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A Flexport alternative that works with any forwarder

Flexport is a freight forwarder and customs broker with its own software platform, and it says the platform is free for its customers. Senda is software only: it moves no freight, so your record stays yours whichever forwarder you use.

If you want one company to move the freight, clear customs and give you the software, Flexport does all three. If you use several forwarders, or want your record independent of any one of them, Senda is built for that.

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Where Senda earns its place

What you get that is hard to get elsewhere.

Any forwarder's paperwork

Bills of lading, invoices and packing lists arrive in every format. Senda reads them on upload and shows where each value came from.

Your data, reachable

A read API with scoped keys lets your other systems pull orders and shipments, whoever the forwarder was.

Events pushed to you

Signed, retried webhooks tell your systems when a shipment's status changes, so nothing waits for someone to check.

Side by side

Flexport and Senda, row by row

What Flexport publishes about itself, read on 27 September 2026, beside what Senda does.

Flexport compared with Senda
Compared	Flexport	Senda
What it is	A freight forwarder and customs broker with its own software platform	Software only. Senda moves no freight and files nothing
Price of the software	Their edge“Flexport's platform is free for our customers” — Flexport makes its money moving shipments, clearing customs and fulfilling orders	A flat monthly subscription, whoever moves your freight. Core $249/month for 5 users; Operations $599/month for 15 users. Enterprise is priced with you.
Moving freight and clearing customs	Their edgeYes — it is the forwarder and the customs broker	No. Use the forwarder and broker you already have
Tracking	Their edgeShipment tracking across modes, on its platform	Milestones entered by your team or imported; there is no vessel-position feed
Purchase orders	Purchase order creation and management	Orders and their line items, linked to the shipments, containers and documents that fulfil them
Documents from other forwarders and suppliers	Not covered on the pages we read	Read on upload from any source, with each value pointing to where it sits on the page
Integrations	APIs for connecting other business systems	A read API with scoped keys and signed outbound webhooks, on Operations
Korea customs	Not covered on the pages we read	Korea Customs UNIPASS clearance lookups in the same workspace, read-only, on Operations
Beauty storage and shipping	Their edgeIts beauty page offers climate-controlled storage and shipping for aerosols, alcohol-based products and fragrances	No. Senda stores and moves nothing; your forwarder and warehouse do
MoCRA on cosmetics shipments	Its beauty page says MoCRA now requires end-to-end traceability. A registration and listing check on each shipment is not covered on the pages we read	MoCRA registration and listing numbers recorded against suppliers and product lines, and checked on every cosmetics shipment before it arrives
Cosmetics duty and documents	A cosmetics help article says cosmetics generally fall under heading 3304 and need an FDA product code	Duty stacked line by line with each rate sourced, including the 12.5% Section 301 duty on Korean cosmetics, and the CoA and INCI list on the shipment checklist

What it is
Flexport
A freight forwarder and customs broker with its own software platform
Senda
Software only. Senda moves no freight and files nothing
Price of the software
Flexport
Their edge“Flexport's platform is free for our customers” — Flexport makes its money moving shipments, clearing customs and fulfilling orders
Senda
A flat monthly subscription, whoever moves your freight. Core $249/month for 5 users; Operations $599/month for 15 users. Enterprise is priced with you.
Moving freight and clearing customs
Flexport
Their edgeYes — it is the forwarder and the customs broker
Senda
No. Use the forwarder and broker you already have
Tracking
Flexport
Their edgeShipment tracking across modes, on its platform
Senda
Milestones entered by your team or imported; there is no vessel-position feed
Purchase orders
Flexport
Purchase order creation and management
Senda
Orders and their line items, linked to the shipments, containers and documents that fulfil them
Documents from other forwarders and suppliers
Flexport
Not covered on the pages we read
Senda
Read on upload from any source, with each value pointing to where it sits on the page
Integrations
Flexport
APIs for connecting other business systems
Senda
A read API with scoped keys and signed outbound webhooks, on Operations
Korea customs
Flexport
Not covered on the pages we read
Senda
Korea Customs UNIPASS clearance lookups in the same workspace, read-only, on Operations
Beauty storage and shipping
Flexport
Their edgeIts beauty page offers climate-controlled storage and shipping for aerosols, alcohol-based products and fragrances
Senda
No. Senda stores and moves nothing; your forwarder and warehouse do
MoCRA on cosmetics shipments
Flexport
Its beauty page says MoCRA now requires end-to-end traceability. A registration and listing check on each shipment is not covered on the pages we read
Senda
MoCRA registration and listing numbers recorded against suppliers and product lines, and checked on every cosmetics shipment before it arrives
Cosmetics duty and documents
Flexport
A cosmetics help article says cosmetics generally fall under heading 3304 and need an FDA product code
Senda
Duty stacked line by line with each rate sourced, including the 12.5% Section 301 duty on Korean cosmetics, and the CoA and INCI list on the shipment checklist

Which one to pick

Which one fits depends on the job.

Choose Senda if

You use more than one forwarder, or expect to change forwarder, and want your record to stay where it is when you do.
You would rather pay for software as software, separate from who moves your goods.
Your documents arrive from many suppliers and forwarders, and somebody is retyping them.
Korea is on your lane and you want Korea customs clearance lookups in the same workspace.

Choose Flexport if

You want one company to move your freight, clear customs and provide the software, and you are happy to consolidate your forwarding with them.
Shipment tracking across modes, from the same company moving the goods, matters more to you than anything else on this page.
You would rather not pay for software separately at all — with Flexport, the platform comes with the freight.

Whose record is it?

Flexport is candid about its model: the software is free because Flexport earns its money moving your freight and clearing your customs. For a company happy to route its forwarding through Flexport, that is a strong offer — the software and the service come from the same place.

The trade-off is where your operational history lives. If your record sits inside your forwarder's platform, changing forwarder means changing systems. Senda sits alongside whichever forwarders you use, so the order, shipment and document history stays with your team.

Questions

What people ask us.

Does Senda move freight or clear customs?

No. Senda is software only. It files nothing with any customs authority and books no freight — you keep the forwarder and broker you have.

Why pay for Senda when Flexport's software is free?

Flexport's platform is free for Flexport customers because it is paired with Flexport's freight and customs services. If you want to stay with other forwarders, or use several, the software has to come from somewhere else — that is the case Senda is for.

Does Senda have live vessel positions like a forwarder platform?

No. Shipment milestones in Senda are entered by your team or imported, and each one is labelled with where it came from. There is no vessel-position feed.

Start with your real workflow

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Where this comparison comes from

Every row about Flexport was read from flexport.com and the pages listed below on 27 September 2026. Plans and prices move; if a row is out of date, it is our mistake, and we will correct it.

Flexport and any other product names on this page belong to their owners, who have not reviewed or endorsed this comparison.