Routly against the alternatives
Self-hosted fleet software is not one category. A device gateway, a logistics suite and a per-unit platform solve different problems, and only one of them is the problem Routly solves. Each page below says where the other product wins.
Answer this first
Do you need to decode device protocols, or do you already have something that does?
Traccar and OpenGTS terminate device connections and turn bytes into positions. Wialon and Navixy do that and much more, as a product you license. Routly does not do it at all — it reads from whatever does. Answer that first and most of this list stops being a candidate.
Head to head
Routly vs Wialon
ProprietaryWialon Local is self-hosted too, so that is not the difference. The licence, the per-unit fee and whether you can query the database are.
Where Wialon wins: A very large certified device range and one vendor accountable for all of it.
Read the comparisonRoutly vs Traccar
Apache-2.0Not a competitor. Traccar decodes the devices and Routly reads from it — keep Traccar and put the reporting layer above it.
Where Traccar wins: 200+ device protocols, a decade of edge cases, and the largest community here.
Read the comparisonRoutly vs Fleetbase
AGPL-3.0Same licence, different question. Fleetbase is orders and dispatch; Routly is telemetry and what you sell on it. Parcels or vehicles.
Where Fleetbase wins: Order management, routing and a driver app for job execution — none of which Routly has.
Read the comparisonRoutly vs Navixy
ProprietaryTwo ways to white-label. Navixy licenses you a finished product; Routly gives you the source and the running of it.
Where Navixy wins: Eighteen years, a support organisation and an SLA to point your own customers at.
Read the comparisonRoutly vs GPSWOX
ProprietaryGPSWOX if you want a branded platform and apps live in days with trackers pointed straight at it; Routly if you want the whole source and your own database.
Where GPSWOX wins: Decodes 900+ trackers natively, ships branded store apps, and will install and run it for you.
Read the comparisonRoutly vs GpsGate
ProprietaryGpsGate decodes your devices for $3 a device a month, or on your own Windows server; Routly gives you the source and your own database.
Where GpsGate wins: Native device decoding, in-platform scripting, a hosted option, and in production since 2007.
Read the comparisonRoutly vs Webfleet
ProprietaryStay for driver terminals, dispatch and tachograph data; leave for self-hosted telemetry on open trackers, and budget for new hardware.
Where Webfleet wins: Its own LINK hardware, driver terminals with job dispatch, factory telematics through OEM.connect, and one vendor for all of it.
Read the comparisonRoutly vs Fleetio
ProprietaryFleetio runs the workshop — work orders, inspections, parts; Routly is self-hosted telemetry. Different jobs, and many fleets need both.
Where Fleetio wins: Work orders, inspections, parts inventory, fuel-card imports, and connectors to 40+ telematics providers.
Read the comparison
Still choosing a category rather than a product?Traccar, OpenGTS, Fleetbase, Wialon Local and Routly, side by side.
Getting out of the one you have
Migration is rarely the technical problem it looks like. Each of these is about the part that actually bites — a retention policy, a renewal window, a regulator, a hardware bill.
Leaving Wialon
Their own retranslator forwards live telemetry onward, so nothing in a vehicle is touched.
Leaving Samsara
Dash-cam footage lives as long as the subscription. Pull it before you give notice.
Leaving Verizon Connect
The renewal window closes 60 to 90 days before the term ends. Start with the calendar.
Leaving Motive
The six-month records obligation is the carrier’s, not the vendor’s. Export first.
Leaving Geotab
The GO device runs without MyGeotab, so the usual hardware bill may not exist.
Who is telling you this
We build one of these, so treat every page here as an interested party talking. The way to discount for it is to check the claims: each comparison links the other project’s own documentation, repository or published pricing, and each one names the cases where the other product is the better answer.
Every product named here is its owners' trade mark. Corrections are welcome at [email protected].
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