Brex vs Turbine

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.

Turbine is an online service for businesses handling purchase orders, expenses, time-off requests and employee records. Staff can create and manage purchase orders, submit expense claims with receipts and supporting documents, and request holidays, sick days or other leave. Managers can approve or reject leave requests. Purchasing and expense workflows can use custom approval levels, cost-centre budgets and approved-vendor lists. Turbine offers a native Slack integration, Zapier connections to more than 8,000 apps, and Office 365 and Google sign-in and calendar syncing. It runs on the web and works in phone and tablet browsers; there is no native mobile app. Plans include Tiny at $8 a month for 2 users, Small at $35 a month for 3–20 users, Medium at $79 a month for 21–50 users, and Large at $159 a month for 50–250 users. A 30-day trial is available, but there is no free plan. Turbine says it has no API or direct integration with QuickBooks or other accounting packages.