Alternatives
Cordic Alternatives: Which Dispatch Platform Actually Fits Your Fleet
Cordic runs dispatch for UK taxi and private-hire operators, and it has done for a long time — booking, pricing, allocation, tracking, account customers and driver settlement, with real fluency in British licensing and account work. Most operators who start shopping aren't unhappy with what it does. They're unhappy with what carrying it costs: an on-premise server estate, per-PC licences, and upgrades that need a downtime window and somebody's Sunday.
The trigger
Why operators start looking past Cordic
The licence stack is hard to forecast
Cordic-style licensing commonly combines per-PC licences for each operator workstation, per-driver modules, and support packages quoted separately. The indicative figure most often quoted is around £15 per licence per month, though every vendor here quotes per fleet — check your own. The complaint isn't the rate. It's that adding a dispatch position or a module changes the bill in a way nobody predicted.
The subscription isn't the real number
On an on-premise deployment the licence line is the part you can see. Underneath it sit the server and its replacement cycle, operating system and database licences, backups you may never have test-restored, a UPS, and the hours spent patching. We won't invent a total — it varies far too much between a 15-car firm and a 200-car one — but those lines exist and belong in the comparison.
Every upgrade is a scheduled event
Installed PC clients and an on-site server mean releases arrive as projects. You book a window, you find someone technical, you accept that dispatch is degraded while it happens. A single upgrade window is survivable. The cost is cumulative, and the pattern does not change on its own.
Dispatch is tied to the building
An installed client on a licensed PC means dispatch happens where the PCs are. Opening a second office, letting a controller cover a night shift from home, or keeping the phones answered when the building is unreachable all become IT projects rather than logins. For operators who have grown past one room, that constraint starts to shape the business.
The other side
When staying on Cordic is the right call
Stay if on-premise is a requirement, not a habit. Council, NHS patient-transport and school contracts sometimes write data residency into the terms, and no cloud convenience overrides that. Stay too if you already employ someone technical and run servers anyway, if office connectivity genuinely fails with no failover, or if Cordic's UK track record is what your board is buying.
The options
What operators actually move to
TaxiDex
That’s usFleets leaving on-prem who want one per-driver price and browser-only dispatch
Cloud-only, so there's no server, no PC licences and no upgrade window. Pricing is per active driver — £11 Starter, £9 Professional, from £7 Enterprise — with a £79 monthly minimum and a 14-day trial. Setup is a one-time fee scoped on the demo call. The passenger app and web booker carry your brand; the driver app is TaxiDex-branded.
Autocab
Fleets whose economics depend on a national supplier network for overflow and inbound work
Autocab's differentiator is the affiliate network — sending overflow out and taking inbound work in. If a meaningful share of your revenue comes from jobs you didn't source yourself, that network is the product, and we don't have an equivalent. Worth knowing it's publicly reported as Uber-owned; some operators care, some don't. Pricing is quoted per fleet.
iCabbi
Larger UK fleets that need an established cloud vendor with a long procurement answer
If your board's first question is how long the vendor has been doing this, iCabbi answers it better than we do — cloud, UK-established, and a familiar name in procurement. It also runs a supplier network. Pricing is quoted per fleet and we hold no price sheet, so get it in writing before comparing.
Cabsoluit
Very small UK fleets where our £79 monthly minimum makes TaxiDex the wrong price
Below roughly seven drivers our £79 monthly minimum means you pay for capacity you don't use. Cabsoluit's indicative published model is active-vehicle tiers, pay-as-you-go, aimed at small UK private-hire and school-run operators — check your own quote. If you run five cars and want out of on-prem, start there, not with us.
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 Cordic involves
Moving off on-prem has one real advantage: the database is in your building and it's yours, so you extract customers, drivers, vehicles, zones, tariffs, account balances and trip history directly rather than waiting on a vendor. The hard part is people — controllers with a decade of muscle memory on an installed client. Keep the server read-only for your retention period; don't switch it off on go-live day.
If the trigger was the renewal quote rather than the software, the anatomy of that bill is broken down separately in what Cordic 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.
How much does Cordic cost?
We hold no Cordic price sheet, so treat anything you read as indicative. The figure commonly quoted in this category is around £15 per licence per month, but Cordic-style licensing usually stacks per-PC operator licences, per-driver modules and separately priced support — so the headline rate isn't the bill. On an on-premise deployment you also carry the server, OS and database licences, backups and IT time. Price those for your own fleet and compare totals, not rates.
Is Cordic cloud or on-premise?
Both exist, but the installed base is shaped by an on-premise heritage: a server in your building with dispatch software installed on each operator PC. Cloud options are available. If you're evaluating alternatives, find out which one you're actually on before you shop — the migration, the licence structure and the upgrade experience are all different depending on the answer, and so is what leaving costs you.
Can we get our data out of Cordic?
On an on-premise deployment, yes, and more easily than most cloud-to-cloud moves — the database sits on hardware you own. You can extract customers, drivers, vehicles, zones, tariffs, account balances and trip history without depending on a vendor's export timetable. On a cloud deployment you're asking the vendor, so check what the contract says about export format and notice period before you sign anything new.
What does switching to TaxiDex from Cordic actually involve?
We publish a 14-day migration protocol rather than promising a date. Both systems run live in parallel, your Cordic licence stays active as rollback, and controllers move across shift by shift when they're ready — not when a project plan says so. We won't promise zero downtime or a guaranteed go-live; anyone who does is guessing. Setup is a one-time fee scoped and quoted on the demo call.
Which Cordic alternative is cheapest?
Cheapest depends on fleet size, and the honest answer often isn't us. Under about seven drivers our £79 monthly minimum means you're paying for headroom you don't use, and a small-fleet vendor priced by active vehicle will beat us. Between roughly 20 and 100 drivers, per-driver pricing at £9 is where we're competitive. Above that, get written quotes from three vendors — every one of us quotes per fleet.
Comparing Cordic 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.