Centage: forecasting software platform

The short answer

Buy Centage if you run a two to ten person finance team across several entities and your budget still lives in a workbook nobody else can open. Centage does not gate core features by tier: multi-entity consolidation with intercompany eliminations, the Personnel Module with ADP, UKG and Paylocity integrations, and the Excel plug-in are in every subscription, and installation is included.

Skip it if you are a single-entity company under $5M in revenue, which Centage itself says is less complexity than the platform is built for. Skip it if your ERP is outside the seven it integrates with natively, since anything else lands in the quoted Custom Bespoke FP&A scope. And skip it if you want to configure the model yourself with no vendor team in the room.

Where Centage fits

Centage pricing

Centage publishes a starting price and declines to publish a tier ladder, and it says so on the page rather than leaving you to work it out. Checked on 16 October 2026, software starts at $699 per month billed annually, there is no setup fee on annual plans, and Centage states that most mid-market customers land between $18,000 and $40,000 per year all-in. That range is Centage's own published statement about where its customers sit, not a quote and not an estimate added here. The quote itself is built from three inputs, and the useful work is knowing which of the three is about to move on you.

What Centage publishes

Centage FP&A software subscription

From $699 per month, billed annually (Annual subscription, quoted from entity count, chart of accounts size and seats)Automated budgeting, multi-year budgets and rolling forecasts against live actuals, driver-based planning, 13-week cash flow forecasting, multi-entity consolidation with intercompany eliminations and multi-currency, the Personnel Module with ADP, UKG and Paylocity integrations, income statement, balance sheet and cash flow reporting, custom KPIs, dashboards, drill-through, the Centage Analytics Excel plug-in, AI-assisted chart of accounts mapping, approval workflows, version control, role-based permissions, SOC 2 Type II, Standard Installation and an onshore Customer Success Manager.

Standard + Custom Bespoke FP&A onboarding

Quote-based (Scope and price set during discovery)Everything in Standard Installation first, then custom reports built to how leadership reads the business, bespoke close, forecast and budget approval workflows, role-level interface configuration, driver-based model setup, and compliance reporting for your industry, funders or investors.

FP&A Advisory Hours

Quote-based (Reserved hours block, priced during discovery)Everything in Standard Support plus reserved analyst hours you draw against monthly, prioritised during close week, forecast refresh and budget season, covering variance review, forecast pressure-testing and board pack work. Unused hours roll to the following month within the annual term.

Managed FP&A

Quote-based (Priced to the scope Centage owns)Monthly close review and variance reporting, quarterly reforecasts and scenario modelling, the annual budget build with department owners, board pack preparation and executive commentary, and ad-hoc modelling for mergers, financing or new business lines.

Figures as published on the Centage pricing page and checked on 16 October 2026. The $699 per month figure also appears in the page's structured data as a monthly unit price, which matches the visible page. The three add-on lines carry no published rate at all.

Centage names three inputs to the quote and nothing else, so these are the three to model before the first call.

1. The number of legal entities you consolidate. One entity, a holding structure or a portfolio of divisions are three different contracts, and this is the input most likely to change without anyone telling finance. If you grow by acquisition, ask what adding an entity mid-term costs and whether it triggers a re-quote or sits inside the band you signed.
2. The size of your chart of accounts, measured as the lines you manage across the profit and loss statement and the balance sheet. This is an unusual price basis and a fair one: it tracks modelling complexity rather than headcount. It also means a chart of accounts cleanup before the quote is worth real money, and a sprawling legacy chart you were planning to rationalise anyway is now a budget item.
3. The number of people who need seats, which Centage defines broadly as department owners, contributors and read-only reviewers. Nothing published says a reviewer costs less than a builder, so ask. In a platform sold on getting department owners to submit their own budgets, the reviewer count is the line that grows fastest and the one worth capping in the contract.
4. Features are not a driver, and that is the part most buyers get wrong. Centage states that it does not gate core features behind tiers, so the quote covers how much of your business the platform models rather than which capabilities you turn on. The thing to confirm is the inverse: that nothing you saw in the demo is a module you have not been quoted for.

