Alternatives
Cab9 alternatives for UK corporate and school-transport fleets
Cab9 sells into UK private-hire operators whose work is contract-shaped: corporate accounts with cost centres, school runs, dynamic tariffs. It is packaged as modules on a custom quote, and that packaging is usually what starts the search — a bill that moves with which features you switch on, what appears to be a white-label passenger app priced outside the base package, and no published rate you can hold up against anyone else's.
The trigger
Why operators start looking past Cab9
The quote is the product
Cab9 is sold as modules on a usage-based custom quote, so your monthly cost is a function of which capabilities you enable and how hard you use them, and it reprices whenever your requirements change. We hold no Cab9 rate card and will not invent one. What sends buyers looking is usually a renewal number that arrives as a surprise rather than a calculation.
The passenger app is a separate line
Our reading of Cab9's packaging is that a fully white-labelled passenger app sits outside the base package as its own charge — indicative only, check your own quote. That matters because the customer-facing app is the one component that decides whether repeat riders book you directly or open Uber instead. Paying extra for it puts a cost gate on your main defence.
Quote-only makes comparison impossible
There is no published Cab9 price, so every comparison starts with a sales cycle. You cannot benchmark it against another platform, you cannot model three fleet sizes in a spreadsheet before you talk to anyone, and you cannot easily tell whether the number you were given is the number a similar operator was given. That opacity is itself a reason people shop.
Bespoke contracts mean bespoke exits
Because terms are negotiated per customer, there is no standard notice period, no standard data-export clause and no standard renewal uplift — yours are whatever your signed schedule says. A ninety-day notice clause found in week two of an evaluation costs you a quarter. Read your own paperwork before you take a single demo call, ours included.
The other side
When staying on Cab9 is the right call
Stay if Cab9 has been configured around your contract work over years — school-run manifests, escort rules, cost-centre corporate billing. That configuration is the asset, not the licence, and rebuilding it is the real cost of moving. And if you only run two or three modules, a modular quote can genuinely undercut any all-in per-driver price, ours included, at small fleet sizes.
The options
What operators actually move to
TaxiDex
That’s usFleets of roughly twenty drivers upward that want one published per-driver price
One rate per active driver: £11/$14 on Starter (1–20), £9/$11 Professional (21–100), from £7/$9 Enterprise (100+), with a £79/$100 monthly minimum and a 14-day free trial. Corporate accounts, recurring routes and tariffs are in the product, not modules. The passenger app and web booker carry your brand; the driver app stays TaxiDex-branded. Setup is a one-time fee, scoped on the call.
Cabsoluit
Small UK school-run and private-hire fleets with seasonal vehicles and tight monthly budgets
A UK platform in the same contract-transport lane, priced pay-as-you-go on active vehicles with no trip overage as they describe it — indicative, check your own quote. If you run eight cars and the school holidays empty half of them, that shape fits you better than our per-driver pricing and £79 monthly minimum do. We would not pretend otherwise.
Autocab
Operators whose corporate and airport volume depends on a national booking exchange
If a meaningful share of your jobs arrives from a national exchange rather than your own phone line, the network is the product and the dispatch software is incidental. Autocab is the name most often associated with that model in the UK. We operate no exchange of that kind, and switching to us would cost you those jobs.
Sherlock Taxi
Very large, complex fleets wanting bespoke algorithmic dispatch and a full implementation project
An ERP-style UK platform aimed at operations in the hundreds of vehicles, with a one-time implementation fee commonly quoted in the five figures — indicative only, we hold no price sheet for it. If your dispatch logic is genuinely bespoke and you have a project team to run it, that is a different purchase from ours, and sometimes the right one.
Competitor pricing and terms quoted anywhere on this site are indicative market figures, not quotations we hold. Confirm the current number, and the line items around it, directly with the vendor.
Practicalities
What moving off Cab9 involves
Get your notice period and data-ownership clause out of your signed schedule first — modular contracts are bespoke, so nothing here is standard. Ask whether the export arrives as one dataset or per module, and in CSV rather than PDF reports. Recurring school routes, cost-centre structures and tariff logic are configuration, not rows: rebuild them and price twenty historical jobs through both systems before any cutover.
If the trigger was the renewal quote rather than the software, the anatomy of that bill is broken down separately in what Cab9 actually costs — the billing unit, and the charges that sit outside the headline rate.
The mechanics are the same whichever platform you land on: export and establish what you actually own while you are still a paying customer, then run both systems in parallel and cut over shift by shift with the old one still licensed behind you. That method is published in full as the 14-day migration protocol.
Free guide
Score them all on the same scale
The buyer's guide is the requirements worksheet and weighted scorecard we use — vendor-neutral, so it works just as well for shortlisting someone other than us.
What does Cab9 actually cost?
We do not know, and we are not going to guess. Cab9 is sold on a custom quote with modular, usage-based packaging, and we hold no rate card for it — any figure you see published elsewhere is someone's estimate. Ask for the quote broken down by module, with the white-label passenger app priced separately on the same sheet, and ask what the renewal uplift looks like.
What does TaxiDex cost by comparison?
Published, so you can check it before you speak to anyone: £11/$14 per active driver on Starter (1–20 drivers), £9/$11 on Professional (21–100), and from £7/$9 on Enterprise (100+), with a £79/$100 monthly minimum. There is a 14-day free trial. Setup is a one-time fee, scoped and quoted on the demo call once we have seen your zones, tariffs and account structure — we do not publish a number we would have to revise.
Can TaxiDex handle school-run and corporate contract work?
Yes — recurring bookings, cost-centre corporate accounts with consolidated invoicing, zone and postcode tariffs, shuttle and charter work, and flight tracking on Enterprise are in the platform rather than sold as modules. What you should do on the demo is bring three of your gnarliest live jobs: a multi-drop school run, a wait-and-return, a corporate account with split billing — and make us price and dispatch them in front of you.
Is the white-label app included, and does it cover the driver app?
The passenger app and web booker carry your brand on every plan, with no separate line item. The driver app is always TaxiDex-branded — we say that plainly rather than letting the phrase white-label imply both, because it is the detail most often glossed over in a proposal. Our reading of Cab9's packaging is that its white-label passenger app is charged separately; confirm that against your own quote.
Do you have operators who moved from Cab9?
No, and we will not manufacture one. TaxiDex has no case studies, no customer logos and no switcher testimonials to show you, from Cab9 or anywhere else — if that is the evidence you need, this is not the platform for you yet. What we offer instead is a 14-day free trial on your own data, a published 14-day migration protocol with the old system kept licensed as rollback, and rolling monthly terms.
Comparing Cab9 with TaxiDex?
Bring your driver count, your current rate and your contract end date. We will tell you on the call whether switching is worth it for your fleet — including when it is not.