Torii is usually bought with the CFO in mind, and then the IT team is asked to run it. With SaaS and AI tools spreading across every team, that's a fair place to start. The first run shows you duplicate tools and licenses nobody uses, and it gives you leverage when contracts come up for renewal. The problem is that once that first clean-up is done you've unlocked most of the value, but have to keep paying the subscription for a spend management tool.

That's why many SaaS management tools now treat spend management as one feature, not the whole product. This guide compares five Torii alternatives. It's based on our research and on conversations with 450+ IT buyers who evaluated an access management solution, including teams that assessed or used Torii. For a one-on-one view, see our Torii vs AccessOwl comparison.

TL;DR

Torii is good at what it focuses on. It's a market leader in shadow IT discovery and license savings. Access workflows were added later, and provisioning runs through each app's API. The right alternative depends on whether your main job is spend or access.

• AccessOwl is the best alternative if the job is SaaS access management. It automates onboarding, offboarding, access requests and reviews in 500+ apps with no SCIM needed, and it covers spend as a feature.

• Zluri is the closest like-for-like if you want discovery, spend and identity governance in one suite.

• Zylo is best for large enterprises that want deeper control of SaaS spend.

• ConductorOne is best for large enterprises focused on access management, with a security team and Okta at the centre.

• SpendHound is a lesser-known pick for finance teams that want to track SaaS spend and renewals.

Torii is being acquired by Freshworks

In October 2026, Freshworks agreed to acquire Torii to add SaaS management to Freshservice, its IT service desk. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2026.

Torii started as a spend management platform and added access workflows on top. Inside a service desk suite, pricing and priorities are likely to shift again. If you're considering alternatives to Torii after the news, AccessOwl is built for SaaS access management first. It provisions and removes access in 500+ apps automatically, without complex API or SCIM setups.

Why teams look for a Torii alternative

Torii is a great product for what it was built for. It finds the apps you use, shows you what you spend and helps you cut what you don't need. Its shadow IT detection, dashboards and contract handling are genuinely strong.

The risk is buying it for access management. Buyers we talked to who did ran into three problems.

Torii provisioning depends on each app's API

Torii adds and removes users through each app's API, "(if available)" in the words of its own docs. Its integration directory lists 298 apps. Only 105 of them list actions to both create and remove a user. The other 168 list no actions at all, so they show you the app but can't change who has access to it.

For apps outside the list you can build your own connection, but the app still needs a user-management API. Many vendors keep that API on their top plan, so automating an app can mean upgrading it for the whole company first. That's the SSO tax. Torii's Miro integration needs Miro's Enterprise plan, and Figma needs the Organization or Enterprise plan.

Where Torii can't act inside an app, offboarding goes to a person. Torii emails or messages the app owner and asks them to remove the account. AccessOwl works through an integration account on the plan you already pay for, so there's no SCIM needed.

Torii access workflows default to a manual task

To be fair, Torii's access side has moved fast in 2026. Its App Access Catalog, generally available since July 2026, added access profiles, approval flows, request reasons and time-limited access.

The catch is what happens after the approval. By default, an approved request sends the app owner an email. Access is only granted or removed on its own when you build a workflow that runs an API action for that app. That brings you back to the provisioning limits above.

In AccessOwl, the account is created as soon as the last approval is in. When time-limited access ends, AccessOwl removes it inside the app.

Torii access reviews are new and only recently automated

Torii added access reviews in 2025, on its Enterprise plan. Until automated remediation arrived in August 2026, removing access a reviewer rejected was a task for someone to do by hand. That automation can only reach the apps Torii can act on. For apps it isn't connected to, the reviewer uploads a user list first.

How we ranked these Torii alternatives

We ranked these tools on the questions that come up in almost every buyer conversation we have, not on who has the longest feature list:

• Built primarily for access or for spend: Did the tool start with access management, or with spend and add access later?

• Account management, not just visibility: In how many apps can it create and remove accounts out of the box?

• SSO and SCIM tax: Do you have to upgrade an app to its enterprise plan before the tool can automate it?

