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.
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 Peru today, and every country where Stripe does not operate. There nothing accrues, nothing is owed and nothing is ever collected, and every fare is settled in cash, so no processor takes a share either.
- In a market with card payment, Fairgo's fee is 1% of fares, and across a driver's fares Fairgo never takes more than 1%. 1% is a cap as well as a rate.
What that last line does not say is “a driver keeps 99% of every fare”, and this page used to. Two things come off a single card payment that are not Fairgo's 1%, and a driver should read them here rather than meet them on an earnings screen:
- A balance carried over from cash rides. A fee that accrued on a cash ride could not be collected at the time, so it is recovered from the driver's 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. Over all of a driver's fares it still comes to 1%.
- The payment processor's own fee. A card fare is charged on the driver's own connected account — the driver is the merchant of their own ride, which is exactly what keeps the money out of Fairgo's hands. The other side of that is that the processor's fee is deducted from the driver, as it is from any independent business taking cards: in the EEA, on the order of 1.5% plus a fixed amount per transaction. Fairgo neither sets it nor receives it, and never sees it.
Net of both, a card-settled fare pays the driver somewhere around 88–97% rather than a flat 99%. Fairgo's own share of it is still 1%, and over a period still 1% exactly.
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%. Separately from Fairgo's fee, the payment processor takes its own cut of a card charge, and because that charge runs on the driver's own account the cut is the driver's cost rather than Fairgo's.
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 and Peru are 100% markets 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, Peru) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
These columns compare platform take only. The Fairgo 1% column is what is left after Fairgo's fee; on card fares the payment processor's fee comes off as well, because the driver is the merchant of their own ride. In the 0% column every fare is cash, so nothing comes off at all.
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 counted against you, 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 Peru, and in every market where Fairgo cannot collect its fee because there is no card payment, yes: the fee is 0%, nothing is ever collected, and every fare is cash. In markets with card payment Fairgo's fee is 1% of fares and that is the whole of what Fairgo takes — but the card payment also carries the payment processor's fee, which is deducted from the driver because the charge runs on the driver's own account, so the driver nets less than 99% of that one fare. 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
Something here unclear, out of date or contradicted elsewhere? Tell us — a person reads every message, and a page that describes the product wrongly is a fault.