Comparison

OPENLANE US vs Space Auto

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

OPENLANE US

This app connects wholesale dealers for buying and selling used vehicles. It offers a transparent digital marketplace with various sale types and AI-enhanced features for faster sourcing and confident purchasing. Find all buyers, sellers, and vehicles in one place.

Highlights
  • Buy and sell used vehicles
  • Digital wholesale marketplace
  • Multiple sale types (auction, marketplace, absolute sale)
  • AI-enhanced damage detection
  • Robust search and filtering
  • Condition reports with Visual Boost AI™
  • Complimentary AutoCheck® reports
Features
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The OPENLANE app brings together buyers and sellers in the preferred US marketplace for wholesale used vehicles. Wholesale dealers can seamlessly switch between buying and selling all within one consolidated and easy to navigate app, making dealer to dealer car sales easier than ever before. OPENLANE’s digital marketplace offers a fast, easy and transparent way to sell and source used and fresh vehicle inventory—anytime, anywhere. We bring together the leading OEMs, dealers, fleet operators, rental companies and financial institutions to match the right buyer with the right car at every price point. We give you the power to buy or sell your way with OPENLANE’s variety of sale types. Whether you prefer the fast-paced action of the standard online dealer auction format, the flexibility and variety of OPENLANE’s marketplace or the certainty of Absolute Sale, OPENLANE has a sourcing or selling solution for you. The OPENLANE Marketplace offers sellers strong results with 110% of book value on average across all price bands, often in less than a day. Thanks to the wholesale industry's first AI-enhanced damage detection feature and the most robust search and filtering capabilities on the market, buyers are able to source inventory faster and with more confidence than ever before—all with the industry’s most competitive fees. OPENLANE condition reports feature: - An easy-to-read layout to quickly determine if the vehicle has issues - Visual Boost AI™, an AI-enhanced exterior detected damage visualization - Easy-to-read scan codes with Code Boost IQ, engine noise audio files, photos and more - Complimentary AutoCheckⓇ on all listings Find all the buyers, all the sellers and all the vehicles right now on the OPENLANE app.

About

Space Auto

This app empowers car dealerships to manage their entire digital sales process. It offers tools for customer interaction, deal management, inventory tracking, and AI-powered sales assistance. Features include real-time payment calculations and customer insights.

Highlights
  • Customer relationship management (CRM)
  • Vehicle inventory management
  • AI-powered sales assistance
  • Real-time payment calculations
  • Customer interaction via SMS, email, calls
  • Sales and marketing reporting
  • Collaborative deal management
Features
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The Space Auto App is a revolutionary digital retailing tool for car dealerships. The Space Auto App gives car dealerships full control over their digital retailing experience with access to powerful reporting, customer relationship management (CRM), vehicle inventory management, and so much more. Interact With Customers And Manage Deals, Tasks, and Appointments The Space Auto App allows your sales team to track every customer across the entire journey and communicate with customers by phone, text message, or email from directly within the app. Easily track the status of each customer and deal from Fresh to Closed and even set Tasks and Appointments. Powered by AI to Give Your Sales Team Super Powers The Space Auto App can help sales teams respond to customers in moments with instantaneous message suggestions that are crafted with your business goals, preferred tone, and actual vehicle inventory in mind. AI Translations and Message Cleanup make it possible to communicate with perfect style, grammar, and tone across multiple languages. AI Automations even allow dealerships to craft unique automated responses to every customer. Digital Retailing And Desking With Real Payment Calculation The Space Auto App provides everything a dealership needs to create the ideal digital retailing experience. Space Auto App’s digital desking tools include connections to hundreds of lenders and penny-perfect payment calculations based on accurate taxes, rates, and fees. Dealership staff can collaborate with their customers in real-time and bundle every detail of the deal into a beautiful deal jacket for the finance department. Gain deeper, actionable customer insights The Space Auto App integrates directly with your dealership website and retailing experience to provide robust information about each customer lead, including details such as their marketing channel and ad campaign origination, website behavior, and deal information. Metrics and dashboards can be analyzed at a dealership level as well as via an individual customer view. Features include: • Collaborative deal management • Cloud based for real time updates • Customer digital retailing portal • AI Responses • 1st party audiences • SMS, email, calls • Drip campaigns • Salesforce insights • Inventory management system • Trade values • Send customer walkaround videos • Document manager • Sales and marketing reporting • Customer insights • Photo uploads and VIN scanner

Screenshots

OPENLANE US4 screens
Space Auto3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Space Auto at 100% against OPENLANE US's 24%. Space Auto also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.0) and device support (4 vs 1). OPENLANE US's advantage is ratings volume (107 vs 16). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Space Auto holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OPENLANE US has 107 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of OPENLANE US's written reviews are positive against 100% of Space Auto's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OPENLANE US ships an update every 6 days, Space Auto weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
OPENLANE US versus Space Auto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOPENLANE USSpace Auto
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (107 ratings)4.3 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings107 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB118 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBacklotCars, IncSpace Automotive, LLC

Customer experience

OPENLANE US

All ratings107 ratings
Positive46.7%
Neutral3.7%
Negative49.5%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive23.7%
Neutral2.6%
Negative73.7%

Space Auto

All ratings16 ratings
Positive81.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.8%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

OPENLANE US

No in-app purchases

None

Space Auto

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OPENLANE US free?
OPENLANE US is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Space Auto free?
Space Auto is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OPENLANE US or Space Auto?
Space Auto is rated higher. OPENLANE US averages 3.0 out of 5 from 107 ratings, while Space Auto averages 4.3 from 16 ratings.
Do OPENLANE US or Space Auto have ads?
Neither OPENLANE US nor Space Auto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OPENLANE US or Space Auto?
OPENLANE US ships an update every 6 days, and Space Auto weekly. Most recently, OPENLANE US was updated on November 6, 2026 and Space Auto on November 3, 2026.

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