Past RouteXL's 20 free stops, without buying a day pass.
RouteXL is a quick way to put a list of stops in order. Lite does that too, then keeps the list, sends the route to a driver's phone and remembers every visit.
- Free for up to 50 addresses
- No credit card
- No app to install
- Free plan
- Up to 50 addresses, no time limit
- Up to 20 stops
- Paid plans from
- $19.99/mo, billed every 6 months
- €35/mo for 100 stops, or €5 a day
- No per-driver or per-user fees
- Yes
- Yes
- Driver app works with no install
- Yes
- No driver app
- Color the map by last visit
- Yes
- No
The short answer
Updated
RouteXL is a web route optimizer that's free for up to 20 stops; as of October 2026, 100 stops cost €5 a day or €35 a month and 200 stops €10 a day or €70 a month, and there's no driver app. Lite Route Planner is free for up to 50 addresses, with unlimited routes and unlimited optimizations, and paid plans fit up to 500 stops on a route. It also saves your routes, has a driver app that runs in the phone's browser, and keeps a visit history for every stop.
Paste from Excel, the same as you do now
RouteXL lets you paste addresses from Excel. Lite takes the same paste, or the whole file, and keeps the extra columns instead of dropping them.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| 1 | Order | Recipient | Address | City | ZIP | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1041 | Maria Delgado | 2718 Cedar Hollow Ln | Beaverton | 97005 | Birthday, call on arrival |
| 3 | 1042 | Northpoint Dental | 455 Larkspur Ave, Suite 3 | Tigard | 97223 | Front desk |
| 4 | 1043 | Evan Brooks | 9120 Fernway Ct | Beaverton | 97007 | Side gate |
| 5 | 1044 | Sunrise Care Home | 1300 Old Mill Rd | Tualatin | 97062 | Ask for Rosa |
| 6 | 1045 | Priya Nair | 67 Willow Bend Dr | Lake Oswego | 97035 | Leave on porch |
Order, Recipient and Notes come along as custom fields. Any address that can't be placed is flagged so you can fix it before you plan.
RouteXL vs Lite, feature by feature
From RouteXL's pricing page, checked October 2026.
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: routexl.com/pricing.
What a route costs as it grows
RouteXL sells passes by route size. Here's the same range of routes on both.
| Feature | Lite | RouteXL |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 20 stops | Free | Free |
| 21 to 50 stops | Free | €5 a day or €35 a month |
| 100 or 200 stops | From $19.99 a month | €5 or €10 a day, €35 or €70 a month |
| One busy day a month | $29.99, month to month | €5 or €10 day pass |
| Billing | Monthly or every six months, in US dollars | By the day or month, in euros |
Lite prices assume Personal billed every six months ($119.94); month to month it's $29.99. Personal holds up to 200 addresses, and routes reuse them, so planning the same stops again costs nothing extra. RouteXL prices from RouteXL's pricing page, checked October 2026.
The driver app
RouteXL hands you a list. Lite hands your driver a route.
Drivers sign in on their phone's browser with a code from their email: no app store, no password. They see their routes in order with drive time and distance between stops, tap a stop to open it in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze, and mark it Visited or Attempted with a note. You see progress in the planner within seconds. Driver accounts come with Business; on any plan you can drive your own routes from your phone.
When RouteXL is still the right call
Choose Lite if
- You route more than 20 stops, or the same customers every week
- Drivers need the route on their phones, with stops they can check off
- You want a history of every visit and a map of who's overdue
- You'd rather pay one monthly price in dollars than buy passes
Choose RouteXL if
- You route 20 stops or fewer, now and then
- You only need a big route a few days a month, and a €5 or €10 day pass beats a monthly plan
- You load routes into a GPS unit or another app: RouteXL downloads GPX, ITN, CSV and KML files