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Corporate travel management · November 2026 Edition

Booking.com for Business vs Amex GBT Egencia

Zero of fourteen models named Booking.com for Business first on the direct prompt; zero named Amex GBT Egencia. Booking.com for Business was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Amex GBT Egencia by fourteen and Booking.com for Business carries 33 labels and Amex GBT Egencia 31, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Booking.com for Business

criticized challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Amex GBT Egencia

criticized challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share16%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate27%26%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#4A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels3331A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Booking.com for Business reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.TravelPerk was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. Navan vs Booking.com for Business · Navan vs Amex GBT Egencia · TravelPerk vs Booking.com for Business

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen 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 corporate travel management page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Booking.com for BusinessFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAmex GBT Egencia
Direct002 against Booking.com for Business · 2 against Amex GBT Egencia
Paraphrase002 against Amex GBT Egencia
Comparative00
Budget-constrained901 against Amex GBT Egencia
Scale-constrained01
Negative007 against Booking.com for Business · 3 against Amex GBT Egencia
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Booking.com for Business and Amex GBT Egencia were named in the same answer twenty-four times, of the 81 answers naming Booking.com for Business and the 90 naming Amex GBT Egencia. In those answers Amex GBT Egencia took the first choice zero times and Booking.com for Business six.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Booking.com for Business and Amex GBT Egencia stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Booking.com for Business Amex GBT Egencia first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Booking.com for Business on the left and Amex GBT Egencia on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Booking.com for Business and Amex GBT Egencia stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Mistral SmallNavan, TravelPerk alternatives: Booking.com for Business, ITILITE
Qwen 3.7 FlashNavan, TravelPerk alternatives: American Express Global Business Travel, Booking.com for Business, FCM Travel, Spotnana

Neither was named

12 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Navan alternatives: Engine, Ramp, TravelPerk
GPT-5.4 miniNavan alternatives: Corporate Traveler, SAP Concur, TravelPerk
Gemini 3.5 FlashNavan alternatives: ITILITE, Ramp, Spotnana, TravelPerk
Perplexity SonarNavan alternatives: ITILITE, TravelPerk
Grok 4.20TravelPerk alternatives: Brex, Navan
DeepSeek V4 FlashNavan alternatives: ITILITE, TravelPerk
Llama 4 MaverickNavan, TravelPerk
Kimi K2TravelPerk alternatives: ITILITE, Navan, Spotnana
GLM 4.7 FlashXNavan alternatives: TravelPerk
MiniMax M2.5TravelPerk alternatives: Navan
GPT-6 LunaNavan alternatives: Ramp, SAP Concur, TravelPerk
Muse Glimmer 30BNavan alternatives: SAP Concur, Spotnana, TravelPerk

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
Booking.com for Business leads by thirty-three points.
Booking.com for Business33%#1 of 10
Amex GBT Egencia0%#9 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Booking.com for Business leads by fourteen points.
Booking.com for Business16%#3 of 12
Amex GBT Egencia2%#4 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Amex GBT Egencia leads at enterprise.
Amex GBT Egencia2%#4 of 9
Booking.com for Business0%#– of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Booking.com for Business

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

“it holds a notoriously low rating on Trustpilot (often 1.4/5). You should be cautious here if you expect flexibility” Qwen 3.7 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“Booking.com, in particular, has faced scrutiny over a surge in scams and fake listings” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative
“Strongly cautioned against or frequently recommended to avoid: Expedia and Booking.com” Grok 4.20 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Booking.com for Business and GetGoing Travel are the top recommendations for companies with limited budgets” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
“the best corporate travel booking platform for a company with a limited budget is Booking.com for Business” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Booking.com for Business is the best default choice: it has no booking, subscription, or management fees” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Amex GBT Egencia

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

“When to avoid: For very small businesses or startups with infrequent, simple travel, these can be overkill and costly.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · hard negative
“Geared toward large multinational enterprises with complex compliance needs” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Egencia and SAP Concur unless you're a larger enterprise” Kimi K2 · direct prompt · hard negative
“Consider starting with a pilot of 2–3 modern platforms (Navan, TravelPerk, Egencia)” Kimi K2 · scale prompt · first choice
“Provides broad global inventory, Smart Mix booking, 24/7 traveler support, and configurable policies for medium-sized businesses.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · comparative prompt · alternative
“Amex GBT is cited as the enterprise-TMC leader with deep global service footprint and full-service account management.” Muse Glimmer 30B · comparative prompt · alternative
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.