Navan vs TravelPerk (now Perk): pricing, fees and which one fits your company

What is the main difference between Navan and TravelPerk?

The pricing model. Navan gives travel away: the Business tier is free for companies up to 300 employees and adds no fee per booking, because Navan earns supplier commissions on the flights and hotels your team books. It then sells you expense seats at $15 per user a month above a five-user allowance. Perk inverts that. Its Starter plan costs nothing per month but adds 5 percent to every single booking from the first one, and you pay $99 or $299 a month to reduce that to 3 percent.

That difference decides most evaluations. Take a team booking 200 trips a year at an average $600: Perk Starter costs roughly $6,000 in booking fees, Premium costs about $4,800 in fees plus $1,188 a year, and Navan Business costs nothing for the travel itself. Flip it to a team booking 15 trips a year and Perk Starter costs about $450 while Navan costs nothing, so the platform fee is irrelevant and you choose on inventory and flexibility instead.

Is TravelPerk the same as Perk?

Yes. TravelPerk renamed itself Perk on 4 November 2025, and travelperk.com now redirects to perk.com. It is the same company, the same platform and the same contracts, with the product names shortened along the way: FlexiPerk became FlexiTravel and GreenPerk became Green Trip. G2 and Capterra have already relabeled their listings.

The rebrand followed two acquisitions worth knowing about if you are buying in the US. Perk bought AmTrav, a US travel management company, in June 2024, which is where much of its American air content and NDC connectivity comes from, and it bought Yokoy, a Swiss spend-management platform, in January 2025. Those two purchases are why Perk can now credibly sell travel and spend together in Europe, and why its US spend story is still mostly integrations.

How much does Navan cost?

Navan Business is listed as free for companies with 300 or fewer employees, with no cap on the number of trips. Navan says plainly that it is powered by travel providers' commission fees, so the booking side costs you nothing. Navan Expense is free for the first five monthly expensing users and $15 per user per month after that, where an expensing user is anyone who submits a transaction in a given month.

Above 300 employees you move to Navan Enterprise, which is quoted rather than listed and adds unlimited travelers, corporate negotiated rates, a designated account executive, a customer success manager and custom implementation. Navan does not publish an Enterprise price and we will not invent one. If you want the full breakdown, our guide to how much Navan costs works through the tiers and the costs that sit outside the sticker price.

How much does TravelPerk cost?

On the North American view of Perk's pricing page there are three travel tiers. Starter is $0 a month plus 5 percent on each booking and gives you one travel policy and simplified reporting. Premium is $99 a month plus 3 percent and adds ten travel policies, advanced reporting and budget tracking. Pro is $299 a month plus 3 percent with unlimited policies and custom reporting. There is no per-user fee and no user limit on those travel plans.

Two costs sit outside that table. FlexiTravel, the cancel-anytime product, costs about 10 percent per booking when applied to every trip or roughly 20 percent when bought per trip, and returns at least 80 percent of the cost if you cancel up to two hours before departure, capped at $5,000 per passenger and $30,000 per trip. Perk also notes that its booking fees are subject to minimum and maximum thresholds, but it does not publish those thresholds, so ask for them in writing before you sign.

Which is better for a small team?

For a US company under 300 employees that travels regularly, Navan Business is hard to argue with on cost: free travel booking, no per-trip fee, a US-issued card and 24/7 agent support. The usual objections are that you are booking inside Navan's inventory, that expense seats add up once more than five people file expenses in a month, and that support quality gets mixed reviews from end travelers even while buyer-side scores stay high.

Perk suits a small team differently. If you book a handful of trips a year, 5 percent of very little is very little, and you keep whatever card and expense stack you already run. Perk also grades slightly higher across every Capterra sub-score, including value for money at 4.5 against Navan's 4.2. If your travel is heavily European or rail-based, Perk is the better product and it is not close.

• Travel often, want one system, US-based: Navan Business
• Travel rarely, already run Ramp or Brex: Perk Starter
• Heavy European or rail travel, VAT recovery: Perk
• Need US corporate cards issued by the platform: Navan
• Cancel expensive trips often: Perk with FlexiTravel
• Over 300 employees: both go to a custom quote

What if you want neither a spend platform nor a search box?

There is a third answer that this comparison usually misses. Navan and Perk both assume a person will sit down, search, compare and book the trip, with policy wrapped around that search box, and both assume that when a flight is canceled the traveler sorts it out with support. For a lot of small US companies the real cost is not the platform fee at all. It is the hour someone loses per trip and the afternoon lost when a flight falls through.

TripAgent.ai is built for that company. You describe the trip in a sentence, and the AI plans the day-by-day itinerary, books the flights, hotels and activities inside the budget and policy rules you set once, and rebooks the traveler automatically when a flight is canceled, reshuffling the days that no longer fit. It is a flat subscription from $19 a month with no percentage on any booking. Try it in the demo at the top of this page with a trip you actually need to take.

The honest limits, so nobody is surprised later: TripAgent.ai does not issue corporate cards, does not reconcile expenses, does not carry negotiated corporate rates and does not staff a 24/7 human agent desk. If any of those four is what you are shopping for, buy Navan or Perk. If what you want is trips planned, booked and fixed without anyone owning it, see small business travel management or the broader corporate travel management page.