Cargo-Planner alternatives: honest comparison for logistics teams (2026)

Cargo-Planner is a capable load planning tool with genuine strengths — multi-modal support covering road, sea, and air, 18+ languages, and Excel integration. It is a serious product used by real logistics teams. But its pricing structure has a quirk that catches people out, and its user limits create a wall that growing teams hit sooner than they expect.

This comparison covers Cargo-Planner honestly against Teuvia, EasyCargo, CargoWiz, and Goodloading. All pricing figures below were verified directly from each vendor’s live pricing page, not taken from secondhand reviews. Where a tool is the better choice than Teuvia, we say so.

The thing most people miss about Cargo-Planner’s pricing

Cargo-Planner’s entry-level Lite tier does not include interactive 3D mode. This is stated explicitly on their own pricing page, marked with a red cross next to the words “No interactive 3D.”

That matters because interactive 3D is, for most buyers, the entire reason to use a load planning tool rather than a spreadsheet. You are paying $99 per month (billed monthly) or $59 per month (billed annually) for a single-user plan that does not let you interactively explore the 3D load plan it generates.

To get interactive 3D mode and load plan URL sharing, you need the Standard tier at $139 per month billed monthly, or $99 per month billed annually.

None of this is hidden or dishonest on Cargo-Planner’s part — it is clearly labelled on their pricing page. But it is easy to skim past when comparing headline prices, and it means the real entry price for a usable 3D load planner from Cargo-Planner is meaningfully higher than the number most people quote.

Verified pricing comparison

Nearly the same price. Very different value.

Here is the comparison that matters most. At roughly the same monthly price, look at what each tool actually gives you:

Cargo-Planner (Lite, billed monthly), $99/month: 1 user, no interactive 3D.
Teuvia, $98/month flat: unlimited users, interactive 3D included.

For a dollar less per month, one tool gives a single person a load planner without interactive 3D, and the other gives an entire team a load planner with it. This is not a criticism of Cargo-Planner’s product quality, which is genuinely good. It is a straightforward observation about what each price point buys.

Cargo-Planner — what it does well

Cargo-Planner is a mature, well-built product and there are clear reasons to choose it.

Multi-modal coverage is its strongest card. It handles road, sea, and air freight in one tool, including full aircraft and vessel loaders as Enterprise options. If your operation spans multiple transport modes and you want one system for all of them, Cargo-Planner covers more ground than most competitors including Teuvia.

Language support is exceptional — 18+ languages, which matters enormously for international forwarding operations with teams across multiple countries. Very few tools in this category come close.

Excel integration and custom branding are included even at the Lite tier, which is unusual. Custom branding at the entry price point is genuinely generous, since most competitors gate white-labelling behind enterprise plans.

The Enterprise tier is comprehensive: API access, single sign-on, audit trails, issue SLAs, multiple sites, and integration assistance. For a large operation with real IT requirements, that list is serious and few competitors match it.

Cargo-Planner is the right choice if you need genuine multi-modal planning across road, sea, and air, if you need broad language support for an international team, or if you need enterprise features like SSO and audit trails and are prepared to have a sales conversation to get them.

Where Cargo-Planner gets expensive as you grow

The five-user cap on Standard is where growing teams hit friction. Standard covers 5 users and is explicitly marked “Valid for one branch.” Your sixth user, or your second location, means moving to Enterprise, which means a sales call and custom pricing rather than a self-serve upgrade.

This is a common structure and not unreasonable — but it means Cargo-Planner’s pricing is predictable only up to a point. Beyond five people or one site, you cannot know what you’ll pay without contacting them.

For a team that is stable at five or fewer people in one location, Standard at $99 per month billed annually works out to roughly $20 per user per month, which is genuinely competitive and cheaper per seat than EasyCargo’s $79 per user. Cargo-Planner is not an expensive tool at that size. The question is what happens when you grow past it.

Teuvia — the flat-rate alternative

Teuvia charges a flat $98 per month for an unlimited number of users, with interactive 3D included at every tier. There is no five-user cap, no single-branch restriction, and no point at which adding a colleague triggers a price increase or a sales conversation.

The 3D packing engine calculates optimised load plans in under 50 milliseconds using container dimensions accurate to IICL and ISO 668 specifications. EU EC 96/53 and US FHWA axle weight limits are built into the calculation rather than sold as a separate feature, so every load plan includes a legal compliance check as standard. Whether you are working out how many pallets fit in a container or balancing a mixed load, the plan updates live as you go.

Teuvia also offers free calculators — a container loading calculator, a CBM calculator, and a truck axle load calculator — with no signup required at all. These are genuinely free tools, not trial-gated demos.

Where Teuvia is honestly behind Cargo-Planner: multi-modal coverage. Cargo-Planner’s aircraft and vessel loaders go further than Teuvia currently does. Language support is also narrower. If those are core requirements, Cargo-Planner is the better fit and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.

Teuvia is the right choice if your team is growing, if you want interactive 3D without paying a premium tier for it, if axle compliance matters to your road operations, or if you want predictable flat pricing with no user-count wall.

The other alternatives, briefly

EasyCargo ($79 per user per month) is the most recognisable brand in the category and genuinely easy to use. It includes 3D visualisation at its single price point, so there is no tier confusion. But at $79 per user, a team of five costs $395 per month, which is significantly more than Cargo-Planner Standard or Teuvia for the same team size. Our EasyCargo alternatives guide breaks its pricing down in full.

CargoWiz is a one-time purchase, not a subscription — $235 for a single user, scaling to $1,355 for fifteen users. It is a desktop application for Windows and Mac with strong palletisation, no mobile app, and no real-time collaboration. If you would rather pay once than subscribe, and you work offline, it is worth considering.

Goodloading ($13 per user per month) is the cheapest per-seat option here, backed by Trans.eu, with multi-modal coverage. It has no native palletisation and no flat team pricing, so like EasyCargo the cost scales linearly with headcount.

Which one should you actually choose?

Choose Cargo-Planner if you need real multi-modal planning across road, sea, and air, broad language support for an international team, or enterprise features like SSO and audit trails — and your team is stable at five people or fewer in one location.

Choose Teuvia if your team is growing, if you want interactive 3D at the entry price rather than a premium tier, if axle load compliance matters, or if you want flat pricing that does not punish you for adding colleagues.

Choose EasyCargo if you are a solo planner who values a mature, well-known tool and the per-user price is not a concern.

Choose CargoWiz if you want a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, work offline, and need strong palletisation.

Choose Goodloading if you need the lowest per-seat price and multi-modal coverage, and palletisation is not a requirement.