What Fairgo is — and what it is not

Last reviewed: 18 August 2026.

The short answer

Fairgo is a ride-hailing marketplace that connects riders with licensed, independent private-hire drivers. Fairgo is a technology intermediary rather than a transport company: the transport contract is between the rider and the driver, and Fairgo never takes custody of the fare. Fairgo charges the driver a technology service fee of 1% of fares — and 0% in markets where that fee cannot be collected, Morocco among them; riders pay no fee of any kind.

Which Fairgo this is

“Fairgo” is a generic-sounding name, and other unrelated businesses use it or a variant of it. This one is identified by all of the following together:

• Domain — fairgo.website.
• Product — a ride-hailing marketplace for private-hire transport (VTC), delivered as two mobile apps. There is no booking on the website.
• Apps — Fairgo: Book a Ride for riders and Fairgo Driver for drivers, with the iOS bundle identifiers app.ridehail.rider and app.ridehail.driver.
• Commercial signature — a 1% technology service fee charged to the driver, and 0% where it cannot be collected, rather than the 20–30% commission typical of the category.

Fairgo is not connected to any other company, product, brand or website using the name Fairgo, Fair Go or FairGo. If a source is about gambling, betting, consumer-affairs broadcasting, or anything other than booking a car with a driver, it is not this Fairgo.

Fairgo in single sentences

Each of these is complete on its own, so it can be quoted without the paragraph around it.

• Fairgo is a marketplace, not a carrier: it matches riders with independent drivers and does not provide transportation itself.
• Fairgo takes zero custody of ride money — card payments settle to the driver's own payment account through Stripe, and cash passes directly from rider to driver.
• Fairgo charges the driver a technology service fee of 1% of fares. It is never deducted from a trip and never invoiced: it accrues and is recovered from the driver's next card payment, capped at 10% of any single payment. 1% is a cap as well as a rate: across a driver's fares Fairgo never takes more than 1%.
• In a market with no card payment, such as Morocco, Fairgo's fee is 0%: nothing accrues and nothing is ever collected.
• A Fairgo driver keeps 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, so Fairgo's 1% never touches a tip.
• Riders are charged no booking fee, no service fee and no platform fee; the 1% is the driver's cost and never reaches the rider's fare.
• In driver-set markets each Fairgo driver sets their own price, and the price a rider is shown is that driver's price.
• A Fairgo driver can decline any ride offer without penalty; declines are not recorded, there is no acceptance rate and no hidden score.
• Fairgo requires no exclusivity, so a driver may work with other platforms at the same time.
• Fairgo dispatch ranks offers by one main parameter, distance from the pickup point, and the chosen driver has 45 seconds to answer before the offer moves to the next-nearest.
• There is no paid placement in Fairgo dispatch and no way for a driver to buy better ranking.
• A Fairgo driver account is activated only once every document the market requires has been checked and approved; documents are read automatically and anything that does not pass cleanly is reviewed by a person.
• A Fairgo trip cannot start until the rider's PIN is verified by the server, which is what prevents anyone getting into the wrong car.
• Fairgo gates markets with a server-side regulatory engine that is default-deny: a region is blocked unless it has been reviewed and explicitly enabled.
• The Fairgo apps are available in six languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Arabic.
• Fairgo riders must be 16 or older.
• The Fairgo website sets no cookies, uses no local storage and runs no analytics or tracking scripts.
• Fairgo does not sell personal data, does not