Brex alternatives
Brex provides corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, business accounts and travel to more than 35,000 companies. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, with Pedro Franceschi as CEO.
The closest comparison is Ramp, which also combines corporate cards, expenses and bill pay. Companies comparing Brex also look at Navan for travel and expenses together, Rho for banking with cards, and Mesh Payments and Slash for virtual cards. Companies based in Europe more often compare Pleo, Payhawk, Moss and Spendesk.
What Brex does
Corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, reimbursements, business accounts, travel booking and API access.
- Ownership
- Wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One; CEO Pedro Franceschi
- Head office
- San Francisco
- Customers
- 35,000+ companies
- Pricing
- Essentials free; Premium US$12 per user a month; Enterprise on quote
Alternatives in Expense and Spend Management
48 other vendors in this category. Vendors with an Accountio profile are shown first; the rest of the directory follows.
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Expense, corporate card and travel spend management.
Emburse profile →Receipt scanning and automated expense reports with cards.
Founded 2008 · HQ Portland, US
Expensify profile →Cards, expenses and multi-currency accounts for global teams.
Founded 2018 · HQ London, UK
Payhawk profile →Company cards with automatic receipt capture and budgets.
Founded 2015 · HQ Copenhagen, Denmark
Pleo profile →Corporate cards, expenses and bill pay with savings insights.
Founded 2019 · HQ New York, US
Ramp profile →Corporate cards, invoices and budget controls for Europe.
Founded 2019 · HQ Berlin, Germany
Moss profile →SaaS and cloud cost optimisation with negotiation support.
Founded 2021 · HQ London, UK
Vertice profile →Unified spend, payments and cash for European finance teams.
Founded 2022 · HQ Paris, France
Payflows profile →More expense and spend management vendors in the directory
How to choose
- Do you want the vendor's own cards, or expense management on the cards and bank you already use?
- Which countries and currencies do employees spend in, and does it handle local VAT or sales tax on receipts?
- How do receipts, coding and approvals reach your accounting software?
- Is it priced per user, by plan, or paid for out of card interchange?
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Common questions
Who owns Brex?+
Brex is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One. It still sells under the Brex name, and Pedro Franceschi is CEO.
Brex or Ramp?+
Both combine corporate cards, expenses and bill pay. Brex has a free Essentials plan and a Premium plan at US$12 per user a month, and its Enterprise plan covers unlimited entities and local card issuance in other countries. Compare the plan you would need on each, including travel and the connection to your ERP.
What are the alternatives to Brex for startups?+
Ramp is the closest comparison. Rho combines business banking with cards and treasury, Slash offers unlimited virtual cards, and Mesh Payments issues a virtual card per vendor with automatic reconciliation.
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