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Freightmate alternatives
Mirage vs Freightmate
Freightmate sells an AI-native freight management system for forwarders and NVOCCs, quoting included, plus three standalone plugins for teams keeping their current TMS: shipping documents, customs entry prep and accounts payable. Mirage deploys agents inside the TMS and ERP you already run, built by its own engineers, with freight RFQ response as a first workflow.
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Short answer
Pick Freightmate if you are a small or growing forwarder ready to move onto a new AI-native system with its own quoting, customs, finance and customer portal, or want a packaged plugin for one document workflow. Pick Mirage if you are keeping CargoWise, Descartes, Magaya or an in-house TMS and want agents written into it, quotes answered from your own rate tables and lane history, and engineers who map your formats rather than a product to configure.
Executive Summary
Freightmate describes itself as an AI-native freight management system for freight forwarders, NVOCCs and logistics operators, covering all modes (FCL, LCL, air, road and rail) with quoting and rate management, customs and compliance, financial management and a white-labelled customer portal. Its homepage lists the work it automates: document processing and data entry, instant quoting, track and trace, customs preparation, communications across parties, trucking and dispatch, and finance operations.
For forwarders that keep their existing systems, Freightmate sells three standalone plugins. Shipping Documents collects "40+ types of shipping documents" from email, shared drives and APIs, extracts and validates the data, and creates or updates shipment records in "your TMS". Customs Entry Prep extracts line-level details from commercial invoices, packing lists and bills of lading and creates or updates customs entry records "in your system for your team to review". Accounts Payable matches invoice line items to charge codes, validates them against the TMS and pushes the result into it. No TMS is named on any of the three pages.
Freightmate's own figures are "90+ minutes of busywork automated per shipment", "60% more shipments per operator" and "< 2 minutes time to quote" on the homepage, and "60+ minutes" saved per shipment with "90% lower spend" than manual processing on each plugin page. It holds SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR certifications. The company closed a $5 million seed round led by FUSE VC in January 2025; its three founders worked at Amazon Global Logistics, Flexport, Geodis and Manhattan Associates. Pricing is not public: there is no pricing page.
Mirage is a forward-deployed AI engineering company. Its engineers deploy agents inside the client's existing TMS, ERP and customs tools and run them in production, following five steps (Observe, Map, Build, Run, Expand). The published logistics results are per deployment: 90%+ of standard freight RFQs answered automatically at OFRET Groupe, and 70% less manual data entry on freight documents at Transwin. A proof of concept on the client's documents comes one week after the first meeting; the first workflow is in production in 4 to 6 weeks.
The two meet on quoting and on freight documents. They differ on what you keep: Freightmate's full product is a new system to move onto, and its plugins are packaged workflows that sync to an unnamed TMS; Mirage builds around the systems and rate tables you have, and its engineers stay to run the agents.
Key Takeaways
- Freightmate is a new AI-native forwarding system with quoting, customs and finance, plus three plugins for teams keeping their TMS.
- Mirage deploys agents inside the TMS, ERP and customs tools you keep, built and run by its own engineers.
- Both automate quotes: Freightmate from rates in its system, Mirage from your own rate tables and lane history (90%+ automated at OFRET Groupe).
- Freightmate names no TMS integration and publishes no price; Mirage names CargoWise, Descartes and Magaya and starts at $10,000 to launch and $1,000 a month.
- Freightmate's results are its own claims; Mirage's are per published case study.
