Coupa vs Leihs
Coupa and Leihs are both procurement software. Coupa is a commercial product from Coupa Software. Leihs is open source under GPL-3.0, with 246 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Coupa when
- A large company wants to control indirect spend across departments with a supplier network and strong user adoption.
- Pick Leihs when
- A university or institution lends cameras, laptops or tools to many users and wants a proven self-hosted system.
Side by side
Business spend management covering procurement, invoicing, expenses, sourcing, contracts and supplier management.
Equipment booking, lending, inventory and procurement for organisations, where people reserve items and staff hand them out and track returns.
Enterprise pricing and implementation, and it is overkill for small firms.
Built around Swiss university needs with a Ruby and Clojure stack that takes skill to host.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Self-hosted server
Not published
Ruby, Clojure and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Coupa Software
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
661 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
246 GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 14 years ago, latest release 7.15.3.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.