The number that decides which free route planner works for you is the stop cap: how many stops one route can hold. We checked each company's own pricing page on September 24, 2026. RoadWarrior's free plan holds 8 stops per route. Spoke, the app that used to be called Circuit, holds 10. Fix My Route, which we make, holds 12. Zeo limits routes per month instead. Upper has no free plan.
So if your route runs past 12 stops, none of these free plans fits the whole day into one route. Check that before any feature list.
The free plans, smallest stop cap first
- RoadWarrior: 8 stops per route. The free plan is "$0 forever" and hands off to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze for directions. Its free column lists "manual route creation", so if you want the app to work out the order for you, check that before relying on it. (RoadWarrior pricing)
- Spoke, formerly Circuit: 10 stops per route, unlimited routes. Spoke says the free version gets all features inside that 10-stop limit. (Spoke pricing)
- Fix My Route: 12 stops per route, no monthly route cap. Optimizing the order is included. You also get 10 photo or screenshot scans of a manifest a month and 10 delivery photos a month. Avoiding tolls, highways and ferries is paid only. This one is ours, so weigh this line with that in mind.
- Zeo: up to 12 routes a month. That's how Zeo's own buyer's guide describes its free mobile tier. Its pricing page doesn't give a stop limit for a free route, so we haven't listed one. (Zeo's guide)
- Upper: no free plan. You get a 7-day trial. After that, the Starter plan is $40 per user a month billed yearly, or $50 month to month. (Upper pricing)
Which one fits your route
Look at your busiest shift from the last couple of weeks and count the stops.
- 8 or fewer: every free plan above holds it. Pick on how easily you can get addresses in.
- 9 or 10: Spoke or Fix My Route.
- 11 or 12: Fix My Route. Zeo might too, but its pages don't say how many stops a free route holds.
- More than 12: you're paying for something, or splitting the day into several routes.
A route cap runs out faster than it sounds
Zeo's limit works differently, and it's easy to misread. Twelve routes a month sounds like plenty. Then you count workdays.
Drive five days a week, one route a day, and the allowance is gone in under three weeks. A stop cap tells you on day one whether your route fits. We'd rather know that up front than find out halfway through the month. If you only drive a few days a month, though, Zeo's model may suit you better than any of ours.
Splitting one long day into free-sized routes
With unlimited routes, you can run 30 stops on Spoke's free plan as three routes of 10. Fix My Route allows the same thing at 12 a route.
The catch is the split. You decide which stops go in which route before any app has looked at the map, and the optimizer only sorts the stops inside each route. Split badly and you'll drive back across your own path between routes. It's the same problem as breaking a Google Maps route into legs, which we went through in how to add more than 10 stops on Google Maps.
When paying beats splitting
The cheapest paid tiers we checked are Spoke Lite at $9.99 a month and RoadWarrior Pro at $10 a month, billed as $120 a year. Spoke Lite removes the stop cap. RoadWarrior Pro raises it to 120 per route.
Live tracking, dispatch dashboards and customer text alerts get a lot of space on these pricing pages. They're built for someone managing other drivers. If you run your own route, three things matter more: the stop cap, the price, and how fast you can get addresses into the app. Typing 25 addresses on a phone between stops is slow, and it's easy to get one wrong.
What we couldn't check
We haven't driven one route on every free plan, so this post doesn't say which app plans a better route. The one head-to-head we've run was against Zeo, on a real 17-stop shift, in Fix My Route vs Zeo.
Review sites also disagree about some of these free tiers. We've seen Zeo's described by stops on one and by routes a month on another. Everything above comes from each company's own pages, as of September 24, 2026. Prices and caps change, so open the link for the one you're leaning toward before you decide.
Fix My Route Team
We build route-optimization software for delivery drivers and couriers, and write about the planning and engineering problems that come up running real multi-stop days.
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