Best Motorcycle GPS Trackers
Key Takeaways
5 things every rider should know before buying a motorcycle GPS tracker
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Update rate decides everything. A bike moves a long way in a five-minute reporting gap.
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Bike theft rose for a third straight year in 2022, with 54,736 stolen.
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"No monthly fee" almost always means year one is prepaid, not that data is free.
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Bikes live outdoors. Waterproof housing and vibration tolerance are not optional extras.
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Trackers recover. Chain locks prevent. Serious riders run both, not one.
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SpaceHawk takes the top spot on update rate and running cost, with free lifetime support.
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The short answer
SpaceHawk GPS Tracker
Three-second updates, a magnet built into the case, and a full year of trip history. Cheapest device on this page at $39.95, with the plan at $9.95 a month on a two-year prepay. Full reasoning, and four alternatives, below.
If you are here, you already know what the bike is worth to you. A motorcycle is also the easiest vehicle on the street to steal. Two people lift one into a van and are gone before anybody looks up.
That is why reporting speed matters more on a bike than on any car. A tracker that checks in every five minutes hands a thief a five-minute head start. Five minutes is a long way down a freeway.
I'm Ryan Horban. I have spent 15 years working with GPS vehicle trackers, fleet tracking devices, and commercial tracking systems. Below are five trackers worth considering for a motorcycle, and what each one actually costs to run.
Two of these trackers were tested hands-on, and those findings are marked in the text as ours. For the rest, rankings rest on manufacturer specifications, product documentation, and publicly available owner feedback.
Several of these units sit in our own collection. Every first-party photo and clip below is ours rather than stock.
Prices and Amazon ratings were current at the time of writing. Both move, so check the listing before you buy.
Trackers from our own collection. This is the size range that fits under a seat.
The five at a glance
| Tracker | Best for | Device price | Update rate | Where to buy |
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Fast recovery on a budget | $39.95 | Every 3 seconds | See store |
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The strongest magnet | Around $29.95 | 3 seconds on premium tier | Buy on Amazon |
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Lowest plan cost | Under $100 with service | 30 seconds, adjustable | Buy on Amazon |
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Hardwired, never charge it | Check current price | Five-plus minutes in our testing | Buy on Amazon |
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A year between charges | Around $200 | Alert-driven, not continuous | Buy on Amazon |
Every cellular tracker on this page needs a data plan, because network data is billed monthly. Nobody gives that away.
What "no monthly fee" normally means is that the first year of service is prepaid inside the purchase price. Prepaying is a real saving, and not the same as free forever. Ask for the year-two figure before you commit, including from us.
1. SpaceHawk GPS Tracker
Our top pick overall
Magnet built into the case, so nothing extra to buy or lose.
SpaceHawk leads on the one spec this article keeps coming back to. Three-second reporting is the joint fastest here, and it is not locked behind a premium plan tier.
The magnet sits inside the case, which matters on a bike where there is nowhere to bolt a bracket. Under the seat, behind a side panel, or against the frame all work, and mounting takes seconds.
A full year of trip history is the other reason it ranks first. Most units in this price band keep 30 days. Route data going back a full year settles an insurance question later on.
| Update rate | As fast as every 3 seconds |
| Accuracy | Around 6 feet in open conditions |
| Mounting | Built-in magnet, no bracket or wiring |
| Weather | Waterproof housing |
| Battery | 1 to 3 weeks, depending on reporting rate |
| History | One full year |
| Warranty | Lifetime, with free USA-based support |
| Amazon rating | 4.1 stars from nearly 100 verified reviews |
Cost: $39.95 for the device, down from $89.95. Plan runs $19.95 a month, or $9.95 a month on a two-year prepay.
- Fastest reporting here, and no premium tier needed to get it
- Magnet is part of the case, so there is nothing extra to buy
- Trip history covering a full year, against 30 days on cheaper units
- Lowest device price on this list, with a lifetime warranty
- Battery unit, so charging comes round every one to three weeks
- No SOS button and no crash detection
- Real-time tracking needs an active plan, as with every cellular unit
The verdict: the best combination of reporting speed, running cost, and mounting simplicity for a motorcycle.
