How much can a robotaxi make in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio?

No city has its own robotaxi earnings number, because no privately owned Cybercab has completed a paid ride anywhere. Every figure, DockDuty’s included, is a projection. What differs by city is whether Tesla’s network runs there, since that is the network a Cybercab earns on: it does in Austin, Dallas and Houston, and it does not in Phoenix or San Antonio.

What genuinely differs between one metro and the next is not a revenue figure. It is whether the network runs there at all, how many operators are chasing the same rides, and how long the market has been live. Those are facts, and each metro’s section below is about them. The model is stated once, first, because it is the same everywhere.

What the model actually says

There is no Austin number, no Dallas number and no Phoenix number, and any page that gives you one is inventing it. What exists is a model, the same one behind the earnings calculator, applied identically everywhere:

• $4,500 of rider revenue per cab per month at 65% utilization, scaled linearly with utilization. It is derived from Tesla’s stated long-term Cybercab operating-cost target of about $0.20 a mile: a stated target, not a measured result, and not a Tesla-guaranteed figure.
• DockDuty’s cut: 15% of rides and a $550 monthly retainer per stall at one to two cabs, both dropping as the fleet grows.
• The costs people forget: insurance $400, financing $594 if the car is financed, and $50 of miscellaneous, per cab per month.

A single financed cab at 65% utilization comes out at $2,231 a month of projected take-home. That figure is the same in every city on this page, because the model has no city input. Run your own assumptions in the calculator, which shows the full fee breakdown and can email you your exact scenario.

The only real fare number anyone has

Worth knowing what the evidence base actually is. The one published robotaxi fare in DockDuty’s own data set is Orlando, FL, where Tesla’s service has run since July 21, 2026 at $3.25 plus about $1 a mile. That is one operator, in one metro, on its own fleet, not owner economics, and not any of the five metros on this page. It is the honest anchor, and it happens to be the market where depot #1 is targeted.

Every US metro with live driverless service is tracked on the free US Robotaxi Map, with CSV and JSON downloads.

How much can a robotaxi make in Austin?

Nobody knows, and Austin is the market where that is most frustrating, because it has the longest Tesla robotaxi record in America: Tesla since June 2025, metro-wide since June 3, 2026. No privately owned Cybercab has completed a paid ride on any network anywhere, so there is no measured owner revenue to report from Austin or from anywhere else. DockDuty models $4,500 of rider revenue per cab per month at 65% utilization, derived from Tesla's stated long-term operating-cost target, and labels it a projection because that is what it is.

Austin has the longest Tesla robotaxi record in America. Teslas have carried paying passengers with nobody in the driver’s seat here since June 2025, and the service went metro-wide (roughly 245 square miles) on June 3, 2026. If any market can answer this question, it is this one. It still cannot, and this section is about why.

What actually runs in Austin today

Austin is the deepest robotaxi market in the country and the only one with three names in it. Tesla has been live since June 2025 and metro-wide since June 3, 2026. Waymo operates here too. Zoox is running employee, family and friends rides and has announced a public Explorers program and paid service.

For a Cybercab owner, the first fact is the one that counts: Tesla’s network operates here. That is the network a Cybercab would earn on, and Austin has more of its operating history than anywhere else.

The third operator cuts both ways, and an honest page says so. Three companies chasing the same rides is proof the market is real and it is competition for the same fares. Nobody, not DockDuty, not anyone, can tell you today what three-way competition does to per-ride revenue in Austin, because there is no Cybercab in a private owner’s hands anywhere to measure.

What a buyer in Austin can do today

There is no DockDuty depot in Austin, and none is promised. Depot #1 is targeted for Orlando in Q4 2026, and the published roadmap is Florida-first, Miami on the ~80% trigger, Tampa behind it. Texas, with four driverless metros, is the obvious cluster after that, and where in Texas is decided by demand we can point to.

