Brex vs Capture Expense

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.

Capture Expense is an expense management platform for automating expense reports, approvals, analytics, and compliance. Employees can photograph receipts in the mobile app, with extracted details added to an expense claim. Custom multi-stage approval workflows and individual spend controls can flag out-of-policy expenses. Mileage tools calculate reimbursements using approved fuel rates, predict destinations and endpoints, and track carbon. A finance copilot produces reports in response to natural-language questions. Employees can also submit receipts through WhatsApp, Slack, or Teams to create claims. Capture Expense says it integrates with more than 50 back-office systems and provides a documented REST API for real-time integrations. It works in desktop and mobile web browsers and offers apps for Android and iOS, as well as support for macOS and Windows. The maker identifies Cyber Essentials certification, ICO registration, GDPR compliance, and Microsoft Azure hosting. Pricing is on request; there is no free plan, but a 14-day trial is listed. Support hours are 9:00 to 17:30 BST Monday to Friday, with additional support outside those hours.