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Pricing models compared

Flat-fee vs contingency freight audit:
what you actually keep

Most freight-audit providers take a cut of everything they recover for you — typically 20–50%. Oracron is a flat subscription, so you keep 100%. Here's how the two models really compare.

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Two ways to pay for a freight audit

Almost every provider uses one of these. The difference decides how much of your recovered money you actually take home.

Contingency / gain-share

You pay nothing up front. The auditor keeps a percentage — usually 20–50% — of every overcharge they recover, for as long as the contract runs. The more they find, the more they keep.

Flat subscription — Oracron

You pay a predictable monthly fee for the platform. Every euro it recovers stays with you — 100%. Your cost doesn't move when your recoveries go up.

Side by side

Fee basis % of every recovery Fixed monthly subscription
What you keep 50–80% of recoveries 100% of recoveries
Cost as recoveries grow Rises with every euro found Unchanged
Incentive to fix root causes None — errors are the revenue Aligned — fewer errors is fine
Transparency of baseline Provider controls detection + measurement Deterministic math, per-line audit trail
Predictable budgeting No — scales with leakage Yes — flat line item

Comparison of pricing models in the freight-audit category. The 20–50% contingency range is widely documented across the industry.

Why the model matters

A contingency auditor only earns when carriers keep overcharging

If a provider's revenue is a slice of what it recovers, it has no reason to stop the overcharging at its source — recurring errors are the business model. Oracron earns the same whether your error rate is 8% or 0%, so it's free to do the thing that actually helps you: drive overcharges down.

Our incentive is your error rate going to zero. A contingency auditor's incentive is that it never does.

A quick example

Say Oracron recovers €40,000 of overcharges for you in a year.

Contingency (25–50%)

€10k–€20k

taken by the auditor — every year it keeps working.

Oracron (flat fee)

€0 taken

You keep the full €40,000. Your only cost is the subscription.

Illustration. Recovery amounts vary by carrier mix, lanes, and data quality.

Keep what you recover

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Common questions

What is contingency (gain-share) freight-audit pricing?↓
It's a model where the auditor is paid a percentage of the overcharges it recovers — commonly 20–50%. There's no upfront fee, but the provider keeps a share of your money for as long as the engagement runs.
How is Oracron's pricing different?↓
Oracron is a flat monthly subscription. It never takes a percentage of what it recovers, so you keep 100% of every euro recovered. Your cost stays the same whether recoveries are large or small.
Isn't contingency cheaper because there's nothing to pay up front?↓
Only if your recoveries are small. Once a flat subscription costs less than the percentage a contingency provider would keep, flat fee wins — and it keeps winning every year. A contingency model also has no incentive to reduce the overcharging at its source, because recurring errors are its revenue.