Independent · sourced · Updated June 2026
Best Sales Tax Automation (2026)
The cheapest sales tax automation is Lappa (formerly LOVAT) at $0/mo. 3 offer a free tier (Lappa (formerly LOVAT), Numeral, Stripe Tax). This page compares 9 options on entry price, free tier, HIPAA/SOC 2 and best-for — every figure linked to its source, updated June 2026.
9 options compared on price, free tier, compliance and fit — ranked cheapest-first. Every figure links to the vendor's own page and the date we captured it; quote-only tiers show “—”, never a guess.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Lappa (formerly LOVAT) at $0/mo (Free).
- Typical paid price: from $29/mo, median $64.50/mo, up to $100/mo — across 4 with published pricing.
- Free tier: Lappa (formerly LOVAT), Numeral, Stripe Tax.
- Tracked: 9 vendors, data current through 2026-06-15.
Comparison
| # | Sales Tax Automation | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lappa (formerly LOVAT) | $0/mo Free | Yes | — | — | e-commerce sellers | vatcompliance.co |
| 2 | Numeral | $0/mo Monitoring | Yes | — | Yes | ecommerce | numeral.com |
| 3 | Stripe Tax | $0/mo Tax Basic – No-Code | No | — | Yes | Stripe-native businesses | support.stripe.com |
| 4 | Quaderno | $29/mo Hobby | No | — | — | SaaS | quaderno.io |
| 5 | TaxJar | $39/mo Starter | No | — | Yes | ecommerce sellers | taxjar.com |
| 6 | Anrok | $100/mo Starter | No | — | Yes | SaaS companies | anrok.com |
| 7 | Avalara | — | No | — | Yes | mid-market | quote-only |
| 8 | Sovos | — | No | — | Yes | enterprise | quote-only |
| 9 | Vertex | — | No | — | Yes | enterprise | quote-only |
Prices are the lowest published self-serve monthly rate as captured on the linked source. Annual-billing and usage details are on each vendor's record in our open dataset.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest sales tax automation?
Lappa (formerly LOVAT) has the lowest published entry price at $0/mo (Free), as of 2026-06-15.
How much does sales tax automation cost per month?
Across the 4 sales tax automation with published paid pricing, the median starting price is $64.50/mo, ranging from $29/mo to $100/mo, as of 2026-06-15. 3 also offer a free tier. 3 are quote-only.
Which sales tax automation have a free plan?
Lappa (formerly LOVAT), Numeral, Stripe Tax offer a free tier.
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How we compiled this
Official pricing pages were re-fetched and verified via WebFetch on 2026-06-15: taxjar.com/pricing, quaderno.io/pricing, stripe.com/tax/pricing plus the US support article support.stripe.com/questions/understanding-stripe-tax-pricing, anrok.com/pricing, numeral.com/pricing, vatcompliance.co/prices/sales-tax/, avalara.com/us/en/products/pricing.html, sovos.com, and vertexinc.com/integrations. Stripe Tax Complete USD tiers ($90/$430/$1000/$1500) and the $0.50 Transaction-API / $0.05 Calculation-API rates were confirmed against the US Stripe support article; the public stripe.com/tax/pricing page geolocates to EUR (€80/€400/€930/€1400, €0.45/€0.04), so USD figures are retained from the US article. LOVAT officially rebranded to Lappa effective 2026-03-20 (confirmed: vatcompliance.co/blog/lovat-is-now-lappa and lappa.org); vatcompliance.co remains the active pricing domain, so plan slug retained. Avalara, Sovos, and Vertex do not publish self-serve software prices and are listed with monthlyUsd:null; speculative third-party annual-price RANGES were removed from notes (never published by the vendor). All EUR-denominated plans (LOVAT/Lappa) and all per-filing/per-transaction models are captured in plan notes with monthlyUsd:null rather than converted/guessed. accessedAt 2026-06-15.
Last verified 2026-06-15. We re-check published prices and compliance on a recurring cadence and update this page when they change.
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