| Criteria | CargoMind | fireTMS |
|---|---|---|
| Entry pricing (Aug 2026) | Core €9/user/mo · Pro €20/user/mo (annual) — drivers free | From €79/month (net) ≈ €950+/year |
| Free trial | 30 days, no credit card | Trial available |
| Order intake | AI extraction from forwarded emails & PDFs | Forms, templates, exchange imports |
| Freight exchange sync | Not yet | Trans.eu, TIMOCOM, fireXgo — market-leading |
| Live tracking | Driver phone / Telegram, no hardware + Volvo Connect, Wialon, Frotcom integrations | Via third-party telematics (Inelo, Webfleet…) |
| CMR / eCMR | Auto-generated from order; e-signatures with email PIN; QR sharing | Supported |
| Customer credit checks | 10 sources: VIES, insolvency registers, blacklists, payment history | Payment monitoring / debt collection |
| Carrier invoice auditing | OCR + automatic check against agreed rate | Manual |
| AI features | Order intake, pricing suggestions, document OCR, message drafts, dispatch agent | Not AI-centred |
| Interface languages | EN, BG, RO, EL | PL, EN, DE and others (no BG/RO/EL) |
| Driver app | PWA + Telegram bot (no app-store install) | Mobile app |
| Best-fit customer | 1–30 truck carriers/forwarders in SEE & EU corridors | PL/CEE carriers living on freight exchanges |
fireTMS publishes pricing from €79/month net (with its fireXgo exchange bundled through 2026). For a small carrier that's roughly €950–1,900 per year depending on tier.
CargoMind charges per office user, and drivers are always free. The entry Core plan is €9/user/month — with real limitations: no AI engine, no Telegram integration, no CRM, 1 GB storage. The full experience is Pro at €20/user/month billed annually (€24 month-to-month): AI order intake, the AI dispatcher agent, Telegram, CRM and white-label, with AI actions metered from €0.04 after a monthly free allowance. A typical 2-dispatcher operation runs €480/year on Pro — the difference vs fireTMS funds a set of winter tyres.
The honest caveat: if fireTMS's exchange sync saves your dispatcher an hour a day because you live on Trans.eu, that hour is worth more than the price difference. Pay for the workflow you actually run.
This is the deepest difference between the two products.
fireTMS assumes the load was found on an exchange: the order flows in from Trans.eu/TIMOCOM with structured fields already present. For exchange-sourced freight this is exactly right.
CargoMind assumes the load arrives the way direct customers actually send it: a PDF transport order, a forwarded email chain, a photo of a document. Its AI reads the document, extracts route, dates, rate, references and cargo details, and creates a draft order a dispatcher confirms in one click. Companies processing 50–500 email orders per month typically save 4–8 dispatcher-hours a week.
Which one matches your inbox is the single best predictor of which TMS you'll be happier with.
CargoMind's live map works with zero hardware: drivers share position through the driver app or the Telegram bot they already use, and dispatchers see live positions, ETAs and EU driving-time context. Existing boxes aren't wasted — Volvo Connect, Wialon-based providers and Frotcom plug in. fireTMS relies on third-party telematics integrations (Inelo, Webfleet and others), which are excellent if you already pay for hardware — and an extra €15–25/truck/month if you don't.
CargoMind checks a customer before the truck moves: VAT validity (VIES), insolvency and court registers, freight blacklists and payment-history signals combined into a risk score. It also audits incoming carrier invoices against the agreed rate automatically. fireTMS approaches the problem after the fact, with payment monitoring and debt-collection support — useful, but a different philosophy: prevention vs collection.
Forward one real transport order email and watch it become a dispatched, tracked, invoiced load. 30 days free, no credit card.
Start Your Free TrialFor most small offices, yes — Pro is €20/user/month with drivers free (a 2-person office ≈ €480/year, and the limited Core plan just €216/year) vs from €79/month (~€950+/year). But price only decides between products of equal fit: if you need Trans.eu/TIMOCOM sync, fireTMS is worth its price; if your orders come by email/PDF, CargoMind automates more for less.
Yes. Trucks, drivers and customers import from spreadsheets, and the 30-day trial is long enough to run both systems in parallel on real orders before deciding.
fireTMS focuses on structured imports and exchange synchronisation rather than AI document extraction. CargoMind's intake is AI-native: emails, PDFs and photos become draft orders automatically.
CargoMind — the interface, documents and support are fully localised in Bulgarian and Romanian (plus Greek and English), while fireTMS targets Polish and Western European markets.