Best AI freight quoting software for forwarders in 2026

The tools in this category all promise the same thing: read the rate request, find the price, draft the reply. They get there in different ways. Some price only from the rates you load, some pull live carrier and airline rates, some send the quote with nobody checking it, and most will not tell you what they cost until you have sat through a demo.

Before you read: Fretie makes one of the tools below, so we are not neutral. What we say about the others comes from their own websites, checked on 24 September 2026, and for each one we say where it fits better than we do.

How we compared them

• Where the price comes from: your own contract and spot rates, live carrier or airline rates, or both.
• Email: whether it reads quote requests from your inbox, and which mailboxes.
• Review: whether a person approves each quote before the customer sees it.
• Modes: ocean FCL and LCL, air, road.
• Getting started: public pricing, a trial, or a demo first.
• TMS: whether it sits alongside your TMS or is one.

The eight tools

1. Fretie

Fretie is an AI agent for the quote inbox. It reads rate requests in Gmail or Outlook, prices them from the contract and spot rates in your ledger with your margin rules, runs a completeness check on Incoterms, dangerous goods and rate validity, and leaves a drafted reply for your team to send. It covers FCL, LCL, air and road, and pushes accepted bookings to CargoWise or Magaya.

It also covers the work after the booking: carrier invoices checked against the quoted buy rate, demurrage and detention watched per container, and carrier surcharge notices applied to open quotes. Plans are published and the trial is free for 14 days. It will not send a quote on its own, the TMS push is one way, and there is no tender module, so look elsewhere if you need unattended replies or RFQ pricing.

Good fit if: you are a small or mid-size forwarder who wants to try AI quoting on your own inbox this week, at a known price, with a person on every reply.

2. Wisor

Wisor sells AI agents and what it calls a quote-to-revenue platform for forwarders. Its inbox agent, Wisor Ignite, works in Outlook and Gmail and turns incoming requests into quote drafts for your team. Its FAQ also describes a fully automatic mode that replies within 60 seconds, around the clock.

It covers ocean FCL, LCL and breakbulk, air, and trucking and drayage for door-to-door quotes, with live rates from sources including INTTRA, WebCargo and Cargo.one and direct connections to several ocean carriers. Margin rules, approval workflows and an audit trail are included. Pricing is not published; you start with a demo.

Good fit if: you want live carrier rate feeds in the quote and the option to let replies go out automatically. We compare the two products in more detail on our Fretie vs Wisor page.

3. Freightify

Freightify is a rate management platform covering procurement, rates, quoting and a customer portal. Its AI layer, sold as ravenAI, includes QuoteAI, which reads incoming requests and prepares ready-to-send quote suggestions with, in Freightify's words, a human always in the loop.

It lists live rates from more than 30 ocean carriers and NVOCCs and more than 90 airlines, rate sheets for road and rail, margin rules at several levels and a contract reader. CargoWise is named as an integration. Plans are marked contact sales, and you start with a demo or an access request.

Good fit if: managing rates and procurement across many carriers is a bigger problem for you than the inbox.

4. Nexcade

Nexcade offers a team of AI agents for coordination, quotations, tenders, bookings and analytics, working in your inbox, TMS and rate sources. Its quote agent extracts the shipment details, gathers rates, applies your margin policy and holds the draft at a review gate until a person releases it.

It names CargoWise, with quotes and bookings written back, and documents Microsoft 365 mailboxes. By its own estimate the first transport mode is usually live in about three months, starting from a discovery call. Pricing is not published.

Good fit if: you run CargoWise, price tenders as well as spot requests, and want a guided rollout.

5. Freightos for Forwarders (formerly WebCargo)

Freightos for Forwarders, the product previously called WebCargo, covers rate management, quoting, air eBooking and online sales. Its strength is air: live rates and booking with more than 75 airlines, alongside ocean FCL and LCL and trucking. Its site does not describe reading quote requests from email.

Booking air is free for forwarders and you can open an account yourself; the rate management and sales modules are priced on request. It lists ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification and a long list of TMS partners.

Good fit if: you quote a lot of air freight and want live airline rates and booking in one place.

6. Magaya

Magaya has two products that matter here. Magaya Rate Management, previously Catapult, is a multi-modal hub for rates and quotes that can file an FMC tariff directly from a quote and draws on a database of more than 54,000 surcharge values. Quote Automation is a separate AI tool for US domestic LTL and FTL, where staff review emailed or phoned-in requests in a portal and add markup before the quote goes back.

Both are sold by subscription after a demo. Rate Management is native to Magaya's own supply chain platform and has an API for other systems.

Good fit if: you already run Magaya or file FMC tariffs.

7. CargoWise

CargoWise is WiseTech Global's end-to-end logistics platform, and rates and quoting are built-in modules: a buy and sell rate engine with margin logic, spot and contract quotes, and accepted quotes that become bookings without re-keying. The AI features it lists are document ingestion and an agentic workflow engine it describes as still rolling out; reading quote requests from email is not described.

Unusually for this list, pricing is public. Its Value Pack charges per shipment, for example USD 19.95 per FCL or FTL import shipment, and by default passes the fee on to your customer as a CargoWise Automation Fee.

Good fit if: you already run CargoWise and want quoting inside the system of record.

8. Info-X

Info-X is a TMS with single-task AI agents and an optional managed back-office service. Its Rate Quote Agent reads an incoming rate request and returns a branded quote, in its own words, without a person touching it, and a follow-up agent chases quotes afterwards.

It covers FCL, LCL, LTL, RO-RO and intermodal, handles US and EU customs filings such as ISF, AMS, AES and ICS2 on the same shipment record, and syncs with accounting systems including QuickBooks, SAP, NetSuite and Xero. Pricing is not published; you start with a demo.

Good fit if: you want a TMS with fully automatic quote replies and customs filing in the same place.

Also worth knowing

Raft sells AI agents for forwarders that sort inbound email and match carrier invoices against buy rates, but its site does not describe quoting. Quotiss is quoting software for forwarders with published per-seat pricing and a 14-day trial, and does not claim AI or email reading. Starboard sells an AI quoting agent to North American forwarders, demo only.

How to choose

• You want replies to go out with nobody checking: look at Info-X, or Wisor's automatic mode. Decide first what one wrong price costs you.
• You want a person on every quote: Fretie, Nexcade and Freightify's QuoteAI all keep one.
• You live in CargoWise: use its quoting modules, or put an inbox agent such as Nexcade or Fretie in front of it.
• You quote mostly air: Freightos for Forwarders, for live airline rates and booking.
• You run Magaya or file FMC tariffs: Magaya Rate Management.
• You want to try it on your own inbox this week at a known price: Fretie publishes its plans and has a free trial.

Whatever you shortlist, test it on real requests from your own inbox, including the messy ones: a forwarded thread, a request with no cargo-ready date, a DG shipment. How a tool handles those tells you more than the demo will. Our guide to freight quote automation lists what to set up first and the ways automated quotes go wrong.

Vendor details come from each company's own website, checked on 24 September 2026. Products in this category change quickly. If anything here is out of date, email contact@fretie.com and we will correct it.