TravelPerk Alternatives: The Options Worth Comparing in 2026

Searches for TravelPerk competitors usually start the same way. A conference date lands in the calendar. Someone senior then spends forty minutes inside a booking tool, comparing flight times, hunting for a hotel that is actually near the venue, routing the whole thing for approval. Nothing broke. The platform did exactly what it was built to do, and the executive still did the work.

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is a corporate travel and spend management platform. Employees book their trips in the platform, and when a trip needs sign-off the approval request lands in Slack or Microsoft Teams, where the approver sees a trip summary and can approve or decline without opening another tool. The company rebranded from TravelPerk to Perk in November 2025 as it expanded from travel booking into a wider travel and spend proposition. Search demand has not followed. It still sits firmly on the old name.

People shopping for an alternative usually want one of three things: more of the finance side covered, a lower cost to run, or something that is not a platform at all. This page walks the real options in each direction, Catch included. Catch is an AI Executive Assistant that books business travel end to end instead of handing the traveler another screen to operate.

Why People Look for a TravelPerk Alternative

The fee structure has two moving parts. Perk’s Travel Only plans pair a monthly platform fee, charged per company, with a percentage of every booking: $0 per month plus 5% per booking on Starter, $99 per month plus 3% on Premium, $299 per month plus 3% on Pro. What the percentage costs you depends on how much your team travels. Those booking fees carry minimum and maximum thresholds that Perk does not publish, so a buyer who wants one predictable annual number still has to model their own booking volume to get it.

Expense coverage works differently in North America. Perk positions itself as a unified travel and spend platform. Its North American expense page describes integrating closely with the top expense tools in North America rather than selling its own spend product there, and the site navigation separates spend in Europe from spend in North America. What a US buyer gets is travel booking plus third-party expense integrations.

The booking still gets made in the platform. A trip is booked in Perk and, where it needs sign-off, the approval request is routed to a manager in Slack or Teams. For executives who travel the same routes to the same cities month after month, the part they were hoping to hand over is the booking itself.

None of this makes Perk a weak product. FlexiTravel, its flexible cancellation program, is a real strength, trip approvals run inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, and the mobile app holds itineraries, booking details and train tickets offline. The question is whether a better booking platform is what you are actually shopping for.

The Alternatives at a Glance

Tool	Category	Best for	Starting price
Catch	AI Executive Assistant	Executives who want the trip booked and managed for them, plus the rest of the admin	Flat $99/month, voice included, no add-ons
Perk (formerly TravelPerk)	Travel and spend platform	Teams who want in-chat trip approvals and flexible cancellation	Travel Only from $0/month plus 5% per booking
Navan	Travel and expense platform	One system covering booking, expense, and corporate cards	No booking fee for travel on Business; expense priced per expensing user
Engine (formerly Hotel Engine)	Travel booking platform	Field and project teams who want booking with no subscription to justify	Free to use the booking platform, optional paid add-ons
SAP Concur	Expense-led enterprise suite	Strict, multi-layered policy and approval governance	Base at around $7 per expense report, unlimited users

1. Catch: Best Overall Alternative

Catch is the one option here that is not a booking platform. It is an AI Executive Assistant that handles end-to-end admin work for executives, and business travel is part of that work. No travel dashboard, no search screen, no results page, because the executive never searches. They mention the trip in Slack, by text message, by email, or on a call, and the trip gets booked. Often they do not mention it first at all.

That last part is where the difference actually lives. Catch reads calendar and email context and picks up the trigger before anyone asks: a conference ticket sitting in the inbox, a face-to-face meeting in another city, an airline ticket with no hotel booked against it. Then it proposes the flight and the hotel, choosing one within a ten-minute walk of the actual meeting address rather than just the right city.

Where a company travel policy exists, Catch books inside it, covering rates and authorized upgrades. What it does not do is enforce that policy on anyone else or sell a policy-and-spend console to a finance team. The buyer here is the executive who travels, not the department that reports on travel. Personal preferences get applied the same way: airline, seat, flight times, hotel chains, room type. They sharpen over time, too, because Catch collects feedback after stays and builds a profile instead of waiting for someone to fill in a settings page.

