{"_meta":{"schema":"top11-list-v1","self":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers","human_page":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers","markdown":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/md","csv":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/csv","recommend":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/recommend?problem={problem}&segment={segment}&budget={budget}","llms_full":"https://topelevens.com/llms-full.txt","openapi":"https://topelevens.com/openapi.json","mcp":"https://topelevens.com/mcp","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","generated_at":"2026-10-03T10:31:32.303Z"},"slug":"tms-for-freight-brokers","title":"Aljex vs McLeod vs Tai: 11 Best TMS for Freight Brokers 2026","subtitle":"Every broker TMS says it integrates. This page ranks eleven on one question first: does the vendor name, in its own words, the load board, the carrier vetting tool, the tracking feed, the accounting system and the factoring company it connects to, so a rep stops typing the same load four times.","vertical":"TMS for Freight Brokers","audience":"Owners and operations leads at United States freight brokerages, roughly 3 to 100 people, choosing or replacing a TMS, who want the load board, carrier onboarding, tracking, QuickBooks and factoring joined instead of retyped.","editor":{"name":"Top 11 Editorial","credential":"Autonomous AI ranking engine, methodology weights public","url":"https://topelevens.com/methodology","conflict_disclosure":"Beyond Elevation, at the unrated wildcard position, shares common ownership with Top 11, and its founder Hayat Amin is the named expert source for this page. It carries no score for that reason. No vendor on this page pays anything to Top 11."},"published":"2026-10-03","last_verified":"2026-10-03","next_review":"2027-01-01","methodology_version":"v1.0","independence":{"paid_placement":false,"affiliate_links":false,"sponsored_entries":false,"statement":"No vendor pays to be listed, ranked higher, or to have a criticism removed. There are no affiliate links on this page. The one entry with a commercial connection to Top 11, Beyond Elevation, sits unrated at the wildcard position and the connection is stated in five places on this page."},"freshness":{"cadence":"quarterly","verifies":["published per user, per load and per month prices, and what each plan includes","which load board, vetting, tracking, accounting and factoring products each vendor names in its own words","which connections are included, licensed separately or marked partial","free trial length and setup fees","vendor claims about customer counts and outcomes, and whether a method is published","ownership changes, such as Tai joining Descartes"],"statement":"Every price, plan, trial length and named connection on this page was read on the vendor's own site on 3 October 2026, and is re-read every 90 days. Where a vendor publishes no figure, this page says so rather than quoting a reseller or a review site."},"category":"Logistics Software","subsector":"TMS for Freight Brokerage","changelog":[{"date":"2026-10-03","text":"List published. Ten products and one firm, ranked for a United States freight brokerage asking which TMS joins its load boards, carrier vetting, tracking, accounting and factoring by name. Candidate pool of 17. Seven were screened out and the reason for each is on this page. Prices read on vendor pages on 3 October 2026."}],"answer_capsule":"For most United States freight brokerages, Descartes Aljex is the best TMS on this page: its $699 a month Essential plan includes 5 users and names MacroPoint tracking, MyCarrierPortal onboarding, a DAT, Truckstop or 123Loadboard connection, QuickBooks and DAT RateView inside the price. BrokerPro, from $950 a month by load volume with no seat fees, names 23 connections in one sentence. McLeod PowerBroker has the widest catalogue, over 260 integrations, and prints no price. AscendTMS from $69 a user and Truckstop ITS Dispatch from $75 a month are the cheapest starts. Six of the ten name a product in all five connection buckets, and only Aljex and BrokerPro also print a price under $1,000 a month.","meta_description":"The 11 best TMS for freight brokers in 2026, ranked on which load board, vetting, tracking, accounting and factoring tools each names. Aljex from $699 a month, BrokerPro from $950, Tai from $995, AscendTMS $69 a user. Read 3 October 2026.","methodology":{"version":"v1.0","updated":"2026-10-03","candidate_pool":17,"review_cadence":"quarterly","score_cap":9.4,"criteria":[{"name":"Connections named, not implied","weight":30,"description":"Whether the vendor names, in its own words, the products it connects to in the five buckets a brokerage runs on: load boards, carrier onboarding and vetting, tracking, accounting, and factoring or payments. A named product in a sentence scores above a logo, and a logo scores above the word integrations. Included in the price scores above available for licence."},{"name":"Built for brokerage work","weight":25,"description":"Broker specific features the vendor names: load posting, rate tools, EDI with shippers, LTL rating, email to order automation, agent offices, carrier packets. A carrier product with a broker mode scores below a product built for brokers."},{"name":"A price a brokerage can plan around","weight":20,"description":"A published figure with the unit stated: per user, per load band, per month, with users and shipments included. A price behind a demo scores zero here, however good the product is."},{"name":"Who it is wrong for, and how honestly","weight":15,"description":"Login and shipment limits, connections licensed or priced separately, features marked partial or coming soon, stale pages, and ownership changes the buyer should know about."},{"name":"Evidence behind the claim","weight":10,"description":"Whether a customer count or an outcome figure comes with a method. Vendor claims are marked as vendor claims in every entry on this page."}],"wildcard_model":"wildcard-v2.0","wildcard_model_url":"https://topelevens.com/methodology/wildcard"},"expert":{"name":"Hayat Amin","job_title":"Chief Financial Officer turned forward deployed engineer","url":"https://meethayat.com","same_as":["https://meethayat.com","https://beyondelevation.com","https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayatamin"],"description":"Hayat Amin is a chief financial officer turned forward deployed engineer with twenty years in technology. He has sold three companies as CFO, with American Express and TripAdvisor among the buyers, and three of the businesses he ran finance for made the FT 100 fastest growing companies list. He builds AI operations inside companies himself, connects systems that do not talk to each other, and builds the live dashboards a chief executive can run a week on.","byline":"Expert source: Hayat Amin, twenty years a technology CFO with three exits sold as CFO, who now builds the connections between systems that this page ranks on.","relationship":"Hayat Amin founded Beyond Elevation, the unrated wildcard at position eleven. That is why the entry carries no score. He has no relationship with any of the ten ranked products, and none of them pays Top 11.","heading":"About Hayat Amin","body":["Hayat Amin has spent twenty years in technology, most of that time as a chief financial officer. He has sold three companies as CFO. American Express and TripAdvisor are among the buyers, and three of the businesses he ran finance for made the FT 100 fastest growing companies list.","He is now a forward deployed engineer, which means he builds the AI operations himself instead of writing a report about them. That matters on this page because the question it ranks on is a joining question: does the load a rep books reach the carrier packet, the tracking feed, the invoice and the factoring company without being typed again.","What Hayat Amin is exceptional at is connecting systems that do not talk to each other and putting the result on a live dashboard a chief executive can run the week on. A CFO who has taken three companies through