LucaNet: finance consolidation software platform

Lucanet publishes no prices, but it publishes more than most of this category: a full feature matrix across Basic, Advanced and Professional, and a stated 12 month minimum licence. Buy it if your quote is really a modules question. Skip it if you want a figure before a sales call.

Rajat GuptaEditorial LeadReviewed 16 October 2026Pricing checked 16 October 2026 against the Lucanet pricing page

Lucanet in brief

Lucanet publishes no prices, but it publishes more than most of this category: a full feature matrix across Basic, Advanced and Professional, and a stated 12 month minimum licence.

Price: None, quote only · Quote-based licence, three packages scoped by product area
Best for: Multi-entity groups wanting consolidation, planning, ESG, disclosure and tax from one vendor
Watch out for: You give up the ability to check the quote against anything Lucanet publishes.

The short answer

Buy Lucanet if you run group consolidation across several reporting entities and want planning, ESG reporting, disclosure management and tax compliance from one vendor rather than four. The licence packages are scoped per product area, so you can start with consolidation and financial planning and add the rest later without changing platform, and the feature matrix tells you in advance what each package withholds.

Skip it if your source systems need bespoke connections, because non-standard interfaces are marked optional in all three packages and become a separate line in the quote. Skip it if you close under hard deadlines on a small budget, since direct phone support and extended hours only arrive with Professional. And skip it if a 12 month minimum licence is longer than your planning horizon.

Where Lucanet fits

Lucanet sells itself as a CFO Solution Platform, and the pricing page is the clearest statement of what that means commercially: eight product areas, each scoped separately in every package. The comparison table covers Consolidation and Financial Planning, Extended Planning and Analysis, ESG Reporting, Disclosure Management, Lease Accounting, Banking and Cash Management, and Tax Compliance and Reporting. You are not buying a platform fee with modules thrown in. You are buying a list, and the list is what the quote is built from.

The buyer this suits is a group accountant or head of consolidation at a company with real entity structure. Lucanet says the package that suits you depends on company size and the number of reporting entities, with smaller companies often on Basic and bigger groups on Advanced or Professional. That is an unusually direct admission of how the sales conversation goes, and it tells you what to count before the first call. If you consolidate two entities, you are being pointed at the entry package. If you consolidate forty, you are not.

Integration is where the packaging gets specific, and it is worth reading closely. Out-of-the-box standard interfaces arrive with Advanced. Out-of-the-box enterprise interfaces arrive with Professional and are marked optional on Advanced. Non-standard interfaces are optional in all three. Lucanet's platform page claims more than 300 ETL adapters, which sounds like everything is covered, but the pricing matrix is the document that decides whether your particular connection is included, extra, or custom work. Name every system before you ask for a number.

The tax side is a product in its own right and is packaged like one. Basic gives you portal access and tax accounting including tax reporting. Advanced and Professional add Snapshot, Import Robot, Tax Questionnaire and Period Transfer. On top of that sit named add-on modules: CbC Reporting, DAC6, Pillar II, Tax Audit, Tax Balance, Tax Compliance and Tax Return, plus a separate VAT set covering portal access, countries, audit and support. None of them carries a published price. If you came for Pillar 2 compliance, that is an add-on conversation, not a feature of the package you were quoted.

Where Lucanet stops is the general ledger. It consolidates, plans, reports and files, and it expects your ERPs and subsidiaries to keep producing the underlying data. The platform is built on AWS with tenant isolation and regional data residency, and Bring Your Own Key is offered for enterprise control, which matters to a German or wider European group with data residency rules to satisfy. For a finance team that wants one vendor to replace the ledger as well, this is the wrong shape of product.

Lucanet pricing

Lucanet publishes no prices. Checked on 16 October 2026, the pricing page carries a complete feature comparison of three licence packages, Basic, Advanced and Professional, across all eight product areas, with Contact sales as the only route to a figure. What it does publish is more useful than most quote-only pages in this category: you can read exactly what each package includes before you talk to anyone, and you can see that the minimum licence term is 12 months. So the work is not estimating the price. It is working out which package you will be quoted and what will be bolted onto it.