What an Austin buyer can do today is own from anywhere: reserve a stall, elect Austin as the preferred market, and the car will earn in Orlando once its depot opens, while Austin is on file. The Austin page has the full status and the interest list that sizes the market, and the Texas page compares all four metros and covers the state law.

How much can a robotaxi make in Dallas?

Nobody has fleet-scale Cybercab earnings history, in Dallas or anywhere, so every figure is a projection rather than a measured result. DockDuty models $4,500 of rider revenue per cab per month at 65% utilization, derived from Tesla's stated long-term operating-cost target, then subtracts the platform fee, the monthly retainer, insurance, financing and miscellaneous costs. What is specifically true of Dallas is that two driverless networks operate there, one of them Tesla's.

Dallas runs two driverless networks, and it contains the single best piece of evidence in the country for why a depot company exists at all: Avis runs the depot operations for Waymo’s Dallas fleet. The car layer and the ground layer are already two different companies here.

What actually runs in Dallas today

Two operators carry passengers driverless in Dallas. Tesla has been running unsupervised since its Q2 report on July 22, 2026. Waymo opened to everyone on August 4, 2026, and its Dallas ground operations are run by Avis, not by Waymo.

That last detail is worth more than a paragraph of argument. The most sophisticated autonomous operator in the world, in a market it chose deliberately, outsourced the parking, charging, cleaning and turnaround work to a company that already knew how to do it. Waymo did not decide the depot was beneath it. It decided the depot was somebody else’s competence.

For a Cybercab owner the relevant fact is simpler: Tesla’s network operates in Dallas, which is the network a Cybercab would earn on.

What a buyer in Dallas can do today

There is no DockDuty depot in Dallas, and none is promised. Depot #1 is targeted for Orlando in Q4 2026; the published roadmap is Florida-first, with Texas the obvious cluster after it. The four-metro picture and the state law are on the Texas page.

A Dallas buyer reserves a stall today, elects Dallas as the preferred market, and the car will earn in Orlando once its depot opens. That is what own-from-anywhere means. The Dallas page carries the status and the interest list that decides where we build after Florida.

How much can a robotaxi make in Houston?

No privately owned Cybercab has completed a paid ride on any network anywhere, so there is no measured owner revenue from Houston or from any other city. DockDuty models $4,500 of rider revenue per cab per month at 65% utilization, derived from Tesla's stated long-term operating-cost target, and labels every output a projection. What is specifically true of Houston is that two driverless networks operate there, one of them Tesla's, and that Waymo carried more than 100,000 riders there before dropping its waitlist.

Houston has the clearest demand signal of any Texas market. Waymo carried more than 100,000 riders under an invite gate after its February launch before dropping the waitlist entirely on August 20, 2026. People did not have to be talked into it.

What actually runs in Houston today

Two operators run driverless here. Tesla has been unsupervised since its Q2 report on July 22, 2026. Waymo opened to everyone with the app on August 20, 2026, after more than 100,000 riders had used it during the invite phase that began in February.

That number is the useful part. Most robotaxi launches are measured in press releases; Houston has a measured count of people who actually took the ride and then it opened the gate. In America’s fourth-largest city, with the sprawl and the commute distances that come with it, that is a demand profile a fleet owner should care about more than any launch announcement.

For a Cybercab owner the load-bearing fact is that Tesla’s network operates in Houston. That is the network a Cybercab would earn on.

What a buyer in Houston can do today

There is no DockDuty depot in Houston, and none is promised. Depot #1 is targeted for Orlando in Q4 2026 and the roadmap is Florida-first, with Texas the obvious cluster after it; four driverless metros is more than any other state, and they are compared on the Texas page.

Today a Houston buyer reserves a stall, elects Houston as the preferred market, and the car will earn in Orlando once its depot opens. The Houston page has the status and the interest list. Houston is also one of the metros with a Spanish version of that page.

How much can a robotaxi make in Phoenix?

