Fairgo
Last reviewed: 4 September 2026.
Fairgo is a ride-hailing app that connects riders with licensed independent drivers: riders pay the fare and nothing on top, and Fairgo's fee to the driver is at most 1% of it — over any period, the whole of what Fairgo takes — and it never touches a tip.
What you keep
Fairgo's fee is at most 1% of your fares, and over any period that is the whole of what Fairgo takes. On 1,000 in fares Fairgo's fee is 10; on a platform charging 25% it would be 250. Tips are 100% yours in every market — the fee is computed on the fare and never touches a tip.
In a market where Fairgo (the ride-hailing app at fairgo.website) cannot collect its fee because there is no card payment — Morocco and Peru today — you keep the whole fare, in cash, your earnings screen shows no balance owed, and nothing is charged retroactively if that ever changes.
What comes off a single card payment
“1%” is true over a period and it is the whole of what Fairgo takes. It is not the whole of what leaves one card payment, and you should read that here rather than meet it on your earnings screen:
- A balance from earlier cash rides. A fee that accrued on a cash ride could not be collected then, so it is recovered from your next card payment — that ride's own 1% plus as much of the balance as the cap allows, and never more than 10% of that single payment. It is itemised as the service fee, so you can always see what was taken and why. Over all your fares it still comes to 1%.
- The payment processor's fee. A card fare is charged on your own connected account: you are the merchant of your own ride, which is what keeps the money out of Fairgo's hands — and it also means the processor's fee is deducted from you, as it is from any independent business taking card payments. In the EEA that is on the order of 1.5% plus a fixed amount per transaction. Fairgo neither sets it nor receives it. Cash fares carry no processor fee at all.
How you are paid
By the rider, directly. Cash is yours the moment it is handed over. Where Stripe operates in your country and you have completed Stripe onboarding, card fares settle to your own Stripe account: you are the merchant of your own rides. The money never enters a Fairgo balance, so there is no weekly payout to wait for, no instant-cash-out fee and nothing Fairgo can withhold.
How the 1% is collected
Never from a trip, and never by invoice. The 1% accrues on your account and is settled out of your next card payment as Fairgo's share of that charge, capped at 10% of that payment. Across all your fares it comes to 1%, and never more. Tips are never part of the fee base.
How offers reach you
Dispatch ranks by one main parameter: distance from the pickup point. If you are the nearest driver who is online, active and not on a trip, you get the offer and have 45 seconds to answer; if you do not, it moves to the next-nearest. There is no paid placement, no priority tier and no way to buy a better position. You can decline any offer without penalty: declines are not recorded, there is no acceptance rate and no hidden score.
Your price
In driver-set markets — the model Fairgo prefers, because a driver who sets their own tariff is genuinely independent — you set your rates, and the price a rider is shown is your price. In platform-priced markets the fare is computed centrally and any surge is shown to the rider with its multiplier. In meter markets the meter decides.
Independence in practice
- No exclusivity: run Fairgo alongside any other platform.
- No acceptance rate, no hidden score, no penalty for declining.
- Fairgo is a marketplace, not your employer: it owns no vehicles and employs no drivers; the transport contract is between you and the rider.
- The ranking rules are described in the Terms of Use under Regulation (EU) 2019/1150.
Getting activated
Your account goes active only once every document your market requires for private-hire transport has been checked and approved. Documents are read automatically; anything that does not pass cleanly is reviewed by a person, which can take longer than a machine. The Support page covers verification delays. Fairgo is professional private-hire transport, not carpooling: you must be legally entitled to carry passengers for hire in your market.
Safety, from the driver's side
Before a trip starts the rider gives you a PIN and the server verifies it; a trip cannot start without it, so the person in your car is the person who booked. A rider account holder must be 18 or older; a child may travel with the adult who booked. There is no in-app audio recording and no continuous background tracking.
What is not available yet
- The apps. As of 4 September 2026 neither Fairgo app is on the App Store, there is no public TestFlight link and there is no Android version. See Get the app for the honest current state and how to be told when that changes.
- Android. Being prepared, not released.
- Card payment in every market. Only where Stripe operates and you have completed Stripe onboarding; elsewhere the market is cash only.
- Your city, possibly. On 18 August 2026 the open markets were Czechia, Finland, Germany, Morocco, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain and Sweden. Every other country was closed. The app resolves your market at launch and tells you.
Your data
Fairgo does not sell personal data, does not track you across other apps or websites, and the driver app contains no advertising SDK. What is collected, who receives it and how long it is kept is on the Privacy Policy.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a Fairgo driver keep?
Fairgo's fee is 1% of your fares, and over any period that is the whole of what Fairgo takes — 0% in markets where it cannot be collected, such as Morocco and Peru, where you keep the whole fare. Tips are 100% yours everywhere: the fee never touches one. On a single card payment more than 1% can come off, because a fee accrued on an earlier cash ride is recovered from it (capped at 10% of that payment), and because the charge runs on your own connected account so the payment processor's fee lands on you.
When am I paid?
Immediately. Cash is yours in the car; card fares settle to your own Stripe account. Fairgo never holds the money, so there is no payout cycle.
Can I refuse a ride?
Yes, without penalty. Declines are not counted against you and there is no acceptance rate.
Can I drive for Uber or Bolt at the same time?
Yes. Fairgo requires no exclusivity.
What do I need to sign up?
Every document your market requires for private-hire transport. Your account is activated once all of them are checked and approved.
Can I download the driver app today?
Not yet. As of 4 September 2026 Fairgo Driver: Earnings is not on the App Store and there is no Android version. The Get the app page explains how to be told when that changes.
More Fairgo guides
- Uber alternative — what makes Fairgo different from Uber, Bolt, inDrive and Yango
- Where drivers keep 100% — in which markets a Fairgo driver keeps the whole fare, and exactly what the 1% fee is elsewhere
- Without hidden surge — how Fairgo prices a ride and what it does instead of quiet surge
- Driver-friendly ride-hailing — the seven rules that make Fairgo driver-friendly, each one checkable
- Zero-commission ride-hailing — whether Fairgo is a zero-commission app (0% in Morocco, 1% elsewhere) and how that differs from subscriptions and promotions
- How Fairgo pricing works — a worked fare at 1% against 20–30% commissions, and how the fee is collected
- Fairgo for riders — what a rider pays, how a ride works, how to pay, and the safety mechanics
- Where Fairgo operates — the dated list of open markets, and why the app is the authoritative answer
- Get the app — the honest current state of the two apps and how to be told when they can be installed
- Ride-hailing apps for drivers, 2026 — Fairgo vs Uber, Bolt, inDrive, Yango, Lyft and Empower on commission, fare-setting, cash, tips, payout and markets, with sources
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