At a Glance
| Aspect | Mirage | Freightmate |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Forward-deployed AI agents inside your existing TMS, ERP and customs tools, built and run by Mirage engineers | AI-native freight management system (a TMS of its own), plus three standalone plugins for teams keeping their TMS |
| Who it is for | Forwarders, customs brokers, 3PLs and port operators keeping their systems, with work that spans several of them | Freight forwarders, NVOCCs and logistics operators; a vendor-published tool list places it with small and mid-size forwarders wanting a low-commitment first test |
| Document types | Bills of lading, CMRs, packing lists, commercial invoices, customs declarations, certificates of origin, dangerous goods declarations, carrier invoices, quote requests, proofs of delivery | "40+ types of shipping documents" including bills of lading, commercial invoices and arrival notices; packing lists and carrier invoices on the customs and AP plugins |
| Quoting | RFQs matched to your rate tables and lane history inside your systems; 90%+ of standard requests automated at OFRET Groupe | "Instant quoting" with "< 2 minutes time to quote" from rate data inside Freightmate's own system |
| Deployment | Proof of concept a week after the first meeting; first workflow in production in 4 to 6 weeks; engineers stay | Product onboarding; no deployment timeline published |
| Integrations | CargoWise (eAdaptor), Descartes, Magaya and custom TMS; SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and other ERPs; customs tools | Plugins sync to "your TMS"; no TMS, ERP or accounting system named on the pages read |
| Pricing model | From $10,000 to launch and $1,000 a month, the exact amount quoted in the first conversation | Not public as of October 2026; no pricing page |
| Human review | Every doubtful field routed to a named person inside the existing system before anything is written | Inconsistencies flagged and teams alerted; customs entry records created "for your team to review" |
| Languages and regions | Deployments in France, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States; French and Spanish documents in the published case studies | US-founded company; languages and regions supported not published |
| Reported results | 90%+ of standard RFQs automated (OFRET Groupe); 70% less manual data entry on freight documents (Transwin) | Freightmate's own figures: 60+ minutes saved per shipment, 90% lower spend, 60% more shipments per operator; no independent benchmark found |
Key Differences
A new system vs the one you keep
Freightmate's headline product is a freight management system: quoting, customs, finance and a customer portal in one place. That is a migration decision before it is an automation decision. Mirage never asks you to move; its agents read and write inside CargoWise, Descartes, Magaya, an in-house TMS and the ERP behind it.
Packaged plugins vs mapped workflows
Freightmate's three plugins are the same for every customer: collect, extract, validate, sync. Mirage's engineers map your document formats, your validation rules and your systems first, then build the agent to them, which is why a proof of concept on your own documents comes before any commitment.
Quotes from your own rate tables
Both automate quotes. Freightmate quotes from rate data loaded into its own system. Mirage reads the RFQ from the inbox, matches it to the rate tables and lane history you already maintain, and returns the quote through the channel you use, with 90%+ of standard requests automated at OFRET Groupe.
Stage of company
Freightmate is a seed-stage company ($5 million, January 2025) with founders from Amazon Global Logistics and Flexport. Mirage has more than 35 deployments in production for more than 30 clients in six countries. Neither publishes a customer count for logistics alone.
Advantages and Limitations
Mirage
Advantages
- No migration: agents are written into the TMS, ERP and customs tools you keep
- Quotes answered from your own rate tables and lane history, 90%+ of standard requests automated at OFRET Groupe
- Engineers map your formats and rules, build the agents and run them in production
- Proof of concept on your own documents a week after the first meeting
- Published, per-deployment results from named clients
Limitations
- Not self-serve: an engineering engagement, not a plugin you switch on
- No customer portal or forwarding system of its own; it assumes you have one
- Does not file customs declarations: it prepares and checks the data before filing
- Fewer US logistics references than European and Moroccan ones
Freightmate
Advantages
- One system for quoting, customs, finance and a white-labelled customer portal
- Three standalone plugins for teams keeping their TMS: shipping documents, customs entry prep, accounts payable
- Quote claimed in under two minutes from loaded rate data
- SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR certifications
- Founders from Amazon Global Logistics, Flexport, Geodis and Manhattan Associates
Limitations
- Pricing is not public; there is no pricing page
- No TMS, ERP or accounting integration named on the pages read
- Full product means moving your forwarding operation onto a new system
- Results are Freightmate's own claims; no independent benchmark found
- Seed-stage company (January 2025)
Real-World Use Cases
A new or small forwarder choosing its first system
No TMS yet, or a spreadsheet one, and a wish for quoting, customs, finance and a customer portal in one product: Freightmate's full system is built for that buyer, and the better fit.
A forwarder on CargoWise or Descartes losing quotes to turnaround
The TMS stays. RFQs arrive by email and the pricing desk answers them by hand. Mirage reads the request, matches it to your rate tables and lane history and returns the quote, with 90%+ of standard requests automated at OFRET Groupe.
One document workflow, packaged
If the brief is a packaged tool that extracts shipping documents and syncs them to the TMS, with your team reviewing the records, Freightmate's Shipping Documents plugin is that tool. Check first that your TMS is one it syncs to, since none is named.
Documents, customs data and carrier invoices across several systems
A TMS, an ERP and a customs tool that do not agree with each other, and documents that have to be checked against all three: Mirage maps the whole flow and deploys agents into each system, with 70% less manual entry reported at Transwin.
Mirage Products
Freight RFQ automation
Incoming RFQs matched to your rate tables and lane history and answered automatically for 90%+ of standard requests.
