Less than 9 months after launching the Tesla Robotaxi service with a flat fee of $US4.20 per ride, the company has revealed new pricing for riders.
According to reports by Robotaxi Tracker on X, Tesla has increased the price per mile for the service to $US1.40 from $US1.00 while dropping the flagfall fee to $US3.00 per ride.
The per-mile price has risen by around 40 per cent in Austin, Texas, which we hope will taper off as the service becomes more mainstream in parts of the US.
This would equate to under $A1.25 per km, making it a quite affordable offering, whereas a few taxi companies in Australia currently offer over $A2.20 per km.
The latest pricing of the Tesla Robotaxi is:
- $US3.00 + $1.40 per mile (Previously: $US3.25 + $US1.00 per mile)
Tesla Robotaxi Austin just got even more expensive:
New rate:
$3.00 + $1.40 × miles https://t.co/sO1xBXAb89— Robotaxi Tracker (@RtaxiTracker) March 11, 2026
In June, the company invited selected users to download the Tesla Robotaxi app in Austin, Texas, the service’s first city.
The Robotaxi service began in Austin on 22 June 2025 and operated daily between 6 AM and Midnight.
Initial users of the service in Austin were offered rides for a standard flat fee of $US4.20. To book rides, these users had to have the Tesla Robotaxi app installed.
Since then, the company has expanded into multiple markets, including California and has plans to further expand into other regions of the US.
To support this expansion of the Robotaxi service, Tesla has also been hiring staff for Robotaxi-related roles in multiple US states, including those with a more global focus.
In September 2025, for example, the company had a senior software engineer role focusing on mapping airport experience across the “entire world”.
This indicated the company’s goals to take the technology to multiple markets outside of the US in the next year or so, including for busy airport drop-off and pick-up services, which, of course, see tens of thousands of trips every day.
Following that, in a November podcast interview, the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, stated that the company’s Texas fleet will expand to 500 cars, while the Bay Area in California will exceed 1,000 vehicles.
The latest price increase update on Tesla’s occupantless Robotaxi come under 18 months since the We Robot event, where the next-generation Robotaxi, the Cybercab, was first unveiled to the world.
While production of the Cybercab officially begins in large numbers next month, Tesla will be offering rides at the increased prices in its current Model Y fleet.
That’s expected to carry over to the Cybercab as well when those vehicles go into operation in the coming months which we expect will be well received by riders who are still paying less with the Robotaxi service than Waymo or Uber services.