Our own photo of the unit. Small enough to sit under a seat.
Motorcycles stolen across the United States in 2022, a rise of 7 percent and the third consecutive annual increase.
Source: National Insurance Crime Bureau
2. LandAirSea 54
Strongest magnet on the list
Made in the USA, IP67 rated, and it holds on rough roads better than anything here.
The 54 is the magnet specialist, and on a bike that counts double. Vibration and potholes work a weak mount loose, and this one does not budge.
Motion-activated sleep is the other reason riders like it. A parked bike means the unit rests, so a charge stretches across one to three weeks rather than days.
One thing to check on the plan page before you buy. Three-second reporting belongs to the premium SilverCloud tier, not the entry plan. Buy the tier that matches the speed you want.
| Update rate | 3 seconds on the premium tier |
| Accuracy | Around 8 feet |
| Battery | 1500 mAh, 7 to 14 days typical |
| Weather | IP67 rated |
| Mounting | Strongest built-in magnet in this group |
| History | One year, coverage in 155 countries |
| Warranty | Unconditional lifetime, made in the USA |
| Amazon rating | 4.2 stars from more than 25,000 ratings |
Cost: around $29.95 for the device. A subscription is required, at $19.95 a month or $9.95 on a two-year prepay.
- Holds through vibration better than any other magnet here
- IP67 rating handles rain, road spray, and dust
- Motion sleep stretches runtime on a bike that sits all week
- Unconditional lifetime warranty, and thousands of owner ratings
- Fastest reporting is locked to the pricier plan tier
- Marketed as no monthly fee, when the plan is required after year one
- Runtime swings widely with the reporting interval you pick
Who it suits: buy this one for the mount and the build, then budget honestly for the plan.
Only comparing the top two?
Same three-second reporting, and SpaceHawk comes in ten dollars cheaper with a year of history.
See the SpaceHawk3. Invoxia
Cheapest to run
Thin, light, and easy to tuck away on a bike with very little spare room.
Invoxia wins outright on running cost. Two years of service bundled under a hundred dollars works out at a few dollars a month. Nothing else here matches that.
The shape suits a motorcycle too. At roughly four inches by one, it slides into places a chunkier magnetic puck simply will not go.
Reporting is the compromise. Thirty seconds is adjustable but slower than the top two. Owner ratings also sit lower than the rest of this list, at 3.7 stars.
Our own testing bore that out. Location updates and notifications jammed rather than arriving live. The map put the bike within about a hundred feet, not on a precise spot. Enough to recover a machine, and not enough to chase one.
| Update rate | 30 seconds, adjustable |
| Size | About 4 by 1 by 0.4 inches |
| Battery | Rechargeable, around 90 minutes to charge |
| Coverage | 4G across the United States |
| Alerts | Motion and tilt alerts, geofencing |
| Amazon rating | 3.7 stars from over 700 ratings |
Cost: plans start around $3.33 a month, with two years of service bundled for under $100.
- Lowest running cost by a wide margin
- Slim shape fits where a magnetic puck will not
- Tilt alerts suit a bike, since a knocked-over machine registers
- Recharges in about 90 minutes
- Resolved to roughly a hundred feet in our own testing, not a precise spot
- Owner ratings are the weakest here, so read recent reviews closely
- United States coverage only, so no help across a border
Worth it if: you want the value pick, provided you accept a slower update rate for the saving.
Our own photo of the Invoxia unit.
The same unit, second look.
4. Rewire DB2
Hardwired, so no charging
Two wires onto the battery, and charging stops being your problem.
The DB2 answers one question well. Wire it to the bike's battery and the unit runs indefinitely. That suits a machine you ride often and store on a tender.
A two-wire install is within reach of most riders, and the unit arrives preconfigured. Twelve months of route history comes with the service.
