2026 comparison · Reviewed 29 July 2026
The largest load board in North America — 722,500 loads posted every business day.
Numeo Load Hub (Multi-board load search) compared with DAT (Load board)
DAT is a load board and rate-data service, not a TMS and not an automation layer, so the like-for-like comparison is Numeo Load Hub. It is also the one competitor here that most Numeo customers keep paying for: Numeo Spot runs inside DAT, and Load Hub searches DAT alongside other boards. Read this as “what does Numeo add to DAT”, not “which one should I buy” — for most carriers the answer to the second question is DAT plus something.
Numeo Load Hub
DAT
Side-by-side on the eight criteria that matter most for dispatch automation.
| Feature | Numeo Load Hub | DAT |
|---|---|---|
| Product type | Multi-board search layer | Load board and rate data |
| Relationship | Runs on top of DAT | The board Numeo searches |
| Published pricing | $29.99/dispatcher/mo in Ultra | $54 / $119 / $169 / $239 / $329 per month |
| Load inventory | 15+ boards and broker portals in one query | 722,500 loads posted every business day |
| Rate data depth | RPM and market context for ranking | Best in market — backed by $1T in transactions |
| Loads ranked by profit for your truck | Yes — AI ranking | No — sorted by post time |
| Chrome extension | Yes — Numeo Spot, free, runs inside DAT | No first-party extension |
| AI on a purchasable plan | Yes | Not on any published carrier plan |
| Push alerts on new matching loads | Yes — Load Radar | No real-time push alerts |
| Mobile app | Yes — 4.9★, 354 ratings | Yes — included in all subscriptions |
| Extra users | Per dispatcher | +$119/mo each on Select and Office |
Keep DAT. Almost every Numeo customer does, and nothing here suggests otherwise — it has the deepest freight inventory in North America and the best rate data in the industry. What DAT does not do is rank those loads by what they actually pay your truck, alert you the moment matching freight posts, search the boards and broker portals it cannot see, or write the broker email. It also ships no first-party browser extension, which is why an entire third-party ecosystem has grown up inside DAT One. That is the layer Numeo sells, and it starts free: Numeo Spot installs into the DAT tab you already have open, and Load Hub adds everything DAT misses for $29.99 a dispatcher. You are already paying $54 to $329 a month for the board — this is what makes it pay.
DAT publishes five carrier tiers: DAT One Standard $54/month, Enhanced $119, Pro $169, Select $239 plus $119 per extra user, and Office $329 plus $119 per extra user. The DAT One mobile app is included in every subscription. Numeo Spot is free on top of any DAT tier.
No, and it is not designed to. Numeo Spot runs inside DAT and Load Hub searches DAT alongside 15+ other boards and broker portals. You keep your DAT subscription; Numeo adds ranking, alerting, multi-board reach and AI-drafted broker outreach on top of it.
No. Every DAT-branded extension in the Chrome Web Store is published by an independent developer rather than DAT. That is precisely the gap Numeo Spot fills, and it is why so many dispatcher tools in this category are browser extensions.
Not on anything you can buy today. DAT has announced AI work in press releases and blog posts — fraud detection, risk scoring, rate inference — but no AI feature appears on any of its five published carrier plans. Numeo’s AI ranking, negotiation drafting and alerting are on the plans themselves.
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