What Concur Publishes, and What It Doesn’t
Most software comparison sites still tell you SAP Concur keeps its pricing behind a sales call. That is out of date. Concur publishes a three-tier price list with actual figures on it, and two of those tiers can be bought straight off the page.
The detail that matters is the unit. The published tiers are not priced per person. All three carry unlimited users, and the meter runs on expense reports instead. So the number you get quoted has almost nothing to do with how many employees you have, and everything to do with how much paperwork they file.
If you landed here wanting to know what Concur costs for travel, though, the published list will not answer you. Concur Travel appears in the top tier only, and the top tier is custom-quoted.
Here is what is actually on the page, what the per-report model does to a bill as a company grows, and where Catch, the AI Executive Assistant, sits against it at a flat $99 a month.
The Three Tiers, As Published
| Tier | Published price | What the tier covers | How you buy it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base | About $7 per expense report, unlimited users | Concur Expense | Buy now, self-serve |
| Plus | About $11 per expense report, unlimited users | Concur Expense plus ExpenseIt, User Support Desk and Reporting | Buy now, self-serve |
| Premium | Custom pricing | Adds Concur Travel, Intelligence, and more | Request a quote |
Three things in that table deserve more attention than they usually get.
Base is expense only. The entry tier gets you Concur Expense and nothing else. No travel booking. Not the receipt-scanning feature either.
ExpenseIt starts at Plus. ExpenseIt is the mobile receipt capture that pulls the details off a photographed receipt and turns it into a categorized expense entry. It is listed on Plus and Premium, not on Base. Anyone assuming the cheapest tier includes receipt scanning is budgeting for the wrong tier.
Travel is Premium only. This is the one that matters. Concur Travel, the centralized booking platform where employees search, compare and book flights, hotels, rail and rental cars, does not appear in Base or Plus. It shows up in the Premium tier, alongside Intelligence and “and more”. Premium is the tier with no published figure.
So the answer to “how much does Concur cost for corporate travel” is that Concur does not publish one. You will get a number from a quote rather than from the price list, with no published figure to sanity-check it against beforehand.
What Per-Report Pricing Does to a Bill
Unlimited users is a genuinely appealing headline, and for the right company it is the better model. Adding a person costs nothing. A department that travels twice a year and files almost nothing sits close to free on the licence.
It does mean the invoice is a behavior meter rather than a headcount meter. Before any sales call, the number you need is not from HR. It is how many expense reports your company actually filed last quarter.
| Expense reports filed per month | Base at $7 each | Plus at $11 each |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | $350 | $550 |
| 150 | $1,050 | $1,650 |
| 400 | $2,800 | $4,400 |
| 1,000 | $7,000 | $11,000 |
At 400 reports a month, Base works out around $33,600 a year and Plus around $52,800 at the published per-report rates. Those are list figures rather than a quote, so confirm your own volume and terms with Concur before budgeting on them.
The other thing this model does is put a price on filing discipline. A company that lets people submit three small reports instead of one consolidated one gets billed for three reports rather than one. Worth knowing before you sign, because that is a policy you can change and a line item you can move.
What the Price List Does Not Cover
There is no free trial on any tier. Base and Plus can be bought self-serve without a sales call, but you cannot pilot the product with your own reports before you commit to it.
The published figures also only reach as far as those two tiers. Anything in Premium, travel included, arrives as a quote instead of a list price, so the questions worth asking directly are what the quote covers, what sits outside it, and what support level it assumes.
What You Get for That Money
Pricing Concur only means something alongside what the money buys, because for the right buyer it buys a lot.
What the money buys is governance. Concur applies travel policies during booking and flags out-of-policy options in real time, so violations get caught at the moment of action instead of surfacing in a reconciliation three weeks later. It supports granular spending policy configuration by category, amount, geography or employee group, plus configurable approval hierarchies that route reports by spend threshold and organizational structure. On top of expense it handles invoice and accounts payable work, including purchase order matching and approval routing.
There is an AI layer too. Joule is Concur’s AI assistant for travel and expense, using natural language to automate tasks and help users navigate the system, and Concur Travel includes a Booking Agent that helps employees search, compare and book compliant flights, hotels and rental cars against company policy, traveler preferences and budget.
If your problem is governance at scale, that is a serious toolkit and the price reflects it. It is a platform a company buys, configures and runs. That is not the same job as getting one executive’s trips and admin handled for them.
Catch Pricing: A Different Meter Entirely
Catch is $99 per month, flat. One number. No tiers, no credit system, no per-call fees, no per-report charge. There is a 10-day free trial, so you can run it against your real week before paying anything.
The two prices are hard to compare because they are counting different things. Concur meters the reports a company files. Catch meters the executive whose admin load you are taking off the table.
