TaxJar Alternatives

Kintsugi is the closest replacement for TaxJar's job, with a pricing model that fits a seller who files in a handful of states. It connects to your store and billing tools, watches your sales tax exposure in every state, and files the returns. The free plan covers exposure monitoring across every state, historical liability audits, threshold alerts and CSV imports, so you can see where you owe before you pay anything.

Paid work starts on Starter, priced at $75 per action in the US and Canada. An action is a registration, a filing, a back filing, a re-file, an amended return or a deregistration that Kintsugi completes for you. There is no subscription per state. Every paid plan is month to month, with no built-in annual price increase. Starter also adds a virtual mailbox for state notices and 24/7 live chat, which answers the most common TaxJar complaint. One gap to plan for: on every plan, you keep an eye on your own state tax portals; Kintsugi Mail only receives the paper mail. Scale and Premium replace per-action pricing with one flat monthly price, custom quoted, and add notice handling plus the Kintsugi Guarantee: if one of its calculations or filing errors leads to penalties or interest, Kintsugi pays.

Numeral sells the same unit as Kintsugi, a filed return, but wraps it in more service on its first paid plan. Its Monitoring plan is free: you connect your stores or billing platforms and get a free nexus study that shows where you have crossed a threshold. The Professional plan covers registrations, filings and remittance, with autofile and autoregister, exemption certificate management, AI product classification and a concierge service run by its team of sales tax experts.

The pricing fits on one line: $75 per return filed plus a one-time $150 registration fee per state. There is no setup or onboarding fee for standard US filings, and standard accounts run month to month, billed only as filings occur. The guarantee sits on the paid plan, not on an upper tier: Numeral promises your sales tax will be filed on time, or it pays your penalties and interest. TaxJar's AutoFile makes a similar on-time promise, so the real differences are the concierge team and the lower registration fee. Exemption certificate management is free for your first 50 certificates. Global VAT and GST coverage in 90+ countries is an Enterprise feature, on custom pricing.

Avalara is the incumbent of the category, and its packaged plans now price by state instead of by return. That turns TaxJar's biggest cost into a fixed line. Both plans, Core Compliance and Core Compliance + SST Services, are for businesses with less than $50M in annual revenue. They include rooftop-accurate calculation across 12,000+ US jurisdictions, economic and physical nexus tracking, filing and remittance, tax notice management and built-in exemption management. Unlimited returns are included: file monthly, quarterly or more often and the price stays flat.

Core Compliance costs $79 per state per month, or $799 per state per year billed annually, with a 3-state minimum. Core Compliance + SST Services costs $69 per state per month ($699 a year) with no state minimum, and you pay $0 for participating Streamlined Sales Tax states. Avalara also presents $69 as a price billed annually, so confirm the billing term on your quote. Registration in non-SST states is a separate service. Above $50M of revenue, Avalara moves you to a custom plan. Two details change the bill: the price is per state and per legal entity, so a second company pays again, and returns in Canada are filed at the same per-state rates. The trade-off is weight: Avalara has more settings, more products to upsell and a heavier setup than TaxJar. Our guide to switching from Avalara lists what people move to when it feels too big, and our Avalara AvaTax integration for Make shows how to pipe its rates into other tools.

TaxCloud can be the least expensive way out of TaxJar if your obligations fall in the right states. As a Streamlined Sales Tax certified provider, it offers free sales tax services in the 24 SST states, including registration, calculation, filing and remittance, for sellers who qualify. Everywhere else you pay for a subscription and a filing plan.

The subscription depends on your platforms. Starter, for Shopify or Stripe sellers on data import integrations, costs $19 a month for 100 orders, $29 for 200 and up to $349 for 20,000, or $199 a year billed yearly. Premium, at $79 a month or $799 a year, adds real-time calculation, ERP integrations and API access for growing ecommerce and SaaS businesses. Tax filing starts at $39 a month for one return, $109 for three and $169 for five, and audit support starts at $99 a month. Yearly billing saves up to 16%. Two rules to know: if you pass your allotment, nothing pauses and the extra is billed on your next invoice, and unused filings do not roll over to the next month or year. Watch the order count too: applying an exemption certificate to an order counts as two orders, and each tax calculation or address check as a tenth of one. The 30-day trial gives you Premium but excludes filing and registration. And the free SST service still needs a paid subscription: TaxCloud lists SST access on Starter but also says SST benefits are only for Premium members, so get the answer for your plan in writing.

