—A base, not a bracket

The mount is $219. The tabletop is another $289.

Name: The Vanlife Cup Holder
Brand: Steadi Labs

That is the Lagun system every build uses — a wall-mounted swivel arm, through-bolted, rated to 55 pounds, sold without a top. Add a folding bamboo top and you are at five hundred and eight dollars for a surface to put a coffee on.

This is 5.2 inches across, weighs 3.6 ounces, bolts to nothing and costs $14.95. It is not a table. It is the thing that makes the surfaces you already have work.

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Ships from Orange, California. 90 days to change your mind, used is fine.

A can standing in a sage Steadi on a deck rail at dusk, a fire and string lights behind. — Outside the sliding door, at the hour everybody bought the van for.

—The floor is narrower than you think

Fifty-three to fifty-six inches, wheel well to wheel well.

Every published figure below is the manufacturer’s or the upfitter’s own, read on 3 September 2026. This is the room a table has to come out of.

Sprinter, 170″ WB

53.1″

between the wells

The narrowest of the three common platforms at floor level. Mercedes leads its own spec with standing height — 79.1 inches — not with seated room.

Transit, 148″ WB

54″

between the wells

Four and a half feet of usable floor, pinched from both sides. Everything in the build is fighting for that width.

ProMaster, 159″ WB

56″

between the wells

The widest, and the reason people choose it: 75.6 inches of interior width means a queen mattress fits sideways. Which also means the bed is the floor.

So: no table

$14.95

nothing

A 5.2-inch base on the counter, the bed platform, the swivel seat or the step. It takes no floor, no wall and no payload.

Sources: upfitsupply.com (Ford Transit, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and RAM ProMaster interior cargo measurements) · mbvans.com · ramtrucks.com ProMaster catalogue · parkedinparadise.com. Fetched 3 September 2026 and quoted as published.

—What a surface actually costs in a van

Every flat thing in here was bought, bolted and weighed.

The swivel arm is $219 and comes with no top
Lagun’s mount is “rated for loads up to 55 pounds (25 kilograms)” and takes tops up to 40 by 28 inches. A second seller lists the same arm at $295 in silver and $365 in black. The bamboo top is $289 on its own, and its listing says so plainly: “This listing is for the wood tabletop only.”
The flip-down galley table is 24 by 14 inches and holds 20 pounds
$299, screwed to a cabinet, a wall or the slider door. That is a surface the size of a laptop, rated for less than a full water jug.
Turning the driver’s seat around is $399, plus $40
A Scopema swivel base, and the driver side “requires a ‘handbrake relocator kit’ which adds $40 to the cost”. That is what it takes to make the cab into seating.
And the build has already eaten the payload
One weighed conversion published its own numbers: 1,800 pounds of build and 1,700 pounds of cargo against a 9,000-pound rating. A Sprinter cargo van starts with 4,211 pounds of payload and a build spends it fast.

vanlifeoutfitters.com · nomadvanz.com · faroutride.com · mbvans.com. Fetched 3 September 2026, quoted as published. Steadi Labs is not affiliated with any of them.

A hand sliding an aluminium can down into the fins of a Steadi. — The whole installation. No backer board, no through-bolt, no drill.

—Does it actually work

It wobbles. Then it settles.

Somebody climbs onto the bed platform, or leans on the counter, and the drink comes back level. The base is 5.2 inches across and spreads the load rather than balancing on a point.

Filmed on a couch cushion — which is a fair stand-in for a mattress, and a harder surface to hold than a countertop.

A full can standing in a white Steadi on a cushion. — Real footage, one take, no cuts.

—How it holds

Width, and nothing else.

The base

5.2 inches across and fixed. It moves the edge the drink would have to tip over much further out, so the whole thing has to lean much further before it goes.

The fins

Six of them, holding the bottom inch. Cans and bottles slide on from the top; tumblers and glasses drop in. Drink and base then rock as one piece.

The duvet

A wide foot on a mattress spreads across the fill instead of sinking into it at a point — which is the surface most van drinks actually stand on at ten at night.

A macro photograph of the flared base of a terracotta Steadi, showing the moulded STEADI mark. — The flare, close. That width is the entire mechanism.

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—The object

3.6 ounces. Against a payload you have already spent.

No bracket, no backer board, no wall to reinforce, no hole in a panel you spent a weekend insulating. It stows in a drawer and it weighs less than a full mug.

Base5.2″ — fixed
Height2.8″
Opening at rest1.64″
Weightabout 3.6 oz
Fins6, from 0.92″ up, flexing to 3.15″
MaterialShore 85A TPU
Wall penetrationNone
Payload cost3.6 oz per unit
CleaningRinse, wipe, or dishwasher

Several sizes of can standing in Steadis side by side, from a slim can to a tallboy. — Slim can to tallboy. Bases between two and three inches all seat.

