Beneteau Oceanis 45vsJeanneau Sun Odyssey 409
Beneteau against Jeanneau · used asking prices, listed in Europe and the US
At the same age, the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 asks 25% less than the Beneteau Oceanis 45. We can't yet say which holds its value better: the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 has no published depreciation curve.
same age · 4 shared build years · 18 and 10 boats in them · Indicative · in today’s prices · asking, not sold
Head to head
The better figure on each line is in orange. Where either side has too few boats, we say so rather than pick a winner.
Year by year
Each build year's Gauge Estimate, for the 4 years both have boats in. Pooled across those years (18 and 10 boats), the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 asks 25% less than the Beneteau Oceanis 45.
What your budget buys
At £145,000, only the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 has a build year within reach.
A year of ownership
Each at its Gauge Value, on a South Coast marina berth, 44 engine hours a year (the median of 103 UK-listed sailing boats that report hours). An estimate in pounds from published rates, not a quote.
Each line is the middle of the cited range, to the nearest fifty pounds. Depreciation is a year of age on each model's published curve, at its Gauge Value, and stays out of the totals.
The Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 has no published depreciation curve, so its depreciation is withheld.
Sources: Lake Yard price list 2026 · BerthFinder · Boatsetter · Velos Insurance; Admiral Yacht Insurance · Boating Magazine, "Calculating Boat Fuel Consumption" · Littlehampton Marina fuel prices
Specification
Questions
Which is cheaper, the Beneteau Oceanis 45 or the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409?
At the same age the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 is cheaper: the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 asks 25% less than the Beneteau Oceanis 45 across 4 shared build years. Their Gauge Values, the median asking prices of all the boats we observed whatever their age, are £165,500 and £120,500.
Which holds its value better?
We can't say yet. The Beneteau Oceanis 45 loses about 3.7% of its asking price a year of age, but the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 has no published depreciation curve: we fit one from at least 20 boats across six build years and publish it only when the fit holds. We have 15 Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 boats across 5 build years.
Which spends less time on the market?
Boats of the Beneteau Oceanis 45 had been listed a median of 1,580 days when we last saw them, against 956 days for the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409. That is time listed so far, not time to sell, which we don't measure yet. 41% of the Beneteau Oceanis 45 boats we saw 14 or more days apart cut their asking price, against 30% of the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 boats.
How do you compare them like for like?
We compare boats of the same build year. For each of the 4 years both models have boats in, we take the ratio of their median asking prices in today's prices, then pool the years, giving more weight to years with more boats on both sides. The figure is Indicative because the thinner side has 10 boats in those years.