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Melio vs Bill.com pricing and cost per user for US small business accounts payable

Melio vs Bill.com pricing is a question of how many people touch your payables and how many payments you send. Melio charges a monthly plan: Go is $0, Core $25, Boost $55 and Unlimited $80 (or $20, $44 and $64 billed annually), each with a set number of free ACH payments and $10 a month per extra user on Core and Boost. BILL charges per user: Essentials $49, Team $65 and Corporate $89 a month, plus $0.59 per ACH payment and $1.99 per mailed check. For a team of two or more, Melio is cheaper in nearly every row below.

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Receipts in, categorized spend out

Expenditure reads the vendor, amount, date and tax, categorizes the expense, checks it against your policy, and rolls it into a up-to-date picture of every dollar, then flags the waste.

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Every receipt your team sends is read and coded like this.

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Bank-grade · we never move your money

Those numbers come from melio.com/pricing and bill.com/pricing, read on October 29, 2026. The gap is widest on the seat line. Take five AP users. On BILL Team, which is the first plan with automatic two-way QuickBooks Online and Xero sync, that is $325 a month. On Melio Unlimited it is $64 a month billed annually, with unlimited seats and unlimited free ACH payments. Add 40 ACH payments and 10 mailed checks and the monthly totals are about $369 on BILL Team and $79 on Melio Unlimited.

Payment fees narrow the gap less than people expect. Melio gives you 5, 20, 50 or unlimited free ACH payments a month depending on plan, then charges $0.50 each. Its mailed check is $1.50. BILL charges $0.59 for ACH and $1.99 for a check from the first payment, with virtual card payments free. Melio also lists a 2.9% fee when you pay a vendor by credit card. BILL charges 2.9% for card-funded payments too, and sends international USD wires at $19.99.

BILL wins where depth matters. It has a Spend and Expense plan at $0 per user, corporate cards with credit lines, Accountant console access at $49 a month, 1099 e-filing at $2.99 per form, and a custom-priced Enterprise plan with NetSuite, Sage Intacct and Microsoft Dynamics sync and three-way PO matching. Melio syncs with QuickBooks Online and Xero on Core and above, adds QuickBooks Desktop on Boost, and lists NetSuite among its integrations. If you need purchase orders or run several entities, price BILL first. If you pay vendors by ACH and check from QuickBooks Online and just need approvals and a clean sync, Melio is the cheaper tool.

Neither product reads your documents. Both start the work at the payment, after someone has keyed the invoice. If the slow part for your team is reading each supplier invoice and receipt, coding it to the right GL account, routing it for approval and exporting a clean bill to QuickBooks Online, Xero or NetSuite, Expenditure does that and leaves the payment with Melio, BILL or your bank. Growth, which adds approvals and the NetSuite export, costs $21 per seat a month billed yearly from three seats, so $63 a month for a three-person team. We never move or hold your money, we are bank-grade secure and we never sell or train on your financial data. This is software and insight, not financial, tax or accounting advice.

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Per-seat pricing grows with every approver. A plan with unlimited seats does not, but the payment meter behind it still runs.

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Melio vs Bill.com pricing for accounts payable

Read on October 29, 2026 from melio.com/pricing and bill.com/pricing. Monthly totals assume 40 ACH payments and 10 mailed checks a month, and Melio annual prices.

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Line Melio Core Melio Unlimited BILL Team Expenditure
How it is priced Monthly plan plus $8 to $10 per extra user Flat monthly plan, unlimited users Per user per month Per seat per month, from 3 seats
Entry price $20 a month annual, $25 monthly $64 a month annual, $80 monthly $65 per user a month (Essentials $49) Starter $12 per seat a month billed yearly
Free ACH payments a month 20 Unlimited None Does not send payments
ACH payment fee $0.50 after the free ones $0 $0.59 None
Mailed check fee $1.50 $1.50 $1.99 None
QuickBooks Online and Xero Unlimited sync, approvals Included Automatic two-way sync (Essentials is CSV only) Import-ready files on every plan
NetSuite and Sage Intacct Not on Core NetSuite listed on Unlimited Enterprise plan only, custom priced NetSuite export on Growth and above
Approval workflows Included Included Included, custom policies on Corporate Approval routing on Growth, up to 3 steps on Scale
2 AP users a month $28 plus $25 fees = $53 $64 plus $15 fees = $79 $130 plus $43.50 fees = $173.50 $63 on Growth (3-seat minimum)
5 AP users a month $52 plus $25 fees = $77 $64 plus $15 fees = $79 $325 plus $43.50 fees = $368.50 $105 on Growth
10 AP users a month $92 plus $25 fees = $117 $64 plus $15 fees = $79 $650 plus $43.50 fees = $693.50 $210 on Growth

Melio Core includes one user and charges $8 a month per extra user billed annually ($10 monthly). Melio ACH is $0.50 after the free allowance and BILL ACH is $0.59 from the first payment. Credit card payments to vendors carry a separate percentage fee at both. Expenditure prices are per seat billed yearly; monthly billing is $24, $42, $66 and $98 per seat. Expenditure does not pay suppliers: you keep paying from your bank or accounting system.

