Best Freight Rate Management Systems (2026): Top 9 Compared

Freightos for Forwarders is the product formerly known as WebCargo. Freightos, which is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CRGO, now sells it as a suite for forwarders, and the rate management part is marketed as Rate & Quote. The vendor states that forwarders in more than 10,000 offices use the platform.

The Rate & Quote page describes one engine for air, ocean and multimodal pricing. It stores a forwarder's static rates and combines them with live rates, then produces account-specific quotes with landed costs and markups. Book Air lets a forwarder search, compare and book across more than 75 airlines. A separate sales portal adds customer self-service quoting, and a Terminal product adds spot and contract rate benchmarking and forecasts.

The main fit is a forwarder with a significant air book, where live airline rates and booking inside the quoting tool remove a step. The pages fetched do not list file formats for rate sheet upload or name specific TMS connectors, so a buyer on CargoWise or Magaya should ask how quotes and bookings reach the operations system.

Freightify sells a core platform for freight forwarders to procure, manage and quote freight prices. The rate management module accepts rates entered one at a time, in bulk, through API upload or by uploading rate sheets. Ocean, air, road and rail sheets are converted into a standard format. The vendor states that more than 250 forwarders in more than 45 countries use it.

Search filters cover carrier, cargo type, commodity, origin and ports, and the module supports multi-port and postal code searches, scheduled searches and export to Excel. Margin rules can be set at product, group, company and port-pair level, and surcharges, demurrage and detention and arbitrary charges are added to quotes automatically. The quotation module tracks quotes through active, expired, lost and won states.

Pricing is structured but not published. Essentials allows one country, up to five users and 500 searches and quotes a month. Rate sheet automation is billed per sheet with a three-working-day standard level or a one-day option. The homepage states integration with CargoWise and other TMS and ERP systems.

Magaya Rate Management is the rate product that Magaya sells on the page formerly branded Catapult. Magaya, founded in 2001, also sells the Magaya Supply Chain operations platform, and the rate product works with it or with another system of record.

The page describes one control tower to search and compare rates, manage margins, answer RFQs, prepare quotes and file tariffs. Rates are digitised from whatever format they arrive in, and a managed service can take over rate and contract entry. Quotes combine air, ocean, rail and road rates and show schedules and free time.

Two features stand out for US ocean intermediaries. The first is FMC filing: tariff rates, governing rules and negotiated rate arrangements can be published and stored, including in bulk. The second is a surcharge database that the vendor states holds more than 54,000 current values of more than 180 types across more than 340 FMC trade lanes. A Digital Contract Exchange moves rate data between carriers and forwarders, and an extension manages ocean allocation commitments.

CargoSphere describes itself as an ocean freight rate management provider and a neutral rate network for container shipping. WiseTech Global, the company behind CargoWise, acquired it in 2017, and the homepage reads "Now a WiseTech Company". At the time of the acquisition the vendor stated more than 100 customers, naming Kuehne + Nagel and Dachser among them.

Carrier contracts and amendments are loaded by SUDS, a diagnostic upload tool that the vendor runs in-house. A managed service can also enter contracts for the customer. Rate Mesh connects carriers, forwarders and shippers so that each party chooses which rates to send to whom, and updates then flow without re-entry.

For forwarders, the documented workflow covers rate search across own contracts and partner rates, quotes built from buy rates with set margins, HTML or Excel quote output and an internal RFQ path from sales to pricing. A 2019 release documents rate integration and single sign-on with CargoWise One. The product fits an ocean-heavy forwarder that already runs CargoWise more than one that needs air or road rates in the same library.

Descartes Systems Group sells Global Price Management (GPM) to freight forwarders and logistics service providers. The vendor states that 4 of the top 5 and 12 of the top 25 freight forwarders use it, and that forwarders using it deliver 90% of customer quotes in under 30 seconds.

