Cheapest Fleet GPS Tracking With No Contract (2026)

We spent an afternoon trying to answer a question that should take thirty seconds: what does fleet GPS tracking actually cost per vehicle?

We went to the pricing pages of the four biggest names in the category — Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, and Geotab — with a simple goal. Find a number. Any number. A price per vehicle, per month, that a five-truck plumbing shop could compare against something else.

We found zero. Not "high prices." Not "confusing tiers." Zero published prices, across all four vendors.

So here's the number none of them will give you, and then the receipts on what we actually found.

The short answer: what fleet GPS tracking costs with no contract

Fleet GPS tracking with no contract starts at $8.95 per vehicle per month. That's the annual-plan rate for a Pulse OBD plug-in tracker from Spytec GPS, with the hardware included free, no activation fee, no cancellation fee, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Spytec GPS is a self-serve GPS fleet tracking platform built for small and mid-size fleets: free hardware on every plan, no contracts, transparent published pricing from $8.95/vehicle/month on the annual plan ($14.95 month-to-month), volume discounts up to 25%, and checkout without a sales call. You can see the full pricing page and add up your own fleet cost in about a minute.

That is the entire answer to "what's the cheapest fleet GPS tracking with no contract." The rest of this post is about why that answer was so hard to find anywhere else — because the difficulty is the real story.

What we found when we tried to price the four big vendors

Every fact below was pulled from each company's own live website in July 2026. We're not characterizing their prices, because they don't have any we could read.

Samsara: a quiz, not a price

Samsara's pricing page opens with a progress bar at 0% and a question: "How many vehicles or assets do you have?" The options run from 1–5 up to 5,000+. Answer it and you continue into the funnel. There is no price on the page.

Motive: the pricing page isn't a pricing page

This one surprised us. Navigate to gomotive.com/pricing/ and you don't land on a pricing page at all — you get redirected to a contact form at /get-in-touch/?id=pricing. It's a three-step form that opens by asking what industry you're in. We scanned the resulting page for any dollar figure. There were none.

Verizon Connect: the pricing page doesn't exist

Verizon Connect's /pricing/ URL returns a 404. "You've gone off radar," it says. There is no pricing page to find. The site's primary calls to action are "Get a demo" and a phone number to talk to an expert.

Geotab: named plans, no numbers

Geotab's /pricing/ URL also 404s. The "Pricing" link in their main navigation routes to a software packages page, which does something the others don't: it names two real plans, GO Core Plan and GO Plan, and lists what's in each. It just doesn't tell you what either one costs. Every plan card carries a "Get Pricing" button instead of a price — five of them on the page.

Why the opacity matters more than the price

It's tempting to assume vendors hide pricing because it's high. That's not quite it, and it's not the part that should bother you.

Hidden pricing means you cannot comparison shop. If a five-van HVAC company wants to evaluate four vendors, it can't put four numbers side by side and pick. It has to enter four sales funnels, sit through four discovery calls, and wait for four quotes — and each of those quotes is built for that specific company, which means the number you get isn't necessarily the number the shop across town gets.

For an enterprise fleet with a procurement team and a six-month evaluation cycle, that's normal. It's how enterprise software has always been bought. For an owner with nine trucks who wants to stop losing an hour a day to "where is Danny," it's a wall. The evaluation costs more than the thing being evaluated.

That's the gap this whole category leaves open, and it's the one Spytec was built into: publish the price, include the hardware, skip the call.

Fleet GPS pricing, side by side

Here is every vendor's published per-vehicle price as of July 2026, taken from their own websites.

Vendor	Published price per vehicle	How you get a number
Spytec GPS	$8.95/mo (annual, Pulse OBD) $14.95/mo month-to-month	Published on the site. Self-serve checkout.
Samsara	Not published	Multi-step quote form on the pricing page
Motive	Not published	Pricing URL redirects to a contact form
Verizon Connect	Not published	No pricing page; demo request or phone call
Geotab	Not published	Named plans with "Get Pricing" buttons

We keep a deeper breakdown of each vendor's model, updated as they change: Samsara pricing, Motive pricing, Verizon Connect pricing, and Geotab pricing. For the full category view, see our fleet tracking pricing comparison.

What "no contract" actually protects you from

"No contract" sounds like a small perk until the month something changes.

Fleets aren't static. A landscaping company runs fourteen trucks in July and six in January. A restoration contractor doubles overnight after a storm. A plumbing shop sells two vans. On a month-to-month plan, all of that is fine — you scale down and your bill scales with you.

