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Comparison · Launch Monitors

SkyTrak+ vs Mevo+ vs Bushnell Launch Pro: The Five-Year Math

By Golf Sim Report · Updated July 2026

Mevo+ — $1,099, no subscription $1,099
Mevo+ — GSPro path (+$250/yr) $2,349
SkyTrak+ — Core plan required for course play $3,494.95
Launch Pro — Silver plan, FSX world only $3,494.99
Launch Pro — GSPro path (Gold $499 + GSPro $250) $6,244.99
Spec Mevo+ (2024 Edition) SkyTrak+
Price $1,099 $1,995
Tracking Radar Photometric (camera)
Club data Measured Measured
Accuracy class Mid — solid consumer ball data Prosumer — teaching-grade club and ball data
Space required 9' ceiling · 17' depth · 10' width 9' ceiling · 12' depth · 10' width
Position Floor, behind the ball Floor, beside the ball
Handedness Auto (no repositioning) Manual (move the unit)
Software E6 Connect (12 courses owned), GSPro, TGC 2019, Awesome Golf, Creative Golf 3D SkyTrak app (Course Play + practice)
Subscription None required $299.99/yr
Environment Indoor & outdoor Indoor & outdoor
Availability Discontinued — clearance while stock lasts Discontinued — clearance while stock lasts
Spec SkyTrak+ Launch Pro (Circle B Edition)
Price $1,995 $2,499.99
Tracking Photometric (camera) Photometric (camera)
Club data Measured Measured
Accuracy class Prosumer — teaching-grade club and ball data Prosumer — teaching-grade club and ball data
Space required 9' ceiling · 12' depth · 10' width 9' ceiling · 12' depth · 10' width
Position Floor, beside the ball Floor, beside the ball
Handedness Manual (move the unit) Manual (move the unit)
Software SkyTrak app (Course Play + practice) FSX Play, FSX 2020, GSPro (Gold tier), E6 Connect, Awesome Golf
Subscription $299.99/yr $199/yr
Environment Indoor & outdoor Indoor & outdoor
Availability Discontinued — clearance while stock lasts

Ask any golf forum which launch monitor to buy between $1,000 and $2,500 and three names come back before anyone asks about your room: the FlightScope Mevo+, the SkyTrak+, and the Bushnell Launch Pro. In 2026 this question has a twist the spec sheets don't show: two of the three are discontinued and on closeout, and the stickers — $1,099, $1,995, $2,499.99 — tell you almost nothing about what each one costs to own. So we ran our catalog numbers out five years. One result surprised even us.

The short answer: measure your room first. Under 13 feet of depth, the Mevo+ is physically out and this becomes a two-camera race. If the depth is there and you want the cheapest real road into GSPro, the Mevo+ closeout is the best deal on this page. And if measured club data and a product with a future are the point, it's the Launch Pro — which looks like the expensive option right up until you notice the SkyTrak+ costs the same to own.

The five-year math

Sticker price is the number you pay once. Subscriptions are the number you pay forever. Here's what five years of ownership looks like, using each maker's published plans — Core ($299.99/yr) for course play on SkyTrak, Silver ($199/yr) as the minimum sim tier on the Launch Pro, and nothing at all on the Mevo+, which has never charged a subscription:

Read the middle two rows again. The SkyTrak+ and the Launch Pro are about $500 apart at checkout — and four cents apart over five years. The clearance discount on the SkyTrak+ is, almost to the penny, a prepayment of the subscription gap. Whatever you decide between those two, the deciding factor should not be the sticker, because there effectively isn't one.

The Mevo+ rows are the other story. It's the only unit here that never asks for another dollar — E6 Connect with 12 courses is owned outright, and the Pro Package that unlocks club path and face angle is a one-time add-on, not a plan. Even the GSPro path, all-in, is a third of the Launch Pro's.

The room decides before you do

The Mevo+ is Doppler radar. It sits behind the ball and needs to watch the flight: FlightScope markets about 17 feet of total depth, its own FAQ recommends around 13 feet of ball flight — call it 21 feet before the data is fully trustworthy — and owners in shorter rooms report driver spin reading 500–600 rpm high. Garages and open basements love it. Spare bedrooms return it.

The SkyTrak+ and Launch Pro are cameras. They sit beside the ball, photograph the first few feet, and are done — about 12 feet of depth is enough, which is exactly why this bracket exists. The trade: beside-the-ball units want honest width (10 feet, more if lefties and righties share the bay) and both get moved by hand when the other-handed golfer steps up. Run your exact measurements through our room requirements guide before any of the money math matters — depth, not ceiling, is usually the spec that decides.

Three different software worlds

This is the least visible difference and the one you'll live with daily.

SkyTrak+ lives inside SkyTrak's own app, full stop. Official third-party support (E6, TGC 2019, ProTee) ended for new buyers in 2025, and GSPro was never official. The app is polished and course play works well — but it starts at the Core plan, and there is no road out. If Tuesday-night GSPro leagues are in your future, this unit cannot attend.

Launch Pro is a Foresight GC3 in a Bushnell shell — same triscopic three-camera engine, subsidized by subscription. Free tier is ball data only, no sim. Silver ($199/yr) buys club data and Bushnell's FSX world with 5 courses. GSPro and E6 require Gold ($499/yr), plus GSPro's own $250 — about $749 a year for league play, and a gaming PC, because there's no standalone mode. We walked this hardware family's trade-offs in our SkyTrak+ vs Foresight GC3 comparison.

Mevo+ is the open door: 12 E6 courses owned forever, official GSPro support at GSPro's normal $250/yr, nothing else required. The catch is physics, not software — indoor spin wants metallic stickers or Titleist RCT balls, and the radar is sensitive to ceiling fans and fluorescent light.

Head to head, twice

The value question — the two discontinued units, $896 apart:

The future question — same five-year money, very different bets:

What the closeout prices are really telling you

The Mevo+ (2024 Edition) is marked "final quantities" at $1,099, less than half its original $2,299 — FlightScope has pledged multi-year support, and its replacement, the Mevo Gen2, sells for $1,299 with 8 owned E6 courses to the Mevo+'s 12. The SkyTrak+ is on clearance at $1,995 while retailer stock lasts, and carries the bracket's shortest runway: a 6-month/25,000-shot warranty on a discontinued product line — the full trade-off is spelled out in our SkyTrak+ review. The Launch Pro is the only unit here still in production — with its own fine print: US-only, a 45-day online check-in requirement, and a 20% restocking fee if you change your mind.

None of that is a reason to avoid these deals. It's the reason the deals exist. Buy discontinued with your eyes open: the hardware didn't get worse the day the press release went out, but the warranty clock and the stock counters are real.

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Mevo+ (2024 Edition)
$1,099
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Closeout — final quantities; the no-subscription pick

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SkyTrak+
$1,995
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Clearance — 6-month warranty; SkyTrak's app world only

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Launch Pro (Circle B Edition)
$2,499.99
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In production — sim play from $199/yr Silver; GSPro needs Gold

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