For a privately owned Cybercab, nothing in Phoenix today, because Tesla does not operate a robotaxi network in Phoenix, and a Cybercab earns on Tesla's network. Waymo runs here, and Waymo does not sell cars to private owners. Nobody anywhere has fleet-scale Cybercab earnings history, so every figure quoted by anyone, including DockDuty, is a projection built on public estimates rather than a measured result.

Phoenix has lived with driverless cars longer than anywhere else in America. It is also, for a Cybercab buyer specifically, one of the harder markets to answer this question about, and the reason is not the money. It is that Tesla’s robotaxi network does not operate in Phoenix.

What actually runs in Phoenix today

One operator carries paying passengers here without a driver: Waymo, in its oldest and most mature market. Phoenix is where the technology stopped being a demo.

Tesla does not run a robotaxi service in Phoenix. Its Q2 2026 report described preparations underway, which is a plan, not a service. As of today there is no Tesla robotaxi network in this metro for a car to join.

That matters more than any earnings assumption on this page, and here is why. A Cybercab is a Tesla. The network it would earn on is Tesla’s. If that network does not operate in your city, the honest answer to “what can my Cybercab make in Phoenix” is nothing, in Phoenix, today, regardless of what any calculator says. A depot company that lets you believe otherwise is selling you something.

Waymo does not sell cars to private owners, so its presence here does not create an ownership opportunity either. It is evidence that the market works, not a door you can walk through.

What a buyer in Phoenix can do today

Two things are true at once. Phoenix is a proven robotaxi market, and it is not currently a market where a privately owned Cybercab can earn. The way that resolves is own-from-anywhere: the reservation attaches to the DockDuty network rather than to one city, so a Phoenix buyer reserves now, the car will earn in Orlando once its depot opens, where Tesla’s service does run, and Phoenix is recorded as the preferred market for when that changes.

Phoenix owners are already in DockDuty’s reservation book. That is demand, not a depot: there is no DockDuty depot in Phoenix and none is promised. What the interest list does is tell us where the demand actually is when we choose the market after Florida.

The Phoenix page carries the full status and the interest list.

How much can a robotaxi make in San Antonio?

For a privately owned Cybercab, nothing in San Antonio today, because Tesla does not operate a robotaxi network there and a Cybercab earns on Tesla's network. Waymo has been public in San Antonio since February 24, 2026 by rolling invitation, and Waymo does not sell cars to private owners. Separately, nobody anywhere has fleet-scale Cybercab earnings history, so every figure quoted by anyone is a projection.

San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the country and it has driverless service today. For a Cybercab buyer it also has a catch that most pages answering this question will skip: Tesla’s robotaxi network does not operate here.

What actually runs in San Antonio today

One operator: Waymo, public since February 24, 2026 by rolling invitation. San Antonio is next in line behind Dallas (which dropped its waitlist on August 4) and Houston (August 20).

Tesla does not run a robotaxi service in San Antonio. The city’s only robotaxi hearing to date was a zoning case for a 56-stall Tesla charging depot near the Pearl, recommended 8–2 on July 21, 2026, which is worth noticing for a different reason. The fought-over asset in San Antonio was the depot. Not the cars, not the software. The ground.

For a Cybercab owner, though, the consequence is direct: a Cybercab earns on Tesla’s network, and that network is not here. The honest answer to what one could make in San Antonio today is nothing, in San Antonio. Waymo does not sell cars to private owners, so its presence is evidence the market works rather than a way in.

What a buyer in San Antonio can do today

The resolution is own-from-anywhere. The reservation attaches to the DockDuty network rather than to one city, so a San Antonio buyer reserves now, the car will earn in Orlando once its depot opens, where Tesla’s service does run, and San Antonio goes on file as the preferred market for when that changes.

There is no DockDuty depot in San Antonio and none is promised. The San Antonio page carries the full status and the interest list, and has a Spanish version; the Texas page compares all four metros and covers the state law.

What about Orlando?