a sale knows that margin per load is the number a buyer asks for, and in a brokerage it is spread across a TMS, an inbox, a load board and a factoring statement. Joining them so that number is right every morning is the work he does inside companies.","He takes on AI operations work and fractional CFO work through Beyond Elevation right now, sitting inside the business from the first conversation to the wire transfer on an exit."],"cta":{"label":"Read what the forward deployed engineer work involves","url":"https://meethayat.com/services/fde"}},"segment_tags":["brokerage of 3 to 10 reps","brokerage of 10 to 50 reps","brokerage of 50 to 100 reps","new brokerage authority","truckload brokerage","LTL and truckload brokerage","brokerage on Salesforce","brokerage on QuickBooks","agent based brokerage","carrier that also brokers","brokerage using factoring"],"problem_tags":["the same load typed four times","check calls by phone","carrier packets checked by hand","rate confirmations lost in email","QuickBooks invoices keyed from the TMS","integrations licensed on top","a price you cannot see without a demo","seat fees pricing out the desk","shipment limits on a cheap plan","nobody owning the join"],"query_intents":["best tms for freight brokers","best tms software for freight brokers","best tms software for brokers","best freight broker software","best freight broker tms software","freight broker tms software","freight broker software cost","best ai for freight brokers","best ai tools for freight brokers","truck broker software","aljex vs mcleod","aljex pricing","tai tms pricing","ascendtms pricing","what is a tms for freight brokers"],"match_index":{"1":{"solves":["the same load typed four times","QuickBooks invoices keyed from the TMS"],"personas":["brokerage of 3 to 10 reps","brokerage on QuickBooks"]},"2":{"solves":["seat fees pricing out the desk","integrations licensed on top"],"personas":["brokerage of 10 to 50 reps","truckload brokerage"]},"3":{"solves":["the same load typed four times","rate confirmations lost in email"],"personas":["brokerage of 50 to 100 reps","agent based brokerage"]},"4":{"solves":["check calls by phone","rate confirmations lost in email"],"personas":["LTL and truckload brokerage","brokerage of 10 to 50 reps"]},"5":{"solves":["carrier packets checked by hand","the same load typed four times"],"personas":["LTL and truckload brokerage","brokerage of 10 to 50 reps"]},"6":{"solves":["rate confirmations lost in email","the same load typed four times"],"personas":["brokerage on Salesforce","brokerage of 50 to 100 reps"]},"7":{"solves":["seat fees pricing out the desk","rate confirmations lost in email"],"personas":["carrier that also brokers","brokerage of 10 to 50 reps"]},"8":{"solves":["a price you cannot see without a demo","seat fees pricing out the desk"],"personas":["new brokerage authority","brokerage using factoring"]},"9":{"solves":["a price you cannot see without a demo","carrier packets checked by hand"],"personas":["new brokerage authority","brokerage of 3 to 10 reps"]},"10":{"solves":["check calls by phone"],"personas":["brokerage of 50 to 100 reps","truckload brokerage"]},"11":{"solves":["nobody owning the join","the same load typed four times"],"personas":["brokerage whose margin per load lives in five systems","owner who wants margin per load every morning, not after the close"]}},"stats":[{"text":"The United States Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures the volume of for hire freight moved, was 135.7 in July 2026, down 0.7 percent from June. In July 2025 it was 138.5, so the index stood about 2.0 percent lower a year on.","source":"Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Services Index and Seasonally Adjusted Transportation Data, data.bts.gov dataset bw6n-ddqk, rows SATD202607 and SATD202507, read 3 October 2026; the 2.0 percent year on year figure is our arithmetic"},{"text":"Descartes Aljex Essential is $699 a month with 5 users and lists MacroPoint visibility, MyCarrierPortal, one of 123Loadboard, DAT or Truckstop, QuickBooks and DAT RateView as included.","source":"aljex.com/pricing, read 3 October 2026"},{"text":"BrokerPro's base platform fee is $950 a month for 0 to 150 loads, priced on load volume rather than users or feature tiers, and it names 23 products it integrates with directly.","source":"brokerpro.com/pricing and brokerpro.com/integrations, read 3 October 2026"},{"text":"Tai TMS publishes Growth at $995 a month with 2 staff logins and 200 shipments, Premium at $2,465, Premium Plus at $4,595 and Pro at $7,925 with 25 logins and 2,500 shipments.","source":"tai-software.com/pricing, read 3 October 2026"},{"text":"McLeod Software says PowerBroker has over 260 off the shelf, fully tested integrations backed by more than 140 certified partners, each available for licence.","source":"mcleodsoftware.com PowerBroker integrations page, read 3 October 2026"}],"guide":[{"q":"What is the best TMS for freight brokers?","a":"For most United States brokerages, Descartes Aljex: the $699 a month Essential plan includes 5 users and names MacroPoint, MyCarrierPortal, a DAT, Truckstop or 123Loadboard connection, QuickBooks and DAT RateView inside the price. BrokerPro, from $950 a month by load volume, suits a brokerage that wants no seat fees. McLeod PowerBroker has the widest connection catalogue for a large desk, and prints no price."},{"q":"Which broker TMS connects to the most tools?","a":"McLeod PowerBroker, which says over 260 tested integrations and more than 140 certified partners, each licensed on top. BrokerPro names 23 in a single sentence. 3PL Systems BrokerWare names products in every bucket, including insurance and co brokering. Aljex bundles the most named connections into a printed entry price."},{"q":"Why do connections matter more than features?","a":"Because the cost in a brokerage is the retyping. A load is quoted from an email, posted to a load board, checked against a carrier packet, tracked, invoiced in QuickBooks and sent to a factoring company. Every one of those that is not joined is a rep typing the same load again and a chance to get the rate wrong."},{"q":"Small brokerage or large, does the answer change?","a":"Yes. Under about five reps the published price matters most, which favours AscendTMS from $69 a user, Truckstop ITS Dispatch from $75 a month with unlimited users, and Aljex Essential at $699 for five users. Above about thirty reps, LTL, EDI and the depth of the catalogue matter more, which favours McLeod, Tai, BrokerWare and Revenova, and only Tai of those four prints a price."},{"q":"What does a broker TMS cost over a year?","a":"By our arithmetic from published rates: Truckstop ITS Dispatch Pro $1,188, AscendTMS Premium for three users $4,284, Aljex Essential $8,388 for five users, BrokerPro $11,400 at up to 150 loads a month, Tai Growth $11,940, Rose Rocket $24,960 and Turvo $60,000 at its starting price. McLeod, BrokerWare and Revenova publish nothing to calculate from. Beyond Elevation's fixed audit is $3,000 once."},{"q":"Does freight volume change the choice?","a":"It changes the pricing model that suits you. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics freight index was 135.7 in July 2026, about 2.0 percent below July 2025 by our arithmetic. In a flat or falling market, per load pricing such as BrokerPro's falls with your volume, while per user and flat monthly plans do not."