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The Brex API

Finance — Brex's API enables developers to programmatically manage business finances, automate payment wor…
FinancesaasYC
● Stable
Category standing real
83th pctl · Finance
32.9
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#46
Category rank
of 3,298 · real
87th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
0%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 14.6 → 22.1 across 163 readings (+7.5). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
87
Signal (category) real
83
Profile maturity real
87
Tag breadth real
91
Network position sparse
94
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

model estimate
0%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 0% of the universe.

This is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.

  • LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
  • Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
  • Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
  • Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

The Brex API sits in the 87th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #46 of 3,298 in Finance. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 0% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is roughly flat.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
Mercuryecommercecurated30.013%
Kudo Koalaecommercetag-overlap30.011%
Urban Jungle Partners APIfinancesimilar15.70%
Setufinancesimilar32.90%
Build with Squarefinancesimilar18.67%
Union54financesimilar32.92%
Sabildev-toolstag-overlap30.01%
Timeriseecommercetag-overlap32.911%

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierfading
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

7 disclosed funding rounds on record. See the full cap table on the product profile →