Freightos vs Open TMS

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.

Open TMS is an open-source transportation management system for coordinating logistics from order intake through delivery. Orders can be entered by CSV, EDI 850, REST API or manually, then managed alongside shipment tracking, lane matching and multi-stop routing. Carrier operations include broadcast and waterfall tenders, a bidding portal and EDI tendering. Its EDI hub supports X12 transaction types including 850, 855, 856, 204, 990, 997, 214, 210, 810 and 820 over SFTP or HTTP. Tracking integrations use FedEx, UPS and DHL APIs; GPS and sensor data can feed traffic-aware ETA monitoring through TomTom, HERE or self-hosted Valhalla routing. Warehouse tools cover receiving, putaway, picking, packing, load planning, inventory and returns. A scan-first progressive web app supports warehouse work and barcode scanning with Zebra and Honeywell RF guns. Open TMS can be deployed with Docker Compose on cloud or self-hosted infrastructure. Its plan costs nothing, is MIT licensed, and lists no per-user fees, transaction costs or feature gates.