Why it works

What to settle before you pick Melio or BILL

Count approvers as users on BILL

BILL charges every seat, and the owner or CFO who only approves still counts on Essentials and Team. On Melio Unlimited that person costs nothing extra.

Count your ACH and check volume

Melio free ACH allowances only help if you send that many. At under 5 payments a month Go at $0 can be enough. At 50 or more, Unlimited stops the meter.

Price the ledger sync before the seat

QuickBooks Online and Xero sync is cheap on both. NetSuite is where BILL jumps to a custom-priced Enterprise quote and Melio sends you to its top plan.

What it handles

A receipt in, a categorized line out, the waste flagged

Expenditure reads each receipt, categorizes it, checks it against your policy and rolls it into up-to-date spend, then surfaces the duplicate subscriptions and savings you are leaking.

  • Reads every supplier invoice and receipt at line level, including PDFs and photos
  • Codes each bill to your QuickBooks Online, Xero or NetSuite chart of accounts
  • Routes bills and expenses for approval on Growth, up to three steps on Scale
  • Flags duplicate invoices before they reach your books
  • Exports clean, import-ready bills while payment stays with Melio, BILL or your bank
Extracted In policy

Categorized receipt

VendorFigma
Amount$144.00
CategorySoftware → SaaS
GL account6420 · Software

Savings insight

save $108/mo

You are paying for Figma and Sketch. Teams on both usually consolidate to one.

Visa · QuickBooks · Xero We never move your money

Why Expenditure

Receipts read, spend categorized, waste flagged

Not manual coding, not a stale spreadsheet. Expenditure reads each receipt, checks your policy, shows up-to-date spend, and flags the savings, all on the cards and banks you already have.

Read and categorized

Snap, forward or drop a receipt. The AI reads the vendor, amount, tax and line items, categorizes it and matches the card, in seconds.

Waste flagged

Duplicate and overlapping subscriptions, unused tools, price creep and out-of-policy spend, surfaced as expenses come in with the potential saving.

Secure and in your control

Bank-grade security, we never move or hold your money, and we never train on your data. Insights, not advice, your finance team decides.

Good questions

Questions about melio vs bill.com pricing

Yes for almost every small team. Melio Core is $20 a month billed annually and Unlimited is $64 with unlimited users, while BILL Essentials is $49 per user and Team is $65 per user. With one user and heavy BILL features the gap is smaller, but with five users BILL Team is $325 a month before payment fees.
Melio Go is $0 with 5 free ACH payments. Core is $25 a month ($20 billed annually) with 20 free ACH payments, Boost is $55 ($44 annually) with 50, and Unlimited is $80 ($64 annually) with unlimited free ACH and unlimited users. Extra users on Core and Boost are $10 a month.
BILL Accounts Payable costs $49 per user a month on Essentials, $65 on Team and $89 on Corporate, with Enterprise priced on request. Payment fees are separate: $0.59 per ACH payment, $1.99 per mailed check, free virtual card payments and $19.99 per international USD wire. BILL Spend and Expense is $0 per user.
Melio ACH payments are free up to your plan allowance, then $0.50 each. A mailed check is $1.50. Paying a vendor by credit card costs 2.9% and faster transfers carry extra fees. International USD payments are $20. Receiving a card payment from a customer is also a percentage fee.
Only on some plans. Go, Core and Boost include one user and charge $10 a month for each extra user, or $8 billed annually. Unlimited includes unlimited users in its flat price. BILL charges every user on every plan, so approvers and the owner count toward the monthly bill.
Yes. Go includes up to 10 QuickBooks and Xero syncs, and Core adds unlimited sync with QuickBooks Online and Xero. Boost adds QuickBooks Desktop. NetSuite is listed on the top plans. BILL syncs automatically with QuickBooks Online and Xero from Team, and only with NetSuite on its custom-priced Enterprise plan.
Melio sells a monthly plan with a free ACH allowance and a low per-payment fee, built for small businesses that pay vendors from QuickBooks Online or Xero. BILL sells per-user plans with a wider suite: accounts receivable, corporate cards, procurement, 1099 filing and an Enterprise tier for NetSuite companies.
It can be when you need accounts receivable, corporate cards, procurement or an accountant console in one product. For a small business that mainly pays bills by ACH and check, BILL costs several times more than Melio once you have three or more users, so price both against your real payment count.
Yes. Both read vendors and bills from your accounting system, so the vendor list usually carries over through QuickBooks Online or Xero. Recreate approval rules and payment schedules by hand, and finish any scheduled BILL payments first. Ask each vendor to confirm they received the new remittance details.
No. The slow part of AP is usually reading invoices, coding them and getting approvals, not sending the ACH. Expenditure reads each invoice, codes it to your GL, routes approval on Growth and exports a clean bill to QuickBooks Online, Xero or NetSuite, and you pay from your bank or accounting system as you do today.
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