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Rutba vs Onfleet
Last-mile dispatch as a finished product: routes, a driver app, and the live tracking page a recipient watches.
Checked 6 September 2026Onfleet — pricing and product ↗
What Onfleet is
A delivery management platform for the final leg. Tasks are imported or created by API, auto-assigned and sequenced into routes, pushed to a driver app with turn-by-turn navigation and proof of delivery, and surfaced to the recipient as a live map with an ETA and a text message. Sold per driver per month with an API included above the entry tier.
Who it genuinely suits
- Anyone whose product is the delivery itself — couriers, pharmacy, grocery, meal delivery
- Operations that need drivers routed and re-routed through the day
- Teams who want the recipient watching a dot rather than phoning to ask
- Businesses that already have an order system and want only the last leg solved
Where they win
What Onfleet does better than us.
Every comparison page on this site has this section and none of them is empty. If it were, you would be right to discount the rest of the page.
The live dot, which we do not have at all
Onfleet is built around the recipient watching the driver approach. We deliberately did not take that decision: nothing in the estate keys a position to a person, the columns exist and nothing writes them, and the tracking app returns a null position on purpose. This is not a gap we are about to close by accident — it is a privacy decision with a gate on it, and until that gate is opened Onfleet does something we do not.
A real route solver
Sequencing dozens of stops against time windows, service durations and vehicle capacity is a hard optimisation problem and theirs is mature. Ours assigns by what a consignment needs — refrigeration, a tail-lift, a two-person crew, size limits — which is a different and narrower thing, and the multi-stop solver is a named milestone rather than a shipped one.
A driver app that assumes no signal
Offline task lists, queued proof of delivery, background location. Ours is honest about the opposite: the rider app has no socket and no service worker, and every screen needs the network.
Ready this afternoon
Sign up, import a CSV, dispatch. Our dispatch module is built and its smoke suite is green, but the fleet listing is still marked coming soon and the general path to buying it is not open.
Where we win
What Rutba does that this does not.
Argued from how the products are built rather than from a feature list, because feature lists are the part of a comparison that goes stale first.
The consignment is born from the order
Onfleet starts where your order system ends, which means an integration somebody maintains and two systems that disagree about what was ordered. Here the consignment comes out of the sales order, and the parcel that goes out is the stock that leaves.
Delivery moves the stock and the money
A delivered consignment walks the stock out of the branch and posts the cash the driver collected to the ledger. In an Onfleet estate both of those are somebody else's job, done later, from an export.
The courier is a person the rest of the system knows
Their duty day, their rest, their licence and their pay live beside the run. Gig-courier pay reaches payroll or becomes a supplier bill without a spreadsheet in between.
The recipient is called through your own numbers
Masked calls between courier and recipient run on the tenant's own telephony rather than a third party's. That matters mostly for who holds the recording and the data-processing agreement.
And the one that is not a feature
Onfleet, Inc. will not build what you ask for. We will.
That is not a criticism of them — a vendor at their scale has to weigh your request against every other customer it touches, and schedule it behind a roadmap set a year out. Your request is a rounding error in their planning, honestly so. We are small, and the people building the product are the people you talk to: what helps everyone goes into the product at no extra charge, what is specific to you is quoted as the work it is, and when the answer is no you get the reason.
Side by side
The same six questions the hub asks of everyone.
| Question | Rutba | Onfleet |
|---|---|---|
| Runs the businessCRM, stock, orders, production and the ledger, from one vendor | Included | Not covered |
| Runs the dayMail, files, documents, chat and meetings, included rather than licensed separately | Included | Not covered |
| One set of recordsDo the modules share the records, or integrate copies of them | Included | Not covered |
| Buy it yourselfCan you subscribe and start without a partner or a sales cycle | Included | Included |
| Parts sold separatelyCan you take one piece without committing to the platform | Included | Included |
| Run it yourselfIs there a path to your own hardware | Partly | Not covered |
On price: We do not reproduce Onfleet, Inc.’s prices here. A list price is published and fair to quote, and it is stale within a quarter — which would make this page quietly wrong in a way you could not see. Read today’s number from them, and ours is on our pricing page in full, tier by tier.
Moving
What leaving Onfleet actually involves.
The question that decides this is not whether you should move but whether you can. This is the honest version, including the parts that do not come across.
- 1
Tasks export cleanly as CSV; the history of completed deliveries usually becomes an opening position rather than a migration.
- 2
If your recipients currently watch a live map, they will notice its absence immediately. Do not move for that reason alone.
- 3
Route sequencing has to be re-thought rather than exported: ours assigns by capability, theirs optimises a path.
No customer has done this yet. The steps above describe the mechanism — what exports, what imports, what has to be rebuilt — rather than a migration we have run. When one has been run, this section will say whose it was.
Our actual recommendation
If the delivery is your product and the live map is what your customers expect, buy Onfleet. Consider us when the delivery is the tail end of an order you already took here — when what you want is one record from the order to the stock movement to the cash, and you can live without the dot.
If you did move
The products this comparison is about.
With their real availability labels, which apply inside a comparison exactly as they do everywhere else on this site.
Note before you compare: Rutba Fleet is not generally available yet. Any row above that we win on it is a claim about what ships, not about what you can buy today.
Rutba Orders
Available nowOrder management (OMS) & delivery software
The order hub where web, counter, and phone orders all land — picked, packed, dispatched, delivered, and returned, with a rider app for the last mile.
- One queue for web, counter, and phone orders
- Pick and pack workflows with stock reserved automatically
- Delivery runs assigned to drivers, tracked live
Includes: Orders · Rider · Dispatch · Track
From $19 per user / month
Rutba Fleet
Coming soonFleet management software
Vehicles and their operating profile on the asset register, drivers and licences, walkaround checks and defects, duty and hours, fuel and energy, incidents, and cost per kilometre.
- The vehicle profile on the asset register - no second vehicle table
- Drivers, licences and the checks they are due
- Walkaround checks and defects from the cab
Custom pricing
Rutba Inventory
Available nowInventory management & warehouse (WMS) software
Stock levels, multi-location transfers, stocktakes, and valuation — the single source of truth every other part of the business reserves and deducts against.
- Live stock across unlimited locations and bins
- Transfers with in-transit visibility
- Scheduled and rolling stocktakes with variance reporting
Includes: Stock · Warehouse Control · Procurement
From $22 per user / month
Head to head
Onfleet against the others.
You are comparing Onfleet to something, and it may well not be us. These are written to the same standard as this page — sourced, dated, and naming where each product wins.
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