Stripe Tax is the alternative TaxJar's own pricing page suggests to Stripe customers, and for them it removes a whole integration. It reads the transactions Stripe already holds, so there is nothing to import. Tax Basic is pay as you go: 0.5% per transaction where you are registered to collect taxes on Billing, Checkout, Invoicing and Payment Links, or 50 cents per transaction through the API, with 10 calculation calls included and 5 cents for each call above that. Basic covers monitoring, calculation on 700+ product and service types and collection in 100+ countries, but no registrations or filings.

Tax Complete adds registrations and filings, with Stripe filing itself in the US, Canada and the EU and partners covering 90+ countries. It is a monthly subscription on a 1-year contract, in four tiers: $90, $430, $1,000 and $1,500 a month. The $90 tier includes 2 registrations and 4 filings a year, 200 transactions and 2,000 calculation API calls a month. Additional fees may apply outside the US or when you exceed your plan's limits. Stripe Tax also calculates and collects Colorado's retail delivery fee, whose return TaxJar's AutoFile leaves to you. That makes Stripe Tax a good fit for a SaaS company with a few quarterly states, and a poor one for a Shopify store. Our page on switching from Stripe covers the payment side.

Anrok is built for software companies, the part of the market TaxJar's order-based tiers fit least. It handles the cases a subscription business runs into: mid-cycle plan changes, prorations, bundled products and the question of whether a given SaaS product is taxable in a given state. It connects to billing systems rather than shopping carts.

Its pricing counts markets, not orders or returns. Every company pays $100 per market per month on the Starter plan, and Starter covers global exposure monitoring, real-time tax calculation, filing and remittance, exemption certificate management and physical nexus tracking. Each new market you activate adds one fee to your monthly bill, and Anrok handles the registration setup in that market. The Custom plan scales with your total transaction volume and is quoted by its team. The limit for a small seller: $100 a month for a state you file in once a year is a high price per return, so Anrok pays off when each market carries real volume. Two details: a market is one registration (British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec each count apart from Canada's GST/HST, while EU filing through the One Stop Shop counts as one), and high-volume Starter sellers may pay extra fees for third-party costs. Ecommerce sellers have their own Anrok offer, but the product's depth is on software.

Quaderno covers a different gap: international tax. It calculates sales tax, VAT and GST, issues compliant invoices and receipts, and pulls transactions from several payment platforms into one account, which helps a seller who uses Stripe, PayPal and Shopify at once.

Plans are flat monthly prices with a transaction allowance, and a transaction is any sale, refund or purchase recorded in Quaderno. Billed yearly, Hobby costs $24 a month for 25 transactions, one user, one jurisdiction and one integration; Startup $41 for 250 transactions; Business $83 for 1,000; Growth $124 for 2,500, all three with unlimited users, jurisdictions and integrations. Monthly billing is $29, $49, $99 and $149. API calls are capped at 10 times your transactions. If you exceed your plan's limit, Quaderno upgrades you to the next tier automatically. Filing and registration are a separate service that its team quotes, so for US returns it is a calculation and reporting tool first. To push its invoices into your other apps, see our Quaderno integration for Make.

Zamp is the managed-service answer to TaxJar. Instead of software you run yourself, a team of senior tax specialists and former state auditors takes over registrations, filing, remittance and state notices. It connects to Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Stripe, NetSuite, QuickBooks Online and Xero, and its plans cover the US and Canada.

Zamp publishes no price list. The Free plan is a one-time nexus analysis, a product taxability review, a 30-minute session with a senior sales tax professional and a 30-day API sandbox. The U.S. and U.S. + Canada plans are quoted on a short call, as one price with everything in it: no per-transaction fees and no surprise invoice when you add a state. They add automated state registrations, alerts at 80% of a nexus threshold, daily state portal monitoring, early-filing discount capture and notice resolution. Under the Zamp Commitment, if a calculation or filing Zamp managed leads to penalties or interest, Zamp covers the cost. The limit: no number before a sales call, and no EU or UK VAT.