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How much does delivery route software cost in 2026?
For a farm, bakery or florist doing up to about 1,000 deliveries a month, delivery route software costs between nothing and roughly $150 a month as of September 2026, depending on whether you pay per order, per driver or per stop. Texts are usually extra. Here are the published prices, what the units mean, and how to compare them at your own volume.
Last updated 7 min readBy Porch Route
Three ways vendors charge
- Per order, stop or task. You pay for volume: a free tier or a flat fee up to a limit, then a few cents an order. Routific, Spoke Dispatch, Shipday, Onfleet and Porch Route price this way. It fits businesses with part-time drivers, because a fourth weekend driver costs nothing.
- Per driver or per user. A monthly seat for each driver, regardless of how many stops they make. OptimoRoute, Detrack, Upper and Track-POD's driver plans price this way. It fits dense, full-time fleets and penalises seasonal ones.
- Packages by quote. Route4Me publishes no prices and sells packages with paid add-ons; Onfleet's tiers start high and are aimed at fleets.
Published prices, September 2026
| Product | Unit | Published price | Free tier or trial | Texts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porch Route | Orders a month | Free up to 150 (1 vehicle) · $39 for up to 500 · $79 for up to 1,000 · $189 for up to 5,000 · Fleet by quote | Free plan; 14-day trial, no card | 750 a month on Starter, 1,500 on Porch, 7,500 on Route; then $0.015 a text |
| Routific | Orders scheduled a month | Free up to 100 · $150 flat for 101–1,000 · then $0.15 an order falling to $0.03 above 20,000 | Free tier; 7-day trial | $0.01 a segment (US and Canada) |
| Spoke Dispatch (formerly Circuit for Teams) | Stops a month | Starter $125 with 1,000 stops ($0.04 extra) · Premium $200 with 2,000 · Expert $1,000 with 12,000 | Free trial | Per segment at Twilio rates |
| OptimoRoute | Per driver a month | Lite $35.10 billed annually (about $39 monthly) · Pro $44.10 annually or $49 monthly | 30-day trial, no card | $0.01 a message (US and Canada) |
| Shipday | Orders a month | Professional $39 with 300 orders ($0.10 extra) · up to Business AI $349 with 1,000 | Free starter plan; 14-day trial | Included from Professional; limits not published |
| Track-POD | Per driver (minimum 3) or per order | Advanced $49 a driver billed annually, $59 monthly | 7-day trial | Charged additionally |
| Upper | Per user a month | Starter $50 monthly or $40 yearly · Professional $60 or $48 | 7-day trial (texts excluded) | From $0.01 a text ($0.0119 in the US) |
| Detrack | Per driver a month | Pro $29 · Advanced $39 (adds route optimisation) | 14-day trial | Bring your own provider, no fee |
| Onfleet | Tasks a month | Launch from $619 with 2,500 tasks · Scale from $1,349 with 5,000 · Enterprise from $3,099 | 14-day trial | Per segment |
| Route4Me | Packages | Not published — contact sales; text notifications are a paid add-on | Contact | Paid add-on |
What it costs at three volumes
Units make the list above hard to read, so here is the same information for three businesses: a small farm with one driver and 150 stops a month, a butcher or bakery with three drivers and 800 stops, and a meal-prep kitchen with five drivers and 2,600 stops. Monthly billing, texts excluded, worked out from each vendor's published formula.
| Product | 1 driver · 150 stops | 3 drivers · 800 stops | 5 drivers · 2,600 stops |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porch Route | Free (Porch Light) | $79 (Porch) | $189 (Route) |
| Routific | $150 | $150 | $378 |
| Spoke Dispatch Starter | $125 | $125 | $189 |
| Shipday Professional | $39 | $89 | $269 |
| OptimoRoute Pro (monthly) | $49 | $147 | $245 |
| Detrack Advanced | $39 | $117 | $195 |
| Track-POD Advanced (monthly) | $177 | $177 | $295 |
| Upper Professional (monthly) | $60 | $180 | $300 |
| Onfleet | $619 | $619 | $1,349 |
Texts are the hidden line
Almost nobody bundles texts without a limit, because they have a hard cost: on Twilio, $0.0083 a segment plus a carrier fee of $0.0035 to $0.0045, so roughly 1.2 to 1.3 cents a segment, and a delivery sequence of three or four texts runs four to five cents an order. Routific passes texts through at $0.01 a segment and openly steers customers toward email; Upper excludes texts from its trial; Detrack has you connect your own Twilio account. Porch Route includes 750 texts a month on Starter, 1,500 on Porch and 7,500 on Route (then $0.015 a text, or 500 for $10), and email plus the tracking link are always included. Before you compare, ask how texts are billed and whether the business's own name appears on them.