—What seats and what does not

Bases between two and three inches. Measure the bottom, not the rim.

A standard 12 oz can is 2.6 inches across the bottom. A Stanley Quencher 40 oz is 3.1 and seats snug. A mug with a handle does not seat at all — the handle lands exactly where the fins grip, and in a van where the enamel mug is standard issue that is worth knowing before you order.

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Every width below comes from a published specification, not from us. Where a spec is uncertain, the answer says so.

Container

Or the width across the bottom

Width in inches

A width across the bottom of the cup, in inches.

Without a tape measure

A standard sticky note is three inches square. A cup standing on one with its base inside the paper will seat.

Anything that overhangs, or anything borderline — hello@steadilabs.com reaches a person, and the answer will be honest either way, including a no.

—Where they end up

The counter, the bed, the step, the ground outside the door.

The galley counter while you are cooking. The bed platform once you are on it, which is where the evening actually happens. The swivelled seat if you paid the $399. The doorstep, the tailgate of somebody else’s truck, and the folding table outside when the weather is good.

Twelve colours, and the picker assigns one per unit, which in a two-person van is entirely about whose coffee is whose at six in the morning.

—What the aisle costs

Every other answer is furniture, and furniture is weight.

Prices were looked up on 3 September 2026, not estimated. Every figure is the seller’s own.

The product	Price	What it asks of the build
MOAB heavy duty folding table bracket, single	$101.15	Hardware only, no surface. “Rated to hold 95 lb”, supports up to a 20-inch extension per bracket. You still need a top.
Lagun table mount system	$219.00	Mount only. Through-bolted to a wall, and the standard bracket ships with a wooden backer board. Rated to 55 lb, tops to 40×28″. A second seller lists the same arm at $295 silver, $365 black.
Folding bamboo Lagun tabletop	$289.00	“This listing is for the wood tabletop only. Lagun mount is not included.”
Universal flip-down galley table	$299.00	Screwed to a flat cabinet, wall or slider door. Surface 24×14 inches. Max load 20 lb.
Scopema swivel base	$399.00	Plus $40 on the driver side: it “requires a ‘handbrake relocator kit’”. This is what turning the cab into seating costs.
The Vanlife Cup Holder	$14.95 · four for $39.95, $9.99 each	Nothing. It stands on what you already built and weighs 3.6 ounces.

If you need a table, buy a table. The Lagun is genuinely good, it swings out of the way, and nothing here replaces it — you cannot eat dinner off a cup holder. This is for the eleven months before you get round to building one, and for the surfaces the table will never reach.

—Get one

How many, and what colour goes where.

Two people, two mugs, and a third for whoever is parked next to you. Two is the common answer here. Free shipping on all of them.

Checkout is handled by Steadi Labs — the company that makes The Vanlife Cup Holder. Secure checkout at steadilabs.com. Free shipping on every order, and 90 days to change your mind, used is fine.

—From people who bought one

None of these is from a van.

We are not going to imply otherwise. They are here because they describe small spaces, soft surfaces and things carried in a car — which is most of what a van is. Verbatim, unedited, not filtered by rating.

A dim living room at night: a glass of dark cola sits in a sage-green STEADI base on a fabric-topped ottoman while a calico cat walks across the same ottoman; a TV plays in the background — Photograph sent in by Dixie with this review.

★★★★★

I have a tendency to spill my drinks and have two cats. This is one of the best things I’ve ever impulse bought. It works. It actually works. It’s a heavy, wide enough base that it is actually stable. It fits cans, bottlers, glasses. It doesn’t get bent out of shape. It’s exactly what I needed.

Dixie · August 2026Photo from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyer

★★★★★

My Steadi order arrived just as we were packing for our annual three generation family vacation. So into the car they went. Our time away is at a rental property and preventing spills in someone else’s house seems like a good goal. Additionally, most of our time is spent outside, at the house and nearby parks.

Haila Buskirk · May 2026

★★★★★

Love ‘em. One next to TV, the other in the car.

MICHAEL JONES · July 2026

★★★★★

Steadi works very well in stabilizing my drinks on soft surfaces, like the couch or by the chair I use as a nightstand.

Marie Adams · July 2026

18 more, photographed by the people who bought them

Sent in with their reviews. Tap any one to read it. Different rooms, different drinks, different colours — none of them staged by us.

A slice of one product-wide corpus — reviews of the Steadi, not of this page. The full corpus is published live.

—The limits, in one place

What it does not do.

