CannAgent vs BLAZE — side by side comparison
vs BLAZE
Cannabis ERP across cultivation, distribution, and retail — California-rooted, multi-state present.
Who BLAZE actually serves well.
Market segment: California cultivation + distribution operators who also run retail and want one stack across the supply chain.
Best for: Vertically integrated California operators (cultivation + distro + retail) who want one ERP across the supply chain and have the ops maturity to run it.
If that’s your shape, BLAZE probably fits. If not, the rest of this page lays out where CannAgent diverges.
What you’d pay.
CannAgent
- Monthly per store
- $240 – $600 / store / mo
- Setup fee
- $4k – $16k cutover (fixed scope)
- Per-transaction
- None
- Contract length
- Month-to-month
BLAZE
- Monthly per store
- $500–1,500 / location / mo
- Setup fee
- $3k–15k onboarding
- Per-transaction
- None reported
- Contract length
- Annual minimum
BLAZE — the trade-off.
BLAZE — strengths
- Strong cultivation and distribution modules — the ERP origin shows in supply-chain workflows
- California METRC + DCC integration mature
- Cross-vertical (grow → distro → retail) reporting in one platform
BLAZE — what operators flag
- Retail-only positioning is weaker than the cultivation-and-distro story — single-shop owners don’t get the platform’s edge
- Implementation timelines on the longer side for retail-only setups
- Customer-facing e-commerce / menu surface is functional but not the leader
- Native HR + payroll thin — bolt-ons or out-of-scope
What we won’t say about BLAZE.
- We won’t say BLAZE is a bad product. Vertically integrated California operators (cultivation + distro + retail) who want one ERP across the supply chain and have the ops maturity to run it. That’s a real fit for the operators who match the shape.
- We won’t pretend the trade-offs are universal. The flagged weaknesses above are operator-reported patterns, not guarantees about your shop.
- We won’t hide our own gaps. See the ”What we won’t claim” section on /trust for the open weaknesses on our own side.
Sources: Blaze.me public references · Cannabis Business Times BLAZE coverage · operator-reported timelines on Ganjapreneur threads.
For a typical 1-store operator, the math looks like this.
$200k/month revenue, occasional stockouts (5% of SKU-days). What better shelf-fill discipline could recover — not what BLAZEis costing you, that’s a story for the operator to tell. This is what CannAgent could put back on the table.
Annual recoverable
$43,200
Net annual benefit
$36,024
After $598/mo CannAgent
Payback in
1 month
Math, made plain
- Lost-revenue uses Nielsen’s 40% substitution-rate floor — most stockouts produce a substitution buy (not a walked sale). We only count the walked share.
- Recovery is bounded at 60% (industry-typical inventory-tooling ROI midpoint, MJBiz Daily + IHL Group). We don’t claim ‘eliminate stockouts.’
- Cost basis is the published solo-tier midpoint ($450/store/mo). Multi-store operators see a lower per-store rate; the math gets better with scale.
Three-year savings, on your numbers.
Drag the sliders. The comparison runs locally in your browser against operator-reported ranges. No data leaves the page.
Typical small dispensary: $80k/mo. Mid-volume single store: $150k/mo. High-volume: $300k+/mo.
Plus what else do you pay for separately?
Your current monthly POS + inventory cost
$650–$1,250
BLAZE subscription + volume fees, across 1 location
CannAgent monthly cost
$399–$699
Per location, no per-transaction fees, no annual hike
Annual savings
~$0–$10,212
3-year savings projection
~$0–$33,390
Includes a 6%/yr incumbent price hike. CannAgent is fixed-fee.
Operators switching from incumbent POS typically project 20–45% lower TCO over 3 years, depending on contract tier and whether they were paying per-transaction fees on the payments rail1. Your number depends on your contract. The demo ends with the cutover quote — fixed scope, no hourly games.
Get your custom number at the demo →1Comparative ranges are derived from publicly disclosed vendor pricing (Dutchie POS list pricing per third-party analyses; Cova published rates; Korona published rates; published earnings filings where available), trade-press reporting on cannabis-payments fees (Reforming Retail 2023 analysis of Dutchie PIN-debit), and operator self-report ranges (2024–2026) from public review platforms (Trustpilot, G2, Capterra) and operator forums (r/Dispensary, MJBiz Daily). Per-transaction fee bands reflect published rates for ACH / PIN-debit / Pay-by-Bank rails; actual fees depend on the rail operated, contract tier, and average ticket size. CannAgent makes no representation about any individual operator’s actual savings; ranges are illustrative and modeled, not surveyed. Final pricing is locked at the demo.
Walk the cutover from BLAZE.
30 minutes. We’ll show you a real register transaction, the ID-compliance gate, and quote your cutover from your shop’s actual workflow.
Pricing as of 2026-05-08, per each vendor’s published page or Capterra/G2 listings. Vendor names + wordmarks used under nominative fair use; no endorsement implied. See /trust for our published methodology + the open weaknesses on our own side.