Freight broker software pricing: two plans, no demo gate.

Everything we make, except Fraud Shield and Voice. That's the full load board, dispatch, carrier database with authority and insurance checks, AI inbox that reads every reply, live GPS, invoicing, factoring, document storage, and QuickBooks sync. Unlimited users, no per-seat fees, month-to-month. $799 flat.

The core plan already runs the basic carrier check on every reply — authority status, insurance on file, MC vs DOT match. Fraud Shield ($199/mo) is the deeper layer: spotting carriers that rebranded after a bad MC, fake-MC quotes, look-alike domains, and rate confirmations that got intercepted. Voice ($399/mo per seat) is a separate product — an AI that places and answers carrier phone calls. Most brokers don't need either on day one; the ones who do can turn them on without changing plans.

Anyone who logs into Keelway. Dispatchers, coordinators, owners, finance staff. We don't charge per seat — it's the same price whether you have 3 users or 30. The reason: per-seat pricing forces you to share logins, which breaks audit trails and creates security problems. We'd rather you give every person who touches a load their own account.

Annual billing is 20% off — you pay $7,668 once instead of $9,588 across the year. Effective monthly: $639. We don't lock you in beyond the calendar year; if you cancel, you get a prorated refund for unused months. The trial is 30 days either way.

EDI integrations with your shippers, custom API depth, an SLA with response-time guarantees, a named customer success contact, a security review, and bespoke onboarding. The price is a quote because the work is different for every customer — a 40-staff 3PL with EDI 204/990/214 looks nothing like a 200-staff brokerage with a custom shipper portal. We don't gate the core product behind enterprise; everything you see in the SMB plan is in there.

Because the demo gate is the customer-acquisition equivalent of a parking lot — a place vendors put you so they can size you up before showing you a number. Most freight TMS vendors hide pricing behind a 30-minute call. We think that's hostile. The flat price is the price. If you're a 3PL that needs EDI depth, that's a different conversation — but you should still know the floor before you book a call.

Parade and Drumkit are add-ons that bolt onto your existing TMS — you pay them on top of whatever McLeod, Tai, or Aljex charges you. Keelway is the TMS plus the AI in one bill. Highway is a carrier-identity tool; Fraud Shield covers the same identity work plus the inbound email and rate-con checks Highway doesn't do. None of the three publish full pricing. See the table above for what we've been able to verify.

If you're already a Keelway customer on the prior plan (per-load AI, or the earlier flat-TMS price), your pricing is grandfathered for 12 months from launch of the new plan. After that you'll auto-move to the SMB plan (or Enterprise if your account already qualifies). We'll email you before any change with a side-by-side of what you were paying vs the new $799/mo number. If the new plan costs more for your specific volume, we'll talk before charging anything different.

Yes. 30 days, full product. You don't put in a card to start the trial. We do ask for a real Gmail (or sandbox) to connect so the AI has something to read — without inbound carrier email there's not much for Keelway to do.

No. The honest reason: a product that reads every inbound carrier email and does real-time carrier identity checks has real cost per usage — we'd rather charge a fair flat rate than build a free tier that throttles or shows ads. If a flat plan doesn't fit, AscendTMS has a real free tier (3 users) that's worth looking at, and a free 30-day Keelway trial is the better way to find out if we're worth the spend.