GPM keeps ocean, air and land rates in one global database. Carrier Data Exchange receives contracts and updates directly from transport providers. Customer Quoting creates quotes in the forwarder's existing formats, and Effective Pricing applies configurable mark-up logic. Allocation Management tracks ocean carrier allocations, and detention and demurrage agreements are stored with the rates. A spot rate module compares contracted rates with market levels.

An API connects GPM data to a TMS, CRM or other system, and reporting covers rate and quote activity. Descartes also sells Digital Rate Management, a customer-facing layer for online quoting, booking and tracking. GPM suits a forwarder whose difficulty is the size of its contract portfolio and allocation commitments, not one that needs a low-cost quoting tool.

CargoEZ is a freight forwarding platform from Avow Solutions Inc., and its rate module appears in the navigation as Rates & Tariff (RMS). The product page describes it as purpose-built for freight forwarders.

The module holds carrier rate sheets, contract tariffs, buy and sell rates, surcharges and local charges in one searchable database. Rates are uploaded from CSV and Excel. Air and ocean rates can be compared side by side by price and transit time for a lane. Automated quoting applies stored rates, surcharges and approved margins, and margins can be set by service, route or customer group.

The value of the module depends on the rest of the suite. Rate updates are passed to quoting, invoicing and related workflows, and sibling modules cover a logistics CRM with quotation management, accounting, a customer portal, eAWB and tracking. The pricing page states that subscriptions can be paid monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annually and that the price depends on the modules chosen. A forwarder already on another operations system gains less from the module alone.

Wisor sells software for freight forwarders built around quoting. Wisor Rate Management keeps freight rates, contracts and FAK rates in one place and integrates with the forwarder's TMS or ERP. Contracts can be uploaded, expirations tracked and alerts raised when rates change.

The part that separates Wisor from a classic rate library is intake. Incoming RFQs from email, portals or phone logs are converted into structured quote requests and quote drafts for staff to review. A rates table compares contracted and spot options with price, transit time and service level side by side, and branded PDF quotes apply margins automatically. Wisor Ignite, an agent inside Outlook and Gmail, extends this to sales follow-up.

On integration, the vendor documents a native CargoWise connection through the e-Adaptor, which sends ad hoc quotes and tariffs, a direct API connection to Unifreight and a standard API for other systems. Accepted quotes flow back to the TMS. The site does not publish prices or document mode coverage in detail, so buyers should confirm both.

Shipthis is a freight forwarding platform whose tariff and rate management module centralises buy and sell rates with surcharge detection and validity controls. The vendor states that forwarders in more than 35 countries run their operations on it.

Rate structures are defined per mode. FCL rates are held by container and lane, LCL with volumetric conversion, air by weight break, rail across borders, FTL by lane and vehicle type and LTL by zone and weight slab. Local and port charges sit beside them. One search covers modes and carriers, customer-specific tariffs are applied first in quotes and old rate versions are kept with their validity ranges.

Contract rate management stores and versions contracted rates with expiry alerts. Spot rates can be pulled from carriers, a group quote covers several shipments or lanes and an RFQ module handles inbound requests. A margin rules engine applies markups and blocks quotes below a floor. The module belongs to a full forwarding suite with a branded customer portal, so it fits a forwarder replacing its operations system more than one adding a rate tool to CargoWise.

GoFreight is a cloud forwarding platform built for freight forwarders, with a stated presence in the United States, Mexico and several Asian markets. Its Rate & Quoting module collects rates from emails, contracts, spot sources and overseas partners.

Rate ingestion is described as AI parsing: a carrier rate card, PDF, Excel file or email is uploaded and GoFreight states that it is parsed and loaded in under 24 hours. Contract rates keep their validity periods, spot rates sit beside them and both can be compared side by side and pulled into a quote. Rates and quotes support multiple currencies with built-in exchange rates.

Quoting uses templates and markups by customer, lane or service type, produces branded PDFs and tracks each quote as pending, won or lost by customer, lane or sales representative. A won quote becomes a shipment in one click and its charges move to invoicing. Integrations include an open REST API, webhooks and a two-way QuickBooks Online sync. The integrations page lists more than 125 carriers, but for tracking data, not rate feeds.