Freightos vs Upply Contract Management

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.

Upply Contract Management centralizes transport rate cards and applies negotiated carrier terms when shipments are assigned. Users can import cards with origins, destinations, validity periods, freight types and pricing conditions into one repository. Supported pricing includes per-kilometre, zone-based, pallet and shipment rates, along with other structures negotiated with carriers. Teams can configure included, fixed or indexed fuel surcharges and custom surcharges; these are applied during shipment assignment and remain editable. When cards match a shipment, the associated carriers are prioritized, and selecting one applies its negotiated rates and relevant surcharges. Contract management and accessorial rules are supported, while rate comparison and carrier bid management are not. The web platform is API-first, with integrations for TMS, WMS, ERP and CRM systems. Upply says its APIs support automation, plug-and-play integration, real-time market and pricing data, and large data volumes. Upply describes the service as SOC 2 certified and GDPR compliant, with Contract Management data hosted in France. Carriers and freight forwarders can register free with no commitment. Shippers pay an annual subscription based on shipment volume; no price is listed.