The work carries on after the confirmation email. Catch keeps scanning for better rates and will cancel and rebook when it finds one. It also handles the last mile that booking tools stop short of: calling the front desk to confirm the room has what the executive needs, arranging early check-in or late checkout, booking a meeting room, reserving a restaurant, digging up past contacts at the destination and setting up a catch-up. Those are real outbound phone calls, and Catch identifies itself as AI on them.

There is also a cost argument that only lands on a page like this one. A fully loaded US executive assistant runs roughly $120,000 to $180,000 a year. Catch is a flat $99 a month with a 10-day free trial, and voice calls are included with no per-call fees. None of which is an argument for letting anyone go. The traditional admin work gets handled, and the person doing it today can grow into the operational and in-person work that still needs a human.

Business travel is the focus. Work trips repeat: the same executive, the same conference, the same route, fixed dates, a fixed objective. Those are the conditions an agent performs well in, which is why Catch is built and positioned around work trips rather than leisure planning, where the open variables make a conversation a poorer starting point. Expense reports, receipt capture, and reimbursement are not part of Catch today.

Security. Catch is SOC 2 Type II certified, Google Verified at CASA Tier 2, and hosts data in the US.

Best for: executives and business owners who travel the same routes repeatedly and want the whole trip, and the admin around it, handled without operating anything.

2. Navan: Best for Travel and Expense in One Platform

Navan is the closest like-for-like swap if what you want is more coverage rather than less. Business travel booking, expense management, and corporate cards sit in one platform, so the finance side of a trip does not live somewhere else. Its travel inventory covers flights, hotels, trains, rental cars, and black cars with negotiated rates.

Navan’s AI assistant, Ava, is a real part of the product rather than a chat widget bolted on the side. It uses a multimodal approach to learn traveler preferences such as amenities, room size, and loyalty programs, then curates compliant hotel options from them. Navan’s Waiver Agent watches airline waivers in real time so travelers get alerted to rebook before they end up stranded. Finance managers get a different Ava: a data analyst that summarizes spend by category, compares spend against policy, and projects future travel habits.

On the expense side there is receipt scanning with automatic transaction categorization, Navan’s own corporate cards with up to 1.5% back, and support for bringing your own Visa, Mastercard, or American Express corporate cards through Navan Connect for automatic reconciliation. It supports 30-plus HRIS integrations. Navan Rewards hands employees personal travel credit when they book under budget.

Pricing. Travel booking on the Business tier carries no booking fee, funded instead by travel providers’ commissions. Navan Expense is free for the first five monthly expensing users and then $15 per user per month. The Business tier is for companies up to 300 employees; above that, Navan points buyers to its Enterprise tier, which adds dedicated support and corporate negotiated rates at custom pricing that is not publicly disclosed.

Best for: finance teams that want booking, expense, and cards governed from one place, and who accept that the traveler still operates the system. If the goal was to stop operating a system, Catch is the better fit.

3. Engine (formerly Hotel Engine): Best for Booking Without a Subscription

Engine, which rebranded from Hotel Engine, goes the other way on pricing. The booking platform itself costs nothing to use: no membership fees, no contracts, no minimum spend. It does sell optional paid extras, so “everything at Engine is free” goes too far, but the core booking platform genuinely is.

Engine’s inventory includes hotels, flights, and rental cars. Administrators can set custom travel policies and budget controls directly in the platform. It handles specialized group bookings for trips needing nine or more rooms, and for extended stays, which matters a lot if you move crews rather than individuals. Direct Bill aggregates corporate travel charges into a single monthly statement, and Engine can cover hotel incidental holds upfront so the charges route to the corporate invoice rather than sitting on a traveler’s personal card. Travelers can also enter their personal loyalty numbers to earn standard hotel loyalty points alongside Engine’s own rewards.

The paid add-ons. FlexPro is a company-wide cancellation add-on at $299 per month, or $2,999 per year billed annually. It lets companies cancel or modify eligible hotel bookings until noon on the day of check-in, overriding the hotel’s own policy. Two details to settle before you budget for it: the value comes back as a one-year travel credit rather than cash, and coverage is not universal, so eligibility has to be checked per booking. Nights already used are not covered.

