Compare · as of September 2026

Porch Route vs Onfleet

Onfleet is a mid-market delivery orchestration platform — two-way masked messaging, auto-dispatch, a command centre and thirty-plus webhooks — starting at $619 a month for 2,500 tasks. Porch Route is a small-business product from free: temperature as a hard rule, no-login driver links, signed webhooks and customer messages on every plan.

Every fact about Onfleet below carries a numbered source from its own website, seen in September 2026. Prices are listed only where Onfleet publishes them. Last updated September 14, 2026.

Draft comparison — not yet re-checked against Onfleet’s current pages, and not indexed until it is.

In fairness

What does Onfleet do well?

Two-way, masked customer communication: proxy numbers live only while a task is active, with replies routed to the driver or the office 3
Thirty-plus webhooks including ETA and delay thresholds, a REST API and a driver-app SDK 4
A native Shopify app with delivery slots, prep and cutoff times at checkout, plus Square and cannabis POS integrations 5
Auto-assign and team auto-dispatch, a Command Center with planned-versus-actual, and ID and age verification on Scale 2 6
Native driver apps rated 4.7 on the App Store and 4.6 on Google Play 7
Overflow to DoorDash Drive with a live quote, and a Courier Suite for 3PLs 8

Pricing

What does Onfleet cost?

Onfleet’s published prices as of September 2026, then Porch Route’s.

Onfleet published pricing
Plan	Price	What it includes
Launch	$619/month	2,500 tasks; basic route optimization; 90-day reporting; email and scheduled phone support 1
Scale	$1,349/month	5,000 tasks; barcode and ID scanning; advanced optimization; auto-dispatch; Command Center 1
Enterprise	From $3,099/month	10,000+ tasks; multi-brand; SSO; lifetime reporting 1
Texts and payments	Texts per segment; 3.5% fee on card payments	Overage rate per task not published 1 2

Porch Route: Porch Light free up to 150 orders a month (1 vehicle); Starter $39/month up to 500 orders; Porch $79/month up to 1,000 orders with unlimited vehicles and drivers and 1,500 customer texts included once the business's carrier registration is approved; Route $189/month up to 5,000 orders; Fleet custom. Annual billing is two months free. Every feature is on every plan. Onfleet counts a task when it is completed 1; Porch Route counts an order once, when it is put on a route.

Side by side

How do Onfleet and Porch Route differ?

On the things farms, food businesses and local delivery operations ask about first. Left, their side with sources; right, what Porch Route does today.

Feature comparison: Onfleet and Porch Route
Feature	Onfleet	Porch Route
Entry price	$619 a month for 2,500 tasks; no free tier; 14-day trial 1	Free to 150 orders; $79 a month to 1,000 orders
Temperature rules	Optimization by vehicle type; “cold chain delivery” as a task template on Enterprise 2 6	Frozen, refrigerated and dry as hard constraints on every vehicle, every plan
Delivery zones	Route Zones in beta on Scale and above, with max-task capacity 9	Zones with delivery days, a window, a daily limit and a cutoff, every plan
Driver app	Native apps; offline mode off by default with a 2-minute grace period when off 10	No-login link in the browser with an offline retry queue
Two-way messaging	Proxy numbers with reply routing 3	Customers can reply; the office answers from the message log once texting is live
Undo after “delivered”	Not documented	An undo window holds the notice and webhook
Proof photos on the tracking page	Visible for 48 hours 11	For the life of the tracking link, 30 days after the route date
Custom tracking domain without the vendor badge	Enterprise only 11	Not offered; tracking pages carry the business’s name and never Porch Route’s
Webhooks	30+ events with URL validation and secrets 4	Seven signed events with retries, reconciliation and a delivery log
Reporting history	90 days on Launch, 1 year on Scale, lifetime on Enterprise 1	For the life of the account
Store integrations	Native Shopify with checkout slots, Square, Zapier, Make 5	CSV import and the orders API; no native connectors yet

Which to pick

Who should choose which?

Pick Onfleet if…

You complete 2,500 or more tasks a month and need auto-dispatch and a command centre
You need masked two-way calls and texts between drivers and customers
You need ID or age verification at the door, or cannabis and pharmacy POS integrations
You want delivery slots sold at Shopify checkout with prep and cutoff times

Pick Porch Route if…

You deliver a few hundred to a few thousand orders a month and $619 is out of proportion
Frozen and refrigerated orders need a hard rule on every plan, not a template on Enterprise
Your drivers won’t install an app; a link is enough
You want signed webhooks, proof and customer messages without a tier gate

Questions

Onfleet or Porch Route?

How much cheaper is Porch Route than Onfleet?

Onfleet’s Launch plan is $619 a month for 2,500 tasks. Porch Route’s Route plan is $189 a month for up to 5,000 orders, and Porch is $79 for up to 1,000 — with every feature included and no card fee.

Does Porch Route have Onfleet’s two-way masked messaging?

No. Porch Route’s customers can reply to a text and the office can answer from the message log under the business’s name once texting is live, but there are no proxy numbers or driver-to-customer calls.

Does Onfleet treat temperature as a routing rule?

Onfleet optimizes by vehicle type and offers a “cold chain delivery” task template on its Enterprise plan. Porch Route makes frozen, refrigerated and dry hard constraints on every vehicle on every plan.

Do both send webhooks?

Yes. Onfleet lists more than thirty events including ETA and delay thresholds. Porch Route sends seven signed events for stop and route outcomes, retried for a day and reconciled, with a delivery log.

Sources

All seen in September 2026. Re-check before relying on a price.

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