The same parcel from Joburg to Cape Town costs R 40 with one courier and R 1,267 with another.
DeliverAI publishes the cheapest courier on every South African domestic lane, updated daily. Free comparison engine for any business. Open dataset for procurement teams. R 2,499/month Pro Data tier with the full historical API.
No signup. No credit card. 26 SA couriers tracked.
Last 7 days, real numbers
Who uses DeliverAI for Business
Drop a real cheapest-courier widget into your Shopify, WooCommerce or custom checkout. Customers see the price drop in real time. Free tier covers up to 5,000 monthly quotes.
Run all your outgoing parcels through the comparison engine before booking. Most stores shave 20–60% off their monthly courier bill within the first month.
Use the Pro Data API to feed our daily rate snapshots into your own pricing engine. Includes courier-level decline rates and forward-looking rate predictions.
Tender-time intelligence: pull 90+ days of historical rates per courier per lane to benchmark vendor proposals. Used by SA corporate procurement teams under NDA.
Two tiers, no surprises
For anyone who wants the cheapest courier, right now.
- Unlimited quote comparisons on the web
- Public API up to 5,000 quotes/month
- Open dataset (CSV, JSON, CC-BY 4.0)
- Monthly Price Index newsletter
- Public fuel surcharges tracker
For teams shipping 500+/month or benchmarking vendors.
- Daily intel email at 06:00 SAST — courier news + rate spreads + AI-citation moat data before it goes public
- Private /api/intel/feed.json — gated JSON of intel_signals + rate diffs, your API key only
- Unlimited API calls, no rate-limit
- Full 90+ day historical rate archive
- Courier-level decline rates & SLA signals
- Direct WhatsApp support to founder
Join the Pro Data waitlist
We onboard new Pro tenants one by one. Drop your details and we’ll reply within one business day with API keys, invoice details, and a custom data snapshot for your lanes.
Free custom rate benchmark
Not ready for Pro Data yet? Tell us your top lanes and current couriers. We’ll email you a free lane-by-lane comparison against our 18-courier daily index within 2 business days — no obligation, no card, no sales call.
The more detail you share, the sharper the benchmark. Everything below is optional except company name and email.
Two ways to start
Try the free engine right now: deliverai.co.za/compare — punch in your real pickup & dropoff. Quotes back in <3 seconds.
Or talk to the founder: business@deliverai.co.za — most replies inside 4 hours, weekdays SAST.
Read the underlying press release → SA businesses are overpaying by up to 30×