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September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
Index › Spend and procurement › Corporate travel managem › Small business › September 2026 Edition

Corporate travel management for small business buyers

Asked as “corporate travel booking platform”, and as “business travel management tool”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 51 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
37%
Contested · TravelPerk 27%
37Navan27TravelPerk20Booking.com for Business16others

37% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Navan37%15%65endorsed leader
02TravelPerk27%10%62accepted challenger
03Booking.com for Business20%5%42accepted challenger
04Ramp8%0%39accepted challenger
05Engine4%0%17accepted challenger
06Rippling Travel2%10%10accepted challenger
Show the six products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
12SAP Concur0%75%32criticized challenger
10myBiz0%64%11criticized challenger
11Amex GBT Egencia0%53%19criticized challenger
09Expensify Travel0%15%13accepted challenger
07Brex0%3%30accepted challenger
08TravelBank0%0%16accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
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01Navan37%
02TravelPerk27%
03Booking.com for Business20%
04Ramp8%
05Engine4%
06Rippling Travel2%
07Brex0%
08TravelBank0%
09Expensify Travel0%
10myBiz0%
11Amex GBT Egencia0%
12SAP Concur0%

What they warned about

Five of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
SAP Concur
75%
24 of 32 labels negative · 12 of 12 models · 12 hard negative
“a small business should avoid or exercise extreme caution with platforms that fall into the following four categories: ### 1. Legacy Enterprise Giants (e.g., SAP Concur, Deem)” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Navan
15%
10 of 65 labels negative · 9 of 12 models
“Strong product, but it's typically aimed at more travel-heavy organizations; verify pricing, support responsiveness, and whether the workflow complexity matches your team size.” GPT-5.4 mini, negative prompt
Amex GBT Egencia
53%
10 of 19 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“**SAP Concur** and **Egencia**, which are often a poor fit for smaller companies because cost and complexity can outweigh the benefits” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
BCD Travel
89%
8 of 9 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“**Large TMC-led service models** like **CWT** and **BCD Travel**, which are generally oriented toward larger accounts and may be hard for a small business to justify” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

76 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1014 links across 123 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Navan48 answers · 82 citations · 14 models
vendor site · Perk47 answers · 71 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Otto the Agent45 answers · 85 citations · 12 models
vendor site · G244 answers · 84 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Ramp39 answers · 51 citations · 14 models
vendor site · Booking.com36 answers · 82 citations · 12 models
vendor site · BILL29 answers · 37 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Brex28 answers · 34 citations · 12 models
vendor site · G228 answers · 28 citations · 12 models
26 answers · 26 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Rippling20 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Expensify18 answers · 19 citations · 8 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best corporate travel booking platform”, “corporate travel booking platform”, “travel management platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Navan navan.com
Navan 37%, Navan, formerly TripActions 2%
39%306110,0001,342175,958$2,7161202
TravelPerk perk.com
TravelPerk 27%, Perk, formerly TravelPerk 0%
27%1565,40011337,067808
Booking.com booking.com
Booking.com for Business 20%
20%803901864,051,598 company$961,3271193
Ramp ramp.com8%1042246,00049,733770,056$13,511120
Engine engine.com4%3090,5001,465,204141,924$4,5101201
Rippling rippling.com
Rippling Travel 2%
2%13301,00017,886712,399 company$42,0131153
Brex brex.com0%64060,5001,190328,914$12,23881
TravelBank travelbank.com0%256,6003287,2910
Expensify expensify.com
Expensify Travel 0%
0%1974,00093276,291 company0
Corporate Traveler corporatetraveler.us0%142,9007398,97188

