samsara-vs-motive-vs-geotab-comparison

samsara-vs-motive-vs-geotab-comparison is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from x3allamerican/skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,782 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A comparison guide for Samsara, Motive, and Geotab, which provide electronic logging devices and fleet-tracking tools for commercial vehicles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting or reviewing an ELD and telematics platform for compliance, cameras, vehicle data, and fleet management.
Why use it?
It helps fleet operators compare driver logs, cameras, safety scoring, integrations, pricing structure, and suitability for different fleet sizes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when selecting or reviewing an ELD and telematics platform for compliance, cameras, vehicle data, and fleet management.

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Any agent
npx skills add x3allamerican/skills --skill samsara-vs-motive-vs-geotab-comparison
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/x3allamerican/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,782 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00080 $0.01782
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00713
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00178

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 094d85e16d19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

samsara-vs-motive-vs-geotab-comparison scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/samsara-vs-motive-vs-geotab-comparison/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Samsara vs Motive vs Geotab — ELD/Telematics Comparison

These three vendors dominate the U.S. commercial fleet telematics market. Each is FMCSA-registered as an ELD provider and offers fleet management beyond compliance. Choice affects 5–7 years of operating workflow.

High-level positioning

Vendor Sweet spot Pricing tier
Samsara Mid-to-large fleets, integrated AI dashcam + safety Premium
Motive Small-to-mid fleets, all-in-one with strong dashcam Mid
Geotab Mixed fleets, vehicle-data depth, custom integrations Variable (MarketPlace add-ons)

ELD compliance (table stakes — all three pass)

All three are FMCSA-registered ELDs, log driver duty status, auto-record drive time at 5+ mph, support driver edits with annotations, transfer data to inspectors via email/web service.

Differentiators in ELD experience:

  • Samsara: Best driver app polish, easiest unidentified-drive resolution
  • Motive: Easiest co-driver swap, strong personal-conveyance handling
  • Geotab: Robust ELD core, less polished driver UX

AI dashcam

Feature Samsara Motive Geotab
Forward-facing camera Standard Standard Standard (3rd-party SureCam, Lytx integration)
Driver-facing camera Optional Optional Optional
AI event detection (harsh brake, follow distance, distraction) Excellent Excellent Variable (depends on add-on)
Coaching workflow In-app driver coaching cards In-app + scorecard Geotab + 3rd-party UI
Video upload (cellular) Auto-flag → review queue Auto-flag → review queue Add-on dependent
Driver-side replay (right-to-view) Yes Yes Add-on dependent

Samsara and Motive AI dashcam are roughly equivalent at this point — both detect distraction, drowsiness, phone use, smoking, following distance, harsh braking, harsh cornering. Geotab requires third-party integration for AI dashcam.

Driver scoring

Metric weighting Samsara Motive Geotab
Speeding Yes Yes Yes
Harsh brake / accel Yes Yes Yes
Following distance (AI) Yes Yes Add-on
Distraction (AI) Yes Yes Add-on
Seat belt Yes Yes Yes (engine data)
Fuel economy (idle) Yes Yes Yes
Customizable thresholds Yes (good) Yes (good) Yes (best — fully programmable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 153 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 094d85e16d19

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samsara-vs-motive-vs-geotab-comparison is a skill published in the GitHub repository x3allamerican/skills (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,782 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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