Autonomous AP - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

AppZen's Autonomous AP automates the processing of non-digital invoices, both pdf and standard images, from receipt in your AP inbox to posting to your ERP systems. It complements and integrates with most major AP automation solutions, including Oracle, Coupa, and SAP Ariba to perform prepayment audits on 100% of your invoices.

Autonomous AP does more than improve the character recognition capabilities of OCR software. Its finance AI models are pre-built and trained on over 60 million receipts and invoices, giving it the ability to read invoice data with guaranteed accuracy and without human intervention. Upon receipt, invoice data are extracted and validated, PO and accounting policies are applied, and invoices are checked for duplicates. Only then are exceptions reviewed and corrected by accounts payable staff before being posted to the target ERP system.

This AI-first workflow ensures efficient approvals, routing the right invoice to the right approvers at the right time. It eliminates the likelihood of ‘rubber stamp’ approvals by managers with little time, background knowledge, or interest in reading every line item.

All invoices are processed in parallel as they are received. Invoices are extracted, read, validated, classified, and matched in minutes. By increasing their processing power, finance teams can confidently scale with growth, while also reducing the time needed for processing and reviews.

Autonomous AP uses some of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence for finance to read, understand, and can make independent decisions based on its deep finance expertise and your company's specific policies. It ensures invoice data are properly extracted and validated, and POs are matched, GL coded, and audited in minutes.

Finance AI understands both the content and context of the words and images on an invoice the way a human auditor would–including payment terms, amounts, addresses, totals, line items, quantities, prices, logos, and more. It precisely validates suppliers by correlating multiple variables such as supplier name, logo, parent name, billing name, tax id, bank details, and vendor master. If it’s uncertain, the AI models learn and automatically adjust predictions based on just 2-3 samples of user feedback. Changing AP policies, supply base churn, supplier format variances, and user preferences are easily captured and remembered.

It’s capable of automatically ingesting manual invoices from your AP inbox or supplier portal. And it seamlessly integrates with multiple ERPs, portals, and P2P systems, improving supplier-payment workflows. You choose when to pay, allowing for early-payment discounts.

Autonomous AP detects duplicates across expense receipts, invoices, cards, and GL journals by reading and correlating across all your systems’ document images, extracted data, and pre-existing electronic data, such as electronic invoices in your P2P system and T&E reports. It identifies and compares cumulative supplier spend across multiple invoices and confirms thresholds to trigger required approvals. It also identifies compliance risks, verifying invoices against dozens of national and international lists of debarred suppliers, government entities, and sanctioned persons and organizations.

Because its finance AI understands the values and their meanings in your chart of accounts and can easily find patterns in your invoice data, Autonomous AP can predict and assign GL account segments with 100% guaranteed accuracy. Even Non-PO invoices can be autonomously processed end-to-end. It augments all extracted data with the largest global reference library of AP terms, suppliers, and spend category domain knowledge for even greater accuracy.

Autonomous AP also generates critical analytics and benchmarks for understanding your risk levels and ensuring compliance. And it offers fast support resolution via Customer Success Managers who are experts in accounts payable and AI.