- Verified dollar demand4 vs 2
- Reward integrity and liquidity3 vs 2
Bee Maps (Hivemapper)
#7 overall across 7 scored depin networks. 39 points behind #1 GEODNET. Scored 41 on the published 41–99 scale under methodology 2026.09.15, from the evidence read in August 2026.
Why Bee Maps (Hivemapper) ranks #7
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (8.5 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Bee Maps (Hivemapper)’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Smallest climb: verified dollar demand 4 → 9 passes XNET Mobile, #6.
Where it leads
- Verified dollar demand — 4/10
- Reward integrity and liquidity — 3/10
Where it trails
- The $19/month membership ($19.99 in the FAQ on the same page) is a 24-month contract that cannot be cancelled early and auto-renews for another 24 months unless cancelled, sold only in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and Bee Maps makes no earnings claim against it — so you are committing $456 or more to a device whose operator declines to say what it pays. Any HONEY-based return figure you find elsewhere is obsolete given the July 2026 move to USDC, which Bee Maps calls discretionary and has not yet extended to Beekeeper fleets; get the current USDC rate per kilometre in writing before signing, because no page read on 15 September 2026 publishes one.
- Corrected during verification: WRONG SOURCE URL — every one of those figures is correct but they live at https://beemaps.com/pricing, not /bee. The /bee page carries only the $19/mo 24-month membership terms. The pricing page additionally discloses overages the research omits ('$3 / GB' on Own Devices) and a second tier ('Network Devices $0.02 / km includes 5MB/km', '$0.05 / 10MB' overage). Read again 15 September 2026: the pricing note now carries both overages and the Network Devices tier, attributed to beemaps.com/pricing.
- Corrected during verification: OVERSTATED — beemaps.com displays these as PARTNERS on a logo wall, alongside a dozen more (Fortex Design, Graylark, 4M, MGS, LGD, Lyrent, Shaggy Chic, Simbra, Argus, Foxtran, Geolava, Empower). No contract, revenue figure or commercial relationship is attached to any logo. Under this category's own demand criterion ('revenue actually paid by third-party customers, measurable by someone other than the operator'), an unattributed logo wall is an operator claim and should not be cited as customer evidence.
Where Bee Maps (Hivemapper) leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
- Verified dollar demand#2 / 7
- Operator disclosure quality#5 / 7
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
- Verified dollar demand4 vs 2
- Reward integrity and liquidity3 vs 2
- Verified dollar demand4 vs 2
- Reward integrity and liquidity3 vs 2
- Operator disclosure quality4 vs 2
Why GEODNET ranks above Bee Maps (Hivemapper)
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale; a floor bound on one of the rows keeps the reproduced gap (46.8) from matching the displayed one exactly, which is stated rather than hidden.
Find out if Bee Maps (Hivemapper) fits you
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Bee Maps (Hivemapper) is not priced for this scenario
Metered usage beyond whatever the plan includes, for a year. Excludes egress, support tiers and enterprise minimums. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 15 Sept 2026.
