Maritime & Shipping · ranked shortlist
Best Maritime & Shipping software for Nonprofits in 2026
20 approved maritime & shipping listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Nonprofits are working to a fixed budget, so a free tier or a flat subscription is worth more than a cheap per-seat rate that grows with volunteers.
- Tools ranked
- 20
- Entry price range
- $19-$150,000
- Publish a $0 plan
- 3 of 20
How this ranking is derived
The sort key
Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.
Where the ratings come from
No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.
What the pool is
Approved maritime & shipping listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the maritime & shipping category page.
The ranking
Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.
- #1
Alphaliner
Highest rated hereContainer shipping data and analysis
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $1,500 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- container-data, fleet-analysis, charter-rates, market-intelligence
- #2
Baltic Exchange
Global shipping market benchmarks
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $1,500 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- freight-indices, Baltic-Dry-Index, market-data, shipping
- #3
CargoSmart
Global shipment visibility and intelligence
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $299 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- cargo-tracking, supply-chain, visibility, logistics
- #4
ChartCo
Integrated maritime compliance platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $600 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- compliance, charts, navigation, fleet-management
- #5
Clarksons
World's leading shipbroker and data provider
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $5,000 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- shipbroking, market-intelligence, research, freight-rates
- #6
Container xChange
Container logistics marketplace
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $199 a month.
- Billing
- transaction
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- container-trading, marketplace, leasing, logistics
- #7
Dataloy
Voyage management and operations
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $3,000 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- voyage-management, operations, demurrage, shipping
- #8
DNV Maritime
Quality assurance and risk management
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Tags
- classification, fleet-management, compliance, maritime
- #9
Drewry
Maritime research and consulting
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $3,000 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- maritime-research, consulting, market-forecasts, shipping
- #10
DTN
Weather, markets, and agronomic intelligence
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $50 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $150 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- weather, markets, commodities, intelligence
- #11
exactEarth
Advanced satellite AIS data services
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $5,000 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- satellite-AIS, maritime-domain-awareness, defense, government
- #12F
FleetMon
Track ships and manage fleets worldwide
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $19 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- vessel-tracking, fleet-management, AIS, maritime
- #13
Flexport
Global freight forwarding and supply chain platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- usage-based
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- freight, supply-chain, global, logistics
- #14
FourKites
Real-time supply chain visibility
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $5,000 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- supply-chain-visibility, logistics, tracking, analytics
- #15
Freightos
Digital freight marketplace and rates
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $500 a month.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- freight-marketplace, rate-management, booking, logistics
- #16
INTTRA
Ocean shipping network platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $1,000 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- transaction
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- shipping-network, e-booking, EDI, container-shipping
- #17
Kongsberg Maritime
Complete maritime technology solutions
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $150,000 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- one-time
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- navigation, bridge-systems, automation, ECDIS
- #18
Kpler
Commodity market intelligence platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $2,500 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- commodity-trading, vessel-tracking, analytics, oil-gas
- #19L
Linerlytica
Container shipping analytics
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $1,200 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- container-analytics, market-intelligence, shipping, research
- #20
Lloyd's List Intelligence
Maritime data and analytics
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $2,500 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- maritime-data, analytics, market-intelligence, vessel-data
What maritime & shipping software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $19FleetMon
- Median entry price
- $1,500across 18 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $150,000Kongsberg Maritime
- Publish a $0 plan
- 3of 20
Paid maritime & shipping plans in this set start anywhere from $19 a month for FleetMon to $150,000 for Kongsberg Maritime. The median entry price across the 18 tools that publish one is $1,500, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
3 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 1 of those charge nothing at all. 16 tools have no free tier of any kind.
1 of 20 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
FleetMon pricingKongsberg Maritime pricingKongsberg Maritime plans
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 20 maritime & shipping listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 13
- freemium
- 2
- transaction
- 2
- one-time
- 1
- usage-based
- 1
Separately, 1 of 20 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 19 maritime & shipping tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named most often
- API access , 5 of 19
- Analytics , 4 of 19
- Historical data , 3 of 19
- Custom integrations , 2 of 19
- Fleet database , 2 of 19
Named by fewer
- Market reports , 2 of 19
- Tracking , 2 of 19
Named by exactly one vendor: Analytics platform, Custom alerts, E-booking, Historical archive, Ownership data, Severe weather alerts. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Maritime & Shipping” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- logistics5
- market-intelligence4
- shipping4
- analytics3
- fleet-management3
- compliance2
- maritime2
- navigation2
- research2
- supply-chain2
- vessel-tracking2
- visibility2
Carried by a single tool: AIS, charter-rates, container-analytics, e-booking, freight-marketplace, maritime-data, markets, shipbroking. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
3 of 20 maritime & shipping tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with api access, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$19 to $150,000 is a $149,981 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $150,000 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
2 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 1 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, api access, analytics, historical data, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 5 billing models: subscription on 13 listings, freemium on 2, and 3 other arrangements across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Questions people ask about maritime & shipping software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How is this maritime & shipping ranking decided?
- Mechanically. The 20 approved maritime & shipping listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
- Is this list re-ordered for nonprofits?
- No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the nonprofits framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Nonprofits are working to a fixed budget, so a free tier or a flat subscription is worth more than a cheap per-seat rate that grows with volunteers.
- How much does maritime & shipping software cost?
- Across the 20 maritime & shipping tools listed here, paid plans start between $19 and $150,000 a month, with a median entry price of $1,500. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $150,000 a month (Kongsberg Maritime). 3 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest maritime & shipping software?
- 1 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, FleetMon has the lowest published entry price at $19 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free maritime & shipping software?
- Yes, 3 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 1 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should maritime & shipping software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are api access (5 of 19 tools that publish plan detail), analytics (4) and historical data (3). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as analytics platform or custom alerts, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is maritime & shipping software usually billed?
- subscription (13), freemium (2), transaction (2), one-time (1), plus 1 less common arrangements, counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 1 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does maritime & shipping software actually cover?
- The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are logistics (5), market-intelligence (4), shipping (4), analytics (3), fleet-management (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under maritime & shipping may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do maritime & shipping tools offer?
- 19 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 1 tiers. 2 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many maritime & shipping tools are listed on Softwr?
- 20 approved maritime & shipping listings appear on this page, including Alphaliner, Baltic Exchange, CargoSmart, ChartCo. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/maritime-shipping, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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