10 Best Normative Alternatives & Competitors (2026)

Watershed provides enterprise carbon accounting with strong measurement, reporting and reduction planning features. It excels at Scope 3 value-chain data but requires more structured input formats than Minimum’s flexible ingestion. Pricing is subscription-based and typically higher for very large global footprints; it suits companies already standardized on modern data lakes rather than those still working with mixed PDFs and legacy systems.

Watershed provides enterprise carbon accounting with strong measurement, reporting and reduction planning features. It excels at Scope 3 value-chain data but requires more structured input formats than Minimum’s flexible ingestion. Pricing is subscription-based and typically higher for very large global footprints; it suits companies already standardized on modern data lakes rather than those still working with mixed PDFs and legacy systems.

Persefoni is an AI-assisted carbon management platform aimed at public companies needing SECR and CSRD disclosures. Its guided workflows reduce setup time compared with Minimum’s highly custom configuration, yet it offers fewer options for simultaneous multi-taxonomy analysis and deeper sub-meter mapping. Best for organizations prioritizing speed to first report over maximum inventory granularity.

SpheraCloud delivers EHS and sustainability modules with robust audit trails. Its implementation cycles are longer than Minimum’s guided first-cycle approach and it is priced for very large enterprises. Strongest where chemical, energy or manufacturing compliance already requires Sphera’s safety modules.

Workiva is primarily a connected reporting platform that can ingest carbon data rather than a dedicated environmental inventory tool. It offers excellent linked-document controls for CSRD but requires separate carbon calculation engines, unlike Minimum’s all-in-one calculations and governance. Useful when the main pain point is final report assembly.

Emitwise targets retailers and manufacturers with automated utility and procurement ingestion. Its taxonomy flexibility is narrower than Minimum’s multi-taxonomy support, making it less suitable for conglomerates with diverse regional reporting needs. Pricing is generally more accessible for mid-to-large rollouts.

Enablon provides broad EHS, risk and sustainability functionality with strong workflow automation. It is more expensive and heavier to configure than Minimum for pure carbon accounting use cases, yet valuable when companies also need incident management and audit management in one suite.

FigBytes offers a modular ESG platform with carbon tracking and target-setting modules. It is quicker to implement than Minimum but provides less granular sub-meter and asset-level mapping, limiting its fit for energy-intensive industries requiring precise decarbonization insights.

Greenstone supplies carbon and ESG data management with a focus on compliance reporting. Its data ingestion is more template-driven than Minimum’s any-source approach, so organizations with many non-standard data formats may still face manual work. Best for mid-sized firms prioritizing standard disclosure templates.