Reporting is where budget hardware shows itself. In our own testing, updates ran five minutes or more behind. The map sometimes showed the bike parked while it was actually moving.
Exactly the gap this article warns about. Treat the DB2 as a recovery aid rather than a live chase.
The two-wire install is easier to judge on video. This walkthrough of the DB2 comes from an independent reviewer, not from us.
| Update rate | Five minutes or more in our testing |
| Power | Hardwired, 8v to 32v systems |
| Install | Two-wire, preconfigured out of the box |
| Size | 5.31 by 2.68 by 0.59 inches |
| Coverage | United States, SIM included |
| History | 12 months of route data |
| Amazon rating | 4.3 stars from over 300 ratings |
Cost: plans start around $12.50 a month with no contract. Device pricing moves, so check the listing.
- Runs continuously with nothing to recharge
- Two-wire install most riders can manage themselves
- Twelve months of route history included
- Arrives preconfigured, so setup is quick
- Five minutes or more of lag in our own testing, the slowest here
- Cannot be moved between bikes without redoing the wiring
- Largest unit here, which is awkward on a small frame
In short: a sound hardwired option if you never want to think about charging, provided slow updates are acceptable.
5. Monimoto 7
One charge a year
Built around a key fob, so the alarm only fires when the fob is not with the bike.
Monimoto works differently to everything else here, and the difference suits motorcycles. A key fob rides in your pocket, and the tracker stays quiet whenever that fob is nearby.
Move the bike without the fob and you get a phone call, not a push notification you might miss. On a machine that can be in a van inside a minute, a ringing phone is the right alert.
Battery life reaches a year because the unit sleeps until something happens. The trade is price, at roughly $200 plus $49 a year once the free months end.
Want to see one working before you buy? MOTOBOB, an independent motorcycle channel with no connection to us, has a hands-on review of the Monimoto 7.
| Alerting | Phone call when the bike moves without the fob |
| Battery | Up to one year |
| Install | Wireless, zip ties included |
| Coverage | International eSIM |
| Size | 2.36 by 0.79 by 3.94 inches |
| Amazon rating | 4.3 stars from around 680 ratings |
Cost: around $200 for the kit, with three months of service free and $49 a year afterwards.
- Alerts by phone call, which is far harder to sleep through
- Up to a year of battery, so charging almost never comes round
- Zip-tie install with no wiring at all
- International eSIM, useful if you tour across borders
- Around five times the price of the top pick
- Alert-driven rather than continuous, so no casual live map
- Carrying the fob is now part of every ride
Best suited to: a high-value bike, if a phone call beating a notification is worth the price.
“On a bike, reporting rate beats every other spec on the box. Everything else is a preference. That one is arithmetic.
Ryan Horban, GPS Tracking Expert
How often the fastest units here report. At five-minute intervals, a stolen bike can be several miles away between updates.
What actually matters when you buy
Riders tend to shop on size, on key fobs, and on a couple of dollars a month. None of those decide if the bike comes home.
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Reporting speed
The one spec that decides a recovery. Seconds are useful and minutes are not, so read the interval before anything else.
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Power source
Battery units move between bikes and need charging. Hardwired units never stop but stay put. Pick which problem you would rather have.
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Weather and vibration
Nothing shelters the unit on a bike. Waterproof housing is the baseline, and a mount that survives potholes matters more than on a car.
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Three-year cost
Plans here run from a few dollars to about twenty a month. Over three years that spread dwarfs every device price on this page.
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Where it hides
Cavities are scarce on a motorcycle. Measure under the seat and behind the side panels before you commit to a chunky unit.
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Support you can call
Support matters on the worst morning of your year. Check there is a phone number and a person behind it.
Work out three years before you choose. SpaceHawk at $39.95 plus $9.95 a month comes to roughly $398. Monimoto at $200 plus $49 a year lands near $347, and Invoxia undercuts both. The cheapest device is rarely the cheapest tracker, and the most expensive one is not always the priciest either.
