Will it fit your roof?
The number that rules out most rooftop tents is not the price, it is your vehicle's dynamic roof load limit — what the roof may carry while you are driving. Pick your vehicle and rack, and every tent in the database gets checked against it.
This is a guide, not a safety clearance
Roof load limits vary by model year, body style, market and factory rail option. Every figure here is a starting point for a conversation with your owner's manual, never a substitute for it. Overloading a roof affects handling and rollover behaviour.
Figures here are reproduced from manufacturers' published material and may be out of date, incomplete, or wrong for your specific vehicle or tent. Use this tool to narrow a shortlist only. Before fitting anything to your roof, confirm the load limits in your vehicle's owner's manual and your rack manufacturer's documentation. rooftoptentcompare.com accepts no liability for any loss, damage or injury arising from reliance on these figures.
Dynamic versus static, and why it matters
A roof that will hold 700 kg parked may be rated for only 68 kg on the move. The difference is not conservatism: at speed, every bump and corner multiplies the load on four small mounting points, and a heavy mass that high also raises the centre of gravity enough to change how the vehicle behaves in an emergency swerve.
This is why the dynamic figure is the one that decides which tents you can actually buy. It is also why the rack counts: a full-length platform can eat half a mid-size SUV's allowance before the tent is bolted on. And because makers differ in what their published weight covers — some exclude the ladder, some the mattress, some do not say — the totals here show that figure as published, with a note on what it includes, rather than padding it with a guess.