Lightyear vs. Payhawk

Lightyear is an industry-leading cloud platform providing intelligent automation solutions for large SMEs & Enterprise Purchasing & Accounts Payables processes. Our end-to-end approvals workflows allow purchase orders & bills to be approved in seconds, saving businesses more than 80% of their costs and time. Lightyear's AI-data extraction feature, Smart Extract+ enables businesses to get a real-time overview of their payables data & our business intelligence feature allows them to make smarter & better-informed cash flow & forecasting decisions.

Payhawk is an AI-native spend management platform that unifies corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, and business travel in one place. Finance teams get full control, automation, and visibility, while employees enjoy a seamless spending experience. Every payment follows your policies, budgets, and approval flows. Payhawk's MCP connects the platform to the AI assistant your team already uses, such as Claude. It reads and acts, running finance jobs like month-end close end to end through Playbooks.