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Freight Forwarder Software Pricing (2026): What It Costs and What Moves the Bill
What vendors actually publish, checked on a stated date; the three pricing models and what makes each one grow; the two costs no quote includes; and the arithmetic to turn every offer into one number — dollars per year for your team at your volume.
Short answer. Most freight forwarding software is not priced in public. Of the six platforms forwarders shortlist together, on the date above Linbis was the only one with a figure at its public pricing URL — $150 a month including one user, $299 including three, enterprise by quote — and Logitude World published per-user plans ($39–$79 per user per month billed annually) on its Spanish site but not at its English pricing URL. CargoWise moved to usage-based “value packs” on 1 December 2025 and publishes no rate card; GoFreight has a pricing page with a form and no numbers; Magaya and Descartes have no pricing page at all. The rest of this page explains why the bills differ, what a quote leaves out, and how to compare offers that use different units on purpose.
What each vendor publishes
Alphabetical. The price column records exactly what each vendor’s public pricing URL returned when we requested it on the date above — a figure, a page with no figure, or no page. Nothing in it is an estimate.
| Vendor | Public pricing URL on the date above | Price shape | Implementation (public positioning) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CargoWise (WiseTech Global) | Not published — cargowise.com/pricing returns 404 | Usage-based “value packs” since 1 December 2025; WiseTech states there are “no longer any CargoWise Cloud standard hosting costs or seat fees”. Third-party figures circulate (GoFreight’s blog reports about $19.95 per full import container and $9.95 per standalone entry); the only authoritative rate is your renewal letter | Partner-led implementation, months |
| Descartes | Not published — descartes.com/pricing returns 404 | Quote-based | Enterprise sales and implementation |
| GoFreight | Page exists, no figure — gofreight.com/pricing shows “Simple pricing. Smart forwarding.” and a form to consult its experts | Per-user plans sized by sales (public positioning) | Sales-led onboarding |
| Linbis | Published. $150 / month incl. 1 user · $299 / month incl. 3 users · Enterprise by quote — linbis.com/pricing | Flat monthly plans with seats included; not per-transaction, not per-container | Self-serve: free trial without a card; import wizards with dry-run preview; phased migration off the old Linbis Logistics platform, run by the Linbis team, on Premium and Enterprise |
| Logitude World | Published on its Spanish pricing page: Economy $39 · Business $65 · Premier $79 per user / month billed annually ($45 / $70 / $90 monthly); the English pricing URL returns 404 | Per user per month; API and the customer tracking app marked minimum 10 users | Self-serve trial sign-up |
| Magaya | Not published — magaya.com/pricing returns 404 | Quote-based | Sales-led implementation |
Competitor rows are their public positioning; we have not operated their products. Figures other than Linbis’s are quoted from the vendors’ or third parties’ pages, attributed, and may change — check the pages. We do not reprint third-party star ratings.
The three pricing models, and what makes each one grow
Vendors quote different units on purpose, and the unit tells you what the bill will do in a busy year.
| Model | Who uses it | What moves the bill | Grows when | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat monthly plan, seats included | Linbis | Nothing until you add seats or move to a larger plan | You hire | You pay the same in a slow month |
| Per-user meter | Logitude World (published); GoFreight (public positioning) | Headcount — every login, including accounting, warehouse and sales | You hire, or a feature is gated at a minimum seat count | Cheap to start; the warehouse and accounting logins are the ones people forget to count |
| Usage-based value packs | CargoWise since 1 December 2025 | Transactions — containers, entries, shipments | You have a good month | Falls in a quiet quarter, rises in a busy one; hardest to forecast |
| Quote-based | Magaya, Descartes; enterprise tiers everywhere | Whatever the quote says | At renewal | Nothing to compare until a salesperson writes a number |
One consequence is worth stating plainly. A usage-based bill is the only one that punishes success: the quarter you move the most containers is the quarter it rises. A per-user bill punishes hiring. A flat plan punishes neither, and its cost is that you pay it in August too. Which of those you can live with is a business decision, not a software one — but you should make it knowingly.