• Time to value: How soon do onboarding and offboarding run on their own, and who has to run the tool?

• Pricing: Can you see it on the website, or only after a sales process?

AccessOwl: The Best Torii Alternative for SaaS Access Management

If you want SaaS access and access reviews to run on their own, AccessOwl is the strongest choice. Torii's access features are newer and still sit on top of a spend platform. Access management has always been AccessOwl's core focus. AccessOwl is for the IT team, or the person who takes care of IT on the side, who wants access to run on its own from an employee's first day to their last.

That work starts on day one. In our State of SaaS Access Management 2026 report, a new hire got access to a median of 9 apps, held by 5 different app admins. Without a dedicated tool, onboarding one person by hand took about 1.5 hours and offboarding took about 1 hour. That's time your team spends on every hire and every leaver.

AccessOwl features

• Onboarding: Give new hires access to every app on day one, without going into each app's admin console. A start date in your HR system creates the accounts with the right permissions, groups and workspaces.

• Offboarding: Remove access to all apps when someone leaves, including the ones outside single sign-on. Once the last workday passes, AccessOwl removes the accounts, frees the licenses and logs every step.

• Self-serve access requests: Employees ask for the app and permission level they need. The approver signs off in one click, and AccessOwl creates the account.

• Time-based access: Give a contractor or a short project access with an end date. AccessOwl removes it inside the app when the date passes.

• User access reviews: AccessOwl pulls user lists from each app and flags former employees. Access a reviewer flags is removed during the review, and the evidence is ready for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 auditors.

• 500+ apps with no SCIM needed: Most apps connect through an integration account, so you don't upgrade any app to its enterprise plan. Every one of the 496 SaaS apps in our catalog supports provisioning and deprovisioning.

On Slack, employees request access with /request and approvers sign off in the same thread, through our native Slack app. Teams without Slack do the same from the web dashboard.

"Since we started using AccessOwl I haven't received a single direct message to request access to tools."

Khalifah Alsadah, Product Manager, from Sary's success story

viafintech, a SOC 1-regulated fintech, runs its access requests through AccessOwl. Their Senior Director of IT Administration describes the change like this:

"Nowadays the same process takes less than a minute and works with the click of a button."

Martin Seener, Senior Director of IT Administration, from viafintech's success story

Who AccessOwl is built for

AccessOwl fits companies of roughly 30 to 1,000 people. Torii also sells to mid-market companies. The difference is the starting point. Torii starts from spend and adds access on top. AccessOwl starts from access and covers spend as a feature.

The person who runs access varies. Some companies have a solo IT admin or a small IT team. A common profile we see is a senior HR or Ops person who wants onboarding and offboarding to run smoothly. They're often the one working through a checklist for every new hire, chasing app admins for accounts and hoping nobody keeps access after their last day. AccessOwl lets that person set up the workflows once and then step back.

AccessOwl doesn't offer SSO or MFA, so you keep Google Workspace, Microsoft or your identity provider for sign-in.

Why AccessOwl is best for mid-market companies

Pricing you can see. AccessOwl's pricing is public. It starts at $250 a month, and there's a 7-day free trial. You can work out what it costs before you talk to anyone.

Spend management as a feature. AccessOwl shows what each app costs, keeps a renewal calendar and reminds app owners before a renewal comes up. It finds shadow apps through Google and Microsoft sign-ins, with nothing for employees to install. That matters because the median company in our report had 18 shadow apps with 5 or more people connected, which can point to paid licenses outside IT's view. When someone leaves, their licenses are freed instead of sitting on a suspended account.

Built for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. AccessOwl layers on top of Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. Connecting takes minutes, and there's no migration. It also works with your identity provider, including Okta, and with 50+ HR systems, so joiners and leavers start from data you already have.

API, MCP and AI skills. AccessOwl has an API and MCP, plus premade AccessOwl skills for AI assistants like Claude and Codex. Your IT team can ask its AI tool to onboard a new hire, check what someone has access to or schedule an offboarding. The AI never approves anything. Every request it creates follows your normal approval policies.