What Lucanet publishes

Basic: Quote-based (Licence, minimum 12 months)Reconcile, consolidate and close; plan and analyze; track and report; reporting, dashboarding and analytics with operational planning; VSME and ESRS data collection; report creation with the built-in XBRL Tagger; support by webform and e-mail in business hours, described as 8 by 5. No standard or enterprise interfaces, and no lease accounting under IFRS 16.
Advanced: Quote-based (Licence, minimum 12 months)Everything in Basic, plus out-of-the-box standard interfaces, the GHG emission calculation module with reporting and tagging, the disclosure management layout module and its standard interfaces, cash pooling and forecasting in banking and cash management, and the full tax set including Snapshot, Import Robot, Tax Questionnaire and Period Transfer.
Professional: Quote-based (Licence, minimum 12 months)Everything in Advanced, plus out-of-the-box enterprise interfaces, enhanced workflows and collaboration, lease accounting under IFRS 16 for up to 150 components, support by webform, e-mail and direct phone in extended hours described as 10 by 5, and a dedicated customer success representative.

Lucanet publishes no figure for any of the three. Every cell above comes from the package comparison on its own pricing page.

Four things set the number, and the feature matrix tells you which three you can settle before the call.

Which product areas you license. This is the biggest lever and the easiest to scope. Each of the eight areas is priced in or out separately in every package, so the quote reflects the modules you turn on rather than one platform fee. Decide what you need in year one and ask for each area costed on its own line, so that adding ESG reporting later is a known increment rather than a renegotiation.
Which package the entity count pushes you into. Lucanet says company size and the number of reporting entities drive the package choice. Count your entities, including dormant ones and anything you acquired last year, before you ask for pricing, because that number is what the salesperson is reaching for when they recommend a tier.
Interfaces, which are priced by name rather than by volume. Standard interfaces come with Advanced, enterprise interfaces with Professional, and non-standard interfaces are optional in all three packages. A bespoke connection to your ERP is therefore a separate line in the quote whichever package you buy. In the xP&A area, Basic lists a bidirectional interface to the consolidation and financial planning product plus spreadsheets plus one standard interface, which is a specific and quite tight allowance worth checking against your source list.
Support level, which Lucanet packages rather than sells separately. Basic and Advanced carry webform and e-mail support in business hours, described as 8 by 5. Professional adds direct phone support, extended hours described as 10 by 5, and a named customer success representative. Functional support topics, as distinct from technical issues, are optional on Basic and included from Advanced upward. If your close runs to a hard external deadline, price that gap rather than assuming you can escalate your way through it.

What costs extra

Non-standard interfaces, marked optional in all three packages. A connection Lucanet has not already built is quoted separately regardless of tier.
Tax add-on modules, listed by name: CbC Reporting, DAC6, Pillar II, Tax Audit, Tax Balance, Tax Compliance and Tax Return. No price is published for any of them.
VAT add-ons, covering VAT portal access, VAT countries, VAT audit, VAT customer support and a VAT dedicated customer success representative. Again, no published price.
Functional support topics on the Basic package, where they are listed as optional rather than included.
Out-of-the-box enterprise interfaces on Advanced, where they are marked optional rather than standard.

Implementation and commercial terms

The rows below are what Lucanet's own pricing page confirms as of 16 October 2026. Where a row says nothing is published, read it as a question for sales rather than as reassurance.

Published price: None. Three packages compared by feature, with Contact sales as the only route to a figure.
Minimum licence term: 12 months, with longer terms available.
Switching packages: Lucanet says packages can be upgraded or switched at any time by contacting its team.
Implementation fee: None published. Lucanet describes an out-of-the-box standard solution with customized implementation and configuration.
Onboarding and training: Onboarding and the Lucanet Academy are offered, with no figures attached.
Partner route: Certified sales partners offer the same three packages. No prices are published for either route.
Free trial: None listed. The pricing page's calls to action are Contact sales and Request demo.

