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Full Self-Driving (Supervised) vs ROS 2

Full Self-Driving (Supervised) (Tesla) and ROS 2 (Open Robotics) both sit in Robotics. ROS 2 is the cheaper entry point at Free and open source robotics middleware.. ROS 2 shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeFull Self-Driving (Supervised)

Tesla

ROS 2

Open Robotics

SegmentRoboticsRobotics
VersionFSD v142
Entry costfrom $8,000 one-timeFree and open source robotics middleware.
Pricing tiersSubscription $99 · Purchase $8000Open Source / Free free
Model stackEnd-to-end driving netDDS (Fast/Cyclone)
Context window
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d09
OriginGlobalGlobal
CapabilitiesEnd-to-end video policy, Vision only, no lidar, Robotaxi pilot, Fleet data flywheelDDS middleware, Nav2, MoveIt 2, 5-year LTS, robotics middleware, robot operating system, open source, open-source

ROS 2

DDS-based middleware, navigation and manipulation stacks under annual LTS releases.

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