
Shadow IT Discovery Tools
Admina review
SaaS management and shadow IT discovery tool from Japanese fintech group Money Forward, combining API connectors with a browser extension.
Admina at a glance
- Category
- Shadow IT Discovery Tools
- Starting price
- $5 per user per month (third-party listing)
- Pricing model
- per user
- Public pricing
- No
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- Yes
- G2 rating
- 4.6 (6 reviews)
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan (Money Forward group)
- Employees
- 25 (vendor About page, may be dated; Money Forward group 1,900+)
- Funding or owner
- Subsidiary of Money Forward, Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange listed)
- Integrations
- 200+: Okta, Zoom, Google Workspace
Who Admina is for
Choose Admina if
- Small and mid-size IT teams that want a low per-user entry price.
- Companies with Japanese subsidiaries or Money Forward accounting already in use.
Look elsewhere if
- Buyers who need a large Western-market review base to validate the vendor (G2 has only 6 reviews)
- Teams that need deep risk scoring or security remediation playbooks.
Admina pricing
| Plan | Price | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic / scaling teams | $5 | per employee per month | Price as listed on G2 and Spendflo; not confirmed on a vendor US pricing page |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Per Spendflo listing |
The $5 figure comes from G2 vendor-supplied data, Spendflo and TrustRadius. The vendor blog says monthly and annual plans exist.
What Admina really costs
- Per seat per month
- $5 per employee per month (SMB tier, under 500 employees)
- Billing
- Not stated by the vendor.
- 20 users per year
- 20 x $5 x 12 = $1,200 per year, assuming the $5 monthly rate; billing period not stated by the vendor.
Admina features by buying criteria
| Criterion | What we found |
|---|---|
| Discovery sources | API/OAuth connectors to SaaS apps plus Chrome/Edge browser extension; blog also names ERP and accounting software as sources. |
| Agent or extension required | No endpoint agent stated; browser extension optional for apps without APIs. |
| Remediation workflows | Provision and de-provision users per G2 listing; no remediation playbooks verified. |
| Pricing | About $5 per user per month per third-party listings; enterprise custom. |
| Integrations | 200+ direct SaaS integrations (OAuth, API or scraping) |
What reviewers say about Admina
Praised for
- Google Workspace connection is quick to set up.
- Pricing described as straightforward and good value.
Common complaints
- Fewer features than high-end SaaS management suites.
Themes paraphrased from public reviews on G2 and similar sites, not quotes.
What most Admina reviews leave out
- The browser extension feeds usage data from Chrome or Edge, which lets Admina flag inactive accounts for apps that have no API (support.i.moneyforward.com).
- Admina states its database covers over 190,000 SaaS tools, which is what the extension matches against.
- Detected apps appear under Integrations > Shadow IT in the console, so discovery and managed connectors live in one list.
- Integration methods include scraping, not only OAuth and API, which can break when a vendor changes its admin UI.
- G2 notes the profile has had no vendor management for over a year; ITreview Japan shows 4.3 from 33 reviews, so the home-market evidence base is larger than the US one.
- Company-level fact: Money Forward was established May 2012; Admina's own launch year is not published.
Admina alternatives
ToriiIT teams wanting discovery plus workflow automation.Contact sales
ZluriIT teams combining SaaS management with access reviews and onboarding automation.Contact sales
JosysMid-size companies with Japanese operations or SmartHR as HRMS (Japanese pricing pages and HRMS integration)Contact sales
Nudge SecurityIT and security teams under 1,500 users that want published prices.$750 per month billed annually (Essential, up to 150 users)
BetterCloudIT teams that want no-code on/offboarding and Google Workspace controls alongside license tracking.$0/month (Spend Optimization Basic)
NetskopeSecurity teams already deploying or evaluating an SSE/SWG and wanting app risk scoring in the same inline path.Contact sales
Sources
Every fact on this page comes from Admina's own pricing, product or documentation pages, G2 and company records, checked on October 24, 2026. Unknown values are left out instead of estimated.
Sources (9)
- g2.com
- G2 pricing listing, $5 per employee per month (g2.com)
- Third-party pricing listing (spendflo.com)
- Browser extension docs (support.i.moneyforward.com)
- Okta integration listing (okta.com)
- admina.moneyforward.com
- itreview.jp
- vendor about page: team size (admina.moneyforward.com)
- US pricing page, $5 per employee SMB tier, 14-day trial (admina.moneyforward.com)