Medius Alternatives: AP Automation With Published Pricing

Short answer: the right Medius alternative depends on why Medius is not working for you. If you need the same enterprise depth with a different flavor, look at Coupa, Basware, Esker or Tipalti. If you want a lighter AP-first tool, Stampli, Rillion and Yooz are the usual shortlist. If the real problem is that nobody will give you a price, AutoPayables publishes one: $49 a month for 200 invoices or $149 a month for unlimited, and you can test your first 20 invoices before you pick a plan.

Medius is a strong product. It was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Accounts Payable Applications and claims 96 percent plus touchless processing. But every Medius package is quote only, Capterra lists no free trial, and Medius cites 8 to 12 weeks to go live. Buyers start looking for alternatives for one of three reasons: the quote landed above budget, the rollout is longer than they can wait, or they only needed a fraction of the suite. We break down what the Medius quote is built on in our Medius pricing guide.

Medius alternatives at a glance

Prices and trial terms above come from each vendor's own pricing page. Where a vendor publishes no price we say so rather than repeating directory estimates, which for this category are often years out of date.

Which Medius alternative has published pricing?

Of the tools most often compared with Medius, only a handful print a number. BILL publishes $49, $65 and $89 per user per month. Tipalti publishes a starting figure of $99 a month for AP, with transaction pricing on top. AutoPayables publishes $49 and $149 a month, metered by invoice volume rather than seats. Stampli, Basware, Esker, Coupa, Rillion and Yooz all require a sales conversation. If a published price is the deciding factor, our list of AP automation tools you can buy without a demo covers seventeen vendors.

What is the best Medius alternative for mid-market companies?

For a mid-market company with one or two entities and a standard ERP, the best Medius alternative is usually an AP-first tool that covers capture, line-level GL coding, PO matching and approvals without the enterprise add-ons you would pay for in AP 360. Stampli and Rillion fit if you want a guided sale. AutoPayables fits if you want to start the same day at a published price.

The test is simple. Write down which Medius AP 360 features you actually need: Fraud and Risk Detection, Supplier Portal, Copilot, Supplier Conversations, more than one entity. If the list is empty, you are paying suite prices for an AP Essentials problem, and a lighter tool will do the same job.

Stampli: best for approver collaboration

Stampli puts a conversation thread on every invoice, so approvers and AP can resolve questions where the invoice sits. It says its AI handles "89% of the actual work" and learns from more than 2,700 ERP-aligned fields. Pricing is quote only, with a "Request a Quote" button and no self-serve path. Stampli is the closest like-for-like swap for teams that picked Medius for its AP focus. We compare the two directly in Stampli vs Medius.

Tipalti: best for global supplier payments

Tipalti is a payments-led platform. It is the stronger choice if your pain is paying suppliers across many countries and currencies, collecting tax forms and producing 1099s, rather than invoice capture alone. Pricing starts at $99 a month for AP according to its pricing page, with unlimited users and transaction fees on top. Extra entities add cost. See Tipalti pricing for the full breakdown.

Yooz: best if you insist on a trial first

Yooz is one of the few vendors in this group that offers a real trial: 15 days, "made in a production environment", with "No commitments". Its Gold Edition is priced on the volume of documents processed and includes an unlimited number of users. You still reach the trial through a form, and there is no dollar figure on the page. Note the domain is getyooz.com. Our Yooz pricing page has the details.

Rillion: best for mid-sized teams on Microsoft Dynamics

Rillion targets mid-sized and large companies and states plainly "No per-user pricing". It advertises 3-way PO matching, automated approval flows, multi-store and multi-entity support and more than 50 ERP integrations, including Dynamics 365 Finance, Business Central, NetSuite, Sage X3, Sage Intacct and SAP Business One. It publishes no price; the route in is "Book a demo".

Basware, Esker and Coupa: the enterprise swaps

If you are leaving Medius because you want more, not less, these are the realistic options. Basware is built for large invoice volumes and e-invoicing networks, with no published pricing; see Basware alternatives for its trade-offs. Esker claims e-invoicing compliance in more than 60 countries and 135 currencies and "80%+ touchless" processing, again quote only. Coupa treats AP as one module of a procure-to-pay suite; our Medius vs Coupa comparison explains when that trade is worth making. Expect enterprise implementation timelines from all three.

AutoPayables: best when you need a price and a working workflow this week

AutoPayables is built for the controller who has approved budget and does not want another discovery call. You upload or forward invoices, the AI reads the vendor, dates, totals and every line, codes each line to your GL accounts, checks the bill against its purchase order with two-way or three-way matching, flags duplicates, routes anything above your dollar threshold for approval, and exports approved bills in the import layout for QuickBooks Online, Xero, NetSuite or Sage. Growth is $49 a month for 200 invoices. Scale is $149 a month with unlimited invoices and API access.

Where Medius is plainly stronger: AutoPayables uses one approval threshold rather than multi-level routing, does not score invoices for fraud, has no entity dimension and does not send payments (payments are recorded against bills). If those are hard requirements, stay in the enterprise group above. Also, if part of what pushed you toward a suite was employee spend rather than supplier bills, a dedicated expense management tool that reads receipts and categorizes card spend is usually a cheaper answer than buying expenses inside an AP platform.

How do I choose between Medius and a cheaper AP tool?

Choose Medius when you run several legal entities, need fraud and risk detection on every invoice, want suppliers on a self-service portal and plan to send payments from the same platform. Choose a lighter AP tool when you run one entity, your ERP is QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite or Sage, and your bottleneck is keying, coding and chasing approvals. The quickest way to decide is to run your own invoices through a tool before any sales call and compare the extracted lines against what you key today.

Questions to settle before you switch from Medius

• Contract term. Check the notice window on your Medius renewal before you start a trial elsewhere.
• Open invoices. Decide whether to finish in-flight approvals in Medius or re-import them.
• Vendor master. Export vendors, terms and default GL accounts so coding rules carry over.
• Supplier portal users. If suppliers submit through the Medius portal, tell them the new intake address before cutover.
• Audit trail. Keep an export of historical approvals for your auditors.

If you are still deciding, start with the numbers. Our AP automation pricing comparison lays out what each vendor charges and how it meters, and you can run your first 20 invoices through AutoPayables today to see the extracted lines for yourself.