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 14 sites; 6 of them are among the sites the models cited here (business.booking.com, learn.g2.com, navan.com, oncehub.com, perk.com, rippling.com). The first result for “best corporate travel booking platform” is learn.g2.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best corporate travel booking platform for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which business travel management tool would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top travel management platforms for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best corporate travel booking platform for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a corporate travel booking platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which travel management platforms should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5TravelPerk
Four alternativesBrex, Engine, Rippling Travel, TravelBank
Rippling TravelChanged
Three alternativesBooking.com for Business, Brex, TravelBank
Rippling Travel
Five alternativesBooking.com for Business, Brex, Engine, Navan, TravelPerk
against: SAP Concur
Ramp
Two alternativesEngine, TravelPerk
no first choiceagainst: Navan, SAP Concur, Spotnana, TravelPerk
GPT-5.4 miniNavan
Two alternativesCorporate Traveler, TravelPerk
TravelPerkChanged
Two alternativesAmex GBT Egencia, Navan
against: SAP Concur
Navan
Three alternativesBrex, Ramp, TravelPerk
TravelPerk
Two alternativesBook for Work, Corporate Traveler
no first choiceagainst: Amex GBT Egencia, Navan, TravelPerk
Gemini 3.5 FlashNavan
Five alternativesBooking.com for Business, Brex, Engine, Ramp, TravelPerk
TravelPerkChanged
Three alternativesBrex, Navan, Ramp
TravelPerk
Five alternativesBooking.com for Business, Brex, Navan, Ramp, Rippling Travel
Booking.com for Business, Ramp
Two alternativesNavan, TravelPerk
TravelPerk
Four alternativesBrex, Navan, Ramp, Rippling Travel
against: American Express Global Business Travel, BCD Travel, Booking.com for Business, Corporate Travel Management, Deem, Expedia for Business, KAYAK for Business, SAP Concur
Perplexity SonarTravelPerk
Four alternativesBooking.com for Business, Brex, Navan, Ramp
TravelPerkHeld
Four alternativesBILL Spend & Expense, Booking.com for Business, Corporate Traveler, TravelBank
no first choice
Eight alternativesBooking.com for Business, Brex, Expensify Travel, Navan, Rippling Travel, TravelBank, TravelPerk, myBiz
Booking.com for Business
Three alternativesExpensify Travel, Ramp, Rippling Travel
against: Corporate Traveler
no first choiceagainst: Amex GBT Egencia, BCD Travel, CWT, SAP Concur
Grok 4.1 FastNavan
Three alternativesBooking.com for Business, Ramp, TravelPerk
against: Amex GBT Egencia, SAP Concur
NavanHeld
Two alternativesBooking.com for Business, TravelPerk
against: SAP Concur
Navan, TravelPerk
Four alternativesAmex GBT Egencia, Brex, Ramp, TravelBank
against: SAP Concur
Booking.com for Business
Four alternativesBILL Travel, Navan, Ramp, TravelPerk
against: SAP Concur, TravelPerk
Navan
Three alternativesRippling Travel, TravelPerk, Zoho Expense
against: Amex GBT Egencia, BCD Travel, CWT, Navan, SAP Concur, myBiz
Mistral SmallNavan, TravelPerk
Two alternativesBooking.com for Business, TravelBank
no first choiceChangedBrex, Navan
Three alternativesAmex GBT Egencia, Expensify Travel, SAP Concur
Booking.com for Business
One alternativeNavan
no first choiceagainst: Navan, TravelPerk, TripWorks, myBiz
DeepSeek V4 FlashNavan
Two alternativesRamp, TravelPerk
NavanHeld
Two alternativesExpensify Travel, TravelPerk
Ramp
Three alternativesBrex, Navan, TravelPerk
against: Amex GBT Egencia
Navan
Two alternativesBooking.com for Business, Ramp
against: TravelPerk
Navan, Ramp, TravelPerk
Two alternativesBooking.com for Business, Expensify Travel
against: SAP Concur
against: Amex GBT Egencia, BCD Travel, Brex, CWT, Navan, SAP Concur, myBiz
Llama 4 MaverickNavan
Three alternativesBooking.com for Business, TravelBank, TravelPerk
no first choiceChangedno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashTravelPerk
Three alternativesChase Travel Bank, Expedia Corporate Travel, Navan
against: American Express Global Business Travel
NavanChanged
Three alternativesExpensify Travel, Pilot, Wanderlay
TravelPerk
Three alternativesBrex, Engine, Ramp
against: BCD Travel, CWT, Navan
Booking.com for Business
Three alternativesITILITE, TravelPerk, Zoho Expense
Ramp
Two alternativesCircleship, Navan
against: Concur Go
against: Navan, SAP Concur, myBiz
Kimi K2Navan
Four alternativesBooking.com for Business, Brex, Ramp, TravelPerk
against: SAP Concur
NavanHeld
One alternativeTravelPerk
against: Expensify Travel
Navan
Four alternativesBooking.com for Business, Brex, Ramp, TravelPerk
against: SAP Concur
Navan
Two alternativesBooking.com for Business, TravelPerk
Navan, TravelPerk
Two alternativesBrex, Ramp
against: SAP Concur
against: American Express Global Business Travel, Amex GBT Egencia, BCD Travel, CWT, Navan, SAP Concur, myBiz
GLM 4.7 FlashXBooking.com for Business
Four alternativesExpensify Travel, Navan, Ramp, myBiz
Booking.com for BusinessHeld
Two alternativesNavan, Otto the Agent
against: Rippling Travel, SAP Concur
Navan, TravelPerk
Five alternativesAmex GBT Egencia, Booking.com for Business, Brex, Otto the Agent, Ramp
Booking.com for Business
One alternativeTravelPerk
no first choiceagainst: Amex GBT Egencia, BCD Travel, CWT, Expedia for Business, Navan, SAP Concur, myBiz
MiniMax M2.5Booking.com for Business
Three alternativesCorporate Traveler, Navan, TravelBank
TravelPerkChanged
