Onfleet vs Routific: the same delivery day, metered two different ways

If your operation is a delivery business — recipient notifications, proof of delivery, barcode scanning, a dispatcher watching a board — Onfleet is the product shaped for that day, and the trade is a floor rather than a price. Budget from $619 a month at 2,500 tasks, then add the tier you actually need, the Courier Suite if you are a courier, and a per-message cost for notifications.

Put the 45-day notice date in a calendar on the day you sign.

If your operation is a route problem with deliveries attached, Routific's order-volume model is the one that lets you start at zero and pay in proportion to what you move. The free band under 100 orders a month is the most honest evaluation offer in this pair, because it is not a 14-day clock.

Before you commit, get two things in writing: whether a band rate applies to all orders or only those in the band, and what the contract term and notice period are, neither of which our check found published.

Volume shape decides between them more than feature lists do. Steady volume with heavy recipient communication favours Onfleet's unlimited users and dispatch tooling.

Spiky or small volume favours Routific's stepped rate card and free band. And in both cases, count your tasks and your orders separately first, because the two rate cards are not measuring the same thing.

Both products dispatch and track local deliveries: plan the day's stops, assign them to drivers, push them to a driver app, notify the recipient and capture proof of delivery. Both are software-only — no vehicle hardware, no installer, no device to return — and both are bought by operations that already have the vans and the drivers and need the day organised.

The split is where each product's centre of gravity sits. Onfleet is built around the dispatch loop and the recipient experience: auto-dispatch, barcode and ID scanning, multi-brand and multi-region support at the top tier, and SMS and voice notifications that are billed separately from the plan fee.

Routific is built around the plan itself, with an order-volume rate card that starts free and a model that explicitly moved off per-vehicle licensing in mid-2024.

That mid-2024 change matters when you read other comparisons. Any page describing Routific as flat-rate or per-vehicle is describing a product that no longer exists commercially.

Fleet size is not what drives a Routific bill; delivery volume is. Two operations running the same number of vans pay very different amounts when one of them delivers twice as many orders.

The table reads both vendors' own published pages on the dates stated. Where a cell says the rate is a floor, that is because the vendor's page says "Starting at" rather than stating a price, and the distinction is worth preserving: a floor tells you what you cannot pay less than, not what you will pay.

The unit column is the one to read first. Onfleet counts a completed delivery or pickup as one task, so an order collected from a depot and dropped at a door can be two tasks.

Routific counts orders. Any side-by-side that treats one task as one order is comparing different quantities, and the error runs in whichever direction your operation happens to work.

Onfleet's published tiers are Launch from $619 a month including 2,500 delivery or pickup tasks, Scale from $1,349 including 5,000 tasks, and Enterprise from $3,099 for 10,000 or more. Users are unlimited at every tier, which is unusual in this category and genuinely removes a cost driver: adding dispatchers, supervisors or warehouse staff does not change the bill.

Read from the vendor's own pricing page and verified on 22 September 2026.

Divide the published allowances and you get the floor cost per task at each tier: $0.2476 at Launch, $0.2698 at Scale and $0.3099 at Enterprise. That arithmetic is ours, on the vendor's published figures, and it goes the way most buyers do not expect — the cost per task rises with the tier, because the higher tiers are buying capability rather than cheaper volume.

If volume alone is what you need, the lower tier plus overage is the conversation to have.

Routific publishes a stepped order-volume rate card: free up to 100 orders a month, $150 a month for 101-1,000, then $0.15 per order for 1,001-2,000, $0.13 for 2,001-3,000, $0.10 for 3,001-5,000, $0.08 for 5,001-10,000, $0.05 for 10,001-20,000 and $0.03 for 20,001-50,000, with anything above 50,000 directed to sales. Verified 30 September 2026.

We are deliberately not multiplying those rates out into monthly totals here, because the published page does not state whether a band rate applies to every order that month or only to the orders falling inside the band. That is the single question to ask before you model it.

Commercial terms are where the two part company most sharply, and in Routific's case partly through absence. Onfleet's terms are explicit: each service order "renews for additional periods based on the original duration ordered, unless either party provides the other with notice of non-renewal for its convenience at least 45 days prior to renewal date".

Forty-five days is a longer leash than most, and it is a diary entry with a renewal period attached to forgetting it. For Routific, our check records no published minimum term, auto-renewal clause or notice period.

That is an absence in the record rather than a finding that no terms exist, and it is a question for the vendor, not an assumption to make.

Neither vendor sells hardware, and Onfleet's terms contain no lease or return provisions — the agreement covers software accessed over the internet and mobile applications. Routific's free band under 100 orders a month is the cheapest genuine evaluation path in this pair, because it is a volume band rather than a 14-day clock: you can run a real route for as long as your volume stays under the line.

Neither rollout involves a vehicle. What both need is an order feed that arrives clean and on time, and service durations that reflect how long a stop actually takes.

Delivery operations consistently underestimate dwell time at the door, and a plan built on five minutes where the reality is nine fails by early afternoon regardless of which optimiser produced it.

The recipient-facing half is where the two diverge operationally. Onfleet's notification layer is a product feature with its own cost line: SMS and voice are billed separately from the plan fee, so a high-volume operation sending two messages per delivery has a variable cost that does not appear in the $619 figure.

Price that separately and ask for the per-message rate in writing.

Driver adoption is the shared risk. Both push stops to a driver app and depend on drivers marking tasks or orders complete close to real time, because that is what feeds recipient notifications and proof of delivery.

If drivers currently work from a printed run sheet, run one route in parallel for a week rather than cutting over, and watch the completion timestamps rather than asking drivers whether it went well.

Day two is a volume-forecasting job on both. Onfleet's tiers step at task allowances; Routific's rate card steps at order bands.

Either way, the cost of a good month is higher than the cost of an average one, and the planning question is whether your finance model can absorb a variable line. That is a different purchase shape from a per-vehicle subscription, and it suits operations whose revenue also scales with volume.