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vRouted vs Routific: Which Route Planner Fits Your Fleet?

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Routific is a well-regarded, established routing platform, and this comparison isn't framed to make it look otherwise. The two products price around different variables - order volume versus vehicle count - and which one costs less, or fits better, depends entirely on which variable actually describes your operation.

How the two price differently

Routific is free for up to 100 orders a month, then $150 a month flat for 101 to 1,000 orders, with unlimited drivers and planners included at no extra per-seat cost. Above 1,000 orders, pricing shifts to a per-order rate. vRouted prices per van, in pounds, and not by order count: a flat £79 a month for up to 3 vehicles on Starter, then £29 per vehicle a month on Growth (5-vehicle minimum). Users and orders don't change the bill.

Where Routific wins

If your order volume is low but you have many drivers and planners who all need seats, Routific's unlimited-seat model is genuinely hard to beat - especially the free tier, which is a real, usable product below 100 orders a month, not a crippled trial. An operation with a large team and modest volume should look closely at Routific before assuming a per-vehicle competitor is cheaper.

Where vRouted wins

If you run a lot of drops on a modest number of vans, which is typical of UK wholesale and drinks distribution, per-van pricing tends to come out ahead of per-order pricing once you're past Routific's free tier. vRouted is also built specifically around recurring multi-drop rounds with capacity, delivery windows and driver shifts, rather than general-purpose delivery routing.

Feature overlap

At this scale, core routing capability is comparable between the two - both support time windows, vehicle capacity constraints, and multiple vehicle types. Pricing structure fit is the more common deciding factor here than a genuine capability gap between the products.

A simple way to decide

The fastest way to tell which fits your operation:

  • High order volume, few drivers or planners - model your real numbers against Routific's per-order rate above 1,000 orders before assuming the free or flat tier applies
  • High drop count on a small, stable number of vans - vRouted's per-vehicle pricing is likely the cheaper path

Do the maths with your own numbers

As with any pricing comparison in this space, the right move is the same one that applies to evaluating ROI generally: take your actual monthly order count and vehicle count and run them against both pricing structures before deciding. The gap between the two models is real enough that the right answer genuinely depends on which one you are. If you're also looking at per-driver pricing, our OptimoRoute alternatives comparison runs the same maths.

About the author

Founder of Anteam, the East Midlands industrial AI company behind vRouted. She led development of Anteam's ant-colony-inspired route-matching platform, backed by the Department for Transport, Innovate UK and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Planning multi-drop rounds for a UK fleet? Read the guide to route planning software for multi-drop distributors.

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