}],"how_to_choose":["Draw the life of one load before you book a demo. Where does the quote arrive, where is it typed, which load board, which vetting tool, which tracking feed, which accounting system, which factoring company. Count every place a person types the same load. That count is what the new TMS has to bring down.","Ask each vendor to name its connection to your exact tools, not its category. If you use MyCarrierPackets and Trucker Tools, ask whether those two are named, included, licensed or partial. Rose Rocket marks partial connections on its own page. Most vendors do not.","Read what the entry price includes. Aljex Essential includes a load board, MacroPoint, MyCarrierPortal and QuickBooks. McLeod lists every connection as available for licence. BrokerPro says some integrations may carry separate fees. The price that matters is the price with your connections switched on.","Match the pricing model to how you grow. Per user plans, like AscendTMS, rise with headcount. Per load plans, like BrokerPro, rise with volume. Flat plans with unlimited users, like ITS Dispatch and Rose Rocket, rise with neither until you change tier.","Check the limits on the cheap plans. Tai Growth includes 2 staff logins and 200 shipments. Aljex Essential includes 5 users. ITS Dispatch adds a $125 initial charge on its signup page. The next tier is often the real price.","Separate the vendor's figures from anyone else's. Aljex's 500 brokerages, BrokerPro's 4,000 brokers, AscendTMS's 63,300 companies and every hours saved figure on this page are vendor claims. The only independent figure here comes from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.","Decide who owns the join. Even a TMS with every connection named will not read your shipper's emails, reconcile the factoring statement or put margin per load in front of the owner each morning on its own. If nobody in the brokerage owns that, buy fewer tools and hire the join. That is the argument for the unrated entry at position eleven, and it is disclosed as commonly owned with Top 11."],"faqs":[{"q":"What is the best TMS for freight brokers?","a":"Descartes Aljex for most United States brokerages, because its $699 a month Essential plan includes 5 users and names MacroPoint, MyCarrierPortal, a load board connection, QuickBooks and DAT RateView inside the price. BrokerPro, from $950 a month by load volume with no seat fees, is the alternative for a growing desk."},{"q":"What is the best TMS software for small freight brokers?","a":"One with a printed price and the connections you need included. AscendTMS from $69 a user a month with a 30 day free trial, Truckstop ITS Dispatch from $75 a month with unlimited users, or Aljex Essential at $699 a month for five users with a load board, tracking and QuickBooks included."},{"q":"How much does freight broker software cost?","a":"On the vendor pages read on 3 October 2026: AscendTMS $69 to $149 a user a month, ITS Dispatch $75 to $129 a month, Aljex from $699, BrokerPro from $950 by load volume, Tai from $995, Rose Rocket from $2,080 and Turvo from $5,000. McLeod, 3PL Systems and Revenova publish no price."},{"q":"Aljex vs McLeod, which is better?","a":"Aljex prints its prices and bundles a load board, MacroPoint, MyCarrierPortal and QuickBooks into the $699 entry plan. McLeod PowerBroker has a far larger catalogue, over 260 integrations, and its own general ledger, but prints no price and licenses each connection. A small or mid sized brokerage that wants to budget first, Aljex. A large desk with many partners, ask McLeod for a quote."},{"q":"What is the best AI for freight brokers?","a":"Inside a TMS, the AI that matters most reads quote requests and builds loads from email. Revenova's Artimus, Tai's email scraping AI, Rose Rocket's TED and McLeod's RespondAI all claim it. BrokerPro and Rose Rocket include their AI agents in the price. Every speed figure attached to them is a vendor claim."},{"q":"What is a TMS for freight brokers?","a":"Software that runs a brokerage's loads from quote to payment: customer quotes, load posting, carrier booking and vetting, tracking, invoicing and carrier pay. The test on this page is whether it is joined, by name, to the load boards, vetting tools, tracking feeds, accounting system and factoring company the brokerage already uses."}],"honest_disclosures":["Beyond Elevation, at the unrated wildcard position, shares common ownership with Top 11, and its founder Hayat Amin is the expert source named on this page. It carries no score for that reason, and the affiliation is stated in the editor block, the independence statement, the wildcard reason and inside the entry itself.","Descartes Aljex and Tai TMS, ranked first and fourth, now share a parent: Tai's homepage announces it has joined the Descartes Systems Group. They are scored separately on what each vendor's own pages say.","DAT Broker TMS was in the candidate pool and is not ranked. It states a starting price of $100 a month and lists load board, CarrierWatch, tracking, CRM, rating and EDI modules, but the pages read named no third party product it connects to, so there was nothing to score on this page's first criterion.","Alvys and Tailwind TMS were in the pool and are not ranked. Alvys names a long integration list and prices per load on a quote, but its pricing and testimonials lean toward carriers and fleets. tailwindtms.com now redirects to CargoWise; its subscription page shows a $1,500 setup fee and $250 per base user without stating the billing period.","Shipwell, Sylectus, Axon and Banyan Technology were in the pool and are not ranked. Shipwell sells to shippers, Sylectus to small trucking companies, Axon's broker page names no integrations and its pricing page returned not found, and Banyan is a rating platform that appears as a partner of BrokerPro rather than a broker TMS.","ascendtms.com/pricing returned the application login. AscendTMS prices were read on thefreetms.com, the vendor's own marketing site. Tai's pricing page was read through a rendering proxy because the figures load in the browser. Truckstop's broker integrations page loaded empty and is not used.","Every price, plan, trial length and named connection on this page was read on 3 October 2026 on the vendor's own site. Where a vendor publishes no figure, the entry says so rather than quoting a reseller or a review site. Revenova's FAQ quotes a market price range, and it is not presented here as Revenova's price.","Customer counts and outcome figures are vendor claims and are labelled as such: Aljex's 500 brokerages, BrokerPro's 4,000 brokers and 34 percent, Tai's 97 percent automation rate, Revenova's 80 percent faster booking, Rose Rocket's $3 billion of freight, AscendTMS's 63,300 companies, ITS Dispatch's 31 percent and Turvo's 3 clicks.","The independent figure on this page comes from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Transportation Services Index dataset on data.bts.gov, read 3 October 2026. No saving is claimed on any brokerage's behalf.","All annual cost arithmetic on this page is ours, calculated from the published monthly rates, and is labelled where it appears. No vendor has confirmed a total cost figure for any brokerage.","Scores are capped at 9.4 under the published methodology and no entry is perfect. Rank order changes when a vendor publishes a price it currently hides or names connections it currently shows only as logos, and this page is re-read every 90 days."],"glossary":{"term":"TMS for Freight Brokers","definition":"As of October 2026, a TMS for freight brokers is software that runs a brokerage's loads from quote to payment: customer quotes, load posting, carrier booking and vetting, tracking, invoicing and carrier pay. Products range from per user and flat priced systems such as AscendTMS and Truckstop ITS Dispatch, through printed tier plans such as Descartes Aljex, BrokerPro, Tai TMS and Rose Rocket, to quoted platforms such as McLeod PowerBroker, 3PL Systems BrokerWare, Revenova and Turvo. The category divides on a line vendors rarely state plainly: whether the load board, vetting, tracking, accounting and factoring connections are named and included, or left as logos and licences.","synonyms":["freight broker tms","broker tms","freight broker software","freight brokerage software"],"faq":[]},"entries":[{"rank":1,"name":"Descartes Aljex","url":"https://www.aljex.com/pricing/","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Freight broker TMS from Descartes, three published plans with users included","best_for":"A United States freight brokerage of roughly five to fifty reps that wants the load board, carrier onboarding, tracking and QuickBooks already joined to the TMS on the day it starts, at a price printed on the page.","best_for_short":"Brokerages that want the core connections bundled into