Budget Lucanet as a module list rather than a subscription. Write down the product areas you need, the entities you consolidate and every system you need connected, then ask for each area priced separately and every interface confirmed as included, optional or custom. Ask what an upgrade costs mid-term and whether the 12 month minimum restarts when you change package, because Lucanet publishes the term but not what moving within it does to it. Get a partner quote as well as a direct one: the packages are the same, so the comparison is clean. Then benchmark against something you can read today, because IBM Cognos is the only tool in this group with a published per user rate.

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

What Lucanet gives up

You give up the ability to check the quote against anything Lucanet publishes. The feature matrix tells you what you get and says nothing about what it costs, which is a better position than most of this category leaves you in and still means your business case rests entirely on a sales conversation. The remedy is a competitive process: run Lucanet against at least one vendor that publishes seat or entity limits, and against one that publishes a rate, so the three quotes discipline each other.

You give up lease accounting unless you buy the top package. IFRS 16 lease accounting is absent from Basic and Advanced in the consolidation and financial planning area, and appears on Professional for up to 150 components. That is a real number and a real ceiling: a property-heavy group with more components than that is outside the published allowance and needs the overage priced before signing. If leases are your reason for shortlisting Lucanet, you are a Professional buyer, and you should price it that way from the start.

You give up phone support at the lower tiers, and that bites during close week. Basic and Advanced are webform and e-mail in business hours. The thing that goes wrong in consolidation goes wrong at eight in the evening on day three of the close, and an e-mail queue is not the channel you want then. Lucanet is explicit about where the line sits, which makes this a budgeting decision rather than a surprise, but it is still a decision you have to pay for.

You give up short commitments. The minimum licence is 12 months and longer terms are described as always available: there is no monthly route and no self-serve entry point. Combined with no free trial, every piece of evidence you gather comes from a demo rather than from running the product yourself. Negotiate a review point rather than a shorter term.

You give up a single number for the tax story. Tax compliance and reporting is in the base packages, but the parts most groups actually need in 2026, Pillar II and country-by-country reporting among them, are named add-on modules with no published price. The same applies to the VAT set. A group that came to Lucanet for Pillar 2 should treat the published package as the floor and ask for the add-ons as separate lines, then compare that total against a dedicated tax product rather than against another consolidation platform.

How Lucanet compares

Consolidation software is almost uniformly quote-only, so the useful cut is how much a vendor publishes before the sales call. Lucanet publishes a full feature matrix and a licence term. Cube and Datarails publish the scale limits that set their tiers. IBM publishes two per user rates for Cognos Analytics bought from IBM. SAP publishes nothing a buyer could read on 16 October 2026. Every figure below comes from that vendor's own page, checked on 16 October 2026, and anything unpublished is recorded as unpublished rather than estimated.

Tool	Best for	Price	Where it breaks
Lucanet	European groups consolidating multiple reporting entities who want tax, ESG and disclosure from one vendor	Not published, quote only	Lease accounting and phone support only on the top package, and every non-standard interface is a separate line
Cube	Smaller finance teams who want the entity count to set the tier and users left uncapped	Not published, quote only	Tiers are drawn at one, ten and fifty legal entities, so an acquisition can move you a tier
Datarails	Excel-first teams who want published seat and integration limits per tier	Not published, quote only	Seats are tight at the lower tiers and intercompany eliminations sit in the higher ones
IBM Cognos	Teams who want a published per user rate they can model before any call	From $10.60 per Standard user/month, $42.40 Premium	Only the IBM-hosted plans carry rates, and IBM labels both figures indicative
Workiva	Filers who need unlimited seats across reviewers, auditors and outside counsel	Not published, quote only	Packaging tiers are unpublished, so the quote is the only place the scope appears

What to test in a Lucanet demo

No free trial is listed, so this is a demo and a scoped proof of concept rather than a self-serve pilot. Because the feature matrix is published and the price is not, the demo has an unusual shape: you already know what each package withholds, so spend the time proving the matrix is true for your data and extracting the commercial terms.

