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Kuebix
Shipper TMS known for its free tier, acquired by Trimble in 2020 and now sold inside the Trimble portfolio
As of 31 August 2026, Kuebix's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Kuebix built a large shipper base by giving away a usable TMS tier. Softwr lists it under Logistics. Kuebix is made by Trimble Inc., available on Web, API.
Overview
What Kuebix does
Kuebix is a cloud transportation management system for shippers, founded in Massachusetts and built around rating, booking, tracking and reporting for less than truckload and truckload freight. Its distinguishing move was commercial rather than technical: it offered a genuinely functional free tier that let a small shipper rate shop its own contracted LTL carriers, which produced an unusually large registered user base and a connected shipper community that the paid tiers and a capacity marketplace were built on top of. Trimble acquired Kuebix in 2020. That is the fact that changes an evaluation, because the product no longer exists as an independent company with an independent roadmap or an independent price list. It sits inside Trimble transportation, alongside telematics, carrier systems and mapping assets, and it is positioned as the shipper facing end of a portfolio whose centre of gravity is carrier and fleet technology. Anyone evaluating it on the strength of its earlier reputation, particularly the free tier, needs to confirm directly with Trimble what is currently available, on what terms, and how long it is supported, rather than relying on articles and comparison sites that were written before the acquisition. The historical buyer was a small or mid size shipper with negotiated LTL rates and no system to apply them. The trade off now is strategic rather than functional: you are entering a Trimble relationship, and the incentive to keep a low cost entry tier alive inside a portfolio company is weaker than it was inside a venture funded startup competing for signups.
What people use it for
- A small shipper with negotiated LTL rates that currently compares carriers in a spreadsheet
- A distributor wanting to check carrier invoices against quoted rates without buying a freight audit service
- A shipper already invested in Trimble transportation technology and wanting the shipper side from the same vendor
- A logistics team needing basic lane and carrier spend reporting without an enterprise TMS implementation
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Kuebix.
- The free tier that made the product well known was the reason most buyers looked at it, and after the Trimble acquisition the entry level commercial terms are no longer what the widely circulated reviews describe, so any research older than the acquisition is misleading.
- Ownership by Trimble means the roadmap is set against a portfolio strategy centred on carrier and fleet technology, and shipper side investment competes internally with products that sell to a different customer.
- It is a rating and booking tool rather than a full transportation management system, so shippers with multi leg, international or complex allocation requirements outgrow it quickly.
- Rate accuracy depends on the shipper loading and maintaining its own carrier contracts, and stale rate tables produce confident quotes that the carrier invoice then contradicts.
- Support and account management now run through a large diversified vendor, and small shippers on entry level arrangements report less direct access than they had with the original company.
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Pricing
What Kuebix costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Kuebix (Trimble Transportation)
On request
- Shipper rating, booking and tracking
- Carrier rate management
- Reporting and freight audit support
Capabilities
Features
Rate shopping
Compare shipper contracted LTL and truckload rates across carriers before booking
Booking and tendering
Dispatch loads to the selected carrier with documentation generated
Shipment tracking
Status and delivery visibility on booked freight
Freight audit support
Invoice comparison against quoted and contracted rates
Community capacity
Access to a shipper and carrier network built on the free tier user base
Reporting
Spend, carrier performance and lane analysis for the shipper
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is Kuebix still free?
Do not assume so. The free community tier was central to the original company and the terms changed after Trimble acquired the business in 2020. Confirm current availability with Trimble.
Who owns Kuebix?
Trimble Inc., which acquired it in 2020.
Is it a full TMS?
It is strongest at LTL rate shopping, booking and tracking. Complex multimodal planning is not its territory.
Does it work with my own carrier contracts?
Yes, that is the core use case, but you are responsible for keeping the rate tables current.
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