2026 comparison · Reviewed 29 July 2026
Established freight-matching marketplace — paid only, with a 10-day trial.
Numeo app (Mobile app) compared with 123Loadboard (Load board)
123Loadboard is a long-standing freight-matching marketplace for carriers, owner-operators, brokers and shippers, on web and mobile. It belongs in a free-load-board comparison mainly to correct a misconception: it is frequently listed as a free board, and it is not. The mobile app is free to install, but there is no free tier — after a 10-day trial every plan is paid. That makes the honest comparison a paid board against a free one.
Numeo app
123Loadboard
Side-by-side on the eight criteria that matter most for dispatch automation.
| Feature | Numeo app | 123Loadboard |
|---|---|---|
| Product type | Mobile app + desktop stack | Load board — web and mobile |
| Free tier | Free to download and free to search, AI Dispatch included | None — 10-day trial, then paid |
| Entry price | Free | $39 / mo |
| Full price range | $9.99–$29.99 / dispatcher / mo, annual | $39–$79 / mo |
| AI dispatch | Included on the free tier | No AI dispatch on any published plan |
| Loads ranked by profit for your truck | Yes | No — filtered and sorted |
| Runs inside DAT / Truckstop | Yes — Numeo Spot, free | No browser extension |
| Continues into a TMS | Yes — Numeo One, from $10/truck/mo | No TMS |
123Loadboard is a competent, established marketplace that publishes its prices honestly, and at $39 a month its entry tier is cheaper than DAT’s. The thing to be clear about is that it is not a free load board, however often it appears on lists of them — the 10-day trial ends and then you are paying monthly to search. That is a defensible model if the board is your only tool, but it is a hard sell against boards that give the search away and charge for the work that comes after it. The Numeo app is free to keep using, includes AI Dispatch free and unlimited on every plan rather than not offering it at all, and continues into a Chrome extension and a TMS. If you are paying $39 a month purely to look at freight, it is worth checking what the free options now include.
No. The mobile app is free to install, but there is no free tier — carrier plans come with a 10-day free trial and are paid after that, at $39, $59 or $79 a month. It appears in “free load board” roundups regularly, and those roundups are wrong. Read from 123loadboard.com/pricing on 2 September 2026.
Standard is $39/month, Premium $59/month and Premium Plus $79/month, each including a 10-day free trial. That entry price undercuts DAT One Standard at $54/month, though both are subscriptions to search rather than to book.
The closest free options are Trucker Path TruckLoads, which advertises free unlimited access to 150,000+ daily loads, and the Numeo app, which is free to download and free to search with AI Dispatch included free on every plan. Our free load board guide compares what each free tier actually includes.
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