How Much Does Fleet Tracking Cost in Australia?

The Short Answer

Protekt charges $22 per vehicle per month for the Fleet plan and $29 for Pro Fleet, both exc. GST, with no lock-in contract. GPS hardware is a once-off $285 per vehicle and you own the unit outright. An asset register for trailers and plant that cannot take a GPS unit is $11 per asset per month, which is not a tracking price and does not give you live location.

That is the whole price list. It is on our pricing page and it does not change depending on how the sales conversation goes.

The rest of this guide is about why so few competitors will tell you their number, and what to ask them so you can compare properly.

Why Most Vendors Won’t Publish a Price

Fleet tracking is one of the last B2B software categories where quote-only pricing is still the norm. Search for costs and you will find a dozen vendors offering a “personalised quote” and almost nobody offering a figure.

We checked the major Australian providers on 20 August 2026. Here is what was actually published on their own sites that day.

EROAD publishes a headline of “from just $22 per month” for vehicle tracking, but no per-plan pricing, no hardware cost and no contract terms. Everything past the headline goes through a quote form.

Ctrack Australia publishes no pricing at all. Their pricing page is a demo booking form.

Teletrac Navman publishes no pricing on their Australian site either. The clearest public numbers come from Telstra’s Critical Information Summary for the resold product, and they are about hardware and contracts rather than a monthly rate.

To be fair to all three: quote-only is not dishonest. Enterprise fleets genuinely have varied requirements, and a 400-vehicle national operation is a different sale from six utes in Ballarat. But if you are that six-ute business, quote-only means you cannot compare anything without surrendering your phone number to three sales teams first.

The Number That Isn’t on the Sticker

The monthly rate is the number everyone compares. It is rarely the number that decides what you pay over three years.

Hardware

Protekt hardware is $285 per vehicle, once, and you own it. If you leave, the unit is yours.

Telstra’s Critical Information Summary for Teletrac Navman lists the VT202, Qube 3640 and VT102 units at $1,530.00 upfront, or $50.00 per month over a 36-month repayment term, with smaller asset trackers at $300.00 upfront or $10.00 per month. Those are hardware figures, separate from whatever the software costs.

The structural difference matters more than the gap. A once-off purchase is an asset you own, and eligible small businesses may be able to claim it under the instant asset write-off — an estimate only, so confirm with your accountant. A 36-month hardware repayment is a financing arrangement you are inside until it ends.

Lock-in, and what leaving costs

Protekt is month to month. There is no minimum term and no exit fee. If it stops earning its keep, you stop paying.

Teletrac Navman, per that same Telstra summary, offers a genuine month-to-month option with “no minimum term” and “No Early Termination Charge (ETC)” on casual plans. That is worth acknowledging, because it is better than the industry’s reputation suggests. But if you take a minimum term, the summary states the software early termination charge is “an amount equal to 25% of your fees and charges multiplied by the number of remaining months in your minimum term (plus any setup fees you have not already paid)”, and the hardware charge is calculated as “ETC Base x remaining months of the contract term / contract term”.

Read that second formula carefully, because it is the one that bites. On a 36-month hardware repayment, leaving at month 12 means two thirds of the hardware base still to pay.

The add-ons

Ask what the quoted rate actually includes. In this market the following are commonly separate line items: extra reporting, longer history retention, driver identification, additional user logins, API access, and installation.

For reference, Protekt’s $22 includes 4G data, the platform, the mobile app, support and updates. Trip addresses are +$3 per month and the Pre-Start app is +$11 per vehicle per month. Installation is quoted separately because it depends on the vehicle. That is the complete list.

What to Ask Any Vendor

Take these to every quote conversation, including ours.

1. What is the monthly rate per vehicle, exc. GST, for the plan I actually need? Not the entry plan, the one with the features you were just shown.
2. What does the hardware cost, and do I own it? If it is financed, over how many months, and what is left owing if I leave early?
3. What is the minimum term, and what exactly does it cost to exit? Ask for the formula in writing, not a reassurance.
4. Does the price change at renewal? Auto-renewal at a different rate is common in this category.
5. Which of the features in the demo are included, and which are add-ons?
6. Where is my data hosted, and what happens to it if I leave? Protekt hosts in Australia, in AWS’s Sydney region.
7. Who answers the phone when something breaks? Ask what timezone they are in.

A vendor who answers all seven in writing is one you can compare. A vendor who will not put the exit cost on paper has told you something useful.

Working Out Your Own Number

For a straightforward comparison over three years, per vehicle:

Protekt Fleet: $285 hardware + ($22 × 36 months) = $1,077 exc. GST, and you own the unit at the end. No exit cost if you leave sooner, and you stop paying the month you stop.

Run the same sum on any quote you receive. Add the hardware, whether purchased or financed to term, to the monthly rate multiplied by the full minimum term, because that is the amount you are committed to rather than the amount you hope to pay. Then add anything that was an add-on.

Our savings calculator works the other side of the equation, estimating what tracking might return in fuel, admin time and utilisation. Treat its output as an estimate rather than a promise.

Where Protekt Doesn’t Fit

We would rather say this than have you find out after signing.

If you want the cheapest possible dot on a map, there are BYO-SIM devices for a few dollars a month. They have no support, no Australian hosting and no one to call. We are not competing with those and we will not pretend to.

If you run a large national fleet needing deep enterprise integration, custom workflows and a dedicated account team, the enterprise vendors built exactly that and it is what their pricing reflects.

We fit the middle: Australian businesses from one vehicle to a few hundred who want published pricing, no lock-in, alerts that work, and someone in Ballarat who picks up the phone.

The Prices, Once More

Thirty-day free trial. See the full pricing page, book a demo, or call 1300 95 25 30 and ask us anything on this list.

Competitor pricing and contract terms above were checked on 20 August 2026 against each vendor’s own published material, with sources recorded in this page’s source. Vendors change their pricing, so verify anything that matters to your decision before relying on it.