Cotafret - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Cotafret is automated email-based freight quoting for brokers, freight forwarders and small road-transport companies. When a quote request lands in your mailbox, the AI detects it and extracts the shipment details: origin, destination, vehicle type, weight, pallets and constraints (refrigerated, ADR, tail-lift). A deterministic pricing engine then computes the price on YOUR rules — lane purchase costs, rate grids by weight bracket and zone, degressive per-km rates, CNR cost floors, fuel indexation, tolls and customer-specific discounts — and drops a ready-to-send draft reply directly into the email thread.

The key design choice: AI handles reading and understanding, the part it is genuinely good at, while the pricing engine is 100% deterministic. The model never invents a number that could sink a margin. Every price is auditable line by line: distance, bracket, rate, tolls, floor.

Key capabilities:

- Email-native: connects to Microsoft 365, Outlook, Gmail and any IMAP mailbox. No new tool to learn — quotes appear as drafts in your existing inbox.

- Pricing engine: import your Excel rate grid as-is, or set up per-km rates with distance brackets, minimum charges, round-trip coefficients and pallet equivalences.

- Margin intelligence: every quote feeds a lane-by-lane view of quoted / won / lost, so you steer margins with real numbers.

- Human in control: nothing is ever sent automatically. You review the draft, adjust if needed, and hit send. Out-of-scope requests fall back to human validation.

- Security and compliance: data hosted and processed in the European Union, GDPR-compliant, granular access rights.

Built for the spot market, where the freight goes to whoever replies first with a sound price. Typical results: reply time drops from hours to minutes, more requests quoted per day, and margin visibility per lane from week one. 30-day free trial, all features, no credit card required.