What iCANS costs
iCANS charges $99/month (Base) or $159/month (Plus) per their published pricing, checked August 23, 2026. There is a 7 day trial that does not require a card, then billing starts. Text messaging is limited to the Plus plan and capped at 1,000 messages per month. Payment processing runs through their partner processor.
Dumpster Controls takes the opposite approach: the software is free, with unlimited orders and unlimited users, and the only cost is card processing when a customer pays by card, 2.99% + $3.99 per transaction on the free plan, or 2.99% + $0.30 on the optional $169/month Unlimited plan. Pay by cash, check or any other method and there is no fee at all.
Competitor facts from their published pages, Capterra listings and trade press, as of July 2026.
Why haulers switch from iCANS
$1,188 to $1,908 a year back in your pocket
That is what an iCANS subscription costs at their published monthly plans. Dumpster Controls does everything on that list for $0. Our card processing fee is higher per transaction, so compare that too if most of your customers pay by card.
A real free plan, not a 7-day clock
iCANS gives you 7 days. We give you forever: unlimited orders, unlimited users, every feature.
Wider platform
iCANS is dumpster-only. Dumpster Controls adds junk removal jobs, a landfill database with 2,911 facilities, and the Dumpster Net Hub marketplace with zero fees.
AI that does more than talk
Tresha runs the entire platform by chat or voice on desktop and mobile: orders, dispatch, finances, landfill runs. It is included free.
Free means free. Forever.
We are the only full dumpster software in North America that is 100% free for every company size. Not a trial. Not a feature-gated freemium. Not a free plan capped at one truck. The whole product, unlimited orders and unlimited users, on the house.
How we make money: only when you opt in, and the numbers are public. The software is 100% free with unlimited orders and no per-order software fee. If you choose to collect a customer’s card payment through Dumpster Controls, the processing fee is 2.99% + $3.99 per card transaction on the free plan, or 2.99% + $0.30 (the standard Stripe rate) on the optional $169/month Unlimited plan. Take payment by cash, check, Zelle or any other way and you pay nothing at all. Beyond that, our revenue comes from the optional Unlimited plan and from equipment partners and sponsors advertising in the app and on our public directory; our marketplace, the Dumpster Net Hub, charges zero marketplace fees. Run your own business your way and you never pay to use the software. It’s the only model that lets a 1-truck owner-operator run on the same software as a 50-truck fleet.
iCANS alternative: FAQ
Comparing other platforms?
The long version
This page is the short answer. The full side by side with iCANS goes feature by feature, names the places where iCANS is genuinely better, and carries a source URL and a verification date on every claim about them.
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