Travel · head to head
Egencia vs Sabre Red 360
Egencia
Travel
Corporate online booking and travel management from Amex GBT for mid-market and enterprise programmes
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
Sabre Red 360
Travel
Agency booking workspace over the Sabre GDS for air, hotel, car and rail
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Egencia pricing is per transaction and offline touches cost several times an online booking, so a programme with many complex multi-leg itineraries pays far more than the headline online fee suggests.; Sabre Red 360 the commercial deal is a multi-year segment volume commitment, so an agency that moves bookings to airline direct connects can end up paying shortfall penalties on volume it no longer books through Sabre.
- They diverge on capability: Egencia covers Policy and approval engine, Sabre Red 360 covers Graphical and cryptic modes.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Egencia and Sabre Red 360 actually diverge.
| Attribute | Egencia | Sabre Red 360 |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Windows, Web |
Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Travel).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Egencia
- Policy and approval engine
- Negotiated rate loading
- Traveller tracking
- Agent support
- Concur Expense integration
- AI booking assistant
Only in Sabre Red 360
- Graphical and cryptic modes
- Air shopping and ticketing
- Red App Centre
- Queue management
- Multi-content hotel
- Automation scripting
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Egencia
- A company of several hundred travellers wanting negotiated hotel rates without paying for a high-touch TMCnot Sabre Red 360
- A finance team standardising on SAP Concur that wants booking data pre-populating expense reportsnot Sabre Red 360
- A multi-country employer needing consolidated duty of care reporting on where staff are travellingnot Sabre Red 360
- An organisation moving off a regional TMC and wanting one supplier across Europe and North Americanot Sabre Red 360
Sabre Red 360
- A retail agency whose consultants work by cryptic entry and will not accept a forms-only booking toolnot Egencia
- A TMC that needs queue-driven ticketing and quality control across thousands of daily PNRsnot Egencia
- A consolidator negotiating a segment incentive deal and wanting the agent desktop bundled innot Egencia
- An agency adding NDC airline content without abandoning its existing GDS servicing workflownot Egencia
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Egencia
- Pricing is per transaction and offline touches cost several times an online booking, so a programme with many complex multi-leg itineraries pays far more than the headline online fee suggests.
- It is now a service tier inside Amex GBT rather than an independent supplier, so a competitive process that shortlists both Egencia and Amex GBT is not really two bids.
- Regional content and service quality are uneven, and companies with travellers in smaller markets often find local fares and hotels missing from the tool and end up going offline.
- Implementation to load negotiated rates and configure policy typically runs months, and rate loading errors surface as travellers seeing the wrong prices rather than as a clean failure.
- Because the platform underwent a relaunch on new architecture, customers migrating from the older Egencia stack have faced feature parity gaps and retraining during the transition.
Sabre Red 360
- The commercial deal is a multi-year segment volume commitment, so an agency that moves bookings to airline direct connects can end up paying shortfall penalties on volume it no longer books through Sabre.
- NDC content behaves differently from classic EDIFACT content inside the workspace, and servicing an NDC order often means leaving the normal exchange and refund workflow.
- Cryptic entries remain necessary for a meaningful set of tasks, so training a new consultant to productive speed takes months rather than days.
- It is a desktop-weighted product on Windows, which makes it awkward for agencies running fully remote or Mac-based teams without virtual desktop infrastructure.
- Pricing is never published and is entangled with incentive economics, so two agencies of similar size can be on materially different terms with no visibility of each other.
Pricing, plan by plan
Egencia
On request- Egencia$undefined/year
- Per-transaction booking fees, online and offline rates differ
- Optional annual platform or management fee
- Implementation and rate loading charges
Sabre Red 360
On request- Sabre Red 360$undefined/year
- Typically bundled into a GDS segment agreement
- Segment incentive payments to the agency
- Volume commitments and multi-year terms
Which should you pick?
Choose Egencia if
- You need policy and approval engine.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want negotiated rate loading.
Choose Sabre Red 360 if
- You need graphical and cryptic modes.
- You work on Windows, Web.
- You also want air shopping and ticketing.
Questions people ask
- Is Egencia or Sabre Red 360 better?
- Neither clearly leads. Egencia starts at On request and Sabre Red 360 at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Egencia or Sabre Red 360?
- Egencia starts at On request and Sabre Red 360 at On request.
- Does Egencia or Sabre Red 360 run on more platforms?
- Egencia runs on Web, iOS, Android. Sabre Red 360 runs on Windows, Web.
- What is Egencia best used for?
- Egencia is most often used for a company of several hundred travellers wanting negotiated hotel rates without paying for a high-touch tmc, a finance team standardising on sap concur that wants booking data pre-populating expense reports, a multi-country employer needing consolidated duty of care reporting on where staff are travelling, an organisation moving off a regional tmc and wanting one supplier across europe and north america. Of those, a company of several hundred travellers wanting negotiated hotel rates without paying for a high-touch tmc and a finance team standardising on sap concur that wants booking data pre-populating expense reports are not what Sabre Red 360 is typically brought in for.
- What can Egencia do that Sabre Red 360 cannot?
- Egencia covers Policy and approval engine, Negotiated rate loading, Traveller tracking, Agent support. Sabre Red 360 covers Graphical and cryptic modes, Air shopping and ticketing, Red App Centre, Queue management.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Egencia: Is Egencia still sold under its own name?
Yes. Amex GBT bought it in 2021 and kept the brand, relaunching it in 2026 with a conversational AI assistant and a Concur Expense integration.
Sabre Red 360: Do we pay a licence fee for Sabre Red 360?
Usually not directly. It is bundled into a GDS segment agreement in which Sabre pays your agency incentives per segment, so the negotiation is over volume commitments and incentive rates.
Egencia: How is it different from Amex GBT itself?
Egencia is the more self-service, lower-touch tier of the same company, aimed at mid-market programmes; Amex GBT proper is the high-touch enterprise service.
Sabre Red 360: Can corporates buy it to book their own travel?
No. It is an agent workspace. Corporates buy a TMC or an online booking tool such as GetThere, Egencia or TravelPerk instead.
Egencia: Does it replace an expense system?
No. It books travel and feeds data to expense tools such as SAP Concur; you still need an expense product.
Sabre Red 360: Does it handle NDC?
Yes, Sabre distributes NDC offers from a growing airline list, but servicing NDC orders follows a separate flow from classic GDS bookings.
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