Avalara AvaTax
Cloud-based sales tax calculation and compliance automation across jurisdictions
- Also known as
- avalara-avatax
Available worldwide
What is Avalara AvaTax?
A cloud-based platform that automatically calculates sales tax based on location and jurisdiction rules, then automates returns preparation, filing, and remittance across multiple states and countries. Handles billions of transactions annually with 99.99% uptime.
Avalara AvaTax pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Core package starting at $699 with volume-based pricing; ancillary services $119–$403
Tax Calculation and Returns Compliance Package
Contact salesCore tax calculations, returns filing, and reporting across multiple jurisdictions
- Tax calculations
- Returns and reporting
- Multi-state compliance
Business Licenses
License identification and guidance service
- License guidance
Sales Tax Registration
Business registration assistance per location
- Sales tax registration assistance
What Avalara AvaTax does
The capabilities that matter for tax software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Real time checkout calculation API
- ✓
- Economic nexus jurisdiction tracking
- ✓
- Automated return filing and payment
- ✓
- Exemption certificate management B2B
- ✓
- US sales tax address validation
- ✓
- EU vat cross border calculation
- ✓
- Digital goods software tax rules
- ✓
- ERP netsuite sap integration
- ✓
- Shopify stripe native integration
- ✓
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- ISO 27001
- -
- Pricing model
- Per transaction API tier
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (16)
Independently observed- Shopify
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud
- Magento
- SAP Hybris Commerce
- SAP C4C
- SAP Hybris Marketing
- Intershop
- Drupal Commerce
- Zuora
- Spree
- Solidus
- iPaaS.com
- QuickBooks
- NetSuite
- Salesforce
- Stripe
Avalara AvaTax alternatives
Other tax software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- VatstackAn API platform that handles VAT and GST calculations and compliance reporting for digital product businessesmedium · 55%
- TaxCloudlow · 26%
- Thomson Reuters ONESOURCECloud automation platform for managing corporate tax, trade, and financial compliance workflowslow · 3%
- Numerallow · 20%
- Stripe TaxManage tax compliance and filings across multiple countries from a unified systemlow · 42%
- ZampA managed platform that automates sales tax compliance with expert supportmedium · 53%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Avalara AvaTax, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 91 | 0.04 | 3.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.07 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 20 | 0.08 | 1.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Pricing model: per_transaction_api_tier · Deployment model: cross_border_saas_api · Erp netsuite sap integration: Yes · Eu vat cross border calculation: Yes · Us sales tax address validation: Yes · Digital goods software tax rules: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-25 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1,400 | mediumsource · 2026-08-25 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-25 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sla pct | 99.99 | mediumsource · 2026-08-25 · 60% |