CarrierOk vs. Carrier Assure
Carrier Assure grades carriers with a predictive score. CarrierOk shows the verifiable record underneath, at the same published price. Here's the comparison for brokers and shippers choosing between the grade and the data.
Carrier Assure scores how a carrier is likely to perform and expresses it as a letter grade, on a free Individual tier and Premium at $149 a month. CarrierOk is the record underneath that kind of decision: all 7 BASIC percentiles, a computed ISS score, 50+ named risk signals, policy-level insurance and monitoring, at $149 a month. Use a score to triage, the record to make the call.
- Price
- Carrier Assure publishes a free Individual tier, Premium at $149 a month for one account, and Enterprise by quote with API access (carrierassure.com/pricing, checked September 2026). CarrierOk is $149 a month for one user, with the API sold separately as pay-as-you-go.
- What you get
- Carrier Assure returns a performance score, and its own materials are direct that the score is not an indicator of safety or a guarantee of performance. CarrierOk returns the underlying record and names each risk signal separately.
- Evidence
- Every CarrierOk signal is traceable to the filing, inspection or federal record behind it, so a decision can be explained and filed rather than only asserted.
- Finding carriers
- Carrier Assure scores carriers you bring to it. CarrierOk also searches the whole registry by authority, insurance, equipment and renewal timing.
- API
- Carrier Assure lists API integration on its Enterprise tier. CarrierOk is a self-serve REST API with public documentation, a free sandbox and pay-as-you-go pricing.
Carrier Assure's grade is built to make vetting fast, and it does that well. CarrierOk answers the same question from a deeper record: 20 years of authority and insurance history, plus every contact change with the dates it was in use; every VIN in the fleet decoded; policy-level insurance with filing and cancellation dates; all 7 BASIC percentiles and an ISS score computed in-house; 50+ named risk signals. That record is reconciled across the federal sources rather than passed through from one, and it updates the day those sources publish. Both plans are published at the same monthly price, so what differs is the depth of what your team gets to work with.
Last updated September 2026.
What is Carrier Assure?
Carrier Assure is a carrier scoring platform that predicts how a carrier will perform, expressed as a letter-grade style score, and is used by brokers and shippers to standardize carrier selection decisions. Its published scoring factors are business stability, DOT performance, tracking reliability from Project44 data, related entities, plus two community inputs: user-flagged reports and user reviews.
Scores are genuinely useful for fast, consistent triage, and Carrier Assure's own materials are direct that the performance score is not an indicator of safety or a guarantee of performance. The evaluation question is how much you need underneath it: how far the history goes, how carefully the data is reconciled, how quickly it updates, and whether the same subscription also finds carriers.
When the grade isn't enough.
Scores make vetting fast, and that is their appeal. Here is what switching teams tell us they eventually needed:
“We needed the history, not just the headline.”
CarrierOk carries 20 years of operating history on a carrier: every authority granted, revoked, and reinstated, and every insurance filing and cancellation with amounts and dates. Alongside it sits the full contact-change history, each name, address, phone, and email with the dates it was in use. Patterns that matter show up there long before they reach a summary.
“A score tells us no. It doesn't tell us why.”
When a carrier gets flagged, your team needs the specifics: a shared address with a revoked entity, an insurance gap, a safety trend. CarrierOk names the exact signal and when it fired, so ops can resolve edge cases instead of just declining them.
“Half our records didn't match what we found on the phone.”
Federal sources disagree with each other constantly: a stale address in one, a missing filing in another. CarrierOk reconciles every record across those sources before it ships, updates throughout the day as they publish, and covers US, Canada, and Mexico-domiciled FMCSA registrants.
“We also need to find carriers, not just check them.”
CarrierOk doubles as a sourcing platform. Filter every registrant by fleet size, equipment, geography, insurance renewal windows, and authority age, then export CRM-ready lists.
“At the same price, we got a lot more product.”
Both platforms publish pricing, and they land on the same number: Carrier Assure Premium is $149/month for one account, and CarrierOk Pro is $149/month. For that, CarrierOk covers sourcing across the whole market, the full record on every carrier, same-day monitoring, and API access.
Where each one wins.