the entry price","pricing_band":"$$ (Essential $699 a month with 5 users; Professional from $999 a month with 15 users; Enterprise from $2,375 a month; one time setup or implementation fee, not priced)","score_out_of_94":7.8,"verdict":"Aljex wins this page because its entry plan prints a price and names the connections a broker would otherwise pay to join up. Essential is $699 a month with 5 users, and the plan lists MacroPoint visibility, MyCarrierPortal, one of 123Loadboard, DAT or Truckstop, Pro Miles, QuickBooks and DAT RateView as included. That is the load board, the carrier packet, the tracking feed, the rate check and the books, named in writing, before a demo. The integrations table goes further on the higher plans: GreatPlains, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Upwell and Sage on accounting, Triumph Business Capital, HaulPay and Denim on factoring, and DAT CarrierWatch, RMIS, SaferWatch and Highway on vetting. By our arithmetic Essential is $8,388 a year for five users.","verdict_short":"Prints $699 a month for 5 users and names MacroPoint, MyCarrierPortal, a load board, QuickBooks and RateView inside it.","praise":"No vendor here bundles more named connections into a printed entry price. Professional, from $999 a month with 15 users, adds a customer EDI connection, and Enterprise, from $2,375, adds two. Aljex says over 500 freight brokerages use it and that it serves brokers from two to several hundred users. Vooma, Fleetworks and Parade Co-Driver are listed for AI and automation.","praise_short":"The most named connections inside a printed entry price.","criticism":"The pricing page contradicts itself: a line reads prices listed below are one time fees above a table that shows no dollar figures at all, only Available and Pick Any. The setup and implementation fees are listed and never priced. Pick any 2 load boards and pick any 1 vetting tool mean the third connection is a conversation. Descartes now also owns Tai TMS, ranked fourth, so two of the top four answer to one parent. The 500 brokerage figure and the #1 on G2 line are vendor claims.","criticism_short":"A table labelled one time fees with no fees in it, and setup costs unpriced.","sources_pending":["https://www.aljex.com/pricing/","https://www.aljex.com/integrations/","https://www.aljex.com/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. Essential $699 a month with 5 users, Professional from $999 with 15 users, Enterprise from $2,375, the included integrations, the pick any rules and the one time fees wording read on aljex.com/pricing on 3 October 2026. Over 500 freight brokerages and from two to several hundred users read on aljex.com the same day. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":699,"price_max":2375,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["MacroPoint","MyCarrierPortal","DAT","Truckstop","123Loadboard","QuickBooks","DAT RateView","Highway","RMIS"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"From $699 a month with 5 users - load board, MacroPoint, MyCarrierPortal and QuickBooks included - setup fee unpriced","problems_solved":["the same load typed four times","QuickBooks invoices keyed from the TMS"],"personas":["brokerage of 3 to 10 reps","brokerage on QuickBooks"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/1","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/1/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-1"},{"rank":2,"name":"BrokerPro","url":"https://www.brokerpro.com/pricing/","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Freight broker TMS priced by monthly load volume, users and features unlimited","best_for":"A brokerage whose headcount grows faster than its load count, or the reverse, that wants every rep on the system and a bill tied to invoiced loads, with the connection list printed in one sentence.","best_for_short":"Brokerages that want to pay by the load, not by the seat","pricing_band":"$$ (base platform $950 a month for 0 to 150 loads; $1,200 for 151 to 225; up to $9,238 for 3,051 to 3,250; contact sales above that; some integrations carry separate fees)","score_out_of_94":7.6,"verdict":"BrokerPro prints the plainest connection list on this page. Its integrations page says it connects directly with DAT, Truckstop, Load Board Network, Convoy Platform, Highway, RMIS, MyCarrierPortal, Truckstop SaferWatch, MacroPoint, TruckerTools, TextLocate, QuickBooks, Epay Manager, RoadSync, TriumphPay, Banyan Technology, PC Miler, Cargo Chief, Parade, e2open, Kleinschmidt, Orderful and CloneOps AI. That is 23 named products covering every bucket this page scores. The price is printed too, and it is tied to the work rather than the headcount: $950 a month for up to 150 loads, rising in bands to $9,238 for 3,051 to 3,250 loads, with AI agents included. It ranks second because the pricing page says some integrations may carry separate fees without saying which.","verdict_short":"23 named connections in one sentence and a price that follows invoiced loads, from $950 a month.","praise":"No per user charge at any size, so the night desk and the account managers can all see the load. The page says brokerages are typically live in 2 to 4 weeks, the shortest go live stated by any vendor here, and that it serves owner operators covering 50 loads a month as well as mid market teams. At 150 loads, $950 a month is $11,400 a year by our arithmetic.","praise_short":"No seat fees, 23 named connections, live in 2 to 4 weeks by its own account.","criticism":"Some integrations may have separate fees, and the page does not say which, so the true bill for the connection list is a question to ask before signing. There is no free tier, stated plainly. More than 4,000 freight brokers and an average 34 percent increase in load volume are vendor claims with no method published.","criticism_short":"Some integrations carry extra fees, and the page does not say which.","sources_pending":["https://www.brokerpro.com/pricing/","https://www.brokerpro.com/integrations/","https://www.brokerpro.com/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. Base platform fee $950 a month, pricing by load volume not users, the band table to $9,238 and the no free tier answer read on brokerpro.com/pricing on 3 October 2026. The 23 named integrations, the 2 to 4 week go live, more than 4,000 freight brokers and the 34 percent claim read on brokerpro.com the same day. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":950,"price_max":9238,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["DAT","Truckstop","Highway","RMIS","MyCarrierPortal","MacroPoint","Trucker Tools","QuickBooks","TriumphPay","Orderful"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"From $950 a month for 150 loads - no seat fees - 23 named integrations - AI agents included","problems_solved":["seat fees pricing out the desk","integrations licensed on top"],"personas":["brokerage of 10 to 50 reps","truckload brokerage"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/2","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/2/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-2"},{"rank":3,"name":"McLeod PowerBroker","url":"https://www.mcleodsoftware.com/powerbroker-integrations-logistics-brokerage-3pl/","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Established brokerage and 3PL TMS from McLeod Software, licensed, sold by demo","best_for":"An established brokerage with a large desk, its own accounting team and a long list of partners that wants the widest catalogue of tested connections in the category and is happy to get a quote.","best_for_short":"Large brokerages that need the widest connection catalogue","pricing_band":"Quote only (no price published; the demo form asks for truck count and number of users; integrations available for licence)","score_out_of_94":7.2,"verdict":"PowerBroker has the longest named connection list of any product read for this page, and it is the one a big brokerage will shortlist first. McLeod says over 260 off the shelf, fully tested integrations backed by more than 140 certified partners. Its PowerBroker list names 12 load boards including