AI supplier quote comparison

Quote comparison, without the hours.

VeQuora reads supplier quotes in any format — a PDF, an Excel sheet, even a sloppy email — lines them up item by item, flags the risks, and recommends the award. What took an afternoon takes about a minute.

Any format in
PDF · Excel · email — in any language, exactly as suppliers send them
~2.5 hrs saved
per RFQ — the comparison itself takes about a minute
Live in days
not months — no ERP project, no supplier onboarding
Built for purchasing teams in Fasteners & hardware Machined & fabricated parts Industrial supplies & MRO Contract manufacturing
The afternoon it replaces

Every RFQ ends the same way: a pile of quotes that don't line up.

Three suppliers, three formats, one deadline — and somebody has to make it comparable.

Formats

Nothing arrives the same way

One supplier sends a PDF, one an Excel sheet, one types prices into an email. Different layouts, part names and units — someone retypes it all into one table.

Risk

The gaps hide until it's too late

An expired validity date. A missing line item. A slightly different spec. The cheapest sticker price often isn't the one you can act on — and the catch surfaces after the award.

Time

Hours per purchase, every purchase

A typical comparison eats around three hours of skilled purchasing time. Across a year of RFQs, that's weeks spent formatting instead of negotiating.

How it works

Messy quotes in. One clear answer out.

Four steps, and only the first one is yours.

Forward the quotes

Paste or forward each quote as it arrived — PDF text, spreadsheet, email body, any language.

AI reads every format

Line items, prices, lead times, MOQs and validity dates are extracted and matched to what you requested.

Compare line by line

Every supplier in one table — best price per item highlighted, currencies converted, risks flagged.

Award with confidence

A weighted ranking and a plain-English recommendation, ready for your buyer. One click records the award.

The part older RFQ tools can't do: your suppliers never have to change how they send anything. No portals, no templates, no onboarding on their side.

What it catches

The flags that save you from a bad award.

Checked automatically on every quote, before you decide.

Expired quote

Validity date is past — the price isn't real anymore.

Missing item

A required line wasn't quoted, so the total isn't comparable.

Different spec

Quoted material or grade doesn't match what you requested.

MOQ too high

Minimum order quantity exceeds what you actually need.

Price anomaly

One line far above the market — usually a spec mix-up or a typo.

Currency mismatch

Foreign-currency quotes converted to USD with live FX, so totals compare fairly.

Why teams switch

Procurement tools ask suppliers to change. VeQuora doesn't.

Portals and templates fail because suppliers ignore them. VeQuora meets the quote where it already is — your inbox.

No supplier onboarding

Zero change on their side

No portal logins, no bid templates, no "please resubmit in our format." Suppliers keep emailing quotes the way they always have — VeQuora does the adapting.

Defensible awards

Every decision has a paper trail

Weighted scoring, explicit flags, and a written recommendation mean you can show exactly why a supplier won — to your buyer, your boss, or an auditor.

Live in days

A tool, not an IT project

No ERP integration required to start, no months of implementation. Paste your first quote the day you get access and compare the same afternoon.

What it pays back

The math for a typical mid-size buyer.

180 RFQs a year · 3 hours per manual comparison · $45 loaded cost per hour.

~2.5 hrs
saved per RFQ — comparison drops to about a minute
459 hrs
recovered per year, worth about $20,655 of team time
2.6×
first-year return on the Professional plan, ~4.6 months to pay back

540 hours of comparing a year costs about $24,300. Cut ~85% of it and you recover $20,655 — less the $7,990 Professional plan leaves roughly $12,665 net in year one. Illustrative: swap in your own volume, hours and labor rate, and the demo will show your number.

Pricing

Simple annual plans, per company.

Billed yearly — about two months free vs. monthly. Every plan includes normal support.

Starter

Small shops & solo buyers

$2,990 / year
  • Up to 300 RFQs / year
  • AI quote extraction — any format
  • Line-by-line comparison
  • Plain-English recommendation email
  • 1 user seat · email support
Start with a demo
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Professional

Growing & mid-size manufacturers

$7,990 / year
  • Up to 1,800 RFQs / year
  • Everything in Starter, plus
  • RFQ matching & line-item alignment
  • Anomaly & risk flagging
  • Automated supplier chaser
  • Multi-currency + live FX
  • 5 user seats · priority support
Start with a demo

Enterprise

High-volume & multi-site teams

from $18,990 / year
  • Unlimited RFQs
  • Everything in Professional, plus
  • Custom rules & scoring weights
  • ERP / integrations — on request
  • Approval workflow — roadmap
  • Dedicated onboarding
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Not sure yet? Start with the paid pilot. One real purchasing category, 30 days, a measured before/after on hours saved. $1,500 one-time · fully credited if you subscribe
Questions buyers ask

Before you ask on the call.

What formats can it actually read?

Anything that arrives as text: PDF quote documents, Excel or CSV dumps, and quotes typed straight into an email body — in any language. Prices in cents, lead times in weeks, foreign currencies: it normalizes all of it into one comparable table.

Do my suppliers have to change anything?

No. That's the point. There's no supplier portal and no template — they keep sending quotes exactly the way they do today, and VeQuora adapts to each one.

How does the recommendation decide a winner?

A weighted score: price 45%, completeness 25%, lead time 20%, quote validity 10%, minus a penalty per risk flag. Complete, in-date quotes always rank above incomplete or expired ones — so the lowest sticker price doesn't automatically win, and you see exactly why.

What happens to the quotes I upload?

They're used to run your comparison — nothing else. Your quotes aren't shared with other customers or used to train public models, and access to your workspace is by invitation only.

How long until we're live?

Days, not months. There's nothing to install and no integration required to start. Most teams run their first real comparison the same day they get access; the paid pilot has you fully working on one category inside a week.

We already have an ERP. Does this replace it?

No — it sits in the gap your ERP leaves: the messy, unstructured quotes that arrive by email before anything is a clean purchase order. On the Enterprise plan, awards can flow into your ERP via integration.

Book a demo

See it on your own quotes — free.

Send 3–4 real quotes from a recent purchase (sanitized if you like). We'll run them through VeQuora and walk you through the comparison, the recommendation, and the hours it would have saved — on your data, not a canned demo.

No cost — completely free to see it on your quotes.
No setup — you just forward what you already have.
No commitment — look at the result, decide nothing yet.

Your data stays yours. Quotes you share are used only to prepare your demo, never shared or used to train public models. Sanitize supplier names and prices if you prefer — the comparison works the same.

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