Limelight - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Many FP&A solutions promise to solve spreadsheet chaos, but still require finance to work inside Excel. That may improve the spreadsheet, but it does not remove the dependency on files, add-ins, formulas, versions, and manual processes.

Limelight takes a different approach. It is a modern, Excel-free FP&A platform built for finance teams that want to move beyond Excel, not build more software on top of it.

You still get the flexibility finance values: familiar formulas, intuitive grids, configurable models, and the ability to analyze data across the dimensions that matter to your organization. The difference is that everything operates from connected, governed data in one cloud platform.

Connected financial data

Limelight connects directly to leading accounting systems and ERPs, including Sage Intacct, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, QuickBooks Online, Blackbaud, Epicor, and more. Actuals flow into Limelight automatically, reducing exports, repetitive uploads, and time spent reconciling data.

Planning and Forecasting

Build annual budgets, rolling forecasts, long-range plans, and what-if scenarios in one connected environment. Model revenue, operating expenses, workforce costs, cash flow, capital expenditures, allocations, and other business drivers across entities, departments, locations, projects, products, or grants.

When an assumption changes, the impact flows through every connected model. Finance can update plans faster and evaluate different scenarios without rebuilding spreadsheets.

Workforce Planning

Plan headcount and compensation by employee, role, department, entity, or location. Model salaries, benefits, bonuses, payroll taxes, vacancies, transfers, and future hires. Workforce changes flow directly into the financial plan so finance can see the complete cost before decisions are made.

Reporting and Analysis

Use the same connected data to create financial statements, management reports, dashboards, variance analysis, and board-ready narrative reports. Compare actuals against budgets and forecasts, filter results instantly, and drill into the details behind every number.

Reports stay current as actuals and plans change. Limelight Docs brings tables, charts, commentary, and media together so finance can create management and board packages without copying numbers into Word or PowerPoint.

AI built into FP&A

Limelight’s embedded AI helps finance identify trends, surface anomalies, generate narrative commentary, and find answers faster. B

Collaboration with Control

Department leaders can enter assumptions, review results, and add commentary directly in Limelight. Everyone works from the same numbers without exchanging another spreadsheet.

The value of Excel-free FP&A

Excel-free does not mean giving up flexibility. It means removing the risks and limitations that come from using spreadsheets as the operating system for finance.

With Limelight, finance teams spend less time collecting data, fixing formulas, consolidating files, and rebuilding reports.

They gain faster planning cycles, clearer visibility, stronger collaboration, and more time to analyze performance and guide better decisions.

One platform. Faster plans. Better answers.