It is not for use while the van is moving.
Nothing loose is. It has no clamp and no fastener, so it belongs to a van that is parked. Everything in a build gets stowed before you drive and this is no different.
It is not a table, and it does not replace one.
You cannot eat off it, work off it or put a laptop on it. If what the build needs is a surface, buy the surface — this does not save you that money, it just is not the same purchase.
A handled enamel mug does not seat.
The handle lands exactly where the fins grip. In a van that is close to the standard vessel, so it is on the page rather than in the small print.
It is not spill-proof — nothing is.
It resists tipping by widening the footprint. A dog getting onto the bed still wins sometimes.
Wind is not something it resists.
Outside the sliding door, an empty can goes over in enough wind whatever it is standing in. This widens the base; it does not add weight.

—If it turns out to be the wrong thing

Ninety days. Used is fine. Nothing goes back in a box.

Ninety days is a season on the road. If the answer is no, hello@steadilabs.com reaches a person and the money comes back — no form, no restocking fee, no questions about condition, and nothing to pack up or post. Dust, woodsmoke and coffee included.

You order. Free shipping, every order, always.
It leaves Orange, California within one business day.
USPS, 2–5 days, tracked.

—Who makes it

Steadi Labs. One person, in Orange, California.

The steel injection mould open in the machine, the cavity that forms the base visible. — The mould, in the machine.

Scott Rodriguez at a workbench, holding a terracotta Steadi and looking at it, with shipping boxes behind him. — Scott, who makes them.

Scott Rodriguez made the first one after a full drink went over on a soft cushion with three kids under three in the house. It was built for spills, not for vans.

Nobody living in a van asked for this page. It exists because a wide base does the same thing on a mattress as it does on a couch, and because a surface in a van turns out to cost five hundred dollars and a hole in a wall you insulated yourself.

We make one thing and we make all of it here — the moulds, the material, the colour runs, everything within about three and a half miles of the shop.

Steadi Labs — veteran founded and veteran owned
Designed, injection moulded, picked, packed and shipped in Orange, California
Patent pending
100% BPA free
5.2 inches across the foot, about 3.6 ounces

— Scott, Steadi Labs

—Questions

Straight answers.

Can I use it while I’m driving?

No. It has no fastener of any kind, so it is for a van that is parked. It stows with everything else before you move.

Does it replace a Lagun?

No, and it would be dishonest to pretend. A Lagun is a table and this is a base for a drink. If you need somewhere to eat and work, build the table.

Will it work on the mattress?

Yes — that is the surface it was originally designed for, and it is where most van drinks actually sit in the evening. A wide foot spreads across the fill instead of sinking into it.

What about my enamel mug?

Straight no. The handle lands exactly where the fins grip. Every handled mug is the same answer.

How much does it weigh?

About 3.6 ounces each. Against a Sprinter’s 4,211-pound payload that is a rounding error, which is the entire point of it on this page.

Will it hold a 40 oz Stanley?

Yes. The Quencher H2.0 40 oz is about 3.1 inches at the base, inside the range the fins flex to. It seats with a push.

Where does it live?

A drawer, a door pocket, or the counter. They nest, and four take less room than a mug.

Why does this site only sell one thing?

Because it is one thing. It is a Steadi, made by Steadi Labs in Orange, California, and checkout finishes at steadilabs.com where the company lives.

—Still deciding

$14.95 for a piece of rubber.

It is. The bracket alone is $101.15 and the mount is $219 without a top. Ninety days covers being wrong about this, used, with nothing to post back.

I’m building a table anyway.

Then build it. This is for the months before it exists, and for the bed platform and the doorstep, which no swivel arm reaches.

Everything in here has to earn its space.

Agreed, and that is the fairest test you could apply. It is 2.8 inches tall, 3.6 ounces, and they nest. If it does not earn it in ninety days, send it back.

Does the heat in a parked van hurt it?

It is Shore 85A TPU with no adhesive and no moving parts, and it is dishwasher safe, so hot water is not an issue. Long-term UV exposure is not something we have tested, so we do not make a claim about it.

The mount is $219. The tabletop is another $289.

Fifty-three to fifty-six inches, wheel well to wheel well.

Sprinter, 170″ WB

Transit, 148″ WB

ProMaster, 159″ WB

So: no table

Every flat thing in here was bought, bolted and weighed.

It wobbles. Then it settles.

Width, and nothing else.

3.6 ounces. Against a payload you have already spent.

Bases between two and three inches. Measure the bottom, not the rim.

Search by container

Or the width across the bottom

Without a tape measure

The counter, the bed, the step, the ground outside the door.

Every other answer is furniture, and furniture is weight.

How many, and what colour goes where.

None of these is from a van.

18 more, photographed by the people who bought them

What it does not do.

Ninety days. Used is fine. Nothing goes back in a box.

Steadi Labs. One person, in Orange, California.

Straight answers.

$14.95 for a piece of rubber.

I’m building a table anyway.

Everything in here has to earn its space.

Does the heat in a parked van hurt it?

Three and a half ounces, and nothing bolted to anything.