Facts at a glance
- Starting price
- Essentials: $0 per user per month; billing frequency unstated. Live Budgets is listed in Premium at $12 per user per month. · as of October 2026
- Free plan
- Essentials is a free plan; Live Budgets is listed in Premium, which has a published $12 per-user monthly rate.
- Free trial
- Not documented
- Last verified
- 2026-10-22
Key capabilities
| Purchase request intake | Procurement request types cover vendor payments such as recurring advertising and SaaS subscriptions. |
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| Purchase approval routing | Spend requests follow customizable approval chains; approved spend can nest under departmental limits. |
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| Pre-commitment budget controls | Budgets contain pre-approved procurement spend limits assigned to employees or teams. |
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| Requested and committed spend visibility | Budget reporting shows actual spend against overall budgets and provisioned limits; this is allocated-limit visibility, not a documented PO-commitment ledger. |
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| Named accounting and ERP integrations | Not documented |
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Change log
- 22 October 2026 — Checked 23 facts including Starting price, Free plan, Free trial, Price published
Brex fits teams allocating procurement spend limits to employees and comparing actuals with provisioned budgets; Live Budgets sits on Premium, not the free Essentials tier.
Request and approval workflow
Procurement request types cover vendor payments such as recurring advertising and SaaS subscriptions. Spend requests follow customizable approval chains; approved spend can nest under departmental limits. Budgets contain pre-approved procurement spend limits assigned to employees or teams. Budget reporting shows actual spend against overall budgets and provisioned limits; this is allocated-limit visibility, not a documented PO-commitment ledger.
Plan and operating boundaries
Essentials: $0 per user per month; billing frequency unstated. Live Budgets is listed in Premium at $12 per user per month. Essentials is a free plan; Live Budgets is listed in Premium, which has a published $12 per-user monthly rate.
Brex publishes Essentials and Premium per-user monthly prices; Live Budgets is listed under Premium.
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