Three boards, three different units of pricing, which is why no two comparison articles agree on the numbers.
Every price below was read from the vendor's own page on 2026-08-31. None of it is quoted from another comparison site, because when we checked those against the vendors they were wrong.
| Board | Entry | Mid | Top published | What the price buys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAT One | $59Standard | $169Pro | $339Office | per accountBroker plans are priced separately, from $159 to $449 a month. |
| Truckstop | $42Basic | $135Advanced | $159Pro | per user, up to 3 usersA $42 non-refundable application fee applies, and the published prices exclude fees and taxes. |
| 123Loadboard | $39Standard | $59Premium | $79Premium Plus | per fleet, up to 10 trucksA 10 day free trial is offered on all plans. |
DAT publishes five carrier tiers, Truckstop three and 123Loadboard three. The middle column is each vendor's middle published tier, not an equivalent product.
Put the three side by side and the cheapest looks obvious. It is not, because the number after the dollar sign denotes a different thing in each row.
A two-driver operation pays Truckstop's Basic tier twice, at $84 a month plus the application fee, while 123Loadboard's $39 Standard would cover both and eight more trucks. At one truck the ordering reverses again. There is no single cheapest board; there is a cheapest board for a fleet size, and any table that does not state the unit is comparing numbers that do not mean the same thing.
Before writing this we read seven published load board comparisons. They disagree with each other, and where they can be checked against a vendor's own page, they are wrong rather than merely stale. Widely repeated figures include a DAT tier called Power Select at $195 and another called Pro Premium at $345. Neither tier appears on DAT's rate card at all. Another quotes a DAT entry plan at $45 against a published $59.
A subscription costs tens of dollars a month. An unpaid load costs thousands, and it turns on whether the broker who posted it holds valid operating authority.
FMCSA maintains a public register of every revoked operating authority. Filtered to brokers it holds 110,130 revocation orders across 94,250 distinct dockets, of which 98,369 were involuntary and 11,760 were the broker surrendering its own authority. Nobody publishes this as a rate, so here it is by year, counting the involuntary ones.
This chart counts involuntary revocations only, and that is a property of the source rather than a choice. FMCSA populates the effective-date field for 96.6% of involuntary revocations and for 92 of 200,017 voluntary ones, so any series grouped by year excludes voluntary surrenders almost entirely. Do not read their absence here as evidence they are rare: across all licence types voluntary surrenders are 12.3% of every revocation order on file. The 2013 peak is a regulatory event rather than a trend, when MAP-21 raised the broker surety bond from $10,000 to $75,000 on 1 October 2013. The final points are the current and previous year, which understate because orders are entered with a lag.
Read the middle of that chart rather than the ends. Involuntary broker revocations climbed from 3,406 in 2019 to 8,694 in 2023, which is the freight downturn arriving in the authority register about a year after it arrived in rates.
A device leaves the FMCSA ELD registry most weeks. We mail when one does.
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Claim or correct your entryPrices were read from DAT, Truckstop and 123Loadboard on 2026-08-31 and are reproduced as published, including the units and fees each vendor states. Where a vendor does not publish a figure we print "not published" rather than an estimate.
Broker revocation counts are computed from the FMCSA FMCSA, Revocation - All With History dataset, 1,529,083 rows covering carriers, brokers and freight forwarders, filtered to type_license = BROKER. Source last updated 2026-08-30; retrieved 2026-08-31. 94,361 of 110,130 orders carry an effective date and only those are charted.
What this page does not do. It has not tested any load board, does not rank them, and takes no position on which is better. It reports published prices, the unit each is published in, and a public federal record. No board named here is a sponsor.
FreightProbe. "Load Boards Compared, With Prices Read From Each Vendor." Prices read from vendor pages 2026-08-31; broker revocation counts from FMCSA, retrieved 2026-08-31. https://freightprobe.com/load-boards
Quote the retrieval date with any figure. Vendor pricing changes without notice and we re-read it rather than carrying it forward.