applications they signed into, and when. That is personal data under the DPDP Act, and the platform is your processor for it. If you are buying this in India **GST first.** A subscription bought from a foreign vendor by a GST-registered Indian business is an import of an online information and database access or retrieval (OIDAR) service: 18% IGST is payable by you, the recipient, under reverse charge, and the exemption that once covered overseas OIDAR supplies to non-business recipients ended on 1 October 2023.[21] As a registered business you take that IGST as input tax credit under the normal conditions of section 16 of the CGST Act, so give every vendor your GSTIN and make sure the invoice is in the company’s name.[26] The 2% equalisation levy that once attached to foreign SaaS and cloud services was abolished from 1 August 2024, so on the tax side a dollar invoice today carries the IGST and nothing else.[22] What remains is your card issuer’s cross-currency mark-up, which the platform’s spend feed will show you line by line. **The LRS trap.** The Liberalised Remittance Scheme is for resident individuals, with a limit of USD 2,50,000 a financial year, and RBI’s Master Direction says plainly that it is not available to corporates or partnership firms.[23] A founder paying the company’s Notion or Figma bill on a personal card is pushing a company expense through a personal remittance limit and forfeiting the input credit. Discovery through the card feed is the only way this shows up; it is the first thing a spend view finds in an Indian start-up. **DPDP.** Section 8(2) of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 lets a data fiduciary engage a processor only under a valid contract, and the Act’s schedule sets a penalty of up to ₹250 crore for failing to keep reasonable security safeguards.[24] The DPDP Rules were notified on 13 November 2025 and bring the security-safeguard, breach-intimation and retention duties into force on 13 May 2027.[25] Every SaaS application holding employee or customer data is a processor, and the first deliverable of any platform on this list, the application inventory with an owner against each entry, is the processor list the Rules will ask you for. Nobody on this list prints a rupee price; the two printed dollar prices convert at your card’s rate plus 18% IGST under reverse charge. TechBag quotes all nine in INR with GST shown. How we did this Figures as of 30 September 2026 The pricing count is TechBag’s reading of nine vendors’ own pricing pages in September 2026; third-party price estimates were excluded. The 100-person, 25-app arithmetic applies each printed price to that estate; it compares what is printed, not what you would pay. Waste and inflation figures are reported by Zylo and Vertice from their own customer data and labelled as such; neither methodology was reviewed beyond the base each states. The Productiv dates come from a competitor’s account and the ownership changes from press material; none was confirmed with the companies. Hosting-region findings come from the vendors’ own pages; BetterCloud and Vertice were not checked. No Gartner quadrant is printed. An earlier version of this piece was the brief for this rewrite; no figure from it survives unverified. Spotted an error? Write to us; corrections are published at the foot of the piece. Sources 1. [Zylo, pricing page](https://zylo.com/pricing/) — undated page 2. [Torii, pricing page](https://www.toriihq.com/pricing) — undated page 3. [Zluri, pricing page (Milpitas address in the footer)](https://www.zluri.com/pricing) — undated page 4. [BetterCloud, pricing page](https://www.bettercloud.com/pricing/) — undated page 5. [CloudEagle.ai, pricing page](https://www.cloudeagle.ai/pricing) — undated page 6. [Vertice, pricing page (vendr.com/pricing redirects here)](https://www.vertice.one/pricing) — undated page 7. [JumpCloud, pricing page](https://jumpcloud.com/pricing) — undated page 8. [ManageEngine SaaS Manager Plus, pricing page](https://www.manageengine.com/saas-management/pricing.html) — undated page 9. [Matrix42, SaaS Management product page (built and hosted in the EU; procurement experts negotiate renewals; demo on