--- title: "Samsara alternative: what the subscription costs" url: https://fleetsight.app/compare/samsara/ description: "Samsara lists $39 a vehicle a month for GPS and ELD plus $55 for a dual AI dash cam, on 36-month terms. The same three years with hardware you own instead." --- A subscription fleet platform with its own cameras # BSJ against Samsara This is not a hardware comparison — it is a business-model one. Samsara sells the fleet a subscription and owns the relationship. We sell you a camera and get out of the way. Platform, per vehicle per month €0 Samsara: €82 Three years, one vehicle €169 Samsara: €3,429 The three years after it ## Three years of one vehicle, at their list price This is the only chart on the site where our bar is hard to see, and that is the whole argument. A subscription is not dearer hardware; it is a different thing being sold. BSJ EH26 and FleetSight €169 The camera at the 50–199 tier. Your SIM and your support are yours to price Samsara at list, dual AI dash cam and the platform €3,429 $548 of hardware up front and $94 a vehicle a month for thirty-six months €0 €1,000 €2,000 €3,000 Our camera, once Their hardware, once Their platform, thirty-six times Samsara at $39 for GPS and ELD plus $55 for a dual AI dash cam, from public procurement records, converted at $1.147 to the euro on 22 September 2026. Real deals are discounted, sometimes heavily — ask the customer what they were actually quoted. Ours is the camera once, and a platform with no licence line. ## The short answer, row by row | | BSJ via FleetSight | Samsara | | --- | --- | --- | | How it is bought | Hardware once, platform included, no contract term | Per vehicle per month, typically on a 36-month commitment | | Published price | €145–189 to the integrator, by annual volume | $39 a month for GPS and ELD, plus $55 for a dual AI dash cam — $94 at list before discount | | Three years, one vehicle | One camera at €145–189, and nothing after that | About $3,400 at list, plus $99–548 of hardware up front | | The product itself | Event review, live view, SD pull, coaching, white-label, iOS app | Deeper: coaching workflows, compliance, maintenance, an app ecosystem and support a fleet can call | | Whose customer it is | Yours, under your brand and your domain | Theirs. You would be reselling somebody else's platform, if they let you | | Where the video lives | Your tenant on our infrastructure, or your own bucket | Their cloud, on their retention terms | ## When to buy theirs instead - For a large fleet that wants one vendor, one support number and compliance in North America, Samsara is a better answer than anything an integrator assembles. Say so and compete elsewhere. - Their coaching and driver-scoring product is years ahead of ours. If that workflow is the reason the customer is buying, the price gap will not save the deal. - The $94 figure is list from public procurement records; real deals are discounted. Ask the customer what they were actually quoted before you build a business case on it. - A US reseller lists the CM32 licence and camera together at $660 a year, which is $55 a month — the same dash cam line as above, from a second direction. That is the one part of the figure we would defend without a caveat. ## Where the numbers come from - [Samsara pricing broken down from public records](https://airpinpoint.com/compare/samsara-pricing) - [A reseller listing the CM32 licence and camera at $660 a year](https://wirelessunits.com/samsara-cm32-license-and-dash-cam-per-year/) - [Samsara fleet management review, 2026](https://tech.co/fleet-management/samsara-fleet-management-review) Read on 22 September 2026. Distributor prices are theirs, not the manufacturer's, and both move; euro figures converted at $1.147 where the source quoted dollars. If you have a current quote that says otherwise, it wins and we want to see it. Our side of the table ## The models this page has been arguing about Every figure above is one of these three. The specification on each page is transcribed from the manufacturer's own product page, with a link to it at the bottom so you can check the transcription rather than trust it. ### EH26 2-CH AI dash cam The workhorse. Two 1080p channels with road and driver events on board. The specification → [EH26](https://fleetsight.app/hardware/eh26/) ### EH03T-V2 4-CH AI dash cam Four channels and 2.0 TOPS of AI in a dash cam body, with two card slots. The specification → [EH03T-V2](https://fleetsight.app/hardware/eh03t-v2/) ### ED02R-V2 4-CH AI MDVR Four channels with real-time upload and two card slots. The specification → [ED02R-V2](https://fleetsight.app/hardware/ed02r-v2/) Then there are the two questions a price never answers: [what the fitting involves and what it costs](https://fleetsight.app/installation/), and [which platforms these run on today](https://fleetsight.app/compatibility/). ## The other comparisons ### Streamax AI dash cams and MDVRs, sold through distribution The benchmark in this class: €284–397 a camera and €4.49–11.21 a month on top. The comparison → [Streamax](https://fleetsight.app/compare/streamax/) ### Howen AI dash cams and MDVRs, sold through telematics platforms Same channel, same class of hardware — they lead on connectors, we lead on price and platform. The comparison → [Howen](https://fleetsight.app/compare/howen/) ### Teltonika DualCam A camera accessory for a Teltonika tracker The lowest-friction option for a Teltonika shop — and the smallest amount of video you can sell. The comparison → [Teltonika DualCam](https://fleetsight.app/compare/teltonika-dualcam/) ### Jimi IoT 4G dash cams sold to integrators and fleets Similar channel counts on paper; the difference is what is standard and what is an option. The comparison → [Jimi IoT](https://fleetsight.app/compare/jimi-iot/) ### Movon MDAS-9 An ADAS warning module that feeds a tracker A Tier-1 ADAS warning module — excellent at warnings, not a video system. The comparison → [Movon MDAS-9](https://fleetsight.app/compare/movon/) ### Hikvision mobile DVR Security-brand mobile recorders, sold through CCTV distribution The default onboard recorder in Latin America — strong hardware, somebody else's ecosystem. The comparison → [Hikvision mobile DVR](https://fleetsight.app/compare/hikvision/) ### Intelbras iFleet The Brazilian incumbent: DVR veicular with local support Brazil's default: local brand, local RMA, 720p on the entry recorder. The comparison → [Intelbras iFleet](https://fleetsight.app/compare/intelbras/) Price list and two demo cameras ## Put one in a vehicle before you decide. Tell us the platform you run, the vehicles you fit and roughly how many cameras a year. You get the current price list, the certificate list for the models you care about, and two demo cameras configured for your platform before they ship — at your own trade price, credited against your first order. Or write to [fleetsight@theassettrack.com](mailto:fleetsight@theassettrack.com)