Last updated September 2026
Is Kuebix still available in 2026?
Yes. Kuebix is actively sold and supported by FreightWise, which acquired it from Trimble in November 2023. The platform has its own site at kuebix.com, describes itself as a full-featured SaaS TMS for midmarket and larger shippers, and was acknowledged in the 2025 Gartner Midmarket Context for the Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems. Gartner Peer Insights lists the vendor as "FreightWise (Kuebix)."
The shutdown that everyone remembers was real, but it was announced by a previous owner and then cancelled by a new one.
Who owns Kuebix now?
FreightWise. Kuebix has had three owners: it was independent until Trimble acquired it in January 2020 for roughly $200 million, and FreightWise bought it from Trimble in November 2023. FreightWise has kept Kuebix as a distinct named product rather than folding it into another platform, and has publicly committed to continued investment in it.
Why does everyone think Kuebix was shut down?
Because for about fourteen months, that was the plan of record.
In September 2022, Trimble announced it would stop selling and developing Kuebix, support existing customers for up to 36 months, and fully sunset the platform by the end of 2025. Trimble was pivoting to Engage Lane, its own transportation procurement product, and pointed customers toward preferred replacements including 3G. That announcement got wide coverage, and it is still what most comparison sites and software directories repeat.
What most of them missed is that the sunset never arrived. FreightWise acquired Kuebix, and in January 2025 relaunched it, adding a preferred carrier program with Estes as the first participating carrier and a self-serve version called OnKue starting around $69 per month.
If you read three years of coverage in order, it looks like a death notice followed by silence. The silence was the correction.
The Kuebix timeline
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| January 2020 | Trimble completes its acquisition of Kuebix for approximately $200 million. |
| September 2022 | Trimble announces it will shut Kuebix down. Sales and development stop, support continues for up to 36 months, full sunset targeted for the end of 2025. Trimble pivots to Engage Lane. |
| 2022 to 2023 | Trimble names 3G among the preferred replacements for departing Kuebix customers. |
| November 2023 | FreightWise acquires Kuebix from Trimble. The sunset is cancelled. Kuebix keeps its name. |
| January 2025 | FreightWise relaunches Kuebix. Estes becomes the first carrier in the FreightWise Preferred Carrier Program. FreightWise also launches OnKue, a self-serve version of Kuebix. |
| Today | Kuebix is sold and supported by FreightWise, and is referenced in the 2025 Gartner Midmarket Context for the TMS Magic Quadrant. |
So why do shippers still look for Kuebix alternatives?
Not because the platform is disappearing. Four reasons come up repeatedly, and only one of them is about the software itself.
Roadmap confidence never fully recovered. Being told your platform is sunsetting, then told it is not, is not the same as never being told at all. Some teams decided during those fourteen months that they wanted off, and never revisited it.
Carrier competition is thin. Kuebix rate-shops across the carriers you have already contracted with. That is genuinely useful, and it is also a ceiling. If the answer you need is "what would this lane cost if forty more carriers bid on it," rate-shopping your existing base cannot get there.
The product moved downmarket. OnKue at roughly $69 per month is aimed at small shippers. That is a reasonable business move and a fair signal to read if you are an enterprise shipper wondering where product investment is heading.
A contract is coming up. The most common reason of all. Renewal is when anyone evaluates anything.
Where Kuebix users actually land
There is no single best Kuebix alternative, because Kuebix does several jobs and most shippers only rely on one or two of them. Start with what you actually use it for.
| What you use Kuebix for | Where to look | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Rate-shopping and booking across carriers | Emerge | Same job, putting more carriers in competition, benchmarking at award, live in days |
| Nothing is broken, you just got spooked in 2022 | Stay on Kuebix | The sunset was cancelled. There is no forced migration. Re-evaluate at renewal, not in a panic |
| Full TMS: tracking, documents, settlement | 3G or Shipwell | You need execution, which a procurement platform deliberately does not do |
| LTL only, small volume | MyCarrier | The thinnest tool for the narrowest need |
| LTL only, and you want to stay in the family | OnKue | FreightWise's self-serve version of Kuebix, built for smaller shippers |
| Enterprise multi-mode with deep optimization | Oracle OTM or Blue Yonder | Heavier implementations, correspondingly heavier capability |
| TMS plus serious carrier competition | Your TMS plus Emerge | Adjacent layers. The TMS moves the freight, Emerge decides what it costs |
If you are staying on Kuebix
That is a defensible decision and worth saying plainly, because most pages in this category will not say it.
