Find the Best Suppliers by What They Ship
Grade: C — Score: 65/100
Mati Logistics leverages advanced AI technology to sift through a vast database of over 66,000 manufacturers and exporters, focusing on their actual shipping records rather than mere advertisements. This ensures that users receive reliable and accurate supplier suggestions backed by customs evidence.
The platform streamlines the sourcing workflow by allowing users to specify their needs, after which it automatically searches and presents suppliers that meet those criteria. This efficient process saves time and reduces the complexity typically associated with supplier sourcing.
However, users should be aware of potential risks such as reliance on the accuracy of shipping data and the need for due diligence when engaging with suppliers. While the platform provides a robust starting point, verifying supplier credentials and capabilities remains essential.
AI Sourcing Agent: Free
Human Sourcing Inquiry: Free to submit; paid work quoted separately
Consider switching to Alibaba: Alibaba offers a broader range of suppliers but lacks the shipment verification feature.
You describe the product, quantity, and geographic constraints in plain language. Mati uses Anthropic's Claude to turn the request into customs filing terms and HS headings, searches overseas suppliers and US-based distributors in Mati's database, and ranks matches using documented shipment activity. Every supplier result is tied to a database profile rather than generated by the model. You can then submit a separate sourcing inquiry for Mati's human team to shortlist suppliers, check capability, and obtain quotes.
Yes. The public search accepts country exclusions such as not from China, and Mati's supplier page displayed coverage across 168 countries when checked. Coverage still depends on relevant US import records, so a capable company without that trade history may not appear.
The AI agent shows evidence from US ocean import records, including matching shipments, total shipment history, buyers, HS codes, goods descriptions, ports, and carriers. This establishes recorded trade activity, not current factory capability, ownership, certification, capacity, quality, MOQ, or willingness to accept an order. Mati separately documents a human sourcing inquiry service that can check capability and obtain quotes.
The AI agent alone cannot replace supplier due diligence. It shortens discovery and trade-history review, while the public evidence does not establish site audits, sample inspection, financial checks, certification verification, or contract readiness. Mati's human sourcing team can take an inquiry forward through supplier shortlisting, capability checks, and quote collection, but the public page does not yet document RFx management, competitive bidding, or selection and contracting.
Profiles can show recent and all-time shipments, buyer relationships, HS codes, verbatim goods descriptions, TEU, declared CIF value when available, ports, carriers, and yearly or quarterly changes. Contact details are hidden by default and shown one supplier at a time to signed-in users. The records are described as US import evidence rather than a complete statement of the supplier's current catalog.
Yes. Mati searches overseas manufacturers and exporters and separately returns US-based distributors and suppliers that import related goods. The public page displayed 32,309 US-based companies, 48,127 phone or website records, and 72% described as directly contactable when checked.
Mati turns a natural-language brief into separate overseas and US-based shortlists supported by matching customs evidence. It is free, with one agent search per day without an account and up to 40 per hour with a free account, but offers no directory export or API. ImportYeti provides company, supplier, product, and bill-of-lading research across more than 709 million records and publishes a free plan, Professional at $50 per user per month billed annually, and Enterprise from $1,000 per organization per month. ImportYeti has the clearer bulk-data path, while Mati provides a more guided sourcing query and optional human handoff.
Mati emphasizes overseas suppliers and US distributors supported by actual US import activity, with an optional human inquiry for shortlisting, capability checks, and quotes. Thomasnet documents more than 500,000 North American suppliers and filters for certifications, capabilities, services, location, and verified status, plus direct RFI and RFQ workflows. Thomasnet is stronger for structured North American industrial sourcing, while Mati is better aligned with trade-record-based international discovery.
Mati offers a guided supplier-search experience centered on US customs evidence and a public-facing supplier directory. Panjiva documents 9 million companies, more than 2 billion shipment records, global and country-specific import and export data sources, and an API, but full access requires a subscription. Panjiva offers broader trade-data infrastructure, while Mati provides a simpler sourcing-agent workflow.
Yes. Mati says the supplier directory and AI Sourcing Agent are free with no paid agent tier. Visitors can browse profiles and run one agent search per day without an account; a free account allows up to 40 agent searches per hour and reveals contact details one company at a time. Directory exports and a sourcing-data API are not available. A human sourcing inquiry is free to submit, but any proposed paid work is scoped and priced in writing before it begins.
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