{"id":8280,"date":"2019-06-02T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/?p=8280"},"modified":"2019-06-02T21:13:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:13:27","slug":"nb-iot-sigfox-comparison-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/m2m-faq\/nb-iot-sigfox-comparison-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"NB-IoT and Sigfox comparison &#8211; cost per year and cost per byte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cheapest price for NB-IoT in Germany is currently one Euro per year. For one Euro per year you get 50 MBytes Upload or Download. The price applies to GPRS, UMTS and shortly LTE-M. In contrast you get 140 messages with 12 bytes in the upload and 4 messages with 8 bytes in the download per day at Sigfox for ten Euros per year. This corresponds to a total of 624,880 bytes per annum. Therefore 1 MByte with Sigfox cost 16.78 Euro or 1678 Euro Cents. With NB-IoT a Mbyte costs 2 cents (0.02 Euro). Sigfox is therefore 839 times more expensive than NB-IoT.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8282\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nbiot-sigfox-14-reasons.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8282\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nbiot-sigfox-14-reasons-400x294.png\" alt=\"14 reasons whyNB-IoT is better than Sigfox\" width=\"487\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nbiot-sigfox-14-reasons-400x294.png 400w, http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nbiot-sigfox-14-reasons-768x565.png 768w, http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nbiot-sigfox-14-reasons-1024x754.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nbiot-sigfox-14-reasons.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">14 reasons why NB-IoT is better than Sigfox &#8211; click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Summary price comparison NB-IoT with Sigfox<\/h2>\n<p>Sigfox is cheap, but NB-IoT, GPRS and UMTS is cheaper. With Sigfox you do not get a reasonable download and have to pay a lot of money for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Remark of the author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I originally wanted to explain the first ten reasons why NB-IoT is better than Sigfox in detail, before I published this table and graphic. But since the subject of price was raised by readers after the first show graphic, I preferred to write about price. I am happy to respond to wishes and hints. Next I will\u00a0 return to the first graphic and explain the topics in detail.<\/p>\n<h2>10 reasons why NB-IoT is better than Sigfox is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/m2m-faq\/nb-iot-sigfox-comparision-link-budget\/\">here.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Thanks in advance for enquiries about the IoT M2M Cookbook, radio modules, antennas, custom antennas, customization of antennas, workshops, seminars, feasibility studies and development of complete IoT M2M devices at harald.naumann(at)ltemodem.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"shariff shariff-align-flex-start shariff-widget-align-flex-start\"><ul class=\"shariff-buttons theme-default orientation-horizontal buttonsize-small\"><li class=\"shariff-button twitter shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#32bbf5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gsm-modem.de%2FM2M%2Fm2m-faq%2Fnb-iot-sigfox-comparison-costs%2F&text=NB-IoT%20and%20Sigfox%20comparison%20%E2%80%93%20cost%20per%20year%20and%20cost%20per%20byte\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" aria-label=\"Share on Twitter\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\"; 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