Kuebix under FreightWise is supported, actively sold, and referenced in current Gartner research. If it does the job, the migration you were bracing for in 2022 is not owed. Two things worth doing anyway, whether or not you move:
Get a full export of your lane history, negotiated rates and carrier performance data, and confirm you can repeat that export yourself without filing a support ticket. That is not a comment on FreightWise. It is basic hygiene with any vendor, and the shippers who were most exposed in 2022 were the ones who had never tried.
And separate the two questions. "Is my TMS going away" and "am I buying freight well" are unrelated. The first is now settled. The second is not addressed by any TMS, including this one.
The real migration cost is the data, not the software
If you do decide to move, the hard part is almost never learning a new interface. It is the lanes, the negotiated rates, and the carrier history. The institutional memory that makes your next bid smarter than your last one.
Export before you need to. Make "how do I get my data out" a question you ask the next vendor on the first call rather than the last one.
Emerge onboarding imports your lane and carrier data as part of setup, which is why deployment is measured in days rather than quarters even when it is a migration. Dollar Tree and Golden State Foods both went through exactly that.
What the Kuebix story should change about how you buy software
The lesson is not that Trimble behaved badly, and it is not that Kuebix was a bad product. It is narrower and more useful than either.
A tool can be widely used, well regarded, and owned by a serious public company, and still be scheduled for deletion because it stopped fitting someone's portfolio strategy. Thousands of shippers spent more than a year planning a migration they did not choose and ultimately did not need. That planning cost was real even though the shutdown never happened.
So durability belongs on the evaluation sheet next to features. Three questions worth asking any vendor:
Is this product the vendor's core business, or a side bet inside a larger portfolio? Is the revenue model aligned with the product actually succeeding, or is it a line item that can be reallocated? And can you export everything, today, without asking permission?
No vendor can promise forever. Kuebix is the rare case where the story had a second act. Most do not.
Frequently asked questions
Was Kuebix shut down? No. Trimble announced in September 2022 that it would sunset Kuebix by the end of 2025, but FreightWise acquired the platform from Trimble in November 2023 and cancelled the shutdown. Kuebix is sold and supported today.
Who owns Kuebix now? FreightWise, which acquired it from Trimble in November 2023. Before that, Trimble owned it from January 2020. FreightWise has kept Kuebix as a distinct named product.
Is Kuebix still supported in 2026? Yes. FreightWise sells and maintains it, has committed to continued investment, and relaunched the platform in 2025 with a preferred carrier program. Kuebix was acknowledged in the 2025 Gartner Midmarket Context for the Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems.
What is OnKue? A self-serve version of Kuebix launched by FreightWise in 2025, with subscriptions starting around $69 per month. It is aimed at smaller shippers who want Kuebix-style rate shopping without an enterprise implementation.
Should I stay on Kuebix or switch? If Kuebix does the job, there is no forced migration to plan for. Switch when you have a reason beyond survival. The most common real reason is carrier competition: Kuebix rate-shops the carriers you already have, which is a ceiling if you need a wider market bidding on your lanes.
What is the best Kuebix alternative? It depends on which part of Kuebix you rely on. For carrier competition and procurement, Emerge. For a full TMS replacement, 3G or Shipwell. For LTL-only small shippers, MyCarrier or OnKue. Anyone naming a single answer without asking how you use it is guessing.
Start with the quoting
If rate-shopping is the part of Kuebix you would most want to improve, that is also the fastest thing to change, and it does not require replacing your TMS. Here is the full guide to freight quoting software for shippers, or book a demo and run your ugliest lane against your own carriers plus the marketplace.
Also worth a look: Emerge vs. Shipwell, Emerge vs. Freightos and Emerge vs. spreadsheets and email.
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