What Are the Cheapest Taxi Dispatch Software Options?
The short answer
The cheapest option is not the one with the smallest headline price. It is the one whose cost stays flat as you grow. Most dispatch platforms price in one of three ways:
- Per vehicle, per month — your bill rises with every car you add
- Per job / commission — your bill rises with every fare you take
- Flat licence — the price stays the same however busy you get
Why per-job pricing is rarely cheap
A per-job fee looks small. At £0.30 a job it sounds like nothing.
Run the numbers for a small operator doing 40 jobs a day:
| Pricing model | Monthly cost at 40 jobs/day | | --- | --- | | £0.30 per job | ~£360 | | £2 per vehicle, 3 vehicles | £6 | | Flat licence | £17 |
The per-job model is roughly twenty times the flat licence at that volume — and the gap widens every time you get busier. That is the trap: the "cheap" option is cheap only while you are quiet.
What actually makes software expensive
- Per-job fees — scale against you
- Per-driver charges — punish you for growing the fleet
- Setup fees — a one-off sting that never buys anything again
- Locked contracts — paying for months you do not use
- Add-on modules — booking and dispatch sold separately
What a cheap option should include
A genuinely low-cost system still needs to do the job. At minimum:
- Instant online quotes calculated from your own rates
- A bookings screen where jobs are recorded and confirmed
- Payment handling, so money is tracked against the job
- Cloud access, so there is no server to maintain
- No per-job or per-driver caps
Our pricing
Our licences start at £17 per month and are flat — no per-job fee and no charge per driver, so the price you pay does not change as your workload grows. There is also a one-time purchase option if you would rather not pay monthly.
See pricing for the current tiers, or try the demo to see the system working before you decide.
The honest summary
If you do very few jobs, a per-job model may cost less in month one. If you intend to grow, a flat licence is almost always cheaper within a few months — and you avoid the situation where being successful makes your software unaffordable.