Compare · Graphite Connect alternatives · 2026
Graphite Connect alternatives for
UK mid-market teams.
Who Graphite Connect is genuinely good for.
Graphite Connect is a supplier management platform built around a patented network model. Instead of each buyer collecting the same data from scratch, a supplier maintains one shareable, verified profile, and every connected buyer sees updates instantly. For onboarding speed and vendor master-data quality at scale, that network approach is genuinely clever.
Its centre of gravity is the enterprise. Graphite markets itself to Fortune-100 buyers, with unlimited users and deep ERP integrations, and reviewers of the product skew heavily enterprise. If you are onboarding thousands of suppliers into SAP or Oracle, that is the design point.
The trade-off is fit. A network built for global enterprise onboarding is shaped, priced and sold for global enterprises. UK mid-market manufacturers usually need less network reach and more day-to-day compliance depth: chasing insurance, closing corrective actions, tracking contracts and reporting Scope 3 carbon. That is the gap Supplio is built to fill.
What we can verify about the price.
Graphite Connect does not publish fixed pricing. Per public directories and its own positioning, cost is scaled to the modules you select, the number of legacy suppliers you want to manage, and how many new suppliers you onboard each month. In practice that means a scoped, quote-based enterprise deal.
That is a reasonable model for network onboarding at scale. It is less helpful when you are a smaller team trying to work out whether a tool fits your budget before committing to a sales process.
Supplio takes the opposite approach: every price is published in GBP, from £599 a year, with monthly billing available and the supplier portal free for your suppliers.
The Supplio contrast
Every price, published in GBP.
- Starter: £599 a year
- Growth: £1,199 a year
- Scale: £2,399 a year
- Enterprise: custom, for unlimited users and suppliers
Monthly billing is available too. All prices in GBP, no hidden fees, and the supplier portal is free for your suppliers.
See the full price listGraphite Connect alternatives, honestly framed.
Each entry says who the product is actually best for, based on the vendor's own positioning. Links go to our full write-up or the vendor's site so you can check everything yourself.
1. Supplio
Our productFull disclosure: Supplio is our product. Judge this entry accordingly, and check every claim against the rest of this site.
Best for: UK manufacturers and mid-market teams below the enterprise-suite revenue band who want supplier compliance depth with pricing they can read before a sales call.
- Published GBP pricing from £599 a year across four plans, with monthly billing available and no hidden fees
- Free branded supplier portal for onboarding, compliance documents and insurance expiry tracking, with automatic chasing as documents approach expiry
- Risk register with a 5x5 heatmap, CAPA with a supplier response loop, a contract repository, performance scorecards and an immutable audit log with CSV export
- Scope 3 carbon reporting with CSV and PDF export, UK company (Companies House NI741193), founder-led support in UK business hours
2. Kodiak Hub
CompareBest for: Mid-market and enterprise companies in the EUR 100M–5B revenue band wanting a broad SRM suite with scorecards, ESG and risk monitoring.
- Stockholm-built SRM suite with configurable supplier scorecards and ESG data collection
- Sanctions and adverse-media risk screening plus a mobile auditing app
- Aimed at and above the mid-market; pricing is quote-based
3. Gatekeeper
CompareBest for: Teams whose anchor record is the contract, wanting contract lifecycle management with third-party risk and spend attached.
- Contract lifecycle management first, with vendor and third-party risk on the contract record
- Unified contracts, third-party risk and spend, with continuous third-party monitoring
- Plans scale by third-party count (Pro up to 250, Enterprise up to 750); pricing is quote-based, users unlimited
4. Canopy
CompareBest for: UK organisations centralising supplier onboarding and vendor master data across finance and ERP systems.
- UK vendor; rules-based onboarding run against your governance framework
- Vendor Master Record as a single source of truth for finance, contract, compliance, risk and ESG data
- Enterprise SaaS, SOC 1 accredited; pricing is quote-based
5. DeepStream
CompareBest for: UK mid-market teams whose gap is sourcing events (RFx) rather than ongoing supplier management.
- London-built eRFx and source-to-contract platform, with eAuctions
- Complements an SRM rather than replacing one: it runs the sourcing event, not the ongoing compliance record
- Tiered plans from Starter to Enterprise; pricing is quote-based
6. SAP Ariba
CompareBest for: Large enterprises standardising full source-to-pay across a global SAP landscape.
- End-to-end source-to-pay suite; supplier management with 360° profiles, performance and risk
- Rebuilt on SAP Business Technology Platform for the 2026 next-gen release, with AI-based risk analysis
- Enterprise, quote-based pricing and an implementation-led rollout
What Supplio doesn't do
Because a fair page cuts both ways. Supplio has no purchase orders or P2P, no spend analytics suite and no e-auctions. If you need a full source-to-pay platform, requisitions through to invoicing, look at the enterprise suites instead. Supplio is deliberately built around the supplier record: onboarding, compliance, risk, CAPA, contracts, performance and Scope 3 carbon.
- No purchase orders / P2P
- No spend analytics suite
- No e-auctions
Supplio vs Graphite Connect, on checkable facts.
Where Graphite Connect states a capability on its own site, the table says so and credits it. The honest differences are pricing, the revenue band each product is aimed at, and where you are supported from.
Our product Supplio | Graphite Connect per their public site | |
|---|---|---|
| Public pricing | Yes. £599 to £2,399 a year in GBP, plus a custom Enterprise plan | Not published. Scaled to modules and supplier volume, per their positioning |
| Stated ICP | UK manufacturers and mid-market teams | Enterprise and Fortune-100 procurement, US-centred, per their site |
| Core model | Your private workspace: you own the supplier records and the compliance chase | Shared network: suppliers keep one profile reused across buyers, per their site |
| Supplier onboarding | Invite, onboarding forms, and a reviewer workspace to approve or request changes | Network-based onboarding with data validation and risk scoring, per their site |
| Ongoing compliance & CAPA | Document and insurance expiry chasing, plus CAPA with a supplier response loop | Onboarding-led; ongoing corrective-action loops are not its focus, per their site |
| Risk register (5x5 heatmap) | Included: likelihood x impact register with a clickable 5x5 heatmap | Automated risk scoring on supplier profiles, per their site |
| Scope 3 carbon | Included: supplier-declared data, emission factors, CSV/PDF ESG export | No dedicated Scope 3 carbon accounting stated on their site |
| HQ & support | Built and supported in the UK, founder-led support in UK business hours | US-centred, enterprise support model, per their site |
Graphite Connect facts are drawn from their public pages, primarily graphiteconnect.com, checked on 2 July 2026. Supplio facts match our published pricing and feature pages. Spotted something out of date? Email founder@supplio.co.uk and we will correct it.
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