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Loadsmart pricing
Loadsmart publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, Loadsmart pricing is on request across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
Loadsmart plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| ShipperGuide | On request | 3 | Entry tier |
| Opendock | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
ShipperGuide
On requestThe entry tier. It covers transportation management for shippers, quoting, tendering and execution, reporting and rate benchmarking.
Opendock
On requestOver ShipperGuide, this tier adds:
- Dock appointment scheduling by facility
- Carrier self service booking
- Door and dwell reporting
What the product covers
The full Loadsmart feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- ShipperGuide TMS
- Instant committed quotes
- Opendock scheduling
- NavTrac gate automation
- Managed transportation
- Carrier app and load board
People bring Loadsmart in for a mid market shipper with no tms that wants tendering, tracking and reporting without funding a licence and an integration project separately, a warehouse operator that needs to stop scheduling inbound appointments by phone and email across a fragmented carrier base, a shipper that wants instant committed truckload capacity on lanes where it does not hold contract rates, a distribution centre trying to measure and reduce driver dwell time with automated gate capture rather than clipboard logs. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Loadsmart are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Logistics
Too few logistics tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loadsmart (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| Trimble TMW.Suite | On request | quote | - | vs Loadsmart |
| CargoWise | On request | quote | - | vs Loadsmart |
| Descartes MacroPoint | On request | quote | - | vs Loadsmart |
| Truckbase | $290/month | Per truck per month | - | vs Loadsmart |
| McLeod Software | On request | quote | - | vs Loadsmart |
| Alvys | On request | quote | - | vs Loadsmart |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Loadsmart badges page.
Before you pay for Loadsmart
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Loadsmart against the tools that do have one before committing.
Loadsmart runs on web, ios, android, api, and is published by Loadsmart Inc. of New York, New York, United States. The full record is on the Loadsmart review, and the rest of the category is under best logistics tools.
Loadsmart pricing questions
- How much does Loadsmart cost?
- Loadsmart publishes 2 tiers, from On request for ShipperGuide up to On request for Opendock. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does Loadsmart have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Loadsmart is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between ShipperGuide and Opendock on Loadsmart?
- Opendock costs On request against On request, and adds dock appointment scheduling by facility, carrier self service booking, door and dwell reporting.
- What am I actually paying for with Loadsmart?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a mid market shipper with no tms that wants tendering, tracking and reporting without funding a licence and an integration project separately, a warehouse operator that needs to stop scheduling inbound appointments by phone and email across a fragmented carrier base, a shipper that wants instant committed truckload capacity on lanes where it does not hold contract rates.
- Does Loadsmart charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Loadsmart prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Loadsmart against before paying?
- The closest logistics tools in this directory are Trimble TMW.Suite, CargoWise, Descartes MacroPoint, Truckbase. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Loadsmart covering price, platforms and features.