ShareForce vs Cake Equity
Choose ShareForce as your equity management partner for complex, multi country incentive plans.
Power high‑growth companies with ShareForce’s streamlined equity operations, compliance expertise, and reliable support.
Award Balances
Grant
Unvested
- ACS Employee Trust Scheme
- Long Term Incentive Plan
- Performance Share Plan
- Restricted Share Plan
- Share Appreciation Rights
- Share Option Scheme
- Short-term Incentives
- 100 000
- 775 000
- 153 334
- 400 000
- 0
- 150 000
- 50 000
Why G2 customers choose ShareForce over Cake
Stronger Workflows
ShareForce achieves higher scores for file sharing and reporting, which translates into smoother workflows for finance and governance teams.
Trusted Partnership
Users highlight ShareForce as a reliable long term partner, with a higher “good partner in doing business” score than Cake Equity in the G2 comparison report.
Reporting Confidence
G2 reviewers emphasise ShareForce’s equity and governance reporting capabilities - supporting audits and stakeholder reporting with confidence.
Seamless Onboarding
Expert-led onboarding helps teams move from spreadsheets to automated share plan and valuation workflows without disruption.
ShareForce vs Cake
The right fit for your stage and region
ShareForce is designed for modern companies across Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australasia, with alignment to local legal, tax, and FX realities. It supports multi‑country, multi‑entity incentive plans, complex performance conditions, and valuation models suitable for IFRS‑ and ASC‑style reporting needs.
In contrast, Cake Equity offers strong equity tools and is popular with startups but is primarily optimised for simpler cap table and option plan setups, which can limit flexibility as ownership and incentive structures become more complex.
Feature Overview
| Key Features | ShareForce | Cake Equity |
|---|---|---|
| Incentive plan flexibility | Built for options, RSUs, PSUs and performance‑linked plans in complex, multi‑entity structures. | Option and cap table tooling, geared mainly toward early‑stage and growth startups. |
| Local compliance & governance | Governance workflows and reporting to support boards, auditors, and investors in multiple jurisdictions. | Focused on startup equity operations - less emphasis on advanced governance workflows. |
| Stakeholder experience | Modern, mobile‑friendly participant views plus document and file sharing. | Participant views and file sharing. |
| Partnership & long‑term fit | Higher “good partner in doing business” percentage than Cake Equity in G2 comparison. | Slightly lower “good partner in doing business” score vs ShareForce. |
| Reporting, auditors & boards | Strong support for financial and governance reporting tasks. | Slightly behind ShareForce on this feature. |
| Pricing approach | Transparent, scalable pricing with onboarding and ongoing support included for complex plans. | Different pricing models: implementation and support often packaged for startup use cases. |
Key features
| Incentive plan flexibility | ||
| Built for options, RSUs, PSUs and performance‑linked plans in complex, multi‑entity structures. | Option and cap table tooling, geared mainly toward early‑stage and growth startups. | |
| Local compliance & governance | ||
| Governance workflows and reporting to support boards, auditors, and investors in multiple jurisdictions. | Focused on startup equity operations - less emphasis on advanced governance workflows. | |
| Stakeholder experience | ||
| Modern, mobile‑friendly participant views plus document and file sharing. | Participant views and file sharing. | |
| Partnership & long‑term fit | ||
| Higher “good partner in doing business” percentage than Cake Equity in G2 comparison. | Slightly lower “good partner in doing business” score vs ShareForce. | |
| Reporting, auditors & boards | ||
| Strong support for financial and governance reporting tasks. | Slightly behind ShareForce on this feature. | |
| Pricing approach | ||
| Transparent, scalable pricing with onboarding and ongoing support included for complex plans. | Different pricing models: implementation and support often packaged for startup use cases. | |
Why choose ShareForce
- Operate multi-country plans and complex structures while keeping governance, reporting and file sharing streamlined, reflected in higher feature scores.
- Keep boards, auditors and investors aligned with reporting capabilities.
- Give employees clear, modern visibility into what they hold, supported by strong satisfaction ratings and review commentary in the latest G2 report.
“The system is incredibly flexible, allowing you to tailor it perfectly to your needs. Thanks to the team, the implementation process was seamless, with outstanding support provided every step of the way.”
Krisztina F.
Finance Manager
“We are a multinational mining company with operations on 5 continents. We are also listed on multiple stock exchanges around the world. The ShareForce tool has been instrumental in simplifying our Incentive administration and reporting process (IFRS / SOX). We currently have approximately 300 end-users that have access to the platform.”
Koos N.
Unit Manager Total Reward
“The way it has stacked workflows and become a single source of truth, enabling users to be more self-sufficient and giving us greater comfort in the accuracy of our data.”
Gareth F.
Group Company Secretary
Simple and transparent pricing
Choose ShareForce as your equity management partner when you need support for complex, multi‑country plans.