Bottom line

If you're replacing Torii because access is the real job, AccessOwl gets onboarding, offboarding, requests and reviews running across 500+ apps with no SCIM needed and no enterprise plan upgrades. It sits on top of Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, covers spend as a feature and publishes its pricing. A mid-market team can be live in days.

Comparison Table: The 5 Best Torii alternatives

Zluri (best alternative for SaaS spend discovery)

Zluri is the closest match to Torii. Both started as SaaS spend management platforms and added access later. Zluri is one of the most thorough tools on the market for finding apps, and it has since grown into a broad identity governance suite for enterprises.

What Zluri offers

• Shadow IT discovery from nine sources, including a browser extension, a desktop agent, SSO, finance and MDM data.

• License and spend management, with apps matched against a database of more than 225,000.

• Access requests from a web App Catalog, with a reason and an optional end date, and in Slack.

• Onboarding and offboarding playbooks started from your HR system or identity provider, with deep Google Workspace offboarding.

• Access review campaigns with segregation-of-duties checks.

• A connector for on-premises and legacy systems, launched in 2026.

Where it falls short

Zluri started as a SaaS spend management platform and added access on top, so it hits many of the same limits as Torii. It provisions through API and SCIM connectors, and where an app has no integration, the step becomes a manual task. Some connectors also need the app's top plan. Zluri's docs say "You must be on a Notion Enterprise Plan" to provision Notion. In 2026 Zluri added browser automation for apps without an API, and its help center documents it for two apps so far.

Access is one module in a large suite. Zluri's own comparison pages call the web portal "the primary request surface" and rate Zluri "Trailing" on time-bound access. The rollout is sized for enterprises too. Zluri says "customer-reported go-live is typically 4–12 weeks depending on scope."

Zluri doesn't publish pricing. Vendr's data puts the median buyer at about $36,800 a year, based on a small sample of 10 purchases. We cover the details in our Zluri comparison.

Where it fits

Zluri fits a larger company that starts with little visibility into its software and wants discovery, spend and governance in one place.

Zylo (best for large enterprises focused on SaaS spend)

Zylo was one of the first SaaS management platforms, and it calls itself "the leading enterprise SaaS spend management platform". It's built for IT, procurement and FinOps teams at very large companies. Zylo finds apps from the money first. It reads ERP, accounts payable and expense data, then adds SSO data and direct integrations. On top of that it flags unused licenses, ranks upcoming renewals by how much they could save and splits costs across business units. It also tracks AI and usage-based spend as it grows.

Where it fits

Zylo fits a large enterprise where Procurement or Finance owns software spend, with many business units and hundreds of renewals a year. If spend is why you bought Torii and you've outgrown it, Zylo is built for that scale.

Where it falls short

Zylo is a spend tool, not an access tool. Its deprovisioning is about reclaiming licenses nobody uses. Its product pages don't describe access requests, access reviews or accounts for new hires, so you would still need another tool for access. Pricing is quote-only, and Vendr's data puts the median buyer at about $36,000 a year.

Bottom line

Zylo is the pick for a large enterprise where spend is the whole job. It won't replace the access workflows you built in Torii.

ConductorOne (best for large enterprises focused on access management)

ConductorOne (now C1) is an identity governance platform built around access reviews, policy and just-in-time access. It's built for a security team running an Okta-centred stack.

Like Torii, C1 has a long catalog with narrower provisioning. Its catalog lists 455 apps, but C1's own connector docs show only about 30% of its connectors can create and remove accounts. An IAM engineer at a fast-growing developer platform that bought C1 described what that leaves behind:

"this last mile has to be done by humans. And that can become expensive."

IAM engineer at a fast-growing developer platform

What ConductorOne offers

• Access reviews and certifications, which are its core strength.

• Policy, entitlements and just-in-time access.

• Connectors for Okta, Microsoft Entra, Google Workspace and others. Where a connector can't create accounts, provisioning falls back to the identity provider.

