Circuit (Spoke) vs Route4Me (2026): Features, Pricing & Which to Choose

Both products started as multi-stop route planners and grew into team tools with a dispatcher dashboard and a driver app. Spoke Dispatch prioritizes simplicity and includes most essentials in every plan; Route4Me prioritizes breadth and configurability, with more features sold as tiers and add-ons.

Circuit (Spoke) vs Route4Me at a glance

Why Geofleet is our pick over Circuit (Spoke) and Route4Me

Geofleet is an AI-native delivery management platform. Alongside route optimization, it provides dispatch and auto-allocation across drivers and carriers, live tracking, ePOD, multi-hub and multi-leg shipments, shipper and carrier portals, and an AI Command Centre with AI agents that work under role-based guardrails. For teams that have outgrown a route planner, the differences are concrete:

• Free to start instead of $125–$199 a month: Geofleet’s Free plan covers up to 10 drivers and 300 orders a month with the driver app, real-time tracking, live customer ETAs and photo POD. Spoke Dispatch starts at $125/month and Route4Me at $199/month, and neither lists a free plan for dispatch teams.
• Per-driver pricing with unlimited orders: Professional is $19/driver/month and Premium $29/driver/month (minimum 10 drivers, billed quarterly), so rising volume doesn’t trigger Spoke’s per-stop overage or push you up Route4Me’s tiers and add-ons.
• AI auto-allocation across drivers and carriers: Spoke and Route4Me both focus on routing your own fleet, while Geofleet Premium assigns work across your drivers and third-party carriers using rules and AI.
• Multi-hub and multi-leg shipments: move freight through hubs and hand it between legs and carriers in one operational record, with shipper and carrier portals, rather than optimizing each facility in isolation.
• Customer updates, branding and integrations: SMS/WhatsApp notifications come with Professional (Route4Me sells SMS as an add-on), branded tracking pages and a branded driver app with Premium, and Geofleet connects to Shopify, Acumatica, Google Sheets and your systems through an open API and webhooks.

When Geofleet isn’t the right call: if you are a single-depot team that just needs good routes, or you rely on Route4Me’s telematics marketplace and commercial-vehicle routing, Spoke Dispatch or Route4Me may cover you well.

Route planning and optimization

Spoke Dispatch (formerly Circuit for Teams) is designed to make route planning quick: import stops, optimize in one click and send routes to drivers. Dispatchers can apply custom settings for depots, routes, stops and drivers and organize work with delivery zones. It is aimed at teams that want good routes without a long configuration project.

Route4Me offers a broader set of routing controls. Its Business Optimization tier adds multi-facility optimization, mixed-vehicle routing and driver skills and vehicle attributes, and add-ons cover recurring routing, curbside routing, commercial vehicle optimization and dynamic geofencing. Enterprise adds custom algorithms and optimization APIs. If you have heterogeneous vehicles, several facilities or recurring territories, Route4Me has more knobs to turn.

Dispatch and execution

Both provide a web dashboard to assign routes and monitor drivers live. Spoke Dispatch keeps dispatch deliberately lightweight and syncs changes to drivers in real time. Route4Me adds GPS tracking and route management across multiple facilities, and connects to telematics hardware through its marketplace, which suits fleets that already run vehicle tracking devices.

Driver experience and proof of delivery

Spoke grew out of Circuit’s popular route-planning app for individual drivers, and its driver experience is a genuine strength: navigation, barcode scanning, delivery photos and signatures in one app. Photo limits per stop vary by plan (5 on Starter, 10 on Premium and Expert). Route4Me’s iOS and Android apps support offline navigation and capture of proof of delivery or service, and Route4Me also sells individual-driver app plans.

Customer experience

Spoke Dispatch includes SMS and email notifications on every plan and adds a branded tracking page from Premium. Route4Me includes email notifications on its Route Optimization tier and sells text-message notifications as a paid add-on, and its site mentions customer portals for delivery visibility. If SMS updates are essential, factor that difference into the price comparison.

Integrations

Spoke Dispatch offers a public API for managing stops and routes, a webhook API for events, and Shopify and Zapier integrations on all plans. Route4Me offers APIs and SDKs on all plans and positions its marketplace for ERP, CRM, OMS, TMS and telematics connections. Route4Me is the better fit when the integration map is complex; Spoke is quicker to connect for commerce-led teams.

Pricing and total cost

As published in September 2026, Spoke Dispatch prices by stop volume with unlimited drivers: Starter is $125/month billed monthly with 1,000 stops ($0.04 per extra stop), Premium $200/month with 2,000 stops ($0.06 per extra stop, adds a branded tracking page and 1-year data retention) and Expert $1,000/month with 12,000 stops ($0.07 per extra stop, adds personalized onboarding, SSO and 5-year retention). Starter keeps data for 30 days, which is worth noting if you need historical proof records.

Route4Me lists three tiers: Route Optimization at $199/month, Business Optimization at $299/month and Enterprise Optimization at $349/month, with a 7-day free trial. The pricing page does not state whether these prices are per user, per driver or per account, and recurring routing, curbside routing, commercial-vehicle optimization, geofencing and SMS notifications are paid add-ons, so request a written quote for your fleet size and required add-ons.

Which should you choose?

• Choose Geofleet if you want to start free, pay per driver with unlimited orders, and handle allocation across your drivers and carriers, multiple hubs and multi-leg shipments in one platform.
• Choose Circuit (Spoke Dispatch) if you run a courier or local delivery team, want drivers productive on day one, and value included SMS/email notifications and unlimited drivers.
• Choose Circuit (Spoke Dispatch) if your drivers already know the Circuit or Spoke Route Planner app.
• Choose Route4Me if you route from several facilities, mix vehicle types, need driver skills or commercial-vehicle routing, or want telematics integrations.
• Choose Route4Me if you prefer to assemble a routing stack from a marketplace of add-ons.
• Look beyond both if you allocate work across your own drivers and third-party carriers, run multi-leg shipments through hubs, or want AI agents to handle allocation and exceptions.