BetterSuitevs.Cab9

One of These Vendors Has a Fleet Among Its Owners.

Cab9 is a well-liked British dispatch platform with integrations no one outside the UK can match — City Fleet, Get Taxi, Minicabit, CMAC, What3Words. It also publishes no price and no billing model, and since 3 June 2026 a private hire operator has held an undisclosed stake in it. BetterTaxi publishes every tier, operates no fleet of its own, and will sell you the source code.

Every tier vs None published

What the pricing page shows

Yes vs No

Source licence available

No fleet vs A fleet

Shareholders who run taxis

Quick Verdict

It Comes Down to What You Can See.

The two products do similar things. What you can find out about them before signing is not similar at all.

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BetterTaxi

BetterTaxi

A white-label ride-hailing platform with its prices on a public page, built by a company that sells software and runs no taxis.

  • Best for: reading the price before you book a demo
  • Best for: operators who want no fleet owner anywhere on the cap table
  • Best for: adding delivery, parking or bookings without a second vendor

Consider: the hosted plan takes 1.9% of each completed fare on top of its monthly fee. We also have nothing like Cab9's UK integration list — if your work comes through City Fleet, Minicabit or CMAC today, that is a real migration and we should talk about it before you switch, not after.

Cab9

Cab9

A London-built dispatch platform used by fleets across the United Kingdom, strong on the integrations British operators actually run on.

  • Best for: UK fleets already taking work from City Fleet or Minicabit
  • Best for: operators who want a British vendor and British support
  • Best for: back office work — invoicing, driver pay and record keeping

Consider: nothing about the commercial terms is public — no price, no billing basis, no tiers — and a private hire operator holds an undisclosed stake. Cab9 says it "will remain an independent entity, directly managed and separately governed by its own board", and its founder still leads it as a significant shareholder.

Feature by Feature

What Each One Will Tell You.

Rows marked "Not published" are not marks against Cab9 — they are things the company has chosen not to state, and we will not guess them.

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Feature

BetterTaxi
Cab9

Cab9

What you can find out

Published price

Whether you can see the cost without booking a call

Supported£39 a month, listed
Not supportedQuote on request

Published billing basis

Per driver, per booking, flat fee — stated anywhere

SupportedFlat fee plus 1.9%
Not supportedNot published

Share of each fare

What the platform takes out of a completed ride

Not supported1.9% of completed fares
Partly supportedNo model stated

Ownership and exit

Run it on your own servers

Whether self-hosting is offered at any price

SupportedIncluded with a licence
Not supportedNo self-host offered

Source code available

Whether the code can be bought outright

SupportedFrom £44,999 once
Not supportedNo source option

No fleet operator holds equity

Whether a shareholder competes for your passengers

SupportedWe run no taxis
Not supportedA fleet holds a stake

Apps and brand

Branded passenger app

Native apps carrying your name, not the vendor's

SupportediOS and Android, your brand
SupportediOS and Android, your brand

Branded driver app

The same, for the people driving

SupportediOS and Android, your brand
SupportediOS and Android, your brand

UK booking-network integrations

Taking work from City Fleet, Minicabit and the rest

Not supportedNone of them
SupportedEight, and deep ones

Beyond taxi

Food or parcel delivery

Whether it runs on the same platform or a second one

SupportedSame platform, one bill
Not supportedNo delivery product

Shops and marketplaces

Selling from local businesses, not just moving people

SupportedBetterShop, same backend
Not supportedNo shop product

Parking and bookings

Other business types from the same vendor

SupportedBetterParking and BetterService
Not supportedNo parking product

Deep Dive

Four Differences Worth the Detail.

A Fleet Sits on the Cap Table

On 3 June 2026 Veezu — a private hire operator running the kind of fleet Cab9's customers run — made a strategic investment in Cab9. Neither company disclosed the size of the stake. Cab9 says it "will remain an independent entity, directly managed and separately governed by its own board", its founder still leads it, and he remains a significant shareholder. What the announcement sets out is the governance; it does not go on to describe how one operator's bookings, pricing and customer records are kept separate from a shareholder that competes for the same passengers. That is a fair question to put to them before signing, and the answer belongs in writing.