What costs extra

• FP&A Advisory Hours: reserved analyst hours you draw against monthly, prioritised during close week, forecast refresh and budget season. Reserved by hours block and priced during discovery, with no published rate.
• Managed FP&A: Centage runs the cycle, covering monthly close review, quarterly reforecasts, the annual budget build, board packs and ad-hoc modelling. Priced to the scope you hand over, with no published rate.
• Custom Bespoke FP&A: bespoke reports, close and approval workflows, role-level configuration and driver models on top of the included Standard Installation. Scope and price set during discovery.
• Nonprofit pricing is available for eligible organisations, which Centage says is priced to the mission budget rather than a revenue band. No figure is published for it.

Implementation and commercial terms

These rows are what the Centage pricing page confirms as of 16 October 2026. The implementation terms are unusually specific for this category, which makes the gaps worth noticing: nothing is published about contract length, uplift at renewal or seat definitions.

Starting price

$699 per month, billed annually

Stated customer range

Most mid-market customers land between $18,000 and $40,000 per year all-in, per Centage

Setup fee

None advertised on annual plans

Implementation

Standard Installation included: ERP integration, historical actuals, first budget and team training

Time to live

4 to 6 weeks, per Centage

Free trial

None listed. A booked demo and a self-guided product tour are the routes in

Support included

US-based support and a dedicated Customer Success Manager on every subscription

Budget it from Centage's own stated range rather than from the starting price. The $699 per month figure is a floor, and the vendor's published statement is that most mid-market customers land between $18,000 and $40,000 per year all-in, so a plan built on the floor is a plan built to be wrong. Get the quote broken into the three inputs Centage says it uses, so you can see what an acquisition or ten more reviewers will cost at renewal rather than discovering it there. Then decide on services inside the first contract: Advisory Hours and Managed FP&A are both priced in discovery, which makes them easier to negotiate now than to add in month eight when close week has gone sideways. And ask for the things the page does not cover at all: term length, the uplift cap, and whether a read-only reviewer is billed as a seat.

Source: the Centage pricing page, checked 16 October 2026. Confirm current prices with the vendor before you budget.

What Centage gives up

How Centage compares

Among mid-market FP&A platforms, Centage is the one you can put a number against. Centage publishes a starting monthly price and a stated annual range. Vena names two plans and three licence types and prices none of them. Datarails names three plans and publishes seat and integration limits rather than prices. Cube names three tiers under a page titled transparent pricing and attaches a quote button to each. Every figure below comes from that vendor's own pricing page, and anything unpublished is recorded as unpublished rather than estimated.

What to test in a Centage demo

No free trial is listed, so this is a demo plus a commercial conversation. Centage says one demo is enough to price the fix, which is a fair invitation to arrive with your real numbers rather than a feature list. Two things need proving: that the engine holds your complexity, and that the quote holds its shape as you grow.

1. Bring your real entity structure and watch a consolidation run. Three currencies, intercompany balances and an elimination you currently handle in a memo will tell you more than a clean two-entity demo. Automated eliminations and multi-currency are included in every subscription, so make the demo show them against your structure and ask what happens to the close when a new subsidiary appears mid-year.
2. Test workforce planning with your own pay bands. Load a grade, a step, a geography and a benefit tier, then change the hire date and watch the loaded cost and the dependent lines move. Positional budgeting with payroll-tax rules is the feature most likely to justify the subscription on its own, and it is also the one a spreadsheet model gets quietly wrong.
3. Connect your actual ledger, not a sample. If you run one of the seven named native integrations, verify the sync on your own chart of accounts and check what the AI-assisted mapping does with your oddities: the suspense account, the legacy department codes, the acquisition that was never rationalised. If your ledger is not on that list, this is the session where you learn what Custom Bespoke FP&A is going to be quoted for.
4. Audit one AI output end to end. Ask the variance agent to explain a month you already understand, then trace the cited actuals rows and the attribution yourself. The published design is that every suggestion cites its source and nothing changes without approval, so check the audit log shows the write, who approved it and what it replaced. A board pack is where this either holds up or embarrasses you.
5. Get the quote in three parts and the services decided. Ask for the number split by entity count, chart of accounts size and seat count, with a stated answer on whether a read-only reviewer is billed like a builder. Then price FP&A Advisory Hours and Managed FP&A now rather than later, confirm the four to six week go-live and what Standard Installation covers, and ask for term length, the renewal uplift cap and data export rights for your models and historical actuals.

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