7 of 7 rows in the pool have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence read 5 Aug 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
What the record publishes
- Pricing
- Bee Membership (U.S. and Puerto Rico only): "$19 per membership per month"; "Bee Membership requires a 24-month contract, billed monthly. Available only in the U.S. and Puerto Rico." Includes "AI camera, LTE data plan, and Beekeeper software". The same page's FAQ gives "$19.99 per device per month." and "Requires a 24-month minimum commitment.", and says "No. Early cancellation is not allowed. The subscription runs for the full 24-month term." and "Your subscription auto-renews for another 24-month term unless canceled before the renewal date." Outside the U.S. the site (beemaps.com/bee?country=GLOBAL) shows "Bee LTE" at "$589" ("Bee LTE ships without a data plan. Insert a SIM from your carrier of choice to activate LTE and unlock Beekeeper."), but its Order Now leads to shop.beemaps.com, which redirects to a password page ("Opening soon") as of 2026-09-15. Buyer-side price card (beemaps.com/pricing): "Street Level Imagery $0.005 / image", "AI Event Videos $6 / video", "Road Detections $3 / 1K detections", "Burst (on-demand mapping) $1 / location"; Bee Edge AI "Own Devices $15 / device / mo includes 1GB" with "$3 / GB" overage and "Network Devices $0.02 / km includes 5MB/km" with "$0.05 / 10MB" overage. Contributor rewards: the 2026-07-16 post says the Bee App will "no longer support HONEY token rewards", "USDC rewards are funded directly by Bee Maps and offered at our sole discretion", and "We will add support for Beekeeper fleets to receive USDC for their fleet."; the Global FAQ says only "Rewards vary by region and types of roads you are driving and mapping." No USDC rate per kilometre is published.Bee Maps (Hivemapper) — official pricing page ↗ · 15 Sept 2026
- Prices published in
- USDBee Maps (Hivemapper) — official pricing page ↗ · 15 Sept 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- us
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Bee Membership ($19/month on a non-cancellable 24-month contract) is sold only in the United States and Puerto Rico ("Available only in the U.S. and Puerto Rico."). For other countries the site shows 'Bee LTE' at $589 without a data plan, described as working "anywhere in the world that Bee Maps is legally able to ship products", but its Order Now leads to the operator's shop (shop.beemaps.com), which is password-locked ('Opening soon') as of 2026-09-15.
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks and scores are recorded in a ledger, but this page does not chart that record yet, so no score line is drawn: history begins with the current verified snapshot. Below it, the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
- 5 Aug 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.09.15Score 41, #7 of 7. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 16 Sept 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
- 10 Sept 2026
2026.09.5The published review cadence is now one the work actually keeps · platform-wide- changed reviewCadenceDays 30 → 45 across all 119 category specs, and the two prose sites that quoted "the 30-day review cadence" in tokenised_bonds.
- changed check-review-cadence-is-kept ceiling 7 → 3, negative-tested: restoring a single 30-day promise over 49-day evidence takes it to 4 and fails the build.
- fixed Measured by regenerating rankings.json: no category changed order and no score moved, and the golden suite confirms it independently — across all 119 fixtures and 2,217 cases the only fields that differ are methodologyVersion and contentHash. A cadence is a claim about freshness, not an input to any ranking.
- 6 Sept 2026
2026.09.3The country gate reaches every country the questionnaire offers- changed The gate moved from scoreAvailability to collectProducts and reads assessCountry from the decision layer. It runs for all 60 questionnaire countries: the 27 mapped ones at country resolution, the other 33 at the wizard's region resolution (an EU member the table does not map is credited with an "eu" tag; Ukraine is not).
- changed Measured effect over every category by every questionnaire country (6,959 runs): 807 runs change, in 29 categories and 48 countries; 2,182 rows leave ranked lists and 73 runs change leader — none of them a published, no-answer ranking, which are untouched by construction. Survivors keep their relative order in every run.
- changed 19 further runs — bill_pay in 18 countries, crypto_card in New Zealand — now leave nothing eligible and show the pool for reference. Those rows had been ranked as recommendations with a "not confirmed" label; each is now labelled with its own verdict ("names Hungary as a restricted market", "lists its markets and your region is not among them") and the result says nothing is available rather than "limited availability".
- fixed A restriction sentence is now matched word-bounded ("Niger" no longer matches "Nigeria"; "US" matches "US persons", not "industrial"). Previously a substring test.
How this verdict was produced
- Methodology version
- 2026.09.15 · last platform-wide change 16 Sept 2026
- Data snapshot
- Evidence read 5 Aug 2026
- Last recalculated
- At page build from the published inputs — the same run every visitor sees.
- Published run
- runWizardEngine(depin_networks, defaults) · no visitor answers
- Receipt id
- depin_networks:beemaps_depin:2026.09.15:1a6bcd11d7a4
- Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
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