See the pageTMS data entry automation
Freight documents read and pushed into CargoWise, Descartes, Magaya or your TMS, with no re-keying.
See the pageCustoms declaration automation
Declaration data extracted and validated from commercial invoices, packing lists and certificates of origin before filing.
See the pageFreight invoice audit
Every carrier invoice checked against the contracted rate and the shipment record before payment.
See the pageHow to Choose
Decide first whether you are changing systems. If a new forwarding system with quoting, customs, finance and a portal is on the table, Freightmate is a candidate for that decision and Mirage is not. If the TMS stays, the comparison is between Freightmate's plugins and Mirage's agents.
Then check the integration. Freightmate's plugin pages sync to "your TMS" without naming one; ask which, and how. Mirage connects to CargoWise through eAdaptor, to Descartes, Magaya and custom TMS through the interface each documents, and its engineers do that work as part of the deployment.
Then the quote step. If quotes are the bottleneck and your rate tables live in your own systems, Mirage answers from them. If you are happy to load rates into a new system, Freightmate quotes from there.
When to pick which
Both automate quotes and freight documents. The choice turns on what you keep and who does the integration.
- Pick Freightmate when you want a new AI-native forwarding system with quoting, customs, finance and a customer portal, or a packaged plugin for one document workflow, and you have the team to configure and run a product.
- Pick Mirage when your TMS and ERP stay, the work spans several systems, you want quotes from your own rate tables and lane history, and you want engineers who map your formats and run the agents in production.
- Pick neither when volumes are small and documents follow one template, where template OCR and a TMS rule are cheaper, or when the process is fully rule-based with no exceptions, where RPA is faster to stand up.
Where Mirage fits on US and European operations
For US forwarders and NVOCCs, Mirage reads bills of lading, commercial invoices, packing lists and carrier invoices and writes them into the TMS in place, with exceptions routed to a person. Customs entries stay with your licensed broker: Mirage prepares and checks the data, it does not file. See detention and demurrage audit on US trades.
For French, Spanish and Moroccan operations, the same agents read CMRs, customs declarations and port documents in French and Spanish, as in the OFRET Groupe, Transwin and Mass Céréales Al Maghreb deployments.
Sources
- 01freightmate.ai, home page, accessed 7 October 2026
- 02freightmate.ai, Shipping Documents plugin, accessed 7 October 2026
- 03freightmate.ai, Customs Entry Prep plugin, accessed 7 October 2026
- 04freightmate.ai, Accounts Payable plugin, accessed 7 October 2026
- 05FreightCaviar, "freightmate Ai Raises $5M seed Round", 30 January 2025, accessed 7 October 2026
- 06Zavin (a TMS vendor), "AI Tools for Freight Forwarders in 2026: 11 Platforms Compared", accessed 7 October 2026
FAQ
Freightmate (freightmate.ai) is an AI-native freight management system for forwarders, NVOCCs and logistics operators, covering quoting, customs, finance and a customer portal across FCL, LCL, air, road and rail. It also sells three standalone plugins for teams that keep their existing TMS: Shipping Documents, Customs Entry Prep and Accounts Payable. It raised a $5 million seed round led by FUSE VC in January 2025.
Freightmate's main product is a new system to run your forwarding operation on; its plugins are packaged workflows that sync to your TMS. Mirage deploys agents inside the TMS, ERP and customs tools you already run, built and operated by its own engineers, with freight RFQ response from your own rate tables as a first workflow.
Freightmate does not publish prices as of October 2026 and has no pricing page. Contact the company for a quote.
The Shipping Documents, Customs Entry Prep and Accounts Payable pages say the plugins sync records to "your TMS" but name no TMS, ERP or accounting system. Ask Freightmate for the list before assuming yours is covered. Mirage connects to CargoWise through eAdaptor and to Descartes, Magaya and custom TMS through the interface each one documents.
Freightmate claims a quote in under two minutes from rate data inside its own system. Mirage answers RFQs from the rate tables and lane history you already maintain, inside your systems, with 90%+ of standard requests automated at OFRET Groupe. If you are keeping your systems, Mirage; if you are moving onto Freightmate anyway, its quoting comes with it.
A proof of concept on your own documents comes one week after the first meeting and the first workflow reaches production in 4 to 6 weeks. Freightmate publishes no deployment timeline.
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Mirage's logistics agents read quote requests, bills of lading, customs documents and carrier invoices and write the result into the TMS and ERP you already run, deployed and run by engineers who work inside your operation.
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