# Orla vs Fuelfinance

URL: https://www.orla.finance/en/vs-fuelfinance
Markdown twin of that page. Append `.md` to any Orla page URL to get one.

Fuelfinance reads the books QuickBooks keeps and adds forecasts and a finance manager. Orla is the book itself, with the payments in it.

Claims below checked on 13 September 2026, on fuelfinance.me; the pricing page lists features and ends in a call, so their prices are not quoted here.

#### What each one is, and what it needs

- What it is (In one sentence): Orla: The finance back office that runs itself: bills, payouts, cards, invoices, and the month for your accountant, up to pre-accounting; Fuelfinance: “Financial team in the cloud”: FP&A over your accounting, with a dedicated FP&A manager or CFO “if needed”; they say themselves it “isn't accounting software, it's the layer on top”
- Price (Their site, this month): Orla: Free forever; Solo $25, Pro $69, Scale $199, Enterprise $499 a month, bought on the site without a call; Fuelfinance: No price on the site; the pricing page lists features and ends in “Book a 30-minute, obligation-free call”
- What it needs first (The source of truth): Orla: Nothing: connect an account, drop in a statement, the first rows land with categories; Fuelfinance: Existing books: QuickBooks, Stripe, HubSpot, banks and payroll feed it, and the ledger stays theirs
- Reports (Where they win): Orla: DSO, runway, MRR, open receivables against payables, why a figure moved, a 60 day cash forecast as a band; Fuelfinance: P&L, cash flow, balance sheet, cohorts, LTV and CAC, driver-based forecasts, scenarios, several entities consolidated
- Moving money (Payouts, bills, cards): Orla: Payout batches up to 200 rows, approval thresholds and a quorum, cards with a ceiling, supplier bills; nothing leaves without a person's signature; Fuelfinance: None at all; the only payments their site mentions are the ones for their own subscription
- Crypto (Exchanges and wallets): Orla: First class: six exchanges by read-only key, BTC, EVM, TRON and Solana wallets, a cost basis kept through swaps, and payouts sent in stablecoins; Fuelfinance: Not mentioned on any product page
- Agent door (MCP): Orla: Your own agent by key or MCP, with roles, daily caps and a wallet of its own; an assistant that answers from the same rows and acts one press at a time; Fuelfinance: Fuel MCP into Claude and ChatGPT, reading actuals and forecasts with rights by entity, metric and period; and nothing is ever written back
- A human in the plan (Where they win): Orla: None, and none planned; Fuelfinance: A finance manager or a CFO, with board meetings, a Slack channel and weekly calls

#### When Fuelfinance is the right choice

A comparison you can trust has to be able to say this.

- You already have QuickBooks and a bookkeeper, and what you lack is the forecast, the board pack and a person who presents it.
- You want cohorts, unit economics and driver-based scenarios, which Orla does not do.
- Several legal entities need one consolidated view; Orla keeps one book per company on purpose.

#### For the company that has no books yet

If any of this is your company, the comparison decides itself.

- Nobody keeps the books, so the book has to write itself: bills from the mailbox, rules that sort what arrives, an invoice that marks itself paid.
- The money moves here: payouts with a threshold and a quorum, cards with a ceiling, a contractor paid in USDC from the same screen.
- The assistant answers from the same rows the reports use, and acts one press at a time; the month leaves as files for whichever accountant you choose.

The free plan has no clock on it, connections are read only, and when you leave, your books leave with you.