Sprint timing systems compared
We checked the price of every sprint timer we could find on October 29, 2026. They run from about $150 to $17,820 for the 1080 Sprint 2, and they differ in how many splits you get per rep, whether you see top speed, and what you have to set up.
Prices at a glance
| System | Entry price | How it times | Splits per rep | Speed curve |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprintbrick | $199 preorder | Wearable + receiver behind the start | Every 10 m to 100 m, 10-40 yd | Yes |
| SKLZ Speed Gates Pro | $149.99 | Wireless start and finish sensors | One | No |
| Amazon laser timers | About $150-450 | Laser and reflector per gate | One per gate pair | No |
| JAWKU Speed | $199.99 | Wrist sensor start, phone camera finish | One per extra sensor and phone | No |
| OVR Sprint | $529 for 2 gates | Beam gates, no reflector | One per gate pair | No |
| Freelap Pro BT112 | $535-659 | Chip on athlete, transmitter per mark | One per transmitter | No |
| Dashr Blue | $690 for 2 gates | Laser and reflector gates | One per gate pair | No |
| Brower TCi | $1,359 | Photogates | One per gate pair | No |
| VALD SmartSpeed | Quote, 3-year subscription | Wireless gates | One per gate pair | No |
| Catapult One | $179.99 a year | 10 Hz GPS vest | Not reliable under 30 m | GPS-grade |
| Phone apps | Free to $9.99, some with subscriptions | Phone camera at a line | One per phone or marker | No |
| 1080 Sprint 2 | $17,820 | Motorized cable | Continuous | Yes |
Manufacturer sites and US dealers, checked October 29, 2026. Freelap from On Track and Field; 1080 from SimpliFaster's listing; Amazon laser timer prices from listings, which change often.
Gates, chips or a wearable
Most systems in the table are timing gates. A beam crosses the lane, the athlete breaks it, and the clock records the time between two beams. Gates time anyone who runs through, which is why teams buy them, and they handle shuttles and agility drills. The cost is in the hardware per split: every extra time you want needs another gate at another measured mark. Our guide to how timing gates work covers beam height, single and dual beams and where the errors come from.
Freelap moves the sensor onto the athlete as a chip, but you still place a transmitter at every mark. GPS vests drop the track hardware altogether, but they can't time short sprints well. Haugen and Buchheit's review of sprint monitoring puts their useful range at efforts longer than 30 to 40 m.
Sprintbrick also puts the sensor on the athlete, and adds a single receiver behind the start. The receiver measures the distance to the sensor 100 times a second with ultra-wideband radio, the kind phones use to find AirTags, so it knows when you cross every line. Splits cost nothing extra, and you get a speed curve for every rep.
How to pick
If you time a team, buy gates or Freelap chips. Sprintbrick times one wearer at a time, and passing a waist belt down a line of thirty athletes isn't practical.
For change-of-direction drills or curves, you also want gates or Freelap. Sprintbrick only measures straight runs away from its receiver, out to about 80 m.
If you train alone or with a few athletes and want splits and top speed, Sprintbrick costs less than any gate system with more than one split, and you set up one device. So far, against OVR gates, every segment after the first 10 m has come within 50 ms, 30 out of 30. Times that include the start agree less well, and we're still working on them. The OVR comparison has the full numbers.