Three alternativesExpensify Travel, Navan, Rippling Travel
TravelPerk
Two alternativesBrex, Navan
Engine, TravelPerk
Two alternativesNavan, Ramp
no first choice
Two alternativesBooking.com for Business, Corporate Traveler
against: Navan
against: Amex GBT Egencia, BCD Travel, Booking.com for Business, CWT, Expedia for Business, KAYAK for Business, SAP Concur
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:04yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:22yes45 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:54yes1619 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:10yes173 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 07:41yes249 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:10yes53 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:09yes2140 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:32yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:01no026 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:54yes1519 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:02yes1827 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:56yes1433 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:28yes97 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:22yes04 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:44yes1021 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 08:15yes203 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 07:44yes208 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:38no02 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:17yes2231 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:07yes51 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:35no026 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 07:57yes2021 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:55yes1728 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:46yes522 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:36yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:21yes47 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:13yes2328 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:45yes164 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:39yes2010 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:34yes2214 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:03yes1929 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:58yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:14yes924 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:00yes1525 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 07:42yes1917 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:57yes1316 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:00yes179 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:14yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 11:05yes1823 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:29yes192 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:16yes247 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:12yes52 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:02yes2531 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:24yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:51yes925 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:25yes1418 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:40yes1468 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:46yes1320 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:50no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 10:36no05 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 07:50yes1420 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:06yes194 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:19yes148 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:35no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:26yes1925 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:52yes51 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:21yes523 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:37yes1926 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:22no013 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:28yes521 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:10yes99 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 07:43yes35 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:08yes2228 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:29yes183 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:41yes2210 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:44yes95 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:23yes2345 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:44yes510 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:56yes1430 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:14yes2535 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:30yes2327 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:23yes1126 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Amadeus read as Amadeus Cytric
Booking.com read as Booking.com for Business
Expedia read as Expedia for Business
Expensify read as Expensify Travel
Kayak read as KAYAK for Business
Otto read as Otto the Agent
Perk read as TravelPerk
Perk (Formerly TravelPerk) read as TravelPerk
Perk (formerly TravelBank) read as TravelPerk
Perk (formerly TravelPerk) read as TravelPerk
Rippling read as Rippling Travel
Unresolved, counted raw
BILL Travel
Book for Work
Chase Travel Bank
Circleship
Concur Go
Expedia Corporate Travel
Tripbizz
Wanderlay
Wanderlog
Wego Business
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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