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This calculator vs. Onfleet
Two different shapes: Onfleet is an account-based dispatch and route-optimization platform for running a delivery fleet's day. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — does this one route, priced from its stops, wait, deadhead, and costs, actually pay before you quote it or accept it.
What each tool is for
Onfleet is a last-mile delivery management platform, founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco. It is built for businesses that dispatch a fleet of drivers, and it specifically markets a medical delivery offering used by pharmacies, clinical labs, and hospitals — automated route optimization across many stops and drivers at once, live driver tracking, delivery-window and ETA notifications, and proof-of-delivery capture such as signatures, barcode scans, and ID verification to keep a chain-of-custody trail on every stop. It is an account-based platform: a business signs up and runs its whole delivery operation through it as an ongoing subscription, not a one-off calculator. Onfleet's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — a dispatch and route-optimization platform marketed to medical courier, pharmacy, and lab delivery operations, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for Onfleet appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what Onfleet does. It does not dispatch a driver, optimize a multi-stop sequence, track a vehicle live, or capture proof of delivery, and it stores no route or chain-of-custody record on a server. It takes one route's revenue, stop count, miles, scheduled time, wait time against a contracted grace period, deadhead miles and minutes to and from the first and last stop, loaded labor rate, vehicle cost per mile, per-stop consumables, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the contribution margin, the margin per vehicle-hour, the cost per stop, and the per-stop rate the route needs to break even or clear a target margin — the arithmetic a courier needs before deciding whether to run the route at all. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a courier fleet and need to dispatch drivers, optimize multi-stop routes live, and prove chain of custody across every delivery. | Onfleet, or a comparable dispatch and route-optimization platform — running live fleet operations is not something this calculator does. |
| Does this route offer actually pay for its own paid wait, deadhead, labor, and vehicle cost? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| What per-stop rate do I need to counter a broker or facility offer with, to break even or clear a target margin? | This calculator's break-even and target-margin figures. |
| How much does clinic or lab wait time beyond the contracted grace period actually cost this route? | This calculator's billable-wait line item, not a flat per-route rate. |
| I need real-time driver tracking, automated route sequencing, and proof-of-delivery capture across my whole fleet. | Onfleet — built as an ongoing, account-based platform for exactly that job. |
| How does the math behind a medical courier route's margin actually work? | This calculator's own worked margin guide. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Onfleet is used through a subscription account. |
Most medical courier operations get different value from each: Onfleet (or a comparable dispatch platform) for running the fleet's live routing, tracking, and chain-of-custody paperwork as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to whether one route's offer is worth taking, before any dispatch software is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a dispatched route, a tracked delivery, or a chain-of-custody record.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or Onfleet?
They do different jobs, and a medical courier operation of any size may end up using both. Onfleet, founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, is a last-mile delivery platform that pharmacies, clinical labs, and courier fleets use for dispatch, real-time driver tracking, proof of delivery, and automated route optimization across every driver and every day, sold as an ongoing subscription account. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from a route's revenue, stops, miles, scheduled time, wait against a grace period, deadhead, loaded labor rate, vehicle cost per mile, per-stop consumables, overhead, and target margin, it turns that into the contribution margin, the margin per vehicle-hour, and the per-stop rate the route needs to break even or clear a target margin, before any of it touches a dispatch or tracking system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A courier operation that already needs to dispatch drivers, optimize multi-stop routes live, and prove chain of custody across a fleet is better served by Onfleet or a comparable platform; a courier who wants an instant, private answer to whether one route's offer is worth taking before it is ever dispatched is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with Onfleet?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Onfleet, Inc. Onfleet is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Medical Courier Route Margin Calculator to price your own route.