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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "alvys",
 "name": "Alvys",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "alvys.com",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "Cloud-native transportation management system (TMS) unifying trucking carriers and freight brokers in one platform — dispatch, billing, DOT/IFTA compliance, real-time load visibility and native EDI (no third-party middleware), so new shippers connect in hours rather than weeks.",
 "best_for": "FTL trucking carriers and asset-based (hybrid) brokers with roughly 5–300 trucks (especially compliance-heavy freight like hazmat, reefer and cross-border) plus shippers running private fleets, with real back-office staff to put dispatch, billing and DOT/IFTA compliance in one system",
 "skip_if": "you're a pure-play broker without assets, you run LTL/multi-modal loads billing multiple customers per load, you need rail, air or ocean tracking, or you're a single-truck operator without back-office staff",
 "honest_knock": "Two honest boundaries. Implementation runs to weeks, the vendor's own pricing FAQ says most operations are live in under two to four weeks, and real-time support is the top tier's: self-serve on Foundations, chat and email on Growth, phone and a dedicated success manager only on Scale. And it's built specifically for truck-based FTL operations: if you're a pure-play (non-asset) broker, run LTL with multiple customers per load, or need rail/air/ocean tracking, this isn't your TMS: Alvys itself is refreshingly explicit about that. The fit is narrow and deep, not broad.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "quote_only",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Foundations",
    "price": "Quoted based on volume of loads",
    "includes": "14-day free trial; Try for free; sandbox $100/month add-on"
   },
   {
    "name": "Growth",
    "price": "Quoted based on volume of loads",
    "includes": "Routes to sales; EDI 2 trading partners; sandbox $100/month add-on"
   },
   {
    "name": "Scale",
    "price": "Quoted based on volume of loads",
    "includes": "Routes to sales; EDI 5 trading partners; sandbox included"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(re-verified 20 Sep 2026) The pricing page is public again, and it has tiers now. On 26 August 2026 alvys.com/pricing answered an ordinary request with HTTP 401 and sat behind a password; read on 20 September 2026 it returns 200 and shows three plans — Foundations, Growth and Scale — none of which carries an amount. All three read \"Quoted based on volume of loads\", under the page's own summary line: simple per-load pricing, free implementation, cancel anytime. Foundations now has a 14-day free trial behind a Try for free button; Growth and Scale route to sales. The FAQ states there are no setup fees, no per-user or per-seat charge, no contracts and month-to-month cancellation. Two extras are priced in the open: EDI includes 2 trading partners on Growth and 5 on Scale with per-partner pricing above the cap, and the developer sandbox is a $100/month add-on on Foundations and Growth, included on Scale. Custom reports, scheduled reports, Insights AI analytics, Sage and Samsara Premium are add-ons on every tier. The last published load-based rates (2026) were Carrier from ~$150/mo and Broker from ~$300/mo; those tier names no longer exist on the page and the figures are history, not a quote.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-20",
  "source_url": "https://alvys.com/pricing",
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "stable",
   "tracked_since": "2026-09-21",
   "last_read": "2026-11-06",
   "read_days": 8,
   "stable": {
    "since": "2026-09-21",
    "until": "2026-11-06",
    "reads": 8,
    "days": 46
   },
   "changes": [],
   "method": "Stable = every amount on the vendor's pricing page identical across >= 3 of our reads over >= 30 days. A change is listed only after we confirmed the new price on the page, with a verbatim quote. Differences in raw readings are never published on their own."
  }
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "quote_only",
   "label": "Quote-only pricing",
   "evidence": "No amount is published: all three plans read 'Quoted based on volume of loads'; the $100 on the page is a developer-sandbox add-on and the older ~$150/~$300 load rates are history",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-20",
   "source_url": "https://alvys.com/pricing"
  },
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Two extras are priced in the open: EDI includes 2 trading partners on Growth and 5 on Scale with per-partner pricing above the cap, and the developer sandbox is a $100/month add-on on Foundations and Growth, included on Scale.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-20",
   "source_url": "https://alvys.com/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Rose Rocket or McLeod",
  "why": "a modern TMS peer vs the legacy heavyweight: Alvys competes on cloud-native speed and load-based pricing"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/alvys.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/alvys-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/alvys/",
  "vendor_site": "https://alvys.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.alvys.com/nuay0lqxew7c",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'quote_only': no single public entry price.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "alvys:public_price",
   "key": "public_price",
   "question": "Can you publish a price, or a starting price, for the plans that are quote-only?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "alvys:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "alvys:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "alvys:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "alvys:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}