What counts as an order (read this before you compare)
The unit's definition moves the bill. Routific counts an order once, when it is scheduled to a route; re-optimising and carrying it to the next day are free, and uploaded orders that are never scheduled don't count. Onfleet counts a task when it is completed. Spoke counts a stop when it is attempted, marked delivered or failed, accessed through the API, exported or printed — so a printed manifest is a billable stop. Porch Route counts an order once, in the month of its delivery date, when it is put on a route; updating, re-planning or moving it never counts it again, and limits are advisory: nothing stops working mid-route.
Free tiers and trials
Two products have a real free tier — Routific up to 100 orders a month and Shipday's starter plan — and Porch Route's Porch Light is free up to 150 orders on one vehicle. Everyone else offers a no-card trial of 7, 14 or 30 days. A free tier matters more than a long trial for a seasonal business: a CSA that delivers 20 weeks a year wants software that costs nothing in the other 32.
How Porch Route is priced
By orders, with every feature on every plan. The optimiser, drive mode, proof of delivery, tracking pages, zones, the orders API and webhooks are the same on Porch Light as on Fleet; the plans differ in how many orders and texts they include and in support. Annual billing is two months free, and every new business starts with 14 days of Porch's allowances and no credit card.
Porch Light
For a first delivery day, free for good
Start freeFreeNo credit card needed
- Up to 150 orders a month
- 1 vehicle
- Email and tracking-link updates
- Email support
- Every feature on every plan
Starter
For a few delivery days a month
Start free$39/moBilled monthly
- Up to 500 orders a month
- Unlimited vehicles and drivers
- 750 customer texts a monththen $0.015 a text or $10 per 500
- Email support
- Every feature on every plan
Porch
14-day free trialFor businesses delivering every week
Start 14-day trial$79/moBilled monthly
- Up to 1,000 orders a month
- Unlimited vehicles and drivers
- 1,500 customer texts a monththen $0.015 a text or $10 per 500
- Email support
- Every feature on every plan
Route
For busy fleets and platforms
Start free$189/moBilled monthly
- Up to 5,000 orders a month
- Unlimited vehicles and drivers
- 7,500 customer texts a monththen $0.015 a text or $10 per 500
- Priority support
- Every feature on every plan
Fleet
For 5,000+ orders a month
Talk to usCustomPriced for your volume
- More than 5,000 orders a month
- Unlimited vehicles and drivers
- Texts set for your volume
- A dedicated contact
- Every feature on every plan
How to compare for your own business
Count a real month
Stops on the road in your busiest and quietest months of last year. The busy month sets the plan; the quiet one tells you whether a free tier or a seasonal pause matters.
Count drivers, including the occasional ones
Per-driver pricing charges for the neighbour who drives twice at Thanksgiving. If that is your fleet, per-order pricing wins on arithmetic alone.
Add the texts
Multiply your orders by three or four messages and by the vendor's per-segment price, unless texts are included.
Read the unit's definition
Scheduled, completed, attempted, printed — the same 800 deliveries can be 800 or 1,200 billable units.
Check what's gated
Proof of delivery, live tracking, the API and branded notifications sit behind higher tiers at several vendors. List the five things you need and see which price includes all five.
Questions
Is there free delivery route software?
Yes, with limits. Routific is free up to 100 orders a month, Shipday has a free starter plan, and Porch Route's Porch Light is free up to 150 orders a month on one vehicle with every feature included. Others offer no-card trials of 7 to 30 days.
Is per-driver or per-order pricing cheaper?
Per-driver pricing is cheaper when a few full-time drivers each do many stops; per-order pricing is cheaper when several part-time drivers share a modest volume — the common shape for farms, bakeries and florists. Work it out for your busiest month using the table above.
Why do texts cost extra?
Each segment has a hard cost of roughly 1.2 to 1.3 cents on Twilio in the US, and a delivery sequence sends several. Most vendors meter texts or sell them as an add-on; Porch Route includes an allowance on its paid plans.
Sources
- Routific — pricing · seen September 2026
- Routific help — how much does Routific cost · seen September 2026
- Spoke Dispatch — pricing · seen September 2026
- OptimoRoute — pricing · seen September 2026
- OptimoRoute — text message pricing · seen September 2026
- Shipday — pricing · seen September 2026
- Track-POD — pricing · seen September 2026
- Upper — pricing · seen September 2026
- Upper — text messaging pricing · seen September 2026
- Detrack — pricing · seen September 2026
- Detrack — FAQs (SMS through your own provider) · seen September 2026
- Onfleet — pricing · seen September 2026
- Route4Me — get started (no published prices) · seen September 2026
- Twilio — US SMS pricing · seen September 2026
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