Engine also offers the Engine X card, a no-annual-fee business charge card issued by Fifth Third Bank N.A. Rewards on hotels and rental cars climb with annual spend: 6% back from $0 to $250k, 7% at $250k, 8% at $2.5M, and 10% at $5M and above. Everyday non-travel purchases earn 1.5% at every rung, and flights are not shown earning above 1.5%. Reaching the headline rate takes $5M in annual spend, so read it as a large-volume feature rather than a default.

Best for: field, project, and deployment-heavy teams that book a lot of hotels and want procurement centralized without a subscription line item.

4. SAP Concur: Best for Strict Policy Governance

Concur is the enterprise end of this market. It unifies travel booking, expense reporting, and invoice processing, and its real strength is enforcing complicated organizational policy at the exact moment somebody tries to break it. Users can search, compare, and book flights, hotels, rail, and rental cars through a centralized platform, with travel policy applied during booking and out-of-policy options flagged in real time.

Governance depth is the reason large companies stay. Concur allows granular spending policy configuration by category, amount, geography, or employee group, and supports configurable approval hierarchies that route reports based on spend thresholds and organizational structure. Expense automation covers receipt capture, auditing, and compliance, and the invoice product handles accounts payable including purchase order matching and approval routing. Its mobile ExpenseIt feature reads receipt photos and creates categorized expense entries on its own.

AI has been built into the suite as well. Joule is an AI assistant that uses natural language to automate tasks, answer policy questions, and navigate the system, and Concur Travel includes a Booking Agent that helps search and book compliant travel based on preferences and budgets.

Pricing and tiers. Concur publishes three tiers, all with unlimited users: Base at around $7 per expense report, Plus at around $11 per expense report, and Premium at custom pricing. Here is the structural detail that matters. Base includes Concur Expense only. Plus adds ExpenseIt, the User Support Desk, and reporting, and is still expense only. Concur Travel appears only in the Premium tier. If travel booking is what you came for, the entry tiers do not deliver it. No tier comes with a free trial.

Concur prices per expense report with unlimited seats while Navan prices per expensing user per month, which means the two numbers do not belong side by side. Compare the model against how your company actually behaves, not the figures.

Best for: large organizations with multi-layered approval chains and audit requirements that a lighter tool genuinely cannot satisfy.

How to Choose Between Them

Start with an honest answer to one question: where is the actual bottleneck?

If the bottleneck is finance visibility, you want a platform. Navan’s combined travel-and-expense model, Concur’s deeper policy governance and Perk’s travel-first platform with third-party expense integrations in North America each come at it from a different angle, and Engine covers the procurement side with admin-set travel policies and one consolidated invoice. Pick based on how complex your approval chains really are.

If the bottleneck is cost per booking, Engine takes the subscription question off the table for the core platform, Navan charges no booking fee for travel on its Business tier, and Perk’s Starter plan does something similar at $0 per month if you can live with 5% per booking.

If the bottleneck is the executive’s time, the question stops being which platform to buy. Perk, Navan, Engine and Concur are all platforms somebody books through; Catch is an assistant that books on the executive’s behalf from calendar and email context. That is the most common reason these searches happen in the first place. Handing the booking tool to an assistant moves that work onto someone else rather than removing it.

One consideration rarely makes the shortlist: booking is a fraction of the admin that surrounds a trip. The calendar has to shift around the travel days. Meetings at the destination need scheduling across time zones. The inbox keeps filling while the executive is in the air. An assistant already running the calendar and the inbox treats the trip as one more piece of context it has.

Our Top Pick

For executives at US mid-market companies, Catch is the strongest alternative on this list. Perk, Navan, Engine, and Concur are all competent at what they are built for, and if your genuine requirement is a finance-owned console with granular spend reporting, Navan or Concur will serve you better than Catch will today. That is a narrow requirement, and it belongs to the finance team rather than the traveler.

For everyone else, the difference is who does the booking. Catch books the flight and the hotel from context the executive never has to supply, stays on the trip afterwards to catch better rates and handle the details that need a phone call, and does the rest of the admin around the trip while it is at it. At a flat $99 a month with voice included, it is also one number that does not move with how much the team travels. The percentage-per-booking and per-report models on this list cannot say that.

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