Yes, though the two are built for different people. ExpenseBot is an AI bookkeeping product for a small business in Google Workspace: it scans Gmail for receipts, tracks income as well as expenses, and produces a profit-and-loss. The ExpenseOS™ free Expense Agent is for the employee who needs a report filed and approved, so it ends with a one-click approval email to a manager rather than a set of books.
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ExpenseBot's job ends with an accurate ledger and a clean handoff to an accountant. That is why it tracks income, reconciles cards, exports to QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, NetSuite and Wave, and is free forever for accountants and bookkeepers. If you run the business, that is the shape of the problem you have.
ExpenseOS is done when you get paid back. That is why it builds an approval-ready PDF with a receipt appendix, emails a specific human a link they can click without an account, and then counts the days until the money lands. If you work for someone else, that is the shape of your problem, and a profit-and-loss does not help with it.
Every ExpenseBot cell comes from its own public documentation, checked on 24 October 2026. Where it does not say something either way, the cell says so.
| ExpenseOS Agent | ExpenseBot | |
|---|---|---|
| Works in ChatGPT | Yes, listed in the app directory | Yes, listed |
| Works in Claude | Yes, connector directory | Yes, connector directory |
| Files a new expense from a receipt photo in chat | Yes | Yes |
| Mileage priced at the IRS rate | Yes, routed server-side at the rate for the drive date | Mileage tracking, via Google Maps |
| Builds a PDF expense report | Yes, with a receipt appendix | Yes, reports for an accountant |
| Sends it to a manager for one-click approval | Yes, a 14-day link, no account needed | Not documented |
| Needs an account on a separate expense platform | No | Yes, an ExpenseBot account |
| Cost to one employee | Free | $10 per seat per month, 60-day free trial, free forever for accountants |
| What it is really for | Filing and tracking work expense reports | Books and taxes for a small business, in Google Workspace |
An AI bookkeeping product built around Google Workspace. It scans Gmail for receipts, tracks income as well as expenses, produces a live profit-and-loss, and exports to QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, NetSuite and Wave. If you are a freelancer or a small business owner doing your own books, it does more than ExpenseOS does. What its own pages do not document is a manager approval workflow, because that is not the job it is built for: it files to an accountant, not to an employer.
Worth being plain about, because these are real gaps rather than differences of philosophy. ExpenseBot scans years of Gmail for receipts automatically; the ExpenseOS receipt-forwarding address is not live yet, so receipts arrive by being dropped into the chat. ExpenseBot tracks income and produces a live profit-and-loss and tax summaries; ExpenseOS tracks work expenses only. ExpenseBot pushes to five accounting platforms; ExpenseOS produces a QuickBooks-ready CSV and leaves the import to you.
If those matter more than getting a report approved, ExpenseBot is the better product and you should use it.
The agent is free for you. There is no company account to arrange, no seat to be assigned, no credit card, and no approval from your finance team. Sign in with Google, Microsoft or a six-digit email code, and a personal email address is fine to start. The paid ExpenseOS platform is a separate product your company can buy later; it adds instant reimbursement the moment a report clears policy.
Yes, and it stays free. Receipts, mileage, reports, PDF and Excel exports, one-click manager approval and reimbursement tracking are all included at no cost, with no credit card. The paid ExpenseOS platform is a separate product for companies; it adds instant reimbursement the moment a report clears policy.
They get an email with the PDF attached and a one-click Review and Approve button, valid for 14 days. They do not need an ExpenseOS account, an app, or a login. If you sent it to the wrong person or spotted a mistake, you can recall the report and the link stops working immediately.
No. You can start on your own, today, with a personal email address. Your approver does not need an account either. They get an email with a one-click approve button and never sign in anywhere.
Four, every time: a PDF with a receipt appendix, an Excel (XLSX) workbook, a CSV, and a QuickBooks-ready CSV in QuickBooks Online's bank-import format. All four are on the report page and on your dashboard.
Yes, and it works out the distance for you. Describe the drive in a sentence and ExpenseOS routes it server-side with a mapping service, then applies the IRS standard mileage rate for the date you drove, including 2026's mid-year rate change. It never asks the model to guess a distance or recall a rate.
Then use ExpenseOS to build the report and email the files to yourself instead of routing them for approval. You get the PDF, Excel, CSV and QuickBooks files, and you file them however your employer wants. Plenty of people use it purely to stop keeping receipts in a shoebox.
Yes. It is listed in ChatGPT's app directory under Business & Operations as "ExpenseOS". Add it, sign in once, then drop receipt photos into the chat and ask for your report. ChatGPT renders your ledger and the finished report as cards you can act on.
Yes. It is in Claude's connector directory: Settings, Connectors, Browse, then search for "PuraFi Expenses", which is the name the listing still carries. You can also add it by hand as a custom connector using the server URL, since it is a standard Model Context Protocol server.
Yes. The original photo or PDF is stored with the expense and embedded in the report's receipt appendix, cross-referenced to the line it belongs to. That is what makes the report survive an audit rather than just look tidy.
No, by design. It prepares and tracks reports. It does not reimburse you, enforce a policy or decide whether an expense is allowed. Your company pays you exactly the way it does today. The only thing it sends outside your account is the approval email you ask it to send.
ExpenseOS is listed in both directories, so you should not need this. If your client has no directory, add this as a custom Model Context Protocol connector and sign in when prompted:
https://mcp.purafi.ai/mcpAdd the app, send it a photo, and see the ledger fill up. The first report usually takes one coffee break.