The problem with legacy ocean visibility pricing
Logistics visibility software has long suffered from confusing pricing structures. Many legacy platforms charge between $2 and $5 for every individual container query, restrict access behind sales calls, or bill separately for basic operational features like sailing schedules, port congestion, and demurrage calculations. Shippers who track a single container through a five-week voyage often find their costs escalating each time they refresh a status or receive a milestone notification.
Panvaya takes a different approach. A tracking unit should cover the entire life of the shipment, and developer API credits should provide maximum purchasing power across every logistics dataset without artificial paywalls.
Free and Premium: Predictable tracking for operational teams
For freight forwarders, cargo owners, and logistics coordinators using the web workspace, Panvaya provides two straightforward self-serve tiers:
- Free Plan: Includes up to 5 ocean shipments and 10 developer API credits with zero credit card required. Free users gain full access to the Port Congestion monitor, Marine Route Planner, and live AIS vessel tracking.
- Premium Plan ($50 / month): Includes up to 100 ocean shipments each month, working out to approximately $0.50 per shipment to track for a full month. In addition to all Free features, Premium adds the Demurrage and Detention charge calculator, 3D Cargo Load Calculator, CSV and PDF report exports, and priority customer support.
How one shipment track works
On Panvaya, an ocean tracking unit is deducted only once when a shipment is found. That single track covers continuous milestone monitoring, vessel position refreshes, delay notifications, and ETA recalculations across the shipment's active voyage. You are never billed multiple times for checking the same container.
Enterprise: Highest credits and shipments per dollar in the industry
For technology teams, TMS providers, BCOs, and high-volume freight intermediaries, Panvaya's Enterprise plan introduces a dual-quota architecture designed to be the most cost-effective and reliable solution on the market:
- Dual Quota Structure: Enterprise accounts receive 2 ocean shipments plus 120 API credits per $1. This provides the highest credit-per-dollar and shipment-per-dollar ratio available in the ocean tracking industry.
- Unified Multi-API Access: API credits are pooled into a single balance that can be used across Panvaya's entire API ecosystem rather than requiring separate billing contracts for each service.
- Fleet Control Tower: Enterprise workspaces include real-time multi-shipment exception monitoring, automated delay classification, and fleetwide risk dashboards.
- Custom SLA and High Rate Limits: Dedicated throughput limits, priority execution queues, and enterprise uptime guarantees.
One credit balance across all maritime APIs
Most visibility providers force software teams to buy separate API subscriptions for tracking, vessel schedules, distances, and routing. With Panvaya, your API credits draw down against a unified catalogue of high-performance developer endpoints:
- Ocean Container Tracking API: Query normalized real-time milestones, vessel names, voyages, and actual versus estimated dates by Container Number, Bill of Lading, or Booking reference.
- Multi-Carrier Sailing Schedules API: Retrieve verified port-to-port direct schedules, transhipment rotations, cut-off dates, and transit times across major global ocean lines.
- Marine Route Planner API: Calculate realistic nautical A* routes respecting maritime navigation channels, canals, and traffic separation schemes.
- Port Congestion and Dwell API: Monitor real-time anchorage queues, average vessel wait times, and terminal dwell metrics across major global ports.
- Sea Distance and Sailing Time API: Compute precise port-to-port nautical distances, expected voyage durations at specified speeds, and alternative routing options.
- Freight Rail and Road Routing APIs: Model multimodal inland connections between ocean ports and inland container depots.
- Carbon Footprint Calculator API: Estimate shipment CO2 emissions and greenhouse gas exposure for EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime compliance.
- Harmonized System (HS) Codes API: Search, classify, and verify 6-digit to 10-digit tariff codes for customs declarations.
Flexible plans tailored to your exact scale
If your operational scale requires millions of monthly API calls or thousands of concurrent active shipments, our support and engineering teams are ready to help. We configure custom credit allocations, tailored rate limits, volume discounts, and dedicated billing terms to match your organization's exact workflow.
50+ carriers, sub-second latency, and verified data correctness
Cost efficiency only matters if the underlying data is dependable. Panvaya has directly onboarded more than 50 global ocean carriers, including Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, COSCO, Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Evergreen, HMM, Yang Ming, and ZIM, as well as regional lines.
Our data pipeline is engineered for speed and correctness:
- Sub-second API latency: Direct connection pooling and session caching deliver response times between 0.8 and 1.5 seconds, eliminating the 10-second timeouts typical of third-party aggregator wrappers.
- Strict actual versus planned milestone tracking: Actual loading, departure, arrival, and gate-out events are cleanly separated from planned schedules, preventing false delivery alerts.
- Standardised taxonomy: Carrier-specific status codes are normalized to standardized DCSA milestone definitions, giving your applications consistent data across every shipping line.
- Zero fabricated positions: Vessel AIS tracking and terminal timestamps reflect real carrier and satellite telemetry, never estimated guesses.
The bottom line
Panvaya's pricing is structured to eliminate friction from freight visibility. With Premium tracking at approximately $0.50 per shipment per month and Enterprise offering 2 shipments plus 120 API credits per dollar across 50+ ocean carriers, your team gets industry-leading data accuracy and speed at a fraction of legacy software costs. Start with our free tier or contact our support team to configure a plan that fits your exact operating scale.