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Expense management · September 2026 Edition

Ramp vs Navan

Seven of twelve models named Ramp first on the direct prompt; two named Navan. Ramp was named by twelve of the twelve models and Navan by eleven and Ramp carries 52 labels and Navan 29, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Ramp

endorsed leader

Named in seventeen categories this edition.

Navan

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

First-choice share34%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#7A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels5229A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Ramp reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.SAP Concur was named alongside these two in eight of the twelve direct answers. Ramp vs Zoho Expense · Ramp vs Spendesk · Ramp vs Rippling Spend

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the expense management page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
RampFirst choices, of twelve modelsNavan
Direct72
Paraphrase60
Comparative51
Budget-constrained20
Scale-constrained10
Negative203 against Ramp
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Ramp and Navan were named in the same answer 166 times, of the 944 answers naming Ramp and the 286 naming Navan. In those answers Navan took the first choice twenty-seven times and Ramp forty-five.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Ramp and Navan stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
Ramp Navan first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Ramp on the left and Navan on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Ramp and Navan stood in it.

Both were the first choice

1 of 12 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.
Kimi K2Navan, Ramp alternatives: Expensify, Rippling Spend

Ramp first, Navan an alternative

6 of 12 modelsNavan was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashRamp alternatives: Airbase, Brex, Navan, Rippling Spend
Perplexity SonarRamp alternatives: Airbase, Expensify, Navan, SAP Concur, Spendesk
Grok 4.1 FastRamp alternatives: Navan, SAP Concur
DeepSeek V4 FlashRamp alternatives: Airwallex, Brex, Navan, SAP Concur
Qwen 3.7 FlashRamp alternatives: Navan, SAP Concur, Spendesk
GLM 4.7 FlashXRamp alternatives: Expensify, Navan, Paylocity, SAP Concur

Navan first, Ramp an alternative

1 of 12 modelsRamp was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Navan alternatives: Ramp, SAP Concur

Neither was the first choice, one was named

3 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniRippling Spend alternatives: Navan, SAP Concur
Mistral SmallSpendesk alternatives: Emburse, Procurify, Ramp
MiniMax M2.5Rippling Spend alternatives: Airbase, Emburse, Navan, SAP Concur

Neither was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Ramp leads by twenty-three points.
Ramp23%#2 of 7
Navan0%#– of 7
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Ramp leads by thirty points.
Ramp34%#1 of 11
Navan4%#7 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Ramp leads by eight points.
Ramp11%#2 of 9
Navan3%#6 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Ramp

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Navan

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Navan consistently ranks as the top all-in-one travel and expense platform, with leading scores for overall satisfaction, ease of use” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.