Navan Alternatives 2026: Travel and Expense Platforms Priced

Navan's pricing is a deliberate trade. Travel costs nothing for companies of up to 300 employees because, in Navan's own words, the platform is powered by travel providers' commission fees. Above 300 employees, Navan Enterprise is a quote, and expense management carries a per-user charge after the first five users. The reasons to look elsewhere are growth past that line, a preference for a fee you can see, or a card platform you already run.

CFOpresso data: Toolradar, the software directory Dupple runs, tracked 20 corporate travel tools as of 21 October 2026, and 9 of them offer a free tier. On the same date Navan was listed as an alternative to 14 other tools there, the most of any tool in the corporate travel category. Navan is the tool buyers compare everything else against, which is why this page prices each rival against Navan's own rules.

How we ranked: in October 2026 we read the pricing and product pages of each vendor, then ordered the list by how directly each one replaces Navan's travel plus expense bundle and how much of its price it prints. We ran no hands-on tests. Our Navan review and Navan pricing breakdown cover what you would be leaving.

A Navan alternative is a platform that books business flights, hotels, cars and trains under a company travel policy and ties those bookings to expense reports and reimbursements. Some rivals bundle both jobs the way Navan does (Perk, ITILITE, SAP Concur at the top tier). Others start from a corporate card and add travel (Ramp, Brex), or start from expenses and add booking (Expensify). The rest are travel management companies with an online tool (Egencia by Amex GBT, TravelBank).

Three things push a finance team off Navan. The first is headcount. Navan Business covers companies of up to 300 employees; past that line the plan becomes Navan Enterprise, priced by quote, so a growing company trades a free tool for a negotiation. If your hiring plan crosses 300 within a year, price the alternatives before that conversation, not after.

The second is how the fee is paid. Navan funds free travel through supplier commissions, while Perk and ITILITE print a booking or per-trip fee you pay directly. Neither model is wrong, but a controller who wants the travel platform's cost on its own invoice line will prefer the printed fee. The third is consolidation. A team already running Ramp or Brex cards can book travel inside that platform and close the month from one ledger instead of syncing two systems.

For the head-to-heads behind this list, read Navan vs Concur, Navan vs Expensify and Ramp vs Navan. The wider market, including travel management companies without an expense product, is in the corporate travel management ranking.

Navan is the price to beat: $0 for travel at companies of up to 300 employees, with Navan Expense free for the first 5 monthly expensing users and then $15 per user per month, per Navan's pricing page. Navan defines an expensing user as anyone who submits a transaction that month.

Our arithmetic for a team booking 20 single-booking trips a month at $400 each: Perk Starter's 5% comes to $20 a booking, or $400 a month. Perk's travel-only Premium adds a $99 monthly platform fee to a 3% booking fee, $339 a month, and its travel-only Pro is $299 a month plus the same 3%, $539. ITILITE's flat fee makes the same 20 trips $200 a month, or $140 on its pre-funded wallet. Navan and Brex Essentials charge the company no booking fee. Sources: Perk pricing, ITILITE pricing and Brex pricing.

On the expense side, take 25 people filing each month. Perk Travel and Spend Premium is $150 a month, and Pro $200. ITILITE is $150 on annual billing or $225 on monthly billing. Expensify Collect is $125 if those 25 are your only members, Brex Premium $300, and Ramp Plus $375 before its platform fee. SAP Concur Base is $175 if each person files one report. If Navan's per-user fee applies to each user after the first five, the same team costs $300 a month on Navan Expense; confirm that reading with Navan. Sources: Ramp pricing, Expensify pricing and SAP Concur pricing, all read in October 2026.

Egencia and TravelBank print no figures on their Amex GBT pricing and TravelBank pricing pages, so budget a quote cycle before either can join this math.