Competitor cells from their published materials, as of September 2026
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| Feature | CarrierOk | Carrier Assure |
|---|---|---|
| Named risk signals | 50+ named signals, with what fired and when | Proprietary performance score |
| Full operating history (timestamped) | Yes | Not advertised |
| Coverage incl. Canada & Mexico-domiciled registrants | Yes | Not published |
| Carrier sourcing & lead generation | Yes | Not advertised |
| VIN-decoded fleet details | Yes | Not advertised |
| Policy-level insurance data | Filings, amounts, cancellations, and gaps | Insurance status and history, scored |
| Related-entity network checks | 5 graph checks: shared address, EIN, email, phone, DUNS | Related entities (connected carriers and addresses) |
| One-box search across identifiers | DOT, MC, name, DBA, contact, EIN, phone, email, address, VIN, and plate, including past values | Not advertised |
| All 7 BASIC percentiles + ISS | Yes | Proprietary score |
| Contact-change history | Every name, address, phone, and email with the dates in use | Not advertised |
| Monitoring & alerts | Same-day, across authority, insurance, and safety | DOT authority monitoring |
| Chrome Extension | Yes | Yes |
| Self-serve REST API | Self-serve keys, free sandbox, pay-as-you-go | Enterprise tier (API integration) |
| Pricing | From $149/mo, published, month-to-month | Free Individual; Premium $149/mo (published) |
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Every flag names its reasons.
CarrierOk screens every carrier against 50+ risk signals, including the 5 network-graph checks behind chameleon detection: shared address, EIN, email, phone, and DUNS across authorities.
Each one is named and dated in the record, so a flagged carrier arrives with its reasons attached and your team can act on the specifics.
Twenty years of record behind every carrier.
Depth is what separates a check from an assessment. Every CarrierOk profile carries 20 years of operating history: authorities granted, revoked, and reinstated; insurance filings, cancellations, and reinstatements with amounts and dates; crash and inspection events as they post.
Alongside it sits the full contact-change history, each name, address, phone, and email with the dates it was in use, and the fleet decoded VIN by VIN.
Search reaches all of it from one box, past values included: a carrier that changed its name or number since you last hauled with it is still findable by the old one.
Reconciled across sources, checked every day.
Federal sources contradict each other, and some carriers appear in one and not the others. CarrierOk cross-checks the sources against each other so the record you read resolves to one story, and catches carriers that fall out of individual feeds.
Every dataset is sourced and structured in-house, with no third-party aggregators in between. Ingestion is source-triggered, so records update throughout the day as FMCSA, NHTSA, and insurance sources publish, and coverage spans US, Canada, and Mexico-domiciled FMCSA registrants.
Objective data instead of reputation reports.
CarrierOk carries no user reviews and no community reports. That is a deliberate choice: assessment runs only on verified business and compliance data, meaning what a carrier filed, when it changed, and which checks it fails.
Community signal is useful and it is also uneven, unattributable, and hard to defend when a decision is challenged. A position built from filings and named checks is one you can document to a regulator, a reinsurer, or your own management.
Sourcing, verification, and monitoring in one platform.
Filter carriers by fleet size, equipment, cargo, geography, and insurance status. Verify them with all 7 BASIC percentiles, ISS, and risk signals. Then monitor the ones you work with, with same-day alerts.
One subscription covers the whole lifecycle, plus a Chrome Extension for lookups inside load boards and email.
Which one is right for your team?
Carrier Assure
Who should stay with Carrier Assure?
Carrier Assure fits teams that want scoring simplicity:
- —A single predictive grade to standardize go/no-go carrier decisions
- —Tracking reliability scored from Project44 GPS data
- —Community inputs: broker-submitted reports and reviews on a carrier
CarrierOk
Who should evaluate CarrierOk?
CarrierOk fits teams whose decisions need the record underneath, and the depth to work from:
Freight brokers and 3PLs
who need to resolve flagged carriers with specifics, not just decline them.
Factoring companies and insurers
who document decisions against filings, insurance history, and named signals they can cite.
Sales and sourcing teams
who need to find and qualify carriers across the whole market, not just check ones they already have.
Compliance and safety teams
who need full inspection, crash, and authority history the day events post.
What are the alternatives to Carrier Assure?
- CarrierOk
Computed risk scoring, all 7 BASIC percentiles, policy-level insurance, monitoring across a book, and a self-serve REST API.
- Carrier411
Broker vetting anchored by community-contributed carrier reliability reports.
- Central Analysis Bureau
Insurance-side fleet profiles, benchmarking and portfolio monitoring, sold through a subscriber portal.
- RigDig BI
VIN, ownership and lien history, aimed at equipment prospecting rather than vetting.
- Carrier Details
Consolidated FMCSA data delivered as scheduled files and feeds, for teams building on the raw record.
- Staying with Carrier Assure
The right answer if a single standardized score, and the community reports behind it, are what your team wants to work from.
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