Nexura vs. renting SaaS
Track revenue and transactions per US state against Wayfair nexus thresholds, with alerts before you must register.
The subscription math
TaxJar — rented
Starter $39/mo (monthly, up to 200 orders/month; Professional $99/mo)
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Break-even:
2 months
of TaxJar equals the one-time price.
Assumption: Starter caps at 200 orders/month; annual pricing saves 10% or more.
Savings calculator
SaaS figures use the cited plan price above (see the sources below);
per-seat plans scale by the seat count from the same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Also in this category
Avalara (AvaTax) [2]
No public price - quote-gated (verified)
The avalara.com/us/en/pricing.html URL returns 404; the AvaTax product page shows no figures.
Why owning beats renting here
- One payment. No per-month, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. Customer records never live in someone else's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records, users, and usage are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply — see the
product page for honest limitations.
Sources
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TaxJar — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source
“Starter Plan: '$39 / mo' for up to 200 orders/month ... Professional Plan: '$99 / mo'”
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Avalara (AvaTax) — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source
“does not display specific numeric pricing ... only pricing-related reference is a link to 'Pricing FAQ - How Avalara determines pricing for your business'”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only
print figures we could verify on the date shown.