BrexFreemium
Corporate cards and spend management with a free tier, where the AI does expense reports, receipt extraction, and compliance flagging.
Finance & Admin comparison
Brex vs Double (formerly Keeper)
Pricing, pros, cons, and ideal use cases — side by side.
Month-end close and practice management for bookkeeping firms, with AI that catches coding errors before the client sees them.
At a glance
| Brex | Double (formerly Keeper) | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | FreemiumEssentials $0 per user/month. Premium $12 per user/month. Enterprise is custom, as is the Smart Card procurement product. The AI expense assistant and auto-filled expense reports are on all tiers; advanced receipt data extraction and AI compliance audit detection start at Premium. | PaidNot fully published. Accounting firms are billed per connected client on a month-to-month basis with mix-and-match features; the Tax Suite is included with a $200/month annual commitment, and team email is a $10/month per connected mailbox add-on. Internal finance teams are quoted an annual flat rate. Ask specifically how a client with multiple entities is counted. |
| Category | Finance & Admin | Finance & Admin |
| Ideal for | Startups and venture-backed companies issuing employee cardsFinance teams tired of chasing receipts and expense reportsCompanies consolidating cards, bill pay, and travel into one systemControllers who need policy violations flagged automatically | Bookkeeping and accounting firms with recurring monthly clientsOutsourced CFO and controller practicesFirms standardising a repeatable month-end closeInternal finance teams closing multiple entities |
Pros & cons
Brex
Pros
- Genuinely usable free tier with the core AI expense features included
- Published per-user pricing — easy to model
- AI compliance detection surfaces out-of-policy spend without manual review
- Cards, bill pay, banking, and travel in one platform
- Strong fit for venture-backed underwriting profiles
Cons
- Card underwriting is not a fit for every business model
- Advanced receipt extraction and compliance AI require the paid tier
- Consolidating your finance stack on one vendor concentrates switching risk
- Enterprise and Smart Card pricing is quote-only
- Feature overlap with Ramp is high — the decision usually turns on rewards and underwriting, not capability
Double (formerly Keeper)
Pros
- Purpose-built for the firm workflow, not the business owner
- AI review catches coding errors before the client review call
- Client question queue replaces chasing answers over email
- Per-client pricing scales with your book rather than seats
- Platinum partner in Intuit's App Partner Program
Cons
- Full rate card is not published — you need a quote
- Layered on QuickBooks or Xero; it is not a general ledger
- Wrong product for a business owner doing their own books
- The Keeper-to-Double rebrand means older reviews and help articles use the old name
- Value depends on the whole team adopting one close process
Which should you choose?
Brex is the lighter-weight option (Freemium), while Double (formerly Keeper) sits higher on the pricing ladder (Paid). Brex is built around startups and venture-backed companies issuing employee cards; Double (formerly Keeper) leans more toward bookkeeping and accounting firms with recurring monthly clients. Shortlist the one whose strengths line up with your biggest constraint.
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