Robotaxi fare calculator: Tesla, Cybercab, Waymo and Uber.
Short answer, as of November 9, 2026: the only robotaxi with a rate card you can do arithmetic on is Tesla’s Model Y. In Austin it is a reported $3.00 plus $1.40 a mile, so a 5-mile ride is about $10 and a 10-mile ride about $17. The first Cybercab quotes came in at 57% and 64% of the Model Y price in two September 4 same-trip reports, not as a floor. Waymo, Uber and Lyft publish no single rate card for a standard ride, so this tool shows their reported prices beside the estimate instead of inventing a formula.
Estimates use published or reported rate cards, not live quotes. The app you book in quotes the real price before you ride, and it moves with demand.
Your trip
Cities with at least one reported robotaxi price. Austin and Orlando are the two with a reported Tesla card.
None of the reported robotaxi cards charge by the minute, so time does not change the robotaxi estimates. It is here for the per-minute figure and to compare your trip with the reported ones.
Estimated fare, Austin, TX
- Tesla Robotaxi (Model Y)$10.00
$2.00 a mile
Reported Austin card: $3.00 plus $1.40 a mile. Turn on JavaScript for the full comparison.
Estimates from published or reported rate cards, not live quotes. Taxes, tips, airport fees and surge are not modeled.
Your inputs stay in the address bar (for example ?city=austin&mi=10&min=15) so you can share a trip. Nothing is sent anywhere.
How each estimate is built
Tesla Robotaxi (Model Y). Tesla has never published a fare card. Riders and trackers have reported two: Austin at $3.00 base plus $1.40 a mile, in effect since March 12, 2026 and still the latest Austin card on robotaxiprice.com (page updated November 5, 2026), and Orlando at $3.25 plus about $1 a mile at its July 2026 launch (Orlando Weekly, July 24, 2026). The two cards differ, so the tool does not carry either one to another city. Treat a card as a rough guide, not a quote: on a short Austin route that Tesla Oracle put at about 1.3 miles, September Model Y quotes were about $12, well above what the card gives for that distance.
Cybercab. Public Cybercab rides run only in Austin, and Tesla has published no Cybercab card. Two same-trip comparisons on September 4, 2026 put the Cybercab at 57% of the Model Y quote ($9.65 against $16.99, Sawyer Merritt on X) and 64% ($7.77 against $12.10, Not a Tesla App). The tool applies that September 4 range to the Austin Model Y estimate. That range is not a floor: quotes move with demand: on September 7, at high demand, a Cybercab quote on the same route came in 27% above the Model Y ($15.24 against $12.04, Tesla Oracle).
Waymo. Waymo publishes no per-city rate card; its app quotes each trip. Where a reported price exists, the tool shows it: an average of $19.69 per ride in the Bay Area across Obi’s sample of more than 94,000 simulated requests from November 27, 2025 to January 1, 2026 (TechCrunch, January 27, 2026), and $20.03 to $22.35 for an 8-mile Denver trip across five checks in September 2026, cheaper than standard Uber each time (Denverite, September 11, 2026, via our Denver guide).
UberX and Lyft. Neither publishes one fixed card for a standard ride in these cities; the app quotes a price before you book. The tool shows the reported points instead: in the same Obi Bay Area sample, Uber averaged $17.47 per ride and Lyft $15.47, and on the September 4 Austin trip Uber was $21 with tip for a 15-minute trip, about 10 miles by our estimate from the Model Y quote.
The 2024 target. At the October 10, 2024 Cybercab unveil, Musk said rides might eventually be priced around 30 to 40 cents a mile (Axios, October 11, 2024). The tool shows it under every result as a target, not a fare.
Tesla’s Austin card, per mile
| Trip | Model Y fare | Per mile |
|---|---|---|
| 1 mile | $4.40 | $4.40 |
| 3 miles | $7.20 | $2.40 |
| 5 miles | $10.00 | $2.00 |
| 10 miles | $17.00 | $1.70 |
| 20 miles | $31.00 | $1.55 |
Frequently asked questions
Are robotaxis cheaper than Uber or Lyft?
It depends on the company and the city. Tesla’s robotaxi has usually come in lowest in the reported comparisons, though not every time. On one Austin trip on September 4, 2026, a Cybercab was $9.65, a Model Y robotaxi $16.99 and Uber $21 with tip. Waymo sits close to Uber. In Obi’s Bay Area sample from November 27, 2025 to January 1, 2026, Waymo averaged $19.69 a ride against $17.47 for Uber and $15.47 for Lyft, and in five Denver checks in September 2026 Waymo came in under standard Uber every time.
What is the all-in cost per mile for a Tesla robotaxi, Model Y and Cybercab?
For the Model Y in Austin, the reported card of $3.00 plus $1.40 a mile works out to $2.00 a mile on a 5-mile trip and $1.70 on a 10-mile trip, before any tip. Tesla has published no Cybercab card; the first reported Cybercab quote was $9.65 for a 15-minute trip that we estimate at about 10 miles from its Model Y quote, roughly $0.97 a mile, and a second same-day quote was 64% of the Model Y price in those September 4 reports, not as a floor. Musk’s 2024 target for Cybercab rides was 30 to 40 cents a mile.
How much does a Waymo ride cost per mile?
Waymo publishes no rate card; the app quotes each trip. The clearest per-mile data point is Denver, where five checks on an 8-mile trip in September 2026 came to $20.03 to $22.35, about $2.50 to $2.79 a mile. In the Bay Area, Obi measured an average of $19.69 per Waymo ride from November 27, 2025 to January 1, 2026.
Why does the calculator not show an Uber or Waymo formula?
Because neither company publishes one fixed rate card for a standard ride in these cities, and we do not invent one. The tool shows each company’s reported prices with the source and date instead, and says “not published” where there is nothing to show.
Are these live prices?
No. Every figure comes from a published or reported rate card or a reported trip, each with its date. Real fares move with demand, time of day and fees, and the app you book in quotes the price before you ride.
Sources
- robotaxiprice.com, Tesla Robotaxi price (Austin card since March 12, 2026; Dallas and Bay Area reported fares; page updated November 5, 2026)
- Orlando Weekly, Tesla robotaxis now up and running on Orlando roads (July 24, 2026)
- Sawyer Merritt on X (September 4, 2026) and our breakdown of that trip
- Not a Tesla App, Cybercab joins Tesla’s Robotaxi fleet with cheaper fares (September 4, 2026)
- Tesla Oracle, high-demand Cybercab quotes (September 7, 2026)
- TechCrunch, The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing (January 27, 2026; Obi data)
- Denverite, Waymo price checks in Denver (September 11, 2026)
- Tesla, Cybercab support page (Cybercab rides in limited areas of Austin; checked October 23, 2026) and our Q3 2026 earnings call report (Dallas named next on October 21, 2026)
- Axios, Tesla unveils Cybercab and Robovan (October 11, 2024; the 30 to 40 cents a mile target)
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