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Glide vs Altitude
Altitude locks you into Squads on Solana. Glide gives you 10 vendors, 11 rails, and EVM.
Why Glide
- ✓Full invoicing with PDF generation and email delivery
- ✓Payroll engine with contracts, schedules, and multi-rail support
- ✓Expense reports with receipt upload and approval workflows
- ✓Both Solana AND EVM support
- ✓Dual multisig: Squads (Solana) + Gnosis Safe (EVM)
- ✓10 vendor adapters for optimal routing
Altitude Gaps
- -No invoicing or accounts receivable
- -No payroll or contractor payments
- -No expense management
- -Solana-only (no EVM support)
- -Single multisig provider (Squads)
Feature by Feature
| Feature | Glide | Altitude |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing & Payments | ||
| Invoice creation + PDF | ✓ | - |
| Recurring invoices | ✓ | - |
| Payment links | ✓ | - |
| Batch payments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email delivery | ✓ | - |
| Payroll & Contractors | ||
| Crypto payroll | ✓ | - |
| Contract management | ✓ | - |
| Payroll schedules | ✓ | - |
| Multi-rail payroll | 11 rails | - |
| Worker onboarding | ✓ | - |
| Treasury & Yield | ||
| DeFi yield | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live APY data | ✓ | ✓ |
| Crypto borrowing | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-chain multisig | Squads + Safe | Squads only |
| Cards & Spending | ||
| Virtual cards | ✓ | - |
| Card freeze/unfreeze | ✓ | - |
| Cashback rewards | 1% | - |
| Spending analytics | ✓ | - |
| Compliance & Security | ||
| KYC/KYB | ✓ | ✓ |
| AML monitoring | 25 rules | Code-enforced |
| Sanctions screening | Chainalysis | ✓ |
| AI-powered CTR/SAR | ✓ | - |
| Settlement proof | ✓ | ✓ |
| Payment Rails | ||
| USDC (Solana) | ✓ | ✓ |
| USDC (EVM) | ✓ | ✓ |
| ACH | ✓ | ✓ |
| SEPA | ✓ | ✓ |
| SWIFT/Wire | ✓ | ✓ |
| FPS (UK) | ✓ | - |
| PIX (Brazil) | ✓ | - |
| Team & Multi-Entity | ||
| Multi-entity dashboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approval workflows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Expense management | ✓ | - |
| Role-based access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accounting | ||
| QuickBooks export | IIF import | - |
| Xero export | CSV import | - |
| CSV export | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF statements | ✓ | - |