DAT, Truckstop and 123Loadboard, carrier monitoring through Highway, MyCarrierPortal, DAT CarrierWatch, RMIS and SaferWatch, tracking through Descartes MacroPoint, FourKites, project44, TextLocate, Transflo and Trucker Tools, QuickBooks Online, and Triumph and Relay for payments. It also names AI partners for order creation and auto response: Augment, Drumkit, Everest AI, Vooma, Parade and others. It ranks third, not first, because it prints no price and because each integration is described as available for licence, so the connection list is a menu, not an inclusion.","verdict_short":"Over 260 tested integrations, every bucket covered, and no price for the TMS or the connections.","praise":"Its own general ledger and full accounts system mean the books can sit inside the TMS. RespondAI, McLeod says, can generate quotes and begin order creation from incoming messages, and an August 2026 release names CRST among the first customers live on Augment's agent inside PowerBroker. McLeod has served the trucking industry for over 40 years.","praise_short":"The deepest catalogue, its own accounting, and AI order entry from email.","criticism":"No price at all, and every connection is licensed on top. The old /powerbroker/ address now lands on the integrations page, so there is no product overview to read. No brokerage size is stated, and the demo form asks for truck count as well as users. No customer count is published.","criticism_short":"No price, and every one of the 260 connections is licensed on top.","sources_pending":["https://www.mcleodsoftware.com/powerbroker-integrations-logistics-brokerage-3pl/","https://www.mcleodsoftware.com/who-we-serve/3pl-brokerage/","https://www.mcleodsoftware.com/solutions/integrations/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. Over 260 integrations and more than 140 certified partners, the PowerBroker standard integrations list marked available for license, RespondAI and the integrated general ledger read on mcleodsoftware.com on 3 October 2026, along with the August 2026 Augment release naming CRST. No price published. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["DAT","Truckstop","123Loadboard","Highway","RMIS","MyCarrierPortal","MacroPoint","FourKites","project44","QuickBooks Online"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"No published price - 260+ tested integrations, each licensed - own general ledger - AI order entry","problems_solved":["the same load typed four times","rate confirmations lost in email"],"personas":["brokerage of 50 to 100 reps","agent based brokerage"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/3","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/3/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-3"},{"rank":4,"name":"Tai TMS","url":"https://tai-software.com/pricing/","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Brokerage TMS now part of Descartes, five plans priced by logins and shipments","best_for":"A mid sized brokerage that is scaling and wants the load board, LTL carriers and live tracking in one view, with email to order AI, at a printed monthly price tied to shipments.","best_for_short":"Mid sized brokerages that want tracking and LTL in one view","pricing_band":"$$$ (Growth $995 a month with 2 staff logins and 200 shipments; Premium $2,465 with 6 and 600; Premium Plus $4,595 with 12 and 1,200; Pro $7,925 with 25 and 2,500; Enterprise quoted; overage pricing per tier)","score_out_of_94":6.9,"verdict":"Tai names the connections that matter in sentences, not just logos, which is why it ranks above vendors with longer lists. It says it has two way integrations with DAT, Truckstop and 123Loadboard to post and pull rates without leaving the system, direct API and EDI connections to LTL carriers including FedEx Freight, XPO, Estes and Old Dominion, and live tracking from Macropoint, Trucker Tools and FourKites in the same view. The plans are printed: Growth $995 a month for 2 staff logins and 200 shipments, Premium $2,465 for 6 and 600, Premium Plus $4,595 for 12 and 1,200, and Pro $7,925 for 25 and 2,500. It ranks fourth because the accounting, onboarding and CRM partners on its integrations page appear only as unlabelled logos, so this page cannot score them.","verdict_short":"Load boards, LTL carriers and three tracking feeds named in writing, plans printed from $995.","praise":"The LTL connections are the strongest on the page for a brokerage that moves both truckload and LTL. Tai says an email scraping AI builds shipments from the inbox and a track and trace AI agent calls drivers around the clock in several languages, with no driver app. Tai says hundreds of brokerages use it. Growth is $11,940 a year by our arithmetic.","praise_short":"The best LTL coverage here, plus email to shipment AI.","criticism":"Two staff logins on a $995 plan is thin; most brokerages will start at Premium, $2,465 a month. Tai has joined the Descartes Systems Group, which also owns Aljex at first. The homepage says both 100+ and 500+ API and EDI integrations, and the copy still refers to a Google Bard integration, a product Google retired. The 97 percent automation rate, 1.4M hours saved and 11 hours a week are vendor claims.","criticism_short":"Two logins at entry, a Descartes parent shared with Aljex, and integration counts that disagree.","sources_pending":["https://tai-software.com/pricing/","https://tai-software.com/components/integrations/","https://tai-software.com/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. Growth $995, Premium $2,465, Premium Plus $4,595 and Pro $7,925 a month with logins and included shipments read on tai-software.com/pricing on 3 October 2026. The DAT, Truckstop, 123Loadboard, LTL carrier and Macropoint, Trucker Tools and FourKites lines, the Descartes announcement, the 100+ and 500+ counts and the Google Bard line read on tai-software.com the same day. Signal noted, not adverse: now part of Descartes.","signals":[]},"price_min":995,"price_max":7925,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["DAT","Truckstop","123Loadboard","MacroPoint","Trucker Tools","FourKites","FedEx Freight","XPO"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"From $995 a month - DAT, Truckstop, 123Loadboard two way - Macropoint, Trucker Tools, FourKites in one view","problems_solved":["check calls by phone","rate confirmations lost in email"],"personas":["LTL and truckload brokerage","brokerage of 10 to 50 reps"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/4","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/4/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-4"},{"rank":5,"name":"3PL Systems BrokerWare","url":"https://3plsystems.com/brokerware/integrations","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Broker only TMS for domestic US and Canadian brokerages, sold by demo","best_for":"A truckload and LTL brokerage that wants every connection category covered by name, including insurance and co brokering, and robotic automation built in, and does not need a price before the first call.","best_for_short":"Brokerages that want every connection category named, including insurance","pricing_band":"Quote only (no price published; Request a Demo or call sales)","score_out_of_94":6.6,"verdict":"BrokerWare's integrations page is organised the way a broker thinks, and every bucket has names in it. Capacity: 123Loadboard, Cargo Chief, DAT, Parade, Trucker Path, Trucker Tools and Truckstop. Onboarding: DAT, Highway, MyCarrierPortal, RMIS, SaferWatch and Truckstop, with the line that it is fully integrated with all of the leading tools. Visibility: Chain, Descartes MacroPoint, FourKites, project44, TextLocate and Trucker Tools. Accounting: QuickBooks, Dynamics 365, Epay Manager, Relay and Triumph. EDI through its own team or Bitfreighter. Insurance through Loadsure, Falvey and others. Only McLeod names more. It ranks fifth because it prints no price.","verdict_short":"Every connection bucket named, insurance and co brokering included, no price.","praise":"It is built for brokers and nothing else, which most products on this page cannot say. ShipMind, its robotic process automation, is built into the product, and the site's own line on AI is that it is a tool, not the product. 