For that $99, Catch handles the traditional executive assistant workload end to end: calendar, email including the quiet threads that need chasing, scheduling that gets booked rather than merely linked, reminders and flagging what needs attention, real outbound phone calls placed on the executive’s behalf, and business travel booked and then actively managed afterwards.
On travel, Catch acts as the travel agent itself. There is no dashboard to search. The executive asks in Slack, email, text message, iMessage or over the phone. Or Catch raises the trip first, having spotted it in the executive’s own calendar and email: a conference receipt sitting in the inbox, a meeting in another city next month. Catch then books supported flights and hotels, applies the preferences it has learned, and stays with those bookings afterwards, rebooking when a better rate appears and calling the hotel directly about last-mile details. Where a company has a travel policy, Catch books within it, including rates, approval flows and authorised upgrades. Catch does not currently book ground transportation.
Set against a US executive assistant at roughly $120,000 to $180,000 a year fully loaded, $99 a month changes the arithmetic. Nobody needs to be let go for that to hold: the traditional admin work is handled, and the person doing it today can grow into the operational and in-person responsibilities Catch does not cover. Expenses, receipts and reimbursement are not part of Catch today, though they are on the roadmap, so Catch sits alongside a finance system rather than replacing the reconciliation side of one.
Catch vs Concur, On Price
| Catch | SAP Concur | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | $99 per month, flat | Base about $7 per expense report, Plus about $11, Premium custom |
| What the meter counts | One executive, one fee | Expense reports filed; unlimited users on all three tiers |
| Travel at the published price | Included, booking and ongoing trip management | Concur Travel appears in the Premium tier, which is custom-quoted |
| Buying route | Sign up directly | Base and Plus self-serve, Premium by quote |
| Free trial | 10 days | None offered on any tier |
| Predictability | Flat monthly fee with no credit or per-call meter | Moves with how many reports get filed |
Which Price Are You Actually Trying to Compare?
Catch is priced for an executive who needs booking, rebooking, and coordination handled. The flat $99 monthly fee covers supported admin workflows beyond travel and does not use a credit or per-call meter.
Concur is the right buy in one specific case: you are finance or operations, you need a governed company-wide travel and expense program with granular policy configuration and configurable approval routing, and the report volume to make a per-report meter worth it. That is a real need, and Concur serves it well. It is also a different purchase from the one an executive is making.
If you are weighing the platform category itself, Navan and Concur cover much of the same ground with different assumptions, Navan prices it in two separate meters, and there is a fuller map of the alternatives by category. Still deciding whether you need a platform at all? Start with what corporate travel management actually involves.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does SAP Concur cost?
Concur publishes three tiers, all with unlimited users. Base is about $7 per expense report, Plus about $11 per expense report, and Premium is custom pricing. Base and Plus can be bought self-serve; Premium requires a quote.
Does SAP Concur charge per user?
No. All three published tiers include unlimited users, and the charge is per expense report instead. Your bill tracks how many reports get filed, not how many people you employ.
How much does Concur Travel cost?
Concur does not publish a figure for it. Concur Travel appears in the Premium tier, and Premium is custom pricing obtained through a quote request rather than a listed price.
What is included in the Concur Base plan?
Base includes Concur Expense on its own. It does not include ExpenseIt receipt capture, which starts at Plus, and it does not include Concur Travel, which appears in Premium.
What is the difference between Concur Base and Plus?
Plus adds ExpenseIt, the User Support Desk and Reporting on top of Concur Expense. Both tiers are expense products, and neither includes travel booking.
Does SAP Concur offer a free trial?
No. There is no free trial on any Concur tier. Base and Plus are bought self-serve without a trial period. Catch, by contrast, offers a 10-day free trial.
Is SAP Concur expensive?
That depends on your report volume rather than your headcount. At 400 reports a month, Base works out around $33,600 a year and Plus around $52,800 at the published per-report rates. Premium, the tier that includes travel, is custom-quoted, so there is no list figure to check a travel budget against.
Is Concur or Catch better value?
Catch is the better value for an executive who needs trips booked and admin handled, at a flat $99 a month with no per-report charge. Concur is the better fit when the requirement is a company-wide governed travel and expense program for finance.
Can Catch replace SAP Concur?
For the supported booking and trip-management side, yes: Catch’s travel beta books flights and hotels and manages those bookings afterwards, within your travel policy. Ground transportation, expenses, and reimbursement are not part of Catch today, so a company that needs those workflows runs Catch alongside other systems.
What is the cheapest way to get corporate travel booking?
If you want a booking platform your whole company administers, get quotes on the tiers that actually include travel. If what you want is for the trips to simply be handled for a specific executive, Catch does it for a flat $99 a month with no booking fees and no tier to upgrade into.