Freightos vs Loadar

Freightos connects carriers, freight forwarders, and importers and exporters for freight pricing, quoting, booking, payment, and market intelligence. Freightos for Forwarders supports rate management, quotes, bookings, online sales, procurement, and payments for air, ocean, and ground shipments. Forwarders can use Book Air at no charge to search, compare, and book air cargo across more than 75 carriers. Freightos Terminal provides global freight prices, benchmarking, reliability metrics, and notifications on key lanes. Freightos for Forwarders connects directly with hundreds of carriers, including dynamic integrations with more than 75. API integrations can connect it to a TMS, a sales portal, or agent networks. The product is intended for freight forwarders and carriers; importers are directed to Freightos Enterprise instead. The service is cloud-deployed, with web, Android, iOS, and API availability. Individual Starter Ocean costs $119 a month, billed annually, and includes six months of historical data, weekly and daily pricing data for 12 lanes, one user, and one custom shipping route. Individual Starter Air costs $239 a month, billed annually.

Loadar is a web-based logistics procurement and management platform connecting shippers and carriers. For each lane, shippers can choose Fixed Commitment, Phased Commitment, Dynamic, or Ad Hoc procurement. It supports road, rail, sea, air, and mixed-mode freight, and links procurement to tracking, document exchange, performance reporting, and freight-charge auditing. Loadar also lists rate comparison, contract management, and carrier bid management. ERP and WMS integration comes as standard, while the maker says shipper customisation and integrations carry no licence fees. The free shipper plan is listed at free and includes tenders, ERP integration, load visibility, an audit trail, and customisation and integrations. Carriers have a no-subscription option with a fee for every transaction. Loadar says real-time carrier bidding leads to an average 15% saving for shippers. The maker describes the platform as intended for large enterprise shippers. Onboarding includes training and guidance from a dedicated Customer Success Manager; implementation may take as soon as two weeks.