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 drivers keep at least 99% of it and every tip.
The exact claim
Search for “ride-hailing app where drivers keep 100%” and you will find marketing. Fairgo (the ride-hailing app at fairgo.website) would rather give you the precise version, because a precise claim is one you can check:
- A Fairgo driver keeps 100% of every tip, in every market, always. Tips are cash and are never part of the fee base.
- A Fairgo driver keeps 100% of every fare in a market where Fairgo's fee is 0%. That is every market with no card payment — Morocco, and every country where Stripe does not operate. There nothing accrues, nothing is owed and nothing is ever collected.
- A Fairgo driver keeps 99% of every fare in a market with card payment, because there Fairgo charges a technology fee of 1% of fares. 1% is a cap as well as a rate: across a driver's fares Fairgo never takes more than 1%.
Riders pay nothing on top of the fare in either case. The fee is the driver's cost of using Fairgo and is never added to the rider's price.
Why it is 1% and not 0% everywhere
Fairgo is a marketplace, not a charity, and a fee of 1% is what runs it. What makes the 1% unusual is how it is collected rather than how small it is. There is no invoice. There is no per-trip deduction. The 1% accrues on the driver's account and is recovered the next time that driver takes a card payment, as Fairgo's share of that charge — that trip's own 1% plus as much of any balance built up on cash trips as the cap allows, and never more than 10% of the payment. Over all of a driver's fares it still comes to 1%.
That mechanism only works if a card payment exists to recover the fee from. Where none does, Fairgo sets the rate to zero rather than running up a balance against a driver it could never charge. That is why Morocco is a 100% market today and why the driver's earnings screen there shows nothing owed, because nothing is. If that ever changes, it changes for rides booked afterwards; nothing is charged retroactively.
Keeping 100% of the fare also means holding it
The percentage is only half the story. On most platforms the rider pays the platform, the platform keeps its commission and the driver is paid later, on a weekly cycle or through a paid instant cash-out. On Fairgo the rider pays the driver. Cash changes hands in the car. Where the market supports card, the payment settles to the driver's own Stripe account: the driver is the merchant of their own rides, and the rider's money never enters a Fairgo balance. There is no wallet, no float, no payout day and nothing for Fairgo to withhold.
The numbers, side by side
| Platform | Typical take | Fairgo, 1% market | Fairgo, 0% market (Morocco) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uber (≈25%) | 750 | 990 | 1,000 |
| Bolt (15–21%) | 790–850 | 990 | 1,000 |
| inDrive (10–12.99%) | 870–900 | 990 | 1,000 |
| Lyft (≥70% guaranteed) | 700 or more | 990 | 1,000 |
| Tips | usually 100% | 100% | 100% |
Other apps that advertise 100%
Fairgo is not the only platform to let drivers keep the whole fare, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. inDrive has run temporary 0% and 1% commission programmes in specific cities (Jakarta, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Manila) for limited periods. Empower, in the United States, charges drivers a monthly subscription instead of a commission and lets them set their own rates. The difference with Fairgo is that its 0% is not a promotion and its 1% is not a subscription: the rate is a standing rule tied to whether a card payment exists to collect from, and it is written into the Terms of Use.
The rest of what a driver gets
- Decline any offer without penalty; declines are not recorded, there is no acceptance rate and no hidden score.
- No exclusivity — run Fairgo alongside any other platform.
- Dispatch by distance from the pickup, 45 seconds to answer, no paid placement.
- In driver-set markets, your price is the price the rider sees.
- Activation once every document your market requires has been checked; documents are read automatically and anything unclear is reviewed by a person.
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.
Frequently asked questions
Do Fairgo drivers really keep 100% of the fare?
In Morocco, and in every market where Fairgo cannot collect its fee because there is no card payment, yes: the fee is 0% and nothing is ever collected. In markets with card payment drivers keep 99%, because Fairgo charges a 1% technology fee. Tips are 100% everywhere.
Is the 1% deducted from each trip?
No. It is never deducted from a trip and never invoiced. It accrues on the driver's account and is recovered from the driver's next card payment, capped at 10% of that single payment. Across all fares it still comes to 1%.
What happens to the 1% on cash trips?
In a market with card payment, the 1% on a cash trip accrues and is drawn down from later card payments, never more than 10% of any one payment. In a cash-only market such as Morocco it does not accrue at all.
Does Fairgo pay drivers weekly?
Fairgo does not pay drivers at all, because it never holds their money. Card fares settle to the driver's own Stripe account and cash is the driver's the moment it is handed over.
Does the rider pay anything on top to make this work?
No. Riders pay no booking fee, no service fee and no platform fee. The 1% is charged to the driver and never added to the fare.
More Fairgo guides
- Uber alternative — what makes Fairgo different from Uber, Bolt, inDrive and Yango
- 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 drivers — what a driver keeps, how activation and dispatch work, and what is not yet available
- 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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