Last-mile delivery is where a courier business quietly loses its margin — to empty miles, missed time windows and routes rebuilt by hand at nine in the evening.
Software has moved into that gap. Dispatch platforms now bundle routing, tracking, customer notifications and proof of delivery, and many publish real prices.
This guide covers eight platforms you can price today, plus the AI-heavy names that keep pricing behind a demo.
What AI Actually Does in Delivery Software
Most of it is route optimisation and arrival prediction. Models trained on past deliveries estimate ETAs better than a flat minutes-per-stop rule and re-plan when a van breaks down. A smaller group is moving into agentic workflows.
Both are useful, but only one usually comes with a published price — and that split runs through the whole market.
1. Onfleet — The Enterprise Orchestration Layer
Onfleet manages deliveries across an in-house fleet, third-party partners, or both, and is the most AI-forward platform here.
It also sells a Courier Suite add-on from $299 a month with client order portals, rate tables and automated invoicing.
Pricing starts at $619 a month for Launch, covering up to 2,500 completed deliveries. Scale starts at $1,349 a month (5,000 deliveries), and Enterprise is custom — typically from $3,099 a month at 10,000+ deliveries.
Why it made the list: the clearest AI story here, with the pricing to match — a fit for established fleets, not two vans.
2. Routific — Pay Per Order, Not Per Driver
Routific is built for small and mid-sized operations, and its pricing is the most flexible here: one plan, every feature, paid by order volume.
Its AI is focused on the routing engine: Routific runs 179 machine learning models for ETA prediction and AI-powered route optimisation, and it ships an MCP server so you can "optimize routes from Claude, ChatGPT or any AI agent" — one of the few delivery tools that lets you drive it from an assistant you already use.
Why it made the list: per-order pricing means you do not pay for drivers who barely drive.
3. Upper Route Planner — AI Dispatch at a Small-Team Price
Upper sells a distinct "AI Dispatch Software" module that builds the schedule from your rules, with a confidence score on every assignment. It handles skill-based dispatch, automatic driver assignment and dynamic re-optimisation, so jobs move when a driver runs late.
Plans are per user: Starter $50 a month ($40 yearly, 250 stops per route), Professional $60 ($48, 500 stops) and Optimize $89 ($71, 1,500 stops, with AI driver assignment).
For a courier firm that wants AI-assisted dispatch, Upper is the cheapest credible entry point here — the AI assignment sits on the $89 tier, not the $50 one.
Why it made the list: published per-user pricing with the AI tier clearly marked.
4. Tookan — Task-Based Pricing for Hyperlocal Delivery
Tookan, part of the Jungleworks suite, is built for hyperlocal delivery, bundling dispatch, proof of delivery, GPS tracking and auto-assignment.
One-time annual bundles start at $5,999. Its AI is thin: the only feature labelled that way is AI-powered ordering through its website and WhatsApp.
That makes Tookan a strong operational fit and a weak AI story.
Why it made the list: the clearest task-based pricing here — with AI limited to ordering.
5. Track-POD — Per-Driver or Per-Order, Your Choice
Track-POD sells proof of delivery, route planning and tracking, and lets you choose the pricing unit.
Neither pricing page contains a single mention of AI — Track-POD competes on delivery documentation and route planning rather than on models. That is useful to know if you want predictability more than novelty.
Why it made the list: a priced baseline showing what operational rigour costs without an AI premium.
6. OptimoRoute — The Simplest Per-Driver Price
OptimoRoute plans multi-stop routes for delivery and field teams, with a driver app, live tracking and an API.
Like Track-POD, OptimoRoute describes optimisation in algorithmic terms and markets no AI layer — restraint that keeps the price down.
Why it made the list: the lowest per-driver entry price of the fully published plans.
7. Detrack — The Cheapest Per-Driver Tier
Detrack covers proof of delivery, driver tracking, route optimisation and customer notifications at $29 per driver app per month on Pro and $39 on Advanced, with 10% off annually. Five office users are included, keeping dispatcher logins free.
Its own comparison page sets that against Track-POD's $59 per driver, and it stores up to five years of delivery data. AI appears only as boilerplate about integrating third-party AI.
If cost per driver is the priority, Detrack is the cheapest way onto a serious delivery platform here.
Why it made the list: the lowest headline per-driver price, with no AI pretence.
8. Spoke Dispatch — Priced Per Stop, Not Per Driver
Spoke Dispatch, formerly Circuit for Teams, prices by volume rather than seats.
Its pricing page includes a live calculator: set your monthly stop count and it shows the total. Spoke markets no AI feature.
That makes Spoke the natural choice when your bottleneck is stop count rather than headcount, since it charges the same whether you run five drivers or fifteen.
Why it made the list: a per-stop model with a transparent calculator.
The AI-Heavy Vendors That Won't Show You a Price
The pattern is hard to miss. The platforms that talk about AI the most are the least willing to publish a number, and each of these routes you to a demo instead.
NextBillion.ai sells APIs for Location Reasoning AI — helping agents answer location questions — plus AI route optimisation and traffic-aware ETAs. Every tier sits behind a request-a-quote button.
DispatchTrack markets "Logistics Native AI": predictive service-time calculations, AI-driven scheduling, multi-agent chat support and a Vision AI product for damage detection. Pricing leads to a demo booking.
SimpliRoute describes itself as "the AI logistics suite" built on ADA AI Agents for routing, safety, customer service and data analysis. Its pricing paths return a not-found page.
Bringoz sells an AI and rule-engine layer over first-to-last-mile delivery management, while Route4Me sends its pricing route into a sign-up flow rather than a price list.
That is not an argument against any of them — it is a warning about sequencing. Ask for pricing in writing before you book a demo.
How to Choose Without Sitting Through Five Demos
Start with your pricing unit, because it decides everything else. If volume is predictable, per-order pricing such as Routific's or Spoke's beats per-driver pricing. At high stop density, per-driver plans such as OptimoRoute's or Detrack's come out cheaper.
Then decide what you want AI to do. Route ordering and ETA accuracy are mature, useful and often included. Agentic features — automatic assignment, chat handling, phone answering — are newer and usually gated to a higher tier, such as Upper's $89 plan.
Finally, count the free users. Several vendors include unlimited office seats while charging only for drivers or stops, which can change the total more than any feature comparison.
The Honest Takeaway
Courier software is one of the few categories where real AI and real prices coexist. Onfleet's routing adjusts in real time against hundreds of millions of past deliveries, while Routific and Upper sell machine-learning ETAs and AI dispatch at prices a small fleet can justify.
The honest caveat: half this list has no AI to speak of, and the vendors with the loudest AI claims publish nothing. Pick your pricing unit first, demand a number before the call, and read AI as a feature list rather than a reason to pay more.