Pricing

Built for your fleet,
priced for your fleet.

Contact BinnacleAI to get a demo and pricing tailored to the size and shape of your operation.

Charter

1-2 vessels

$49/mo

billed monthly · cancel anytime

Sub T charter and small-passenger operators.

  • Up to 2 vessels
  • 10 crew
  • Sub T compliance + COI tracker
  • Daily passenger safety briefings
  • Liability waivers + capacity
  • MMC verification
  • Drill log + drug & alcohol

Commercial Starter

1-3 vessels

$199/mo

billed monthly · cancel anytime

Small commercial fleets running Sub M / T / C.

  • Up to 3 vessels
  • 20 crew
  • Sub M / Sub T / Sub C
  • Drug & alcohol program + MIS Report PDF
  • MARPOL records (oil / garbage / emissions)
  • Daily soundings + bunker SOPEP
  • Audit-readiness dashboard

Commercial Pro

4-10 vessels

$499/mo

billed monthly · cancel anytime

Multi-vessel commercial fleets that need API + broker tools.

  • Everything in Starter
  • Up to 10 vessels, 50 crew
  • Public API access (read scopes)
  • Insurance Package PDF for brokers
  • Engine PMS auto-pilot + drift advisories
  • Weather routing + voyage optimizer
  • Priority support

Enterprise

11+ vessels

Custom pricing

tailored to fleet size + SLA

Larger fleets with SSO, SLA, and custom integration needs.

  • Everything in Commercial Pro
  • Unlimited vessels + crew
  • Custom SLA + dedicated success manager
  • White-label Insurance Package PDFs
  • On-site onboarding + AI SOP import
  • SSO / SAML + SOC 2 reports
  • Custom integrations

Binnacle Passage

Coverage zone vessels

$299/mo

billed monthly · cancel anytime

Licensed marine pilots associations — dispatch board, not fleet tracker.

  • Area AIS scan — all vessels in zone
  • Live ETA to boarding point
  • Pilot boat departure alerts
  • Digital transit log w/ auto-timestamps
  • Coverage map (Leaflet)
  • Pilot assignment + fee tracking
  • 6-month free pilot for founding partners

Charter plans billed monthly · cancel anytime. Commercial operators — request a demo and we walk you through it on your fleet.

Comparing against another tool? See how we stack up against Helm CONNECT.

Charter, commercial, or enterprise — contact BinnacleAI to get a demo and pricing.

Honest comparison

Where we win, where we don't.

Most maritime SaaS comparison pages claim to win at everything. We don't. Here's where Binnacle is the right choice and where Helm or Mariner-IQ probably is — by design.

Feature

Binnacle AI

Contact for pricing

Helm-CONNECT

Enterprise sales

Mariner-IQ

Enterprise sales

How you engage

Implementation fee

None
Multi-week paid project
Paid onboarding package

Contract length

Month-to-month
1-3 yr annual
12-month minimum

Free trial

Available — contact us
Sales call required
Sales call required

How to get pricing

Contact BinnacleAI
Sales call required
Sales call required

How fast you can use it

Self-serve sign-up

Time-to-first-vessel

< 5 min
1-3 weeks
1-2 weeks

Bring your own data

USCG MMC live verify

Built-in integrations

Slack / Teams / Discord alerts

Public REST API

Enterprise tier only
Enterprise tier only

Webhooks (signed, retried)

Zapier app

Google / Microsoft / Okta SSO

Enterprise tier only
Enterprise tier only

Where they win

Native iOS / Android app

Our native iOS app is in App Store review now; until it lands, the PWA installs to your home screen and runs offline. Android stays on the PWA for now. Honest status — we'll mark this green the day iOS goes live.

iOS in review + PWA

Dedicated customer-success manager

Direct founder line

Decade-old install base

Sales engineering for fleet > 50 vessels

Where we win

Hawaii Sub T / charter focus

Multi-language captain UI (EN / ES / TL)

Live regulatory citations (eCFR)

Static PDFs
Static PDFs

OFAC SDN screening built-in

Public API on the entry tier

Founder reachable directly

Comparison data based on public pricing pages and sales conversations 2024–2026. Tell us if anything's wrong: hello@binnacleai.com.

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