GuestLot vs Standard Fleet
Standard Fleet (standardfleet.com) is the closest real competitor and a genuinely strong product: hardware-free digital keys and telematics across 30-plus automakers, Tesla’s first officially supported third-party app, with a Dealerships and Body Shops vertical and a real collision-center customer.
It is built for fleets — cars you own, priced per connected vehicle at a published $18 to $24 a month (standardfleet.com, as of August 2026; quotes may differ). GuestLot is built for custody — other people’s cars, one visit at a time, priced flat per location with consent that ends at pickup.
What Standard Fleet does well
Credit where it is due. Being the first officially supported third-party Tesla app is not a marketing line; it means the platform work was done properly, against Tesla’s sanctioned interfaces, before most of the market knew those interfaces existed. Multi-automaker coverage is genuinely hard. If your problem is a fleet, this is a serious answer.
- Hardware-free digital keys and telematics across 30+ automakers, not Tesla alone.
- Tesla's first officially supported third-party application.
- A published Dealerships and Body Shops vertical, with a real collision-center customer.
- Fleet operations features — assignment, utilization, charging — that a custody product does not attempt.
- Digital keys gated to the Professional tier, which is a coherent packaging decision for fleet buyers.
If you operate rental, mobility, corporate, or subscription vehicles, stop reading this page and go look at theirs. Nothing below is an argument that fleet software is worse — it is an argument that a body shop does not have a fleet.
Fleets and custody are different problems
A fleet vehicle is yours indefinitely. You can install what you like, keep data as long as you want, and there is no third party whose consent expires. A customer’s Model Y in bay two is the opposite on every axis: it is not yours, the owner’s consent is the only basis for touching it, the relationship lasts three days, and at the end you owe that person an account of what happened.
- Fleet: permanent relationship, per-vehicle economics, indefinite data.
- Custody: one visit, per-location economics, consent that ends at pickup by design.
- Custody adds an obligation fleets do not have: an owner-facing artifact at hand-back.
- Custody adds a liability frame fleets do not have: bailment, and the burden of proving reasonable care.
The pricing math, shown
This is where the modeling difference becomes a number. Per-connected-vehicle pricing is correct for a fleet, where the vehicle count is stable and each car earns revenue for years. For a shop, the vehicle count is throughput — every car that comes through the door is a new connected vehicle.
- Monthly cost at 40 Tesla check-ins per month, one location
10 check-ins / month
$180 – $240
$179 (Standard)
40 check-ins / month
$720 – $960
$179 (Standard)
40 check-ins / month, Pro features
$720 – $960
$349 (Pro)
A slow February
Scales down with volume
Same flat price
A full December
Scales up with volume
Same flat price
The honest caveat: at very low volume, per-vehicle pricing can be cheaper. A shop doing four Teslas a month should do that arithmetic rather than take our word for it. The crossover arrives fast — around ten cars a month — and after that the gap widens every month. Our pricing page shows both tiers.
Side by side
- Standard Fleet compared with GuestLot
Designed for
Fleets — cars you own or operate
Custody — cars you are holding for a customer
Automaker coverage
30+ automakers
Tesla, deliberately
Pricing
Published $18-24 per connected vehicle per month
$179 or $349 per location per month, flat
Relationship length
Ongoing
One visit — check-in to hand-back
Consent model
You own the vehicle
Owner authorizes; access auto-revokes at pickup
Owner-facing output
Fleet operator dashboards
AccessReceipt to the vehicle owner, tokenized, no account
Liability framing
Fleet risk management
Bailment, garage keepers, intake evidence
Hardware
None
None
How to choose in one line each
- You own the cars and want them managed: Standard Fleet.
- You are holding someone else's car for three days and want the visit documented and the access closed: GuestLot.
- You are a dealership with both a loaner fleet and a service drive: honestly, both, for different vehicles.