Orlando is not one of the five metros above, and it has no earnings number either. It matters here for two facts already on this page: Tesla’s service runs there (the fare quoted above is Orlando’s), and it is where DockDuty’s depot #1 is targeted for Q4 2026. No depot is operating and no depot lease has been executed. The Orlando page sets out what is live and what is not.

What any of these buyers can do today

Reserving costs $450 per stall, fully refundable at will until the vehicle is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 one-time onboarding fee. The owner keeps title at all times, and service is month-to-month with no early-termination penalty. The whole agreement renders before the card field, not after, what a robotaxi depot company does covers the rest.

Frequently asked questions

Does Tesla run robotaxis in Austin?

Yes. Austin was Tesla's first robotaxi market, live since June 2025, and the service expanded metro-wide to roughly 245 square miles on June 3, 2026. Waymo also operates in Austin, and Zoox is running employee and friends-and-family rides with a public program announced.

Who runs the robotaxi depots in Dallas?

For Waymo's Dallas fleet, Avis runs the depot operations. That is the clearest public evidence anywhere that the ground layer of a robotaxi fleet (parking, charging, cleaning, turnaround) gets bought from a specialist rather than built by the operator. Tesla runs unsupervised in Dallas as of its Q2 2026 report.

Does Tesla run robotaxis in Houston?

Yes. Tesla has run unsupervised in Houston since its Q2 2026 report on July 22, 2026. Waymo also operates in Houston and opened to everyone with the app on August 20, 2026, after more than 100,000 riders during the invite-only phase that started in February 2026.

Does Tesla run robotaxis in Phoenix?

Not as of September 2026. Tesla's Q2 2026 report described preparations underway in Phoenix, which is a stated plan rather than a live service. Waymo is the operator carrying paying passengers driverless in Phoenix today, in its oldest market.

Does Tesla run robotaxis in San Antonio?

Not as of September 2026. Waymo is the operator carrying passengers driverless in San Antonio. The city's only robotaxi-related hearing so far was a zoning case for a 56-stall Tesla charging depot near the Pearl, recommended 8-2 on July 21, 2026, a depot, not a service.

Why is there no robotaxi earnings number for each city?

Because no per-city Cybercab earnings data exists. No privately owned Cybercab has completed a paid ride on any network anywhere, so there is no owner revenue to measure in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio or any other city. DockDuty publishes one shared model, derived from Tesla's stated long-term operating-cost target, applies it identically everywhere, and labels every output a projection.

Does DockDuty have a depot in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix or San Antonio?

No, and none is promised in any of them. Depot #1 is targeted for Orlando, Florida in Q4 2026 and no depot lease has been executed anywhere. A buyer in any of these metros can reserve a stall today, elect their city as the preferred market, and the car will earn in Orlando once its depot opens. The $450 deposit is refundable at will until the vehicle is onboarded.

Can I own a Cybercab from Phoenix or San Antonio, where Tesla does not operate?

You can reserve now, through own-from-anywhere; Tesla has not opened Cybercab ordering yet. The reservation attaches to the DockDuty network rather than to one city: the owner reserves a stall, the car will earn in Orlando, Florida once its depot opens (targeted for Q4 2026; Tesla's robotaxi service does run there), and Phoenix or San Antonio is recorded as the preferred market for when the network reaches it.

About this page. It replaces five separate city posts first published on September 9, 2026, one each for Austin, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. Their addresses now lead to the matching section above.

About DockDuty. DockDuty is the brand operated by DOCK DUTY LLC, a Florida limited liability company, and it is a robotaxi depot and fleet-operations company built to support privately owned autonomous vehicles. Depot #1 is targeted for Orlando in Q4 2026; no depot is operating and no depot lease has been executed. DockDuty is an independent company, not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc. “Tesla” and “Cybercab” are trademarks of Tesla, Inc., used here for descriptive reference only. Nothing on this page is investment, legal or tax advice.