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The 50 fastest-growing software vendors of 2025 (Brex Benchmark)
Data-backed benchmark ranking the fastest-growing software and AI vendors by corporate spend.
This year-end report from fintech company Brex ranks the 50 fastest-growing software vendors based on aggregated card and bill pay transactions across 35,000+ businesses. It highlights actual customer spend patterns rather than sentiment, emphasizing AI coding tools, LLM orchestration, and voice technology. It serves as a practical reference for discovering high-traction developer, productivity, and infrastructure tools.
How it works
Full Top 50 List:
- Cursor
- OpenRouter
- Kling AI
- Retell AI
- Perplexity
- Windsurf
- FireCrawl
- Clay
- Replit
- Exa
- Vast.ai
- Groq Inc
- Instantly
- Fireflies.ai
- CodeRabbit
- PostHog
- Ideogram
- Apollo
- Deepgram
- Juicebox
- Customer.io
- LangChain
- Supabase
- Lindy
- Granola
- Gamma
- Vercel
- Clerk
- Linear
- ClickHouse
- Fondo
- Anima
- Sentry
- Fly.io
- Framer
- StackBlitz
- ElevenLabs
- AssemblyAI
- Serp Api
- Hex
- Fathom
- Attio
- Alchemy
- Runway
- Bright Data
- Together AI
- Apify
- Finta
- Mistral AI
- Wispr
What it's for
- Discover trending B2B SaaS and AI tools with verified commercial adoption
- Benchmark tech stack choices against prevailing startup purchasing behavior
- Identify emerging market categories across voice AI, developer tooling, and meeting assistants
Features
- Top 50 ranking based on real card and bill payment transactions from 35,000+ companies
- Recency-weighted and volatility-smoothed scoring methodology
- Filters out publicly traded companies and vendors valued above $30B
- Analysis of 5 key enterprise software trends driving budget allocations
Pricing
Free to read online
Details
- Type
- Article or course
- Category
- Business & Money
- Topic
- Industry Benchmarks
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Web
- For
- Founders, CTOs, software buyers, and investors tracking enterprise software adoption.
- Tags
- saas, benchmarks, startups, devtools, ai tools, market research
Why it was saved
- @vesting: Provides a comprehensive snapshot of trending B2B SaaS, developer tools, and generative AI startups gaining adoption in 2025.
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