What is the best Android geofencing and Google Play Services Location alternative?

Implementing geofencing and location tracking? Here is a comparison of Radar and native Android geofencing.

Radar vs.

Android geofencing

feature comparison

Radar is more powerful than native Android geofencing. Radar goes beyond Android limitations with unlimited geofences, polygon geofences, accuracy down to 5 meters, and much more.

We’ve set the standard for location accuracy, privacy, enterprise-readiness, and developer experience. Thousands of companies, including Panera, DICK’S Sporting Goods, T-Mobile, and Zillow, trust Radar’s geofencing SDKs and maps APIs to power location-based experiences across hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.

Features Radar Android geofencing
Geofence accuracy Down to 5 meters Down to 100 meters
Geofence limit Unlimited geofences 100 geofences
Circle geofences Yes Yes
Beacon detection Yes Yes
Complex, overlapping polygon geofences Yes No
Trip tracking with live ETAs Yes No
Advanced location analytics Yes No
Dashboard debugger Yes No
Battle-tested integrations Yes No
Developer-friendly documentation Yes No
Flexible tracking options Yes No
Fraud detection Yes No
Advanced access controls, audit logs, and SSO Yes No

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Radar capabilities

With hyper-accurate location tracking and geofencing SDKs, cost-effective geocoding and maps APIs, and powerful dashboards, Radar is the only truly all-in-one, enterprise-ready location platform.

Geofences

Industry-leading accuracy with unlimited geofences, polygon geofences, and more

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Trips

Trip tracking, live ETAs, arrival detection, and routing for pickups and deliveries

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Places

Points-of-interest (POI) dataset with chains and categories to detect visits to millions of places

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Maps Platform

The cost-effective Google Maps alternative, with geocoding, search, routing, and maps

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Radar geofence dashboard

Scale to millions of devices

Radar processes over 1 billion API calls per day from hundreds of millions of devices with over 99.99% API uptime.

100B+

API requests per year

100M+

installed devices

99.99%

API uptime

Trusted by industry leaders

The most innovative product and digital teams are increasing engagement and improving operations with Radar's Geofencing Platform.

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“Radar's easily adoptable platform has allowed us to get these features up and running quickly so that we don't miss a beat. We're thrilled to work with a trusted partner that shares the same guest-first values that are core to our philosophy.”

George Hanson

Chief Digital Officer

“Radar is the most accurate solution we've ever had... we've avoided the need to build and maintain a geolocation platform in-house, saving us significant time and money.”

Chris O'Malley

Chief Technology Officer

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“We're really happy we chose Radar as our geofencing provider at Sleeper. The integration with the rest of our tech stack was a breeze, well-documented and easy to follow.”

Ken Wang

Co-Founder

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“Choosing Radar was easy. When you look at the geofencing industry, they are the clear leader in the space, and they continue to keep their foot on the gas when it comes to innovation.”

Matt Walker

Director of Product and Design, Mobile Apps

“Radar’s Trips feature allows us to provide our back-of-house staff with insights into customer arrival times...and give our customers the highest quality food with minimal wait times.”

Kristen Addington

Senior Digital Solutions Manager

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