BetterTaxi

We sell software and run no taxis anywhere. There is no fleet to keep your numbers away from.

Cab9

Independently governed by its own board, with an undisclosed stake held by an operator in the same market.

No Price, and No Basis Either

Plenty of dispatch vendors quote per deal, and that on its own is normal enough. Cab9 goes one step further than most: there is no pricing page at all, and no statement of what the fee is even charged against — not per driver, not per booking, not a flat fee. So a first conversation cannot start from "is that competitive?" It has to start from "how does this work?", which is a weaker position to negotiate from than most operators realise.

BetterTaxi

Every tier and its limits are on the pricing page, in your currency, before you speak to anyone.

Cab9

A demo booking, then a number. Nothing published to check it against.

There Is No Version You Keep

Cab9 offers no self-hosted build and no source licence, so the platform is rented for as long as you use it and the day you stop paying is the day it stops working. BetterTaxi sells the same platform three ways — hosted from £39 a month, a licence on your own servers from £4,499 once, or the full source from £44,999 once. The licence is the version nobody can reprice, discontinue or sell to somebody you would rather not be a customer of.

BetterTaxi

Hosted, self-hosted or source. The exit is priced and published before you ever need it.

Cab9

Hosted only. Leaving means moving fleet, drivers and history onto something else.

Rides Today, Parcels Tomorrow

Cab9 does taxi and private hire, and does them well. It does not do delivery, shops, parking or bookings, so growing into any of those means a second vendor and a second system. On BetterSuite a shop order marked for express delivery is priced by a live taxi quote and dispatched to the same drivers who take fares, turning up in the driver app as one more job with a pickup and a drop-off.

BetterTaxi

One driver pool, one dispatch, one bill. A ride and a parcel are the same job with different cargo.

Cab9

Passengers only. Anything else is a separate platform beside it.

Pricing

One of These You Can Read Off a Page.

We publish every tier and what it is charged on. Cab9 publishes neither.

PublishedBetterSuite

BetterSuite

Monthly subscription

£39/ mo

Plus 1.9% of each completed fare

See Pricing
  • Every tier and limit published before you sign up
  • Or £4,499 once to host it yourself, or £44,999 for the source
  • No charge per driver, however many you sign
  • Add delivery, parking or bookings to the same account

£468First year in fees, before the 1.9%

Cab9

Cab9

Quoted per fleet

Quoted on requestbasis not stated

No pricing page, no tiers, no published rate

  • Eight UK booking-network integrations, live today
  • Back office included: invoicing, driver pay, records
  • In-house UK support team, around the clock
  • Taxi and private hire only; no other business types

Cab9 publishes no price and no billing basis: their site has no pricing page and its only call to action is to book a demo, so this page quotes no figure for them. The strategic investment by the private hire operator Veezu was announced on 3 June 2026 by Cab9 itself; neither party disclosed the size of the stake, and the quoted assurance about independent governance is Cab9's own wording. Company details are from Companies House, number 10991824. Read 17 September 2026. Sources: Cab9 product siteCab9 customersCab9 on the Veezu investmentCompanies House record

Who It's For

Choose the Right Tool for Your Situation.

Choose BetterTaxi if...

Choose BetterTaxi if...

You want to know the price and the shareholders before you commit.

  • You want the option to host it or buy the source
  • You would rather no competitor held equity in your vendor
  • You expect to add delivery or bookings later
Choose Cab9 if...

Choose Cab9 if...

Your work comes through the British booking networks, and that is the whole job.

  • You take jobs from City Fleet, Minicabit or CMAC today
  • You want invoicing and driver pay handled in one place
  • A UK-only vendor with UK-only support suits you

Ready?

Ask Both of Us the Same Two Questions

What does it cost, and who owns you? If Cab9's answers work for you, they build a good product and their network reach is real. If you would rather read both answers on a public page before anyone calls you back, that is BetterTaxi.

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