EZLease vs LeaseAccelerator: Pricing and Fit

Short answer: EZLease and LeaseAccelerator are two different products sold by the same vendor. EZLease is the compliance and close engine, and it is the only one of the two that covers GASB 87 and GASB 96. LeaseAccelerator is the lease lifecycle platform, and it is the only one of the two with sourcing, scenario modeling and a direct SAP connection. Neither one reads your lease documents, and neither one publishes a price.

insightsoftware acquired LeaseAccelerator on July 11, 2024, and EZLease came along with it. Two years on, both are still sold as separate products under the same Solutions menu, which is where the confusion starts. A controller who books a demo for one of them frequently ends up in a conversation about the other, and the two are pitched at genuinely different jobs.

EZLease vs LeaseAccelerator at a glance

Which one covers GASB 87 and GASB 96?

EZLease, and only EZLease. Its product page states that it makes compliance simple across ASC 842, IFRS 16, FRS 102 and GASB 87 and 96. The LeaseAccelerator page does not mention GASB at all, in any form, anywhere on the page. If you are a city, a county, a school district, a public university, a utility or a transit authority, that single line settles the question before you look at a feature list.

This is also consistent with who each product puts on the page. The customer quote on the EZLease page comes from a senior management analyst at Clark County, describing a team that previously gathered the note disclosures by hand and in Excel without adding staff. The LeaseAccelerator quotes come from OSF Healthcare, Cummins and Tyson Foods, which are large private-sector portfolios. The two products are talking to different buyers.

Which one covers FRS 102?

Both do, but by different routes. EZLease lists FRS 102 alongside the other standards it supports. LeaseAccelerator gives FRS 102 its own section and describes handling it by configuring the existing IFRS 16 engine rather than running a separate calculation path, so a group reporting under both avoids duplicate data entry. If you have a United Kingdom entity in the consolidation, ask each vendor to show you the FRS 102 output on your own numbers rather than trusting either description.

What does LeaseAccelerator do that EZLease does not?

Procurement, mostly. LeaseAccelerator is built around the idea that the money is saved before the lease is signed, not after. The parts of that story on its public page:

• PureLease sourcing. Once leases are loaded, the platform puts your portfolio in front of more than 500 lessors worldwide who compete for the business. There is no equivalent on the EZLease side.
• Scenario modeling. Simulate restructuring, early termination, extensions and consolidations against real lease and accounting data before you commit.
• Lease versus buy analysis. Model whether leasing or buying wins before you sign, then track the decision through end of term to see whether it held.
• End-of-term control. The headline metrics are all about evergreen payments, the automatic renewals that quietly keep charging after an asset is no longer needed. LeaseAccelerator claims an 18 percent reduction in evergreen payments and a 10 point drop in evergreen payments as a share of total annual payments.
• A direct SAP connection. Lease data moves into SAP through Excel templates via Process Runner, which the vendor describes as needing no IT involvement.

Those are equipment-lease and large-portfolio problems. If your leases are a dozen office suites and you are not sourcing new equipment every quarter, most of that capability is capacity you will pay for and never use.

What does EZLease do that LeaseAccelerator does not?

It covers the public sector, and it is pitched squarely at the close rather than the portfolio strategy. The headline claims on its page are a 90 percent reduction in manual lease accounting work, a 10 percent reduction in month-end close time and a 75 percent reduction in audit prep time. Those are vendor figures rather than independently audited ones, but they tell you exactly what the product is optimized for: getting a smaller finance team through a clean close and a clean audit without hiring.

How much do EZLease and LeaseAccelerator cost?

Neither vendor publishes a number. Search the visible text of either product page for a dollar sign and you get nothing. Both pages route pricing through a button, one labelled Get Pricing and Promos, which opens a form asking for first name, last name, business email, company and phone before anything is shown. Out of seventeen lease platforms we have checked, only three publish a real figure, and neither insightsoftware product is among them. We keep the running detail in our note on what EZLease actually costs.

Two practical consequences. First, budget approval will take at least one sales cycle, so start earlier than you think you need to. Second, any price you find in a directory listing or a comparison article is modeled rather than published, and much of it predates the move onto the insightsoftware site. Treat those numbers as background, not as a quote.

Does either one abstract leases?

No. The words abstract, extract and OCR appear zero times on both product pages, and there is no lease abstraction product anywhere in the insightsoftware lease lineup. Both platforms begin at the point where the commencement date, base rent, escalation schedule, renewal options, termination rights and option notice windows are already sitting in structured fields. Somebody has to read every lease and put them there.

That is the part of the project that actually slips. Reading a commercial lease properly and capturing the terms that drive the schedule runs four to eight analyst hours per lease, and it is unglamorous work that gets pushed to whoever has capacity. Before you decide to keep it in-house, price what an analyst hour genuinely costs you once you account for benefits and loaded overhead, because a defensible pay band for the role is usually a larger number than the one people carry in their heads. Fifty leases at six hours is three hundred hours, and that estimate is the one that turns a clean implementation plan into a two-quarter slog.

The cheaper order of operations is to pull the structured terms out of the PDFs first, review them against the source clauses, then load clean data into whichever platform you pick. You can abstract a lease and see the extracted fields without booking anything, and you will finish knowing your true field list before either vendor asks you for it.

Is EZLease just the small-business version of LeaseAccelerator?

Not quite, and the framing will get you into the wrong evaluation. EZLease is generally the better fit for a smaller finance team whose problem is compliance, and it is the only option of the two for a GASB filer of any size. LeaseAccelerator is the better fit for a large portfolio where the leases themselves represent real spend to be negotiated, regardless of how sophisticated the accounting team is. Portfolio size correlates with the answer, but it is not the question.

Which should you shortlist?

What happened to the standalone EZLease website?

It is gone. As of September 9, 2026 the ezlease.com root, its pricing path and its sitemap path all resolve to a single product page on insightsoftware.com, so EZLease no longer has a site of its own. That matters during an evaluation for one specific reason: older reviews, roundups and directory entries still describe pages that no longer exist independently, including trial terms and price points. Anything you find in those sources is describing a version of the product that is not the one being sold today.

The comparison worth running first

If you are only comparing these two, you are comparing inside one vendor. Both are lease accounting products with no abstraction capability and no published price, so a shortlist built from them alone will not tell you whether that is normal for the category or normal for insightsoftware. It is worth putting at least one independent product beside them. We ran that exercise on EZLease against Black Owl Systems, where the standards coverage splits cleanly and one vendor turns out to publish native lessor accounting, and there is a separate breakdown of the alternatives to LeaseAccelerator for teams who have decided the lifecycle platform is more than they need.

Whichever way it lands, the sequence is the same. Name your reporting standard, decide whether you are buying a close or a portfolio strategy, get the lease data into structured form before implementation starts, and only then spend a sales cycle getting a number out of either product.

Last updated September 2026. All product details in this article were taken from each vendor public product page on September 9, 2026. Vendor pages change without notice, so confirm anything that will end up in a contract.