• An open-source SDK for building custom connectors.

Where it fits

C1 fits a large company with audit pressure, a security or identity team to run it and Okta at the centre of its stack. It also suits teams with engineers who can build custom connectors and a budget for an enterprise governance program.

Where it falls short

Provisioning depends on which connectors support it, and many of those need the app's enterprise plan. C1's docs say its Notion connector can't be used "with the Free, Plus, or Business editions of Notion." C1 doesn't publish prices. Its AWS Marketplace listing shows $100,000 for a 12-month contract, and Vendr's data puts the median buyer at about $42,500 a year.

Bottom line

C1 is a strong governance layer for a large enterprise with Okta and a security team. For a mid-market team with a long tail of apps, it's more platform than you need. Our ConductorOne comparison goes deeper.

SpendHound (a lesser-known pick for finance teams that track SaaS spend)

SpendHound is less well known than the other tools on this list, but it's worth a look if spend is what you used Torii for. Its homepage calls it "The future of AI, Cloud and SaaS spend tracking". It connects to your accounting or ERP system, like NetSuite, QuickBooks or Brex, and pulls in your vendors, invoices and contracts. From there it tracks budget against actual spend, sends renewal alerts 30, 60 and 90 days out and compares your prices against benchmarks from more than 10,000 vendors.

Where it fits

SpendHound fits companies where Finance owns software spend and mainly wants to stop surprise renewals and overpaying. Pricing is public. The Pro plan is free for companies with up to 999 employees, in return for sharing your spend data. Plus costs $10,000 a year for 1,000 to 5,000 employees, and negotiation help is an optional add-on.

Where it falls short

SpendHound doesn't manage access. Connecting your SSO shows who uses each app and where seats go unused, but it doesn't create or remove accounts, run offboarding or handle access requests and reviews. If those are on your list, you'll need an access tool next to it.

Bottom line

SpendHound is a good pick if your Torii use was mainly about spend and Finance runs it. If access is the job, pair it with an access tool or pick one built for access.

Questions to help you pick a Torii alternative

• Who is driving this purchase: Finance cutting SaaS spend, or IT automating access?

• Which of your apps will the tool create and remove accounts in, and which will end in a task for someone?

• When temporary access ends, is it removed inside the app, or does someone get a reminder to do it?

• Which plan includes the workflows you need, and what does that plan cost at your headcount?

• If discovery runs through a browser extension, how much of your company will actually install it and keep it?

If access management is the job, try AccessOwl free for 7 days. You can also run our free shadow IT scan to see which apps your team uses today.

FAQs

What is the best alternative to Torii?

It depends on the job. For SaaS access management at companies of 30 to 1,000 people, AccessOwl automates onboarding, offboarding, requests and access reviews across 500+ apps with no SCIM needed, and it includes spend features. Zluri is the closest like-for-like suite. Large enterprises look at Zylo for spend and ConductorOne for access governance.

Is Zluri a good alternative to Torii?

Yes, if you want discovery, spend and governance in one suite. Zluri and Torii both started as SaaS spend management platforms, and both provision through each app's API or SCIM. If access automation is why you're switching, check how many of your own apps Zluri can create and remove accounts in.

Which Torii alternatives have public pricing?

AccessOwl and SpendHound publish their prices. AccessOwl starts at $250 a month with a 7-day free trial. SpendHound's Pro plan is free for companies under 1,000 employees. Zluri, Zylo and ConductorOne are sales-gated.

Can I keep Torii for spend and use AccessOwl for access?

Yes. Some teams keep Torii for spend, licenses and shadow IT discovery, and use AccessOwl for access requests, approvals, provisioning and reviews. Finance keeps its spend tool, and IT gets access that runs on its own.

Does AccessOwl do spend management?

Yes, as a feature. AccessOwl tracks what each app costs, keeps a renewal calendar and reminds app owners before renewals. It finds shadow apps through Google and Microsoft sign-ins and frees licenses when people leave. Its core focus is access management.