Compare the real monthly and annual savings of the WEX and Pilot Fleet Card fuel cards on your fleet's gallons, after fees.
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About WEX
The WEX Fleet Card is the most widely accepted fleet card in the United States, working at roughly 95 percent of fuel stations plus tens of thousands of service locations. Its strengths are universal acceptance, detailed purchase controls with driver IDs, automatic accounting data on every transaction, tax exemption reporting and access to the WEX EDGE savings network that also discounts tires, hotels and other business costs.
About Pilot Fleet Card
Pilot's Axle fleet card pairs fuel savings with a flexible line of credit, no upfront restrictions or hard credit checks, discounts on truck maintenance and access to Pilot rewards perks such as Prime Parking and showers. The catch is coverage: it works mainly at Pilot, Flying J and One9 locations in the US and Canada.
WEX and Pilot Fleet Card pricing
WEX pricing is quote-driven, with independent reviews commonly reporting around $4 per card per month for the core Fleet Card. Rebates run 3 to 15 cents per gallon inside the WEX EDGE savings network and 1 to 3 cents elsewhere, with the top rates tied to fueling location and monthly volume; the truck-stop oriented Fleet Cross Roads card averages around 15 cents in-network. Pilot advertises no fees and average savings around 27 cents per gallon at its own network, one of the stronger headline rates in our guide, but earned only at Pilot family locations, so route fit decides the real-world figure. The calculator applies each card's discount to your monthly gallons, subtracts card fees, and compares net savings and effective price per gallon at the current diesel price.
How they compare
WEX's core strength is acceptance breadth: its discounts are modest outside the EDGE network, but the card works nearly everywhere, so its savings are dependable rather than spectacular. Pilot offers big in-network discounts and trucker perks, but only inside the Pilot, Flying J and One9 network, so its value is a direct function of whether your lanes already pass those stops. The honest comparison is a blended one: estimate what share of your gallons would actually earn each card's in-network rate on your real routes, set the discounts accordingly, and let the annual difference decide.
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