The 2026 Aftermarket Software Pricing Index

What does auto repair shop software actually cost in 2026?

Seven vendors publish a rate card. Ordered by published entry price, annual first. Per shop per month:

The advertised entry price may not represent the cost of the feature set many shops require.

Because the two features most shops actually need are gated above the entry tier, and each vendor gates a different one.

• Tekmetric includes unlimited digital vehicle inspections at every tier but restricts two-way texting to Scale at $409.
• Shopmonkey includes two-way texting at every tier but caps Basic at two inspection templates; unlimited inspections start at Clever, $359.
• AutoLeap includes standard inspections at Essentials but restricts two-way texting to Pro, $309.

A shop that wants to send inspection photos to a customer and then discuss them by text — the single most common modern shop workflow — cannot do it on any entry plan. Advertised floor: $179. Real floor for that workflow: $309.

What does a 3-bay shop actually pay?

Three staff needing logins, wants unlimited digital inspections and two-way texting, billed annually.

Tekmetric is the cheapest system to start on and the most expensive to run this workflow on, because two-way texting sits three tiers up.

What does a 5-bay shop with six staff pay?

Six people needing logins, unlimited inspections, two-way texting, QuickBooks Online sync, and marketing automation. Billed annually.

The marketing module is the largest single line item in this configuration for both Shopmonkey and Tekmetric, at $314 and $345 respectively — more than either vendor's entry subscription.

What does a three-location group pay?

This is where published pricing largely runs out. Only two vendors publish enough to compute a multi-location cost.

• Autograff ShopOS: three Pro subscriptions at $300 on annual contracts, with no separate multi-location module = $900 per month. On monthly contracts, $350 each = $1,050.
• Tekmetric: three Scale subscriptions at $409 plus multi-shop management at $70 per shop = $1,437 per month. Every physical location requires its own plan subscription.
• Shopmonkey: Multi-Shop tier, custom pricing. Not computable.
• AutoLeap: Enterprise tier supports up to 10,000 locations. Custom pricing. Not computable.

A group evaluating Shopmonkey and AutoLeap cannot compare them on published information. Because pricing is not publicly available, total subscription cost cannot be calculated in advance for those products.

What are the add-on costs?

Monthly / annual where both are published.

How much do payment processing rates cost me?

Only Shopmonkey publishes its rates. This matters more than most shops realise, because Shopmonkey tiers the card-present rate by subscription plan:

The crossover nobody calculates. Genius costs $234 per month more than Basic. The card-present rate is 0.2 points lower. At roughly $117,000 per month of in-person card volume, the processing saving covers the entire tier difference — above that, the more expensive plan is cheaper. A shop running $60,000 a month saves $120, making the true cost of Genius $114 rather than $234.

Tekmetric and AutoLeap do not publish processing rates. Ask for them in writing before signing; on a shop doing $60,000 a month in card volume, a half-point spread is $300 a month, which exceeds most subscription differences. Autograff publishes subscription pricing. Payment processing rates are not published.

What does a 40-vehicle fleet pay for its maintenance stack?

Fleet software prices per vehicle, and the maintenance system and the telematics system are almost always different vendors.

Combined, using the midpoint of each estimate: Fleetio plus Geotab lands near $840 per month, or $21 per vehicle; Fleetio plus Motive near $1,560, or $39 per vehicle. Those are two worked pairings, not the boundaries of the category — taken floor to ceiling across all four telematics estimates, the stack spans roughly $17–47 per vehicle per month.

Hardware and contract terms sit on top and vary by platform. Samsara, at ~$30 per vehicle, adds $99–148 hardware per vehicle upfront — $3,960 to $5,920 for a 40-vehicle fleet — on a reported 36-month minimum contract. Verizon Connect reports a similar 36-month agreement plus roughly $100 per vehicle installation; Motive a 12-month minimum; Geotab varies by reseller.

Add a repair network and the arithmetic changes again. ServiceUp charges the repair shop 3.99% of each repair order at its stated promotional rate; on $30,000 a month of fleet work that is approximately $1,197 borne by the shop, not the fleet. Neither the repair networks nor Autograff FleetOS publishes a full rate card: ServiceUp and Carma quote to fleets, and FleetOS is custom, priced per vehicle. The one published figure in that group is ServiceUp's 3.99% shop-side rate.

Which vendors publish pricing and which do not?

Every major fleet telematics platform declines to publish pricing. For a buyer, that means every telematics quote is a negotiation with no public anchor — and in Geotab's case, sold through more than 2,000 resellers, two fleets in the same city can be quoted materially different numbers for the same product.