Decided on reporting speed?
Three seconds, a built-in magnet, and the lowest device price on this page.
See the SpaceHawkFive theft-prevention habits worth building
The best recovery is the theft that never happens. Treat the tracker as the backstop rather than the plan. These five cost very little.
Hardware helps. Habits help more.
- Lock it to something immovable. A chain through the rear wheel and around a ground anchor beats a disc lock alone.
- Park where people are. Lit, busy, overlooked. Thieves prefer a quiet corner and a few undisturbed minutes.
- Use a cover. A plain cover hides the model, and a thief who cannot see what a bike is often moves on.
- Fit an alarm with an immobilizer. Noise draws attention, and a cut ignition circuit turns a quick lift into real work.
- Add the tracker last. Everything above reduces the chance. The tracker handles the times when none of it worked.
Everything here assumes the motorcycle is yours. Placing a tracker on someone else's vehicle without consent is a crime in many states. Several statutes carry felony penalties. If another rider uses the bike, tell them the tracker is fitted.
Where this leaves you
Five trackers, and the choice narrows quickly once reporting speed leads the decision.
- Best overall: SpaceHawk, for three-second updates at $39.95 with a year of history
- Best mount: LandAirSea 54, for anything ridden on rough surfaces
- Cheapest to run: Invoxia, if a slower interval is an acceptable trade
- Never charge it: Rewire DB2, wired straight to the bike's battery
- High-value bikes: Monimoto 7, for the phone call and the year-long battery
Pick the reporting rate your situation needs. Add up three years of plan cost, and check the mount survives a pothole. Get those three right and the rest is preference.
Protect the bike before the next ride
Three-second updates, a built-in magnet, a full year of history, and free USA-based support.
Shop motorcycle trackersCommon questions
Is there a motorcycle GPS tracker with no subscription?
Not really, and any product claiming otherwise is worth a second look. A cellular tracker needs network data, and network data is billed monthly.
What “no monthly fee” normally means is that the first year of service is prepaid inside the purchase price. The saving is real, and it is not the same as free forever.
LandAirSea markets the 54 that way. Its own documentation states a subscription is required after the included period. Ask any seller for the year-two figure before you buy, including us.
How bad is motorcycle theft in the United States?
Bad, and getting worse. The National Insurance Crime Bureau recorded 54,736 motorcycles stolen across the US in 2022. That was a rise of 7 percent and the third consecutive annual increase.
Thefts cluster in the summer riding months. A tracker does not recover the bike on its own, and the NICB credits recoveries to law enforcement work.
What a tracker changes is what you can hand police. A live location within minutes, rather than a description and a plate number.
Can I use an Apple AirTag to track my motorcycle?
An AirTag will sometimes tell you where a bike went. Treating one as a recovery plan is the mistake.
AirTag has no GPS and no cellular radio, so it only reports when somebody else's iPhone passes close enough. Out on a quiet road at night, nothing updates.
Apple's unwanted-tracking alerts also work as designed. Both iPhone and Android now warn a person that an unknown AirTag is traveling with them. A thief is likely to be told.
A dedicated tracker reports on its own connection. Weatherproofing and vibration tolerance come as standard, and an AirTag has neither.
What update rate do I actually need?
Faster than you think. A bike lifted into a van covers real distance between reports. A five-minute interval hands a thief a five-minute head start.
Three seconds is the fastest rate on this list and the single spec most worth paying for. Check which plan tier buys the speed, too.
Some brands advertise their quickest interval and then attach it to a premium plan rather than the entry one.
Where should I mount a tracker on a motorcycle?
Somewhere sheltered, metal, and not obvious at a glance. Under the seat, behind a side panel, or against the frame all work.
A magnet built into the case matters more on a bike than on a car. There is rarely anywhere to bolt a bracket.
Whatever you choose, check it after the first long ride. Vibration and potholes work a weak mount loose in a way they never do on four wheels.
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