An OptimoRoute alternative that doesn't charge per driver.
OptimoRoute bills for every driver, every month. Lite Route Planner has a free plan, and Business is one flat price whether you have two drivers or twenty.
- Free for up to 50 addresses
- No credit card
- No app to install
- Free plan
- Up to 50 addresses, no time limit
- No (30-day trial)
- Paid plans from
- $19.99/mo, billed every 6 months
- $35.10/driver/mo, billed yearly
- No per-driver or per-user fees
- Yes
- No
- Driver app works with no install
- Yes
- No
- Color the map by last visit
- Yes
- No
The short answer
Updated
Lite Route Planner is an OptimoRoute alternative with a free plan and no per-driver fees. As of October 2026, OptimoRoute has no free plan (it offers a 30-day trial) and charges $39 per driver a month on its Lite plan, so five drivers cost $195 a month. Lite is free for up to 50 addresses, and Business is $59.99 a month for 1,000 new stops with unlimited drivers. OptimoRoute is the stronger choice when you schedule orders into time windows and driver shifts.
What OptimoRoute costs as your team grows
OptimoRoute prices each driver. Lite Business is one price for the whole team. These are monthly prices as listed in October 2026.
| Feature | Lite | OptimoRoute Lite plan | OptimoRoute Pro plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Up to 50 addresses | 30-day trial | 30-day trial |
| Just you | $29.99 | $39 | $49 |
| 3 drivers | $59.99 | $117 | $147 |
| 5 drivers | $59.99 | $195 | $245 |
| 10 drivers | $59.99 | $390 | $490 |
| Longer billing | $39.99 a month for the team | $35.10 per driver | $44.10 per driver |
| Photo and signature proof | No | No | Yes |
Checked October 19, 2026 on optimoroute.com/pricing. Lite and Pro are OptimoRoute's own plan names. Lite's "just you" price is Personal (up to 200 addresses); team prices are Business 1,000, which covers 1,000 new stops a month, with sizes up to $249.99 for 10,000. Longer billing is yearly for OptimoRoute and every six months for Lite. OptimoRoute's Lite plan plans up to 700 orders at once, Pro up to 1,000.
Where per-driver pricing pinches a small team
Paying per driver works for a fleet with a fixed headcount. Most small businesses don't look like that.
The seasonal crew
A lawn company that adds two people from April to October, or a snow removal outfit that doubles up after a storm, adds a seat for each one on a per-driver plan. On Lite Business they're more drivers on the same bill.
The owner who drives some days
When you run a route yourself on Fridays, you're a driver too. Business includes unlimited team members, admins and drivers alike.
The fill-in driver
Sick days, a vacation week, a part-timer who covers Saturdays. Invite them by email; they sign in with a code and see the routes you assign them.
The person in the office
Whoever plans routes or answers the phone can be an admin at no extra cost, so planning doesn't depend on one login.
OptimoRoute vs Lite at a glance
OptimoRoute does more scheduling. Lite does less, costs less for a team, and has a map built for repeat visits.
Checked October 19, 2026 against each company's own pricing and help pages. Prices in US dollars; vendors change them, so check before you buy. Sources: optimoroute.com/pricing.
When OptimoRoute is worth the per-driver price
Choose Lite if
- You want to start on a free plan with no trial clock: free for up to 50 addresses.
- Your team grows and shrinks with the season, and you don't want the bill to follow it.
- Drivers should open routes in a browser with nothing to install, and mark each stop Visited or Attempted.
- You visit customers on a cycle and want the map colored by who's due.
- Your routes are about the shortest drive, and nobody is waiting on a two-hour window.
Choose OptimoRoute if
- You promise customers time windows, and the plan has to respect them.
- You plan hundreds of orders at once across drivers and shifts (up to 700 on its Lite plan, 1,000 on Pro).
- You need photo and signature proof of delivery, which is on OptimoRoute's Pro plan.
- Your drivers prefer a native mobile app.
Moving from OptimoRoute to Lite
OptimoRoute imports orders from Excel or CSV, so you probably have the file already. Export your orders from OptimoRoute, or open the spreadsheet you've been uploading, and drop it into Lite. It finds the address columns, looks up every address and flags any it couldn't place. Here's more on planning routes from Excel.
Your other columns come along as custom fields (text, number, date or yes/no), so phone numbers, gate codes and notes stay with each stop. A service duration column comes in as a field for reference; to count time on site in the day's total, set a default time at stops or a different time for any stop.
A time window column comes in as text. You'll see it on the stop and can filter by it, but Lite's optimizer orders stops by distance. It also won't split a big list across drivers for you: you lasso each route on the map, which takes a minute for a small team and gets slow for a large fleet.
Then press Optimize, save to see drive time and miles for every leg, and invite your drivers by email. Running both tools for a week is an easy way to compare.