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Compared with Airtame and Vivi.

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If you are weighing Ava Display against Airtame or Vivi, you deserve something better than a grid of ticks somebody drew in their own favour. Everything on this page about another company is quoted from their own public material, linked, and dated. Everything about us is our published price list. Where a company does not publish something, we say so rather than guess.

 
Ava Display
Airtame
Vivi
Is pricing published?
Yes. $50 per device once, $40 per screen per year.
Yes, for the education bundle. €299 1
No public pricing. Their own cost calculator declines to quote. 24
Commitment
Annual. Nothing to sign for three years.
The bundle carries a 3 year licence. 1
Marketed as an annual subscription. 2 Their ANZ and APAC terms define the subscription as 36 months. 5
The hardware
Bought once and owned outright.
Hardware included in the bundle. 1
Receiver included in the one subscription price. 2
What the published terms say about the hardware
Ours say it is yours outright, and that stopping the licence ends the service, not your ownership.
Not addressed in the education bundle page.
In their published ANZ and APAC terms, Vivi retains ownership and hardware is returned on request at the end of the agreement. Their US terms are not published. 5
If a screen is lost or damaged
It is your property. The first year is covered by the Hawk warranty; after that either continue cover for $15 per device per year, or simply replace a failed unit for $50. There is no liability clause over a device you already own.
3 year warranty included in the bundle. 1
Vivi repairs or replaces material defects during the term. The customer carries full liability for loss, damage or theft caused by a breach of the hardware use conditions. 5
Moving to newer hardware
Buy the new device at $50 and own that one too. The old one stays yours.
Not stated.
“The cost of the Vivi Hardware upgrade shall be $50 per unit (plus additional shipping costs)”, and the hardware remains leased. 5
If you stop paying
The hardware stays yours; the service ends.
Screen sharing and basic remote management stay on. 1
Under their ANZ and APAC terms, ending early can require paying the remaining fees for the current term. 5

Blank cells are not points against anyone. They mean the company does not publish the answer, and we will not invent one.

Where we are different

Three differences that are structural, not marketing.

These hold whatever anyone charges, which is why we lead with them rather than with a price comparison.

The hardware is yours

You buy the device once and own it, and our terms say so. Where hardware is bundled into a subscription, ownership is decided by a clause rather than by you: Vivi’s published ANZ and APAC terms keep title with Vivi and require the hardware back at the end of the agreement. Ask to see the ownership clause in whatever contract you are offered.

You can find out what it costs

Our prices are on the pricing page and in our terms. Where a competitor publishes a cost calculator that says its own output is not a quote, the only way to learn the price is to enter a sales process. That is a choice they are entitled to make, and a cost to you.

One year at a time, and no renewal trap

Schools are appropriated annually. A three year initial term that then renews itself unless somebody remembers to give thirty days written notice is a procurement problem as much as a budget one, and the person who forgets is usually the one who inherited it.

Fifty dollars buys the device, not an upgrade to one you rent

Our fifty dollars buys the adapter outright and you keep it. Under Vivi’s US terms, fifty dollars per unit plus shipping is what an upgrade costs, and the hardware is still leased rather than sold. Same number, different thing entirely.

The fleet is managed for you

Every screen reports signal, packet loss, temperature and whether it is truly rendering, and we watch it. Remote management is common; being told before your staff notice is not.

Sources

Every claim, quoted and dated.

We publish the exact wording we relied on and when we read it, so anyone can check us. If a company has changed its terms or we have read something wrongly, tell us and we will correct or remove it.

1. Airtame

Read 16 August 2026 from airtame.com/education/airtame-go

“Get a complete Airtame setup for just €299”, listing a 3-year Core for EDU license, hardware (Signage Stick), an ethernet adapter and a 3-year warranty. Also: “Screen sharing and basic remote management are always on, even if you don’t renew.”

2. Vivi

Read 16 August 2026 from vivi.io/frequently-asked-questions

“Our model is an annual subscription per classroom/display”, and “Hardware receiver, software, support, updates, training, warranty, and the cloud admin console are included in one price.” Also: “Multi-year terms lock pricing and simplify renewals.” No prices appear on the page.

3. Vivi terms of service

Read 16 August 2026 from vivi.io/terms-of-service

This is a website terms-of-service page and does not address equipment ownership, return or title. The customer agreement that does is quoted in source 5.

4. Vivi cost of ownership calculator

Read 16 August 2026 from vivi.io/resources/total-cost-of-ownership

The tool states it uses “approximate pricing at the time the calculator was created”, that “Actual pricing will depend on several variables, including but not limited to how Vivi is purchased, purchase volume, contract length, and more”, and that “Results do not represent final pricing and should not be considered a formal quote.” No per-device or per-classroom figure appears.

5. Vivi customer terms, ANZ and APAC

Read 16 August 2026 from vivi.io/terms-and-conditions-anz-apac

Clause 5.1: “Vivi retains ownership of the Vivi Hardware and legal title to it remains with it.” Clause 8.3: “When this Agreement ends, your licence to use the Vivi System ends and you must pay us any outstanding Fees and charges and return all Vivi Hardware on request.” Clause 1.1(c) defines the Subscription Expiry Date as “the date which is 36 months from the activation of the corresponding Subscription”. Clause 8.1, on ending early: “we may charge you and you shall be required to pay any remaining fees due for the then current term.”

Scope, and it matters: these are the terms of Vivi International Pty Ltd for Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific. We have not found equivalent published terms for the United States, so we do not claim these clauses apply to a US agreement. Ask for the contract that would govern yours, and read clause 5 and clause 8 of it.

5. Vivi customer terms, United States

Read 16 August 2026 from vivi.io/terms-and-conditions-us (Vivi LLC, United States)

Section 2.6: “The Vivi Hardware is leased, not sold, to Customer.” and “For clarity, the Customer will be responsible for the costs, if any, associated with the return of goods to Vivi.” Section 5.1: the initial term “will begin on the effective date of the Order Form and continue in full force and effect for three (3) years”, and “the Order Form will automatically renew for additional terms of one (1) year … unless either Party gives written notice of non-renewal … at least thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the then-current term.” Section 4.1: Vivi “may revise the applicable Fees payable for a given Renewal Term by providing at least thirty (30) days’ notice”. Also in Section 2.6: “Customer shall have full liability for loss or damage to, or theft of, the Vivi Hardware that is caused by a breach of the foregoing conditions”, “If there is any material defect or error occurring to the Vivi Hardware during the Term, Vivi shall repair and replace such Vivi Hardware”, and “The cost of the Vivi Hardware upgrade shall be $50 per unit (plus additional shipping costs).”

What we will not do

We will not publish a competitor price we cannot source, repeat a figure from a review site as if it came from the company, or compare a feature without saying where we read about it. If you have a quote in hand, put your own number into the calculator and compare it against ours; that is the only price comparison worth anything.

Use your own numbers

Airtame and Vivi are trademarks of their respective owners. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with any of them, and we make no claim about their current pricing beyond the dated quotations above.