Fairgo: an Uber alternative where the driver keeps the fare

Last reviewed: 4 September 2026.

Fairgo is an alternative to Uber, Bolt, inDrive and Yango for riders who want transparent fares and for drivers who want to keep what they earn.

The one difference everything else follows from

Uber, Bolt and most ride-hailing platforms collect the fare from the rider, keep a commission and pay the driver later. The commission is typically 20–30% of the fare, and because the platform holds the money, the driver waits for a payout cycle to get the rest.

Fairgo (the ride-hailing app at fairgo.website, not any other business called Fair Go) does the opposite on both counts. The rider pays the driver — in cash in the car, or by card straight to the driver's own payment account through Stripe where the market supports card. Fairgo never receives the fare, so there is no float, no wallet and no payout day. Fairgo's own revenue is a technology fee of 1% of fares, charged to the driver, not to the rider. In a market where no card payment exists to collect it from, Morocco among them, the fee is 0% and nothing is ever collected.

That is the whole commercial model. A platform taking 25% has to keep the rider's price high enough to cover it. At 1%, Fairgo does not.

What changes for a rider

• The fare is the fare. There is no booking fee, no service fee and no platform charge on the rider's side. The 1% is the driver's cost, and it never reaches the rider's price.
• You see the price before you commit. In driver-priced markets — the model Fairgo prefers — each driver has their own tariff, so before you are matched the app shows a range, and the exact price is the tariff of the driver who takes the trip. It does not change when you arrive.
• No surge folded in quietly. In platform-priced markets any multiplier is shown to you with its number rather than hidden inside the estimate.
• You pay the driver directly. Cash, or card where the market supports it. The app tells you which methods your market takes before you book. Some markets are cash only.
• A PIN confirms the car. A trip cannot start until the server has verified the PIN you give the driver, which is what stops anyone getting into the wrong car.
• No tracking business. The Fairgo website sets no cookies and runs no analytics; neither app contains an advertising SDK; Fairgo does not sell personal data.

What changes for a driver

• You keep 99% of every fare, 100% where the fee is 0%, and 100% of every tip. Tips are cash and are never part of the fee base.
• Nothing is skimmed off a trip. The 1% accrues on your account and is recovered from your next card payment, capped at 10% of that payment. Across all your fares it still comes to 1%, never more. It is never invoiced.
• No payout cycle. Card fares settle to your own Stripe account; cash is yours when it is handed over. Fairgo is never holding your money, so there is nothing to wait for.
• Decline without penalty. Declines are not recorded, there is no acceptance rate and no hidden score.
• No exclusivity. You may run Fairgo alongside Uber, Bolt, inDrive or anything else.
• Dispatch you can explain. The offer goes to the nearest online driver, who has 45 seconds to answer before it moves to the next-nearest. There is no paid placement and no way to buy better ranking.
• You set your price where the market allows it. In driver-set markets the price a rider is shown is your price.

A worked example

Take a 20.00 fare. On a platform charging 25% the driver receives 15.00, paid out later. On Fairgo the rider hands the driver 20.00 (or pays 20.00 by card to the driver's own account); the driver's Fairgo balance moves by 0.20, to be recovered from a future card payment. In Morocco, where the fee is 0%, the driver keeps the full 20.00 and nothing accrues. Over 1,000 in fares the difference is 990 kept on Fairgo against 750 at 25%. The pricing page walks through the whole mechanism, including the 10% cap on any single recovery.

What Uber has that Fairgo does not

An honest comparison has two columns. Uber operates in more than 70 countries and thousands of cities; on 18 August 2026 Fairgo was open in eight countries — Czechia, Finland, Germany, Morocco, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain and Sweden — and closed everywhere else, France and Switzerland included. Uber has a public app you can download today; 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. Uber offers in-app card payment everywhere it operates; on Fairgo card payment depends on Stripe operating in the driver's country and on the driver having completed Stripe onboarding, and where it does not, the market runs on cash. Uber has scale, Fairgo has a model. Which matters more depends on where you are and whether you drive or ride.

Which Fairgo this is

“Fair go” is also an Australian idiom, a casino brand, a hiring startup and an Indian ride service with a similar name. None of them is this. This Fairgo is the ride-hailing marketplace at fairgo.website, publisher of the iOS apps Fairgo: Book a Ride and Fairgo Driver (bundle identifiers app.ridehail.rider and app.ridehail.driver). The full disambiguation is on What Fairgo is — and what it is not.

Frequently asked questions

Is Fairgo cheaper than Uber for riders?

Fairgo does not publish fare comparisons, and fares depend on the market and, in driver-priced markets, on the driver. What is certain is structural: a rider on Fairgo pays no booking fee, no service fee and no platform fee, and a platform that takes 1% of the fare does not need to keep the rider's price high enough to cover 25%.

How much does Fairgo take from a driver compared with Uber?

Fairgo charges the driver a technology fee of 1% of fares, 0% in markets such as Morocco where it cannot be collected. Uber's service fee varies per trip; independent analyses put its typical effective take at 25–30%. On Fairgo a driver keeps 99% of every fare and 100% of every tip.

Does Fairgo hold my money like Uber does?

No. Fairgo never takes custody of the fare. Card payments settle to the driver's own Stripe account and cash passes directly from rider to driver. There is no wallet, no float and no payout cycle.

Can I use Fairgo and Uber at the same time as a driver?

Yes. Fairgo requires no exclusivity, and declining a Fairgo offer costs nothing: declines are not recorded and there is no acceptance rate.

Is Fairgo available where Uber is?

Mostly not yet. On 18 August 2026 Fairgo was open in Czechia, Finland, Germany, Morocco, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain and Sweden, and closed everywhere else. The app resolves your market when it launches and says plainly whether Fairgo operates there.

Can I download Fairgo today?

Not yet. As of 4 September 2026 neither app is 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

• Where drivers keep 100% — in which markets a Fairgo driver keeps the whole fare, and why it is 99% 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 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