Architecture & cost
Better technology for about a tenth of the cost. The architecture is why.
This is not a discount — it's a different cost structure. Enterprise TMS pricing is built from cost lines that modern architecture simply doesn't have: seat licenses, module SKUs, per-partner integration fees, six-figure implementations, certification programs, and the permanent overhead of stitching acquisitions together. Delete those lines and the total cost of ownership drops by roughly 90% — not because the product does less, but because the architecture spends less to do more.
The math
Six cost lines this architecture deletes.
Per-seat licenses
Enterprise stackEvery dispatcher, biller, customer-service rep — and often every customer contact — is a billable seat.
ConterminalPriced on container work. Your whole team, and your customers' teams, use the record the work already pays for.
Per-module add-ons
Enterprise stackTracking, appointments, mileage, portals, and reporting sold as separate SKUs on top of the base TMS.
ConterminalOne product. The capability list on the feature matrix is the product, not a price sheet.
Per-partner integration fees
Enterprise stackEDI setup billed per trading partner; new customers arrive with integration invoices attached.
ConterminalThe platform connects to container sources itself; document-reading intake replaces most point-to-point integration entirely.
Six-figure implementations
Enterprise stackMonths of certified-consultant configuration before the first container is tracked; buyers report enterprise implementations quoted well into six figures.
ConterminalOnboarding scoped to your terminals and lanes. Tracking is useful in the first session.
Training and certification programs
Enterprise stackA module catalog large enough to need a certification industry around it.
ConterminalIf a drayage dispatcher needs a course to use it, we built it wrong. Plain screens, one record, AI that reads the paperwork.
The acquisition tax
Enterprise stackSuites assembled from acquired products carry permanent internal seams — every seam is integration work, support handoffs, and upgrade risk you fund.
ConterminalOne system, built as one system. There is no portfolio to reconcile and no cross-product sync to maintain.
Enterprise cost-structure characterizations reflect public buyer reports and trade-press coverage collected on the cost of ownership page. Vendors quote privately; make every vendor — including us — price the same list.
Where the savings come from
Modern architecture is the discount.
Conterminal is one operating record on a modern managed cloud, with automation doing the work that legacy stacks staff with modules and consultants. The AI that reads delivery orders replaces template projects. The collection layer that watches terminals replaces per-source integration contracts. The shared record replaces the middleware between an acquired dispatch product, an acquired rate product, and a partner audit tool.
Every one of those replacements removes cost for us before it removes cost for you — which is why the price can be a fraction without the product being one. The technology being newer isn't a marketing claim; it is the cost model.
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Next step
Price the same list with every vendor.
Take the ten cost lines from our cost page to every demo — including ours. The structure of the quotes will tell you more than the numbers.