ChargeLab is a credible North American CPMS, properly aligned with NEVI compliance and the US/Canada utility ecosystem. Outside North America, the regional fit weakens fast. We publish €29/charger/month + 3%/session, deploy across EU/UK/UAE/KSA/Brazil/India, and ship the white-label app in a week. Below: where each is the right call, dated and sourced.
Last updated May 2026
The honest cut: if you're a North American CPO with NEVI requirements, shortlist us both. If you're outside North America, the regional alignment ChargeLab brings to NA doesn't apply, and our published price + regional flexibility is the simpler call.
| EnerGo Connect | ChargeLab | |
|---|---|---|
| Public pricing | Yes — €29/charger/mo + 3%/session. | No — sales-led. |
| Typical contract length | Month-to-month. | Multi-year typical for white-label. |
| Time from kickoff to first live charger | 24 hours once OCPP credentials are in. | Weeks (implementation project). |
| Implementation cost | €0 — self-serve onboarding. | Sales-led; non-trivial integration fees reported. |
| Target segment | 10–200 chargers, global. | North American CPOs, property managers, fleets, hardware OEMs. |
| OCPP versions | 1.6 + 2.0.1. | 1.6 + 2.0.1. |
| OCPI roaming | 2.2 — Hubject, Gireve, custom. | 2.2 — North American roaming focus. |
| White-label driver app | Included; live in a week. | Included; sales-led integration. |
| Multi-tenant model | From the first table — franchises, sub-brands native. | Tenant model present; reseller programme exists. |
| Hardware support | Hardware-agnostic (any OCPP charger). | Hardware-agnostic (any OCPP charger). |
| Public changelog | Yes — per-release, with issue keys. | No — customer-only release notes. |
| Hosting regions | EU default; UK/UAE/KSA/Brazil/India on request. | North America-first (US/Canada AWS regions). |
| Regulatory alignment | GDPR (EU); locally-tunable per region. | NEVI / FHWA aligned; SOC 2 in place. |
| Sandbox / self-serve trial | Two-week paid pilot on your real chargers. | Sales-led demo. |
Three reasons, all of them about geography and commercial posture.
ChargeLab is properly built for the North American market — its hosting, compliance posture (NEVI / FHWA), and reference set are all US/Canada-centric. If your network spans Europe, MENA, LATAM, South Asia, or anywhere outside North America, Connect's regional flexibility (EU / UK / UAE / KSA / Brazil / India) is the cleaner fit.
ChargeLab is sales-led. Connect publishes €29/charger/month + 3%/session as a single global number, with regional parity available for non-EUR markets. A CFO outside the US can model 12 months of spend in a spreadsheet without a sales call.
ChargeLab implementations are projects. Connect ships your white-label app in a week and your first charger goes live within 24 hours of OCPP credentials being delivered. For a CPO on a Q4 deadline that's the difference between launching and missing the season.
Three real cases where ChargeLab is the right call. We'd send these prospects their way.
If your network is US-funded NEVI-tier deployment (uptime SLAs, specific reporting cadence, FHWA reference requirements), ChargeLab's compliance posture is purpose-built for that. Our compliance is GDPR-first; NEVI is achievable but requires more deliberate configuration.
ChargeLab's reference set inside US and Canadian utility-affiliated programmes is substantially deeper than ours today. If you're a North American utility-affiliated CPO whose buying centre includes utility procurement, ChargeLab's brand and reference book matter.
ChargeLab has an established reseller programme for hardware OEMs who want to white-label a CPMS underneath their charger sales. Connect supports the same shape, but our reseller programme is younger and the named OEM relationships are fewer. If you're an OEM with this shape in mind, both shortlists make sense.
ChargeLab does not publish a price, so the rival column is a market-derived estimate based on third-party buyer reports. Bring your ChargeLab quote to the demo and we'll model both columns precisely.
Connect's economics are honest at small scale. Sales-led vendors will sell you a deal here, but they're not designed for it.
This is the canonical ChargeLab vs Connect deal shape outside NEVI-funded networks.
Upper edge of Connect's sweet spot. Above 200 chargers we discount.
Real timeline shape for a 50-charger ChargeLab-to-Connect migration. We do the import. You verify and approve each step.
Total: 9 working days, end-to-end
We map your ChargeLab tenant, tariffs, user database, OCPI partners, and any NEVI/FHWA reporting obligations. Read-only — no production change. Written audit by end of day.
Your EnerGo Connect tenant is provisioned in your chosen region (default EU-Frankfurt; US-East available on request). Charger metadata, tariffs, and user database are imported. Driver app branding is applied to the staging build.
Your chargers' OCPP endpoint is switched to Connect's backend, one cabinet at a time, during off-peak hours. Each cabinet is verified live within 30 minutes.
Both systems are live for 48 hours. We reconcile sessions, payments, and roaming events row-by-row.
Driver app published to App Store and Play. ChargeLab tenant decommissioned. Archive snapshot delivered. We stay on-call for the first session of every new day for two weeks.
Honestly: ChargeLab has the cleaner NEVI fit today. Connect can be configured to meet NEVI reporting and uptime requirements, but ChargeLab's compliance posture is purpose-built for that programme. If NEVI is the primary procurement driver, shortlist ChargeLab first and us as a benchmark for pricing transparency.
Technically yes; in practice their hosting, reference set, and roaming partner ecosystem are North America-first. Outside NA, Connect's regional footprint (EU / UK / UAE / KSA / Brazil / India) and locally-tunable payment rails are a more deliberate fit.
Connect supports OCPI 2.2 roaming with North American hubs as well as European ones. The reference set is smaller in NA than ChargeLab's; if NA-only roaming is the entire game, ChargeLab's depth is real.
Zero. OCPP re-pointing happens during off-peak windows and per-cabinet. In-flight sessions complete on the old endpoint; the next session starts on the new one. Driver app cut-over is a separate scheduled day.
Segment fit. At 10–200 chargers globally, the economics are sharp. At sub-10 chargers Monta is cheaper; at 1,000+ in a single tenant the unit economics rebalance and you should benchmark enterprise vendors.
chargelab.co does not publish a price. Independent buyer guides (EVMagazine 2025, Solidstudio 2025) describe sales-led pricing. If ChargeLab publishes a different number, email us — we update this page within a business day.
Bring your ChargeLab quote (or your last 12 months of session data) to a 30-minute call. We'll model your Connect bill against it and tell you honestly when ChargeLab is the better call.