3PL Systems says brokers save an average of 10 minutes per load.","praise_short":"Broker only, every bucket named, automation built in.","criticism":"No price, no trial, only a demo. The site says both over 90 and over 100 LTL carriers through API. The 10 minutes per load figure is a vendor claim with no method.","criticism_short":"No price, no trial, and LTL counts that disagree.","sources_pending":["https://3plsystems.com/brokerware/integrations","https://3plsystems.com/brokerware/features","https://3plsystems.com/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. The integrations list by category, ShipMind, the 10 minutes per load line and the 90 and 100 LTL carrier wording read on 3plsystems.com on 3 October 2026. 3plsystems.com/pricing returned HTTP 404. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["DAT","Truckstop","Highway","RMIS","MyCarrierPortal","MacroPoint","FourKites","project44","QuickBooks","Bitfreighter"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US","CA"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"No published price - broker only - every connection bucket named - ShipMind automation built in","problems_solved":["carrier packets checked by hand","the same load typed four times"],"personas":["LTL and truckload brokerage","brokerage of 10 to 50 reps"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/5","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/5/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-5"},{"rank":6,"name":"Revenova TMS","url":"https://revenova.com/tms-solutions/freight-brokers/","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Brokerage TMS built natively on Salesforce, sold by demo","best_for":"A brokerage that already runs its sales desk on Salesforce and wants the TMS, the CRM and the customer record to be one system, with an AI agent building loads from email.","best_for_short":"Brokerages already running sales on Salesforce","pricing_band":"Quote only (no price published; Request a Demo)","score_out_of_94":6.4,"verdict":"Revenova is the one product on this page where the CRM is not a connection at all: it is built natively on Salesforce, so the shipper record, the quote and the load sit in the same database. That removes the most common double entry in a brokerage, a rep keying a customer into the CRM and again into the TMS. Its partner page names DAT, Truckstop and LoadBoard Network on load boards, Highway, MyCarrierPortal and Truckstop RMIS on vetting, Descartes MacroPoint, FourKites, project44, Trucker Tools, TextLocate and Samsara on tracking, Accounting Seed for the books, and Kleinschmidt, Bitfreighter and Cleo for EDI. It ranks sixth because it prints no price, and the accounting connection named is Accounting Seed rather than QuickBooks.","verdict_short":"The CRM and the TMS are one Salesforce system, with a long named partner list and no price.","praise":"Artimus, its AI agent, handles load creation from emails and quote requests, and Revenova says it books loads 80 percent faster and answers quote requests from stored rate data. Revenova says tens of thousands of logistics professionals use it.","praise_short":"No CRM to TMS retyping, and an AI agent for email quotes.","criticism":"No price anywhere. The FAQ quotes a range from $50 per user a month to over $100,000 a year, and that range describes the market, not Revenova, so do not read it as a quote. The pages read do not say whether Salesforce licences are included. The homepage says 4,200+ AppExchange applications and the partner page says 7,000+. The 80 percent figure is a vendor claim.","criticism_short":"No price, Salesforce licences on top, and an FAQ price range that is not its own.","sources_pending":["https://revenova.com/tms-solutions/freight-brokers/","https://revenova.com/about/partners/","https://revenova.com/tms-solutions/artimus/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. Built natively on Salesforce, the partner logos and names, Artimus and the 80 percent line read on revenova.com on 3 October 2026. revenova.com/pricing redirects to the homepage. The FAQ price range describes the market, not Revenova. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["Salesforce","DAT","Truckstop","Highway","MyCarrierPortal","MacroPoint","FourKites","project44","Accounting Seed","Cleo"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"No published price - native Salesforce CRM - Artimus AI builds loads from email","problems_solved":["rate confirmations lost in email","the same load typed four times"],"personas":["brokerage on Salesforce","brokerage of 50 to 100 reps"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/6","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/6/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-6"},{"rank":7,"name":"Rose Rocket","url":"https://www.roserocket.com/pricing","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Transportation platform for carriers and brokers, one published plan with unlimited users","best_for":"A brokerage, or a carrier that also brokers, that wants unlimited users and AI agents in one flat monthly price, and values a vendor that says which connections are only partly built.","best_for_short":"Hybrid carrier and broker operations that want a flat price and unlimited users","pricing_band":"$$$ (Full Service Platform starting at $2,080 a month, unlimited users, 90 day implementation included; Enterprise custom pricing)","score_out_of_94":6.2,"verdict":"Rose Rocket earns its place for honesty about its own connections, which no other vendor here offers. Its integrations page marks Chain as partly built, Samsara as in review and not yet released, Comdata as groundwork only, and SPS Commerce as field definitions only. The live ones are named: DAT RateView and the DAT load board, Truckstop, Highway refreshing every 10 minutes, RMIS on an hourly one way sync, Macropoint, FourKites, Trucker Tools, QuickBooks Online, Dynamics 365 Business Central, TriumphPay and Bitfreighter for EDI. The price is one line: starting at $2,080 a month with unlimited users, all AI agents and a guaranteed 90 day go live. It ranks seventh because it has no broker page, the address for one returned 404, and its pricing features lean toward carriers.","verdict_short":"Says which connections are only partly built, $2,080 a month with unlimited users.","praise":"Every plan includes unlimited use of its AI agents with no per use fees; TED turns emails into orders. Rose Rocket says over $3 billion of freight ran through it in 2025 and 100,000+ people use it. At the starting price it is $24,960 a year by our arithmetic.","praise_short":"The most candid integration page here, and AI agents with no per use fee.","criticism":"It is not a broker product first: the pricing page features hours of service, DOT and driver dispatch, and /solutions/brokers returned 404. No 123Loadboard connection. RMIS is one way, hourly. The pricing page counts 40+ integrations, while the integrations page shows about 34 tiles with several partial. Usage figures are vendor claims.","criticism_short":"No broker page, carrier leaning features, and 40+ integrations that count to about 34.","sources_pending":["https://www.roserocket.com/pricing","https://www.roserocket.com/integrations","https://www.roserocket.com/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. Starting at $2080/month, unlimited users, 90 day go live and the AI agents line read on roserocket.com/pricing on 3 October 2026. Integration status wording read on roserocket.com/integrations the same day. roserocket.com/solutions/brokers returned 404. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":2080,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["DAT","Truckstop","Highway","RMIS","MacroPoint","FourKites","Trucker Tools","QuickBooks Online","TriumphPay","Bitfreighter"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US","CA"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"From $2,080 a month - unlimited users - AI agents included - says which integrations are partial","problems_solved":["seat fees pricing out the desk","rate confirmations lost in email"],"personas":["carrier that also brokers","brokerage of 10 to 50 reps"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/7","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/7/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-7"},{"rank":8,"name":"AscendTMS","url":"https://thefreetms.com/pricing","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Per user TMS for brokers, carriers and shippers, three printed plans and a 30 day trial","best_for":"A new or small brokerage that wants to start for almost nothing, post to many load boards at once and get paid through Triumph, and will do its own joining on the accounting side.","best_for_short":"New brokerages that want to start on a trial and a low per user price","pricing_band":"$ (Basic $69, Premium $119, Pro $149 per user per month on a card, cancel any time; free 30 day trial; enterprise pricing by phone)","score_out_of_94":5.9,"verdict":"AscendTMS is the cheapest way on this page to put a brokerage on a TMS: Basic $69, Premium $119 and Pro $149 per user a month, a free 30 day trial, no contract and no setup fee. It says it posts to up to 53 load boards including Getloaded, Truckstop and 123Loadboard, with a paid DAT or Truckstop subscription required, and that factoring is integrated with Triumph Business Capital. It ranks eighth because most of its other connections are logos, not sentences. The partners page links to Highway, MyCarrierPackets, Trucker Tools, FourKites and project44, but the text names none of them, the carrier vetting is described as built in without a vendor, and the accounting line says it integrates with most major account systems without naming one.","verdict_short":"From $69 a user with a 30 day trial, load board posting named, accounting connections unnamed.","praise":"For a three person brokerage, Premium is $4,284 a year by our arithmetic, the lowest on this page outside Truckstop. Pro adds a shipper CRM, outbound EDI load tenders and order management. AscendTMS says over 63,300 companies rely on it.","praise_short":"The lowest per user price and a real free trial.","criticism":"The homepage says plans start at zero dollars and the pricing page shows no $0 plan. Each plan says no user limit while charging per user. The same paragraph says 53 and 52 load boards. Several pages carry leftover template text about brand ambassador and influencer programmes. ascendtms.com/pricing is a login shell; the prices are on thefreetms.com. The 63,300 figure and the most used TMS claim are vendor claims.","criticism_short":"Template filler on the site, a $0 plan that is not on the price page, and unnamed accounting links.","sources_pending":["https://thefreetms.com/pricing","https://thefreetms.com/broker-features","https://thefreetms.com/our-partners"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. Basic $69, Premium $119 and Pro $149 per user per month, the free 30 day trial, the 53 and 52 load board wording, Triumph Business Capital and the most major account systems line read on thefreetms.com/pricing on 3 October 2026; ascendtms.com/pricing returned the app login. Signal noted, not adverse: leftover template copy on several pages.","signals":[]},"price_min":69,"price_max":149,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":0,"integrations":["Truckstop","123Loadboard","DAT","Triumph Business Capital"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"From $69 a user a month - 30 day free trial - posts to many load boards - accounting partners unnamed","problems_solved":["a price you cannot see without a demo","seat fees pricing out the desk"],"personas":["new brokerage authority","brokerage using factoring"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/8","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/8/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-8"},{"rank":9,"name":"Truckstop ITS Dispatch","url":"https://truckstop.com/product/tms/broker-and-shipper/","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Broker TMS from Truckstop, flat monthly plans with unlimited users","best_for":"A small brokerage already on the Truckstop load board that wants QuickBooks and RMIS joined to a TMS for under $100 a month, and does not need tracking or EDI connections yet.","best_for_short":"Small brokerages already on Truckstop","pricing_band":"$ (Broker/Shipper $75 a month, Pro $99 a month, unlimited users; Dual Authority Pro $129; initial charge of $125 on the signup page; add ons from $10 to $195 a month)","score_out_of_94":5.6,"verdict":"ITS Dispatch is the cheapest flat price on the page: $75 a month for Broker/Shipper and $99 for Pro, both with unlimited users, before fees and taxes. It names QuickBooks and RMIS in writing, says it links straight to Truckstop, and sells SaferWatch Guardian at $79 a month and SaferWatch Assure at $195, which the signup page says are included in the Pro package. For a five person brokerage that is $1,188 a year for Pro by our arithmetic. It ranks ninth because the pages read name no tracking feed, no EDI connection and no load board beyond Truckstop's own, and Truckstop's broker integrations page loaded empty.","verdict_short":"$75 or $99 a month with unlimited users, QuickBooks and RMIS named, no tracking connection named.","praise":"Unlimited users at $99 is the lowest cost of putting a whole desk on one screen. Truckstop says the average ITS Dispatch customer sees a 31 percent increase in loads and 18 hours saved a week. It describes the product as suited to small and medium sized brokerages.","praise_short":"The cheapest unlimited user plan on the page.","criticism":"Dual Authority Pro is shown as $129 per user per month beside free unlimited users, and the signup page prices the same plan at $129 plus $5 a truck. The signup page adds an initial charge of $125 and says a sales associate will call for payment. No MacroPoint, Trucker Tools, FourKites, DAT or EDI connection is named on the pages read. The 31 percent and 18 hour figures are vendor claims.","criticism_short":"No tracking or EDI connection named, and one plan priced two ways.","sources_pending":["https://truckstop.com/product/tms/broker-and-shipper/","https://app.itsdispatch.com/signup/?product=broker"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. $75, $99 and $129 plans, unlimited users, QuickBooks and RMIS lines read on truckstop.com/product/tms/broker-and-shipper on 3 October 2026. The $125 initial charge, SaferWatch add on prices and Combo Pro at $129 plus $5 per truck read on the ITS Dispatch signup page the same day. try.truckstop.com/integrations-broker rendered empty. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":75,"price_max":129,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":125,"integrations":["Truckstop","QuickBooks","RMIS","SaferWatch"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"From $75 a month - unlimited users - QuickBooks and RMIS - no tracking or EDI named","problems_solved":["a price you cannot see without a demo","carrier packets checked by hand"],"personas":["new brokerage authority","brokerage of 3 to 10 reps"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/9","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/9/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-9"},{"rank":10,"name":"Turvo","url":"https://turvo.com/pricing/","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Collaborative TMS for brokers and shippers, priced from $5,000 a month","best_for":"A large or fast growing brokerage that wants its shippers, carriers and partners working in the same shared load record, and has the budget for the highest entry price on this page.","best_for_short":"Large brokerages that want shippers and carriers inside the same record","pricing_band":"$$$$ (Plan, Execute and Settle Freight starts at $5,000 a month; Collaboration and Visibility available on request; free access for carriers, partners and shippers)","score_out_of_94":5.3,"verdict":"Turvo's idea is the one this page is about, joining the