The arithmetic: one number per offer
Convert every offer to dollars per year for your team at your volume before you compare anything else. Two worked examples with the figures that are actually published:
| Desk | Linbis | Logitude World (annual billing) | CargoWise, GoFreight, Magaya, Descartes |
|---|---|---|---|
| One person, 40 shipments a month | Startup: $1,800 a year | Business: $780 a year · Premier: $948 a year | Not published |
| Three people, 400 shipments a month | Premium: $3,588 a year — the same in a 40-shipment month; warehouse included | Business: $2,340 a year · Premier: $2,844 a year; API and tracking app need ten users | Not published; a usage-based bill at 400 shipments a month is a function of a rate you do not have |
| Ten people, four of them in the warehouse and accounting | Larger teams on the pricing page or quoted; the plan does not move with volume | Business: $7,800 a year · Premier: $9,480 a year on list price | Not published |
Read honestly: at one to three users on list price, Logitude is cheaper than Linbis, and if all you need is quotes, shipments, documents and invoices, that is the right answer. What the Linbis plan buys for the difference is scope — the warehouse on Premium, ISF and AMS filed under your own bond, a double-entry ledger with a QuickBooks Online sync (payments both ways), a consolidation engine — and a bill that does not grow with headcount or volume. The vendors that publish nothing cannot be placed in this table at all, which is itself information: a buyer who cannot compute the number before the sales call is being asked to negotiate blind.
The two costs no quote includes
Implementation. Enterprise platforms are implemented by partners over months, and the partner’s invoice is separate from the software’s. Mid-market vendors run sales-led onboarding, often priced as a one-time fee. Self-serve platforms expect you to configure the desk yourself — which is only a saving if the platform actually lets you: Linbis ships a working chart of accounts, more than 90 document templates and a permissive workflow on the first login, and every tenant designs its own workflow flows, roles, documents and screens without a consultant.
Migration. The largest line in most switches is the hours your own staff spend re-keying history because the vendor cannot import it from files. Ask every vendor what its importer covers — customers, vendors, agents, open shipments, warehouse receipts — and whether a preview shows you what will change before it does. Linbis imports those through its import wizards, each with a dry-run preview that writes nothing until you confirm, and Premium and Enterprise include a phased migration with a specialist for customers moving off the old Linbis Logistics platform.
What should be included, and what to ask
- Seats. How many are included, what an extra one costs, and whether the warehouse, accounting and sales logins count. Ask for the minimum seat count on any feature you need.
- Modules. Whether the warehouse, customs filing, accounting and the customer portal are in the plan or priced separately.
- Transactions. Whether anything is metered per shipment, container, entry, document or email. If the answer is yes, ask for the rate card in writing.
- Data. Whether your data can be exported as files at any time, and what an import from your current system covers.
- Support and training. Whether chat support is in the plan, whether onboarding is a fee, and whether the training curriculum is public.
- The trial. Whether you can run one real shipment before paying, and whether a card is required to start.
Then run the five one-week checks from the CargoWise alternatives page on every platform you shortlist, with your own data: a consolidation from real orders, one document corrected once, one invoice with income and cost on the same line, one ISF assembled from the shipment, one email approved into a record. A demo shows you the vendor’s shipment. A trial shows you yours.
Linbis pricing, in full
Startup is $150 a month and includes one user: full freight forwarding management, air and ocean consolidation, quote-to-shipment automation, bills of lading and air waybills, shipping orders, invoicing and billing, tracking and notifications, document email distribution, compliance documents, profit and loss per shipment, and the standard forms. Premium is $299 a month and includes three users, adding the warehouse module — receiving, releases, inventory, pick/pack/ship, barcode loading, label printing, driver manifests — and data-migration assistance. Enterprise is quoted for larger teams and adds 3PL operations, custom development, custom reporting, custom integration, priority support and dedicated implementation help. Every plan starts with a free trial that does not ask for a card, and the whole list is on the pricing page. To see the plans beside the platforms forwarders usually shortlist, read the comparison hub.
Questions forwarders ask
How much does freight forwarding software cost?
On the date above, the only published figures among the six platforms forwarders shortlist together were Linbis’s flat plans — $150 a month including one user, $299 including three — and Logitude World’s per-user plans on its Spanish site, $39 to $79 per user per month billed annually. CargoWise, GoFreight, Magaya and Descartes publish no figure; their cost is whatever the quote or the renewal letter says.
Is per-user or flat pricing cheaper?
Per-user is cheaper for one to three people on list price. Flat plans are cheaper once the warehouse, accounting and sales logins count, or once a feature is gated at a minimum seat count. Multiply the per-user figure by every login you will actually have, and compare to the flat plan for the same year.
What did CargoWise’s December 2025 change do to the bill?
It replaced seat fees and hosting with usage-based value packs. For a forwarder who values a bill that does not move when a good month arrives, that is the single biggest reason the CargoWise alternatives page exists; the figures that circulate are third-party and the only authoritative rate is your renewal letter.
Does Linbis charge per shipment or per container?
No. Plans are flat monthly fees with seats included. Nothing is metered per shipment, container, entry, document or email.
Is there a free trial?
Yes, on every Linbis plan, without a card. Logitude also offers a self-serve trial (public positioning). Enterprise platforms are demonstrated rather than trialled.
See the price before the demo.
Plans are published. The trial is free and does not ask for a card. Start with one live shipment beside your current system.