Mileage tracker pricing in 2026
The paid category runs from about $60 to $140 a year, and the free tiers are where the real differences are. Free trip caps decide whether an app works at all for a delivery driver: Everlance gives 30 auto-detected trips a month, Driversnote 15, MileIQ 40 drives, QuickBooks Solopreneur 5. A full-time delivery driver exceeds every one of those within the first week of the month.
Two products break the pattern. Stride has no paid tier — it is free, funded by health-insurance and tax referrals. TripLog moved to free unlimited automatic tracking in 2026, though sources conflict on the exact terms and it is worth verifying at source before relying on it.
All figures below were taken from each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026. This category re-prices frequently.
The full table
| App | Free tier | Monthly | Annual | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stride | Everything, no paid tier | — | — | — |
| TripLog | Free automatic tracking (2026 change) | ~$4.99 | ~$59.99 | — |
| MileTruth (ours, in development) | Feature-gated, no trip cap planned | $7.99 planned | $59.99 planned | 7 days planned |
| Everlance Starter | 30 auto trips/mo, unlimited manual + receipts | $10.99 | $89.99 | Card historically required |
| Hurdlr Premium | Manual mileage | $9.99 | ~$100 | 7 days |
| Solo Basic → Pro Plus | Auto mileage, manual income | $8–$15 billed annually | — | 7 days |
| Gridwise Plus | Manual tracking | $14.99 | $107.99 | 14 days |
| Driversnote Pro | 15 trips/mo | $11 per driver | — | — |
| QuickBooks Solopreneur | 5 mileage trips | $20 | $120 | — |
| MileIQ Unlimited | 40 drives/mo | $13.99 | $139.92 ($11.66/mo billed annually) | — |
| Hurdlr Pro | — | — | $200 | 7 days |
MileIQ is free with Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Premium. If you hold one of those subscriptions, MileIQ costs you nothing extra and is the cheapest capable option in this table. Check before you buy anything.
What the price does not buy you
It does not buy capture rate. No vendor in this category publishes one. The $139.92 product and the free product both have a support article titled some version of "why wasn't my trip recorded." Price and reliability are not correlated in any way anybody has demonstrated.
It does not buy net-pay reporting. Nearly every product in the table totals miles and stops. The gig-focused ones (Gridwise, Solo) add earnings but not a personal cost-per-mile model, so they report gross or a generic effective rate rather than what the driving actually left you.
It does not always buy Android. Check platform coverage; several products in this space are stronger on one platform than the other.
What actually drives the cost difference
Three things, roughly:
- Scope. QuickBooks Solopreneur and Hurdlr Pro are accounting products; you are paying for bookkeeping, not mileage.
- Data acquisition. Gridwise's market and earnings intelligence has a real cost behind it. So does Solo's guarantee, which is an insurance-shaped liability rather than a feature.
- Pricing power. MileIQ's individual annual plan went from roughly $59.99 in 2024 to $89.99 in 2025 to $139.92 in 2026 without a corresponding change in scope. That is a pricing decision, and it has produced visible migration in driver communities. MileIQ alternatives.
The price-per-recovered-mile way to think about it
Any subscription in this table is trivially cheap if it recovers miles you would otherwise lose, and pure waste if it does not.
At 2026 rates a business mile is worth 72.5 or 76 cents of deduction — call it 22 cents of real tax benefit at a combined 30 percent effective rate. So:
- A $59.99/yr app breaks even at about 273 recovered miles a year — five miles a week.
- A $107.99/yr app breaks even at about 491 miles — nine and a half a week.
- A $139.92/yr app breaks even at about 636 miles — twelve a week.
Every one of those is a low bar for a working driver. Which is exactly why the price column is the least interesting one in the table, and the free-tier cap and the capture rate are the ones that matter. How to measure capture rate.
Not tax advice. The 30 percent combined benefit used above is illustrative, not your rate. Your marginal bracket and self-employment tax position determine what a deduction is actually worth to you.
Questions and answers
How much does a mileage tracker cost in 2026?
The paid range runs from about 59.99 dollars a year at the low end to 139.92 dollars a year for MileIQ's individual plan. Stride is entirely free with no paid tier, and TripLog moved to free automatic tracking in 2026.
Which mileage app has the most generous free tier?
Stride, because it has no paid tier at all. Among freemium products, TripLog's 2026 move to free unlimited automatic tracking is the most generous if the terms hold. Among capped free tiers, MileIQ's 40 drives per month is the highest, followed by Everlance at 30 and Driversnote at 15.
Is a more expensive mileage tracker more accurate?
There is no published evidence that price predicts capture rate in this category. No vendor publishes a capture rate at all. The only way to know is to compare an app's weekly total against your odometer.
What is the cheapest way to track mileage legally?
A notebook. The IRS requires a record of the date, mileage, destination and business purpose of each trip, kept at or near the time of the trip. Nothing requires software. Software exists because a delivery shift is 30 trips and nobody writes 30 entries a night.
MileTruth. “Mileage tracker pricing in 2026.” Baker Ventures LLC, September 6, 2026. https://miletruth.bakerventuresstudio.com/compare/mileage-tracker-pricing-2026/