request)](https://www.matrix42.com/en/matrix42-saas-management) — undated page 10. [Zylo, 2025 SaaS Management Index press release](https://zylo.com/news/2025-saas-management-index) — 16 January 2025 11. [Zylo, How much is wasted on SaaS spend](https://zylo.com/blog/how-much-wasted-on-saas-spend) — updated 19 March 2026 12. [Zylo, 2026 SaaS Management Index](https://zylo.com/saas-management-index/) — 2026, eighth edition 13. [Vertice, SaaS inflation rate tracker](https://www.vertice.one/insights/saas-inflation-rate) — data to August 2026 14. [Torii, Why did Productiv shut down](https://www.toriihq.com/blog/why-did-productiv-shut-down) — 3 August 2026 A competitor's account; Productiv published no statement of its own. 15. [Vertice acquires Vendr, via BriefGlance](https://briefglance.com/articles/vertice-buys-vendr-forging-an-ai-procurement-data-powerhouse) — 1 June 2026 16. [CoreStack, press releases: CoreStack Acquires BetterCloud](https://www.corestack.io/press-releases/) — 31 March 2026 17. [Matrix42, Matrix42 to acquire SaaS management software provider Viio](https://www.matrix42.com/en/pressroom/matrix42-to-acquire-saas-management-software-provider-viio) — 1 October 2025 18. [TechIntelPro, Zluri named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SaaS Management Platforms](https://techintelpro.com/news/ai/generative-ai/zluri-named-leader-in-2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-smp) — 6 August 2025 19. [JumpCloud, FAQ: JumpCloud Data Center (India) (Mumbai; customer data at rest in India; logs, telemetry and support metadata may be processed outside)](https://jumpcloud.com/support/faq-jumpcloud-data-center-india) — undated page 20. [Zoho Corporation, company history](https://www.zoho.com/aboutus.html) — undated page 21. [India Briefing, Digital services in India: tax applicability and compliance (OIDAR)](https://india-briefing.com/news/tax-digital-services-oidar-in-india-gst-applicability-and-compliance-22465.html) — 29 September 2023 22. [India Briefing, India to abolish 2% equalisation levy from 1 August 2024](https://india-briefing.com/news/india-to-abolish-2-percent-equalisation-levy-on-foreign-digital-companies-from-august-1-2024-33736.html) — 24 July 2024 23. [RBI, Master Direction on the Liberalised Remittance Scheme](https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_ViewMasDirections.aspx?id=10192) — updated 6 September 2024 24. [Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023](https://www.meity.gov.in/data-protection-framework) — 11 August 2023 25. [DPDP Rules 2025, commencement timeline](https://legismith.com/dpdp-rules-2025-timeline/) — notified 13 November 2025 26. [CBIC, Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, section 16](https://cbic-gst.gov.in/CGST-bill-e.html) — 12 April 2017 27. [JumpCloud, press release: JumpCloud acquires Resmo for next-gen IT, SaaS and cloud asset management](https://jumpcloud.com/press/jumpcloud-acquires-resmo-for-next-gen-it-saas-and-cloud-asset-management) — 19 March 2024 Related on TechBag: the [JumpCloud AI & SaaS Management page](https://www.thetechbag.com/jumpcloud/jumpcloud-saas-management) compares it with Zylo, Torii, Zluri and ManageEngine row by row; the [Matrix42 SaaS Management page](https://www.thetechbag.com/matrix42/matrix42-saas-management)does the same against ServiceNow, Flexera and CloudEagle.ai; and [the catalogue](https://www.thetechbag.com/browse-products) lists every product TechBag quotes in INR. **Disclosure.** TechBag is a software reseller: it earns a margin when a reader buys through it, including from vendors named here. The analysis is TechBag’s own; no vendor paid for or saw this piece before publication. Facts are labelled reported, TechBag count or our view. Go deeper on TechBag - [JumpCloud AI & SaaS Management](https://www.thetechbag.com/jumpcloud/jumpcloud-saas-management) — row-by-row against Zylo, Torii, Zluri and ManageEngine; the Mumbai region - [Matrix42 SaaS Management (Viio)](https://www.thetechbag.com/matrix42/matrix42-saas-management) — the negotiator-included, EU-only alternative, against ServiceNow, Flexera and CloudEagle.ai - [The catalogue](https://www.thetechbag.com/browse-products) — every product TechBag quotes in INR with GST