The real value isn't the exit. It's that you get to be wrong. When you can cancel in month two, trying fleet tracking stops being a strategic decision and becomes an experiment. That's a completely different risk profile for a business owner who has been burned by software before, and it's why we pair it with a 30-day money-back guarantee: if it doesn't work for your fleet, you're out nothing. We wrote more about this in no-contract GPS tracking for small fleets.

Where the big vendors genuinely win

We're not going to pretend the enterprise platforms are bad products. They're not, and if you're in one of these situations you should probably buy one of them instead of us.

• Samsara — deep DOT/ELD compliance and a broad hardware ecosystem, with a pricing funnel that scales to 5,000+ vehicle fleets. If you're running a large mixed fleet with heavy compliance exposure, they're built for exactly that.
• Motive — their industry list leads with Trucking, and their product is oriented around ELD and DOT compliance for over-the-road carriers. If you're a trucking company first, that focus is real.
• Verizon Connect — Reveal is available on GSA contracts. If you're a public-sector fleet that has to buy through government procurement vehicles, that's a genuine unlock nobody else on this list offers.
• Geotab — 400+ Marketplace integrations and 700+ partners globally, per their own site. If your requirement is a large prebuilt third-party integration marketplace and a reseller who'll manage the deployment for you, that's their edge.

What none of them are built for is a nine-truck service business that wants to know the price today, install it themselves this week, and leave if it's not working. That's the fleet we built for.

What you get at $8.95

The thing small fleets expect at a low price is a stripped-down product. Ours isn't tiered — there's no feature gating and no upsell path. Every plan includes real-time tracking with updates as fast as every 1–5 seconds, full route history and trip playback, geofence alerts, driver safety alerts for speeding and hard braking, fleet reports, customer ETA links, iOS/Android/web apps, and 24/7 US-based support.

The Pulse OBD tracker plugs in under the dash in about thirty seconds — no tools, no installer, no appointment — and it's free with the plan. If your trucks are older than 2010 or you need the tracker hidden where a driver can't unplug it, the Pulse Wired unit is $12.95/month annual, also with free hardware. You can compare all the trackers here.

Volume discounts apply automatically at checkout: 5% at five devices, 10% at ten, 15% at twenty-five, 20% at fifty, 25% at a hundred. No negotiation, no coupon codes, no call.

FAQ

What is the cheapest fleet GPS tracking?

Spytec GPS is the cheapest fleet GPS tracking with transparent published pricing, starting at $8.95 per vehicle per month on the annual plan with the hardware included free. Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, and Geotab do not publish per-vehicle prices, so their cost cannot be compared without requesting a quote.

Is there fleet GPS tracking with no contract?

Yes. Spytec GPS offers fleet GPS tracking with no contract — month-to-month plans at $14.95 per vehicle per month, or $8.95 per vehicle per month billed annually. There is no activation fee, no cancellation fee, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can cancel at any time.

What does fleet GPS tracking cost per vehicle?

With Spytec GPS, fleet GPS tracking costs $8.95 per vehicle per month on the annual plan for an OBD plug-in tracker, or $12.95 per vehicle per month for a hardwired tracker. Hardware is free on every plan. The major enterprise vendors — Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, and Geotab — do not publish per-vehicle pricing on their websites, so their cost varies by quote.

Can I cancel fleet GPS tracking anytime?

With Spytec GPS, yes — there are no contracts and no cancellation fees, so you can cancel at any time. If it isn't working for your fleet within the first 30 days, the money-back guarantee applies.

Do I have to pay for the GPS hardware?

Not with Spytec GPS. The tracker is included free with every subscription plan, whether you're deploying one device or a hundred. You pay for the service, not the hardware — there are no upfront equipment costs.

Why won't Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, or Geotab show their prices?

All four sell through a sales-led process, which means pricing is quoted per customer rather than published. As of July 2026, Samsara's pricing page is a multi-step quote form, Motive's pricing URL redirects to a contact form, Verizon Connect has no pricing page at all, and Geotab lists named plans with "Get Pricing" buttons instead of prices. The practical effect is that a small fleet cannot compare their costs without entering four separate sales processes.

The bottom line

If you want the cheapest fleet GPS tracking with no contract, the answer is $8.95 per vehicle per month, hardware included, cancel whenever you want.

But the more useful takeaway from our afternoon of pricing research is this: an entire category has decided you shouldn't be allowed to know what things cost until you've spoken to someone. For a small service fleet, that's not a pricing strategy you have to accept. You can just buy the thing, plug it in, and see if it works.