parties instead of retyping between them. Carriers, partners and shippers get free access, and Turvo says over a million drivers use its driver app. Its broker page names DAT, Parade, Truckstop, project44, MyCarrierPackets and Denim in a sentence, and its partner page shows Highway, RMIS, Carrier Assure, Trucker Tools, Samsara, Kleinschmidt, SMC3, TriumphPay and more as logos. It ranks tenth because the price starts at $5,000 a month, $60,000 a year by our arithmetic, and because the site shows signs of neglect: its integrations page returns a not found message and the footer still reads 2024.","verdict_short":"Shared records for shippers and carriers, from $5,000 a month, with a dead integrations page.","praise":"Free access for the other side of the load is the cleanest answer here to the check call problem: the carrier updates the record the broker and the shipper both see. Turvo says brokers need 3 clicks where other systems need over 150.","praise_short":"Carriers and shippers in the same record, free for them.","criticism":"The highest entry price on the page by a wide margin. /integrations/ shows a page not found message. No accounting product is named. No AI claim was found. The footer copyright reads 2024. The 3 click, 3x revenue and 5x shipments claims are vendor claims.","criticism_short":"$5,000 a month to start, no accounting partner named, and a stale site.","sources_pending":["https://turvo.com/pricing/","https://turvo.com/freight-brokers/","https://turvo.com/partners/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Live product. Starts at $5,000 / Month and Available Upon Request read on turvo.com/pricing on 3 October 2026. Named partners on turvo.com/freight-brokers and turvo.com/partners the same day. turvo.com/integrations returned a not found message and the footer reads 2024. Signal noted, not adverse: site maintenance appears behind.","signals":[]},"price_min":5000,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["DAT","Truckstop","Parade","project44","MyCarrierPackets","Denim","Highway","RMIS"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"From $5,000 a month - free access for carriers and shippers - integrations page not found","problems_solved":["check calls by phone"],"personas":["brokerage of 50 to 100 reps","truckload brokerage"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/10","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/10/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-10"},{"rank":11,"name":"Beyond Elevation","url":"https://beyondelevation.com/fde","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"People, not software; boutique bench of exited operators","best_for":"The brokerage whose TMS, load boards, carrier onboarding tool, tracking feed, factoring company and QuickBooks each hold part of a load, and whose reps still retype it between them.","best_for_short":"Brokerages still retyping loads between systems","pricing_band":"$$$ (AI audit at a fixed $3,000 over two weeks; fractional engagement from $5,800 a month; project work from $30,000)","score_out_of_94":null,"verdict":"Count the ten above on one question. Which of them names, in its own words, the load board, vetting, tracking, accounting and factoring products it connects to? Six name a product in all five buckets: Aljex, BrokerPro, McLeod, BrokerWare, Revenova and Rose Rocket. Tai names load boards and tracking in sentences and leaves the rest to logos. Turvo names no accounting product, ITS Dispatch no tracking feed, and AscendTMS no vetting or accounting vendor. Even the best list is a list of possible connections, many licensed or priced separately, and none of them joins your email inbox, your shipper's portal and your factoring statement to the margin on each load. That join is what Beyond Elevation sells: a forward deployed engineer who sits inside the brokerage and builds it on top of the TMS you already own. Disclosure, stated here and in four other places on this page: Beyond Elevation shares common ownership with Top 11 and its founder Hayat Amin is the expert source named above. It carries no score for that reason.","verdict_short":"Six of ten name a product in every connection bucket. Joining what is left is the work, and this entry is commonly owned with Top 11.","praise":"It publishes what it costs before anyone speaks to you, which McLeod, BrokerWare, Revenova and Turvo's second plan do not: a fixed $3,000 AI audit over two weeks, fractional work from $5,800 a month and projects from $30,000, all read on beyondelevation.com/fde on 3 October 2026. For a brokerage weighing a TMS migration against fixing the joins in the one it has, a fixed $3,000 audit is a cheap way to find out which.","praise_short":"A fixed $3,000 audit, published before any call.","criticism":"It is people, and people cost more than software. One month at $5,800 is more than a year of ITS Dispatch Pro at $1,188 or AscendTMS Premium for three users at $4,284. A brokerage that has not switched on the connections already in its TMS should do that first and spend nothing. The bench is small. No named brokerage client is published. It shares common ownership with Top 11 and its founder is the expert source named on this page, which is why it carries no score.","criticism_short":"The most expensive line here, a small bench, no named brokerage client, and commonly owned with Top 11.","sources_pending":["https://beyondelevation.com/fde","https://meethayat.com/services/fde"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-10-03","summary":"Active firm with the $3,000 fixed audit, from $5,800 a month fractional rate and from $30k project rate read on beyondelevation.com/fde on 3 October 2026. Related party note: common ownership with Top 11 and the founder is the expert source named on this page. Disclosed in the entry, the wildcard reason, the editor block, the independence statement and the disclosures, and it is the reason this entry is unrated. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":3000,"price_max":30000,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":[],"compliance":[],"regions":["US","UK","UAE"],"onboarding_days":14,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"People, not software - fixed $3,000 audit - from $5,800 a month - builds the joins your TMS leaves open","is_wildcard":true,"unrated":true,"wildcard_model":"wildcard-v2.0","wildcard_reason":"Beyond Elevation is not a TMS and cannot be scored against a rubric built for one, because there is no per user, per load or per month licence to set against $69 or $950. It sits at the unrated wildcard position because it answers the question the ten ranked entries leave open. Each of them lists what it can connect to. None of them owns the work of making those connections agree every day: the quote that arrives by email, the rate confirmation in a shared inbox, the factoring statement, the carrier packet that expires, the margin on each load that the owner only sees after the books close. In a fifteen person brokerage the person who joins those rarely exists. Beyond Elevation sells that person, a forward deployed engineer who builds the join rather than advising on it. Disclosure: Beyond Elevation shares common ownership with Top 11, and its founder Hayat Amin is the expert source named on this page. It is placed at the unrated wildcard position for both of those reasons as well as the incomparability one, and the affiliation is stated in the editor block, in the independence statement, in the disclosures and here inside the entry.","wildcard_reason_short":"Not software, so not scored. Commonly owned with Top 11 and founded by the expert source named on this page.","problems_solved":["nobody owning the join","the same load typed four times"],"personas":["brokerage whose margin per load lives in five systems","owner who wants margin per load every morning, not after the close"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/11","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/tms-for-freight-brokers/11/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/tms-for-freight-brokers#rank-11"}]}