# Airbase review (2026): is it worth it? > Spend management now sold as Paylocity for Finance Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Airbase is a spend management product that is now part of Paylocity; its site reads "Airbase, a Paylocity Company" and points customers to Paylocity for Finance. Paylocity lists expense management, corporate cards, AP automation and guided procurement. No prices are published. - **Category:** Spend & Bill Pay - **Made by:** Paylocity - **Website:** https://www.airbase.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: Airbase is now a Paylocity company and the site points to Paylocity for Finance. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing Airbase's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Expense management:** Listed first among Paylocity's finance products, covering employee expenses and policy compliance. - **Corporate cards:** Company cards sit alongside expenses in the finance product list. - **AP automation:** Paylocity lists AP automation and vendor management as part of finance. - **Guided procurement:** A purchase-intake product that feeds the same spend records. - **Spend analytics and fraud detection:** Capabilities listed under Paylocity for Finance include spend analytics, fraud detection and accounting automation. ## Good for - Existing Airbase customers following the move to Paylocity - Companies that want payroll, HR and spend on one vendor ## Worth knowing - Airbase is now a Paylocity company, and the site points to Paylocity for Finance. - No prices are published, and the Paylocity pages need a demo request. - Product details here come from short pages that load mostly through JavaScript. - Check whether new customers buy Airbase or Paylocity for Finance. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Airbase covers expenses, corporate cards, accounts payable and procurement, and it is now sold as part of Paylocity. No prices are published and the pages need a demo request, so check whether new customers buy Airbase or Paylocity for Finance. - **Value for money: C.** No prices are published and the Paylocity pages need a demo request. It sits in the middle by default. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: no free plan and no trial are on record for this listing. - **Features: B.** Expense management, corporate cards, AP automation, guided procurement, spend analytics and fraud detection. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Cards, approvals and accounting links are set up by the company. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only on the listing, with no integrations named. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Paylocity's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. Its pages load mostly through JavaScript, so the listing's details are short. ## Where it stands among spend and bill pay tools - Airbase's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 7 of the 51 other spend and bill pay tools we grade, and level with 18. - It stands best on features (B, above 40 of 51) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/expenses ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Airbase you would be making cards issued through a bank. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 26 of the 51 other spend and bill pay tools grade higher. - You could make: Expense tracking: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Cards issued through a bank. - You could not: Money moved between bank accounts, which takes a licensed payments partner. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Expense tracking, Company cards, Bill pay, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Ramp](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ramp): Corporate cards, expenses, travel and bill pay, with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airbase-vs-ramp) - [Brex](https://toolgpa.com/tools/brex): Corporate cards, expenses, bill pay and travel for growing companies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airbase-vs-brex) - [Spendesk](https://toolgpa.com/tools/spendesk): Spend management with unlimited cards and users, priced by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airbase-vs-spendesk) - [Procurify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/procurify): Purchasing, payables and spend cards with approval workflows. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airbase-vs-procurify) - [Navan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/navan): Business travel booking with expenses and corporate cards built in. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airbase-vs-navan) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.airbase.com - https://www.paylocity.com/products/finance/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/airbase Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).