FreightParse and Digicust
Both read a shipment's documents for the customs declaration, but they do very different amounts of the work. Below is what each one's own pages say, side by side, read on 12 October 2026, and where Digicust is the stronger choice.
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In short
Digicust, from Vienna, runs AI agents across the customs process: it reads the documents, classifies the goods, validates the declaration and hands it to your customs software, or files it itself in Germany, Switzerland and the UK, among others. Its prices are published.
FreightParse does one part of that: it reads the invoice and packing list into the goods lines and writes them as a file for the declaration software you already use. It does not classify and does not file. It is run by one person.
Side by side
| Topic | FreightParse | Digicust |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Reads a shipment's supplier invoice and packing list, scans included, into the goods lines of the customs declaration, and writes them as a file for the declaration software you already use. | AI agents for customs work: declarations, tariff classification, export control, audits and master data. The declaration agent: Reads invoices, CMRs, certificates, and shipping emails. Matches against master data, classifies, validates, checks compliance, and hands the submission-ready declaration to your customs software.Home page. |
| Files the declaration | No. It does not file declarations and it does not classify goods: it reads the commodity code the document prints. Your declarant checks and files, in your own software. | Its list of capabilities includes filings it makes itself, among them ATLAS (Germany), e-dec (Switzerland), CDS (UK), NCTS transit and ICS2, and representation through vetted local partners. Home page. |
| Price | On the front page, excluding VAT: €0.35 a document, minimum €49 a month, which includes the first 140, and you can cancel monthly; yearly plans from €4,900 for 2,000 documents a month. | Published. Pay per use at €5.00 a credit, or yearly plans: Basic €4,500 (2,250 credits), Growth €15,120 (8,640), Team €25,500 (17,000); Enterprise on request. A customs declaration takes 2 to 8 credits, so €10 to €40 at pay per use; reading documents takes up to 1 credit a page. Onboarding of 10 hours at €180 (€1,800 once) is recommended. All contracts are annual.The page does not mention VAT. Pricing page. |
| Trying it | Free for 14 days, about 20 pages a day, with no payment details (the trial). Or one shipment by e-mail: forward it to docs@freightparse.com from your work address, accept the trial terms with one button in the reply, and it comes back usually within 5 minutes. | A test account unlimited in timewith 20 credits. The pricing page also says: We do not offer a 14-day trial period.Pricing page. |
| Where documents are read | Read in Google's EU region, not used for training. A request flagged by Google's abuse checks may be kept up to 90 days, in the EU. FreightParse keeps no copy on its server. On the e-mail route, the e-mails are deleted from our mailbox within 30 days. The data processing agreement comes with the trial. | EU-hosted; the platform runs on EU infrastructure. Its list of capabilities gives Hosted in EU data centres with optional customer-managed encryption keys. About page, home page. |
| Where each value came from | A separate file, lines_sources.csv, gives for every value the page and the text as printed there. On a text PDF the match is checked for you; on a scan you look at the page yourself. | Its FAQ for AI assistants lists evidence linking to source documentsand transparent reasoning that can be reviewed and challenged; the site names an audit trail on every AI action. Digicust's llms.txt. |
| Declaration software | Excel and CSV with the data elements as column names; for Riege Scope (module C89), Stratech Shipment and Customs4trade CAS a file built to what the vendor publishes; any other layout from one example file. No desk has imported a FreightParse file yet. Your software. | Connectors for dbh, DAKOSY, Scope (Riege, for Germany and Switzerland), ITMS, BEO, e2open and Mercurio, and also AEB, ASYCUDA, CargoSoft, LDV/DHF Zolaris and Format; a REST API, SFTP, EDI and e-mail. Its list of countries includes the Netherlands and Belgium; its FAQ names configured procedures in Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and asks you to confirm the exact scope. llms.txt, home page. |
| Security certificate | No certificate. | ISO/IEC 27001:2022, which can be checked on IAF CertSearch. Home page. |
| Who is behind it | One person: Danil Sysenko, a sole proprietorship registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, KvK 42184908, in Rotterdam. No paying customers yet. | Digicust Flexco, Vienna Airport, Austria, founded 2020. The team page names 14 people; the home page says more than 100 companies are live on the platform. Team page, about page. |
Where Digicust is stronger
- It does far more of the declaration: classification with its reasoning, validation rules, export control, audits, and filings of its own in Germany, Switzerland and the UK. FreightParse reads goods lines and nothing else.
- A team, not one person: 14 people on its team page, and customs advisors you can book by the hour (from €250 an hour, its pricing page says).
- An ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate. FreightParse has none.
- More than 100 companies live, with customer cases by name. FreightParse has no paying customer yet.
- Many connectors ready, mostly for German and Swiss systems, and an API.
- A test account with no end date. Its prices are published as well.
When FreightParse may fit better
- You only want the goods lines read from the invoice and packing list, in a file your own declaration software imports, and your declarant does the rest as now.
- You want to start small: one shipment by e-mail, back usually within 5 minutes, and a price per document on the page (€0.35 a document, minimum €49 a month).
- The two prices buy different things. A Digicust declaration covers its whole declaration work, classification included; a FreightParse document is one PDF read into goods lines. Compare them on your own volume and scope.
How this page was made
Everything in the Digicust column comes from Digicust's own public pages, read on 12 October 2026, linked in each cell and listed below. Accuracy figures are left out: each vendor measures in its own way, on its own documents, so the numbers cannot be set side by side; FreightParse's test, its documents and its scoring are public (how it was tested). Prices and features change, so check Digicust's pages before you decide. FreightParse is not affiliated with Digicust. If anything here is wrong or out of date, write to danil@freightparse.com and it will be corrected.
The pages read, on 12 October 2026
- Home page: https://digicust.com/
- Pricing: https://digicust.com/en/price/
- AI customs declarations: https://digicust.com/en/solutions/ai-customs-declarations/
- About: https://digicust.com/en/about/
- Team: https://digicust.com/en/team/
- llms.txt (FAQ for AI assistants): https://digicust.com/llms.txt
Try it on one shipment
Two fields and one click in an e-mail open the address for your desk. A shipment comes back in its thread, usually within 5 minutes.