Bring your own group structure, not a sample one. Load your real entity list, your intercompany balances and at least one currency translation, then run a consolidation end to end. Intercompany reconciliation is one of the named capabilities, so make the demo show an unmatched balance being found and cleared rather than a clean set closing on the first pass.
Make them connect one real source system in the session. Ask which category your ERP falls into, standard, enterprise or non-standard, and get the answer in writing, because that single word decides whether the connection is in your package, optional on it, or a custom quote. If you run more than one ledger, do this for each.
Test the package boundary you are closest to. If lease accounting matters, count your components against the 150 that Professional publishes. If you need enhanced workflows and collaboration in xP&A, note that it appears only on Professional. Push the demo to the feature you would be buying the next tier up for, and decide whether it is worth the step.
Get the tax add-ons named and priced. Ask whether Pillar II, country-by-country reporting and the VAT set are inside the package you are being quoted or alongside it, and ask for each as its own line. This is the single most likely place for a quote to grow after the first conversation.
Settle the commercial terms in the same call. Confirm the 12 month minimum, ask what an upgrade costs mid-term and whether the term restarts when you switch package, and ask for implementation and onboarding scoped as a separate number. Then ask for a partner quote on the same three packages and compare the licence and services split.

Frequently asked questions about LucaNet

How much does Lucanet cost?

Lucanet publishes no prices. As of 16 October 2026 its pricing page compares three licence packages, Basic, Advanced and Professional, feature by feature across eight product areas and routes every pricing question to Contact sales, so your cost depends on which modules and package you are quoted.

What is the difference between Basic, Advanced and Professional?

Basic covers reconciling, consolidating, closing, planning and reporting. Advanced adds out-of-the-box standard interfaces, the GHG emission calculation module, the disclosure layout module and cash pooling and forecasting. Professional adds enterprise interfaces, enhanced workflows, IFRS 16 lease accounting for up to 150 components and a dedicated customer success representative.

What does Lucanet do?

Lucanet provides financial consolidation, planning and reporting for multi-entity finance teams, with automated data quality checks. Its pricing page scopes eight areas: consolidation and financial planning, extended planning and analysis, ESG reporting, disclosure management, lease accounting, banking and cash management, and tax compliance and reporting.

Is Lucanet an ERP system?

No. Lucanet sits above your ledgers rather than replacing them. It collects data from ERPs and subsidiaries, with the vendor claiming more than 300 ETL adapters, then consolidates, plans and reports on it. You still need an ERP or accounting system to produce the underlying transactions.

How long is a Lucanet contract?

Lucanet states you can license it for a minimum of 12 months, with longer terms always available. It also says packages can be upgraded or switched at any time by contacting its team. Ask whether the 12 month minimum restarts when you change package, because that is not published.

Does Lucanet charge extra for integrations?

It depends which kind. Out-of-the-box standard interfaces arrive with Advanced and enterprise interfaces with Professional, while non-standard interfaces are marked optional in all three packages. A bespoke connection to your ERP is therefore a separate line in the quote whichever package you buy.

Which Lucanet package includes IFRS 16 lease accounting?

Professional. The feature matrix shows lease accounting under IFRS 16 absent from Basic and Advanced in the consolidation and financial planning area, and present on Professional for up to 150 components. If you have more components than that, get the overage priced before you sign.

Is there a Lucanet free trial?

No trial is listed. As of 16 October 2026 the pricing page's calls to action are Contact sales and Request demo, so your evaluation is a guided demo and a scoped proof of concept rather than a self-serve pilot. Ask for your own entity structure to be loaded.

Do Lucanet partners charge the same as Lucanet?

Lucanet says its certified sales partners offer the same three licence packages, Basic, Advanced and Professional. No prices are published for either the direct or the partner route, so ask for both quotes and compare how each one splits licence cost from implementation services.

What audit and access controls does Lucanet provide?

Audit logs and permission views are listed in the extended planning and analysis area of all three packages, with centralised roles and permissions on the platform. Lucanet runs on AWS with tenant isolation, regional data residency and Bring Your Own Key offered for enterprise control. Confirm your own retention requirements in writing.