Amadeus Cytric vs Brex

Amadeus Cytric is a SaaS platform for corporate travel and expense management, available through web, mobile, and Microsoft Teams. Cytric Easy lets travelers search and book flights, hotels, rail, and ground transportation. Travel managers can offer content from GDS, aggregators, and direct suppliers, including NDC content, with policy options and customizable workflows to manage inventory and compliance. Cytric Expense supports the process from report creation through accounting entries and reimbursement. It can export accounting files to a company ERP with configurable frequency, file type, and data. The two products integrate with Microsoft Teams for travel planning, expense collaboration, and approvals. The mobile app supports trip management and submitting, reviewing, or approving expense reports. Other capabilities include virtual payments, automated invoice reconciliation, analytics and custom reports, and tools to prevent, monitor, and respond to travel disruptions, fraud, and international restrictions. Sustainability features include CO2 reporting, carbon offset calculations, and paperless expense reporting. Amadeus lists an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate covering specified Cytric products in production and test environments.

Brex is a spend-management platform for companies, with tools for spending policies, expense automation and budget tracking. Policies can vary by use case, level, department or entity, and selected merchants or categories can be blocked or made subject to approval. Expense automation can collect documents, prepare memos, populate fields, assign departments and GL codes, and match receipts using OCR across languages and currencies. Live Budgets lets department heads allocate spending to people or teams and track usage in real time; Brex AI can flag anomalous activity. Accounting features include QuickBooks and NetSuite integrations, along with suggested GL coding rules and mappings. Reimbursements can be sent to local currencies and bank accounts across 40 countries, without per-transaction reimbursement fees. The mobile app supports expense tracking, travel booking and management, spend-limit requests and payments. Brex lists thousands of native integrations, including Slack, Rippling, Workday and Xero. Essentials is free and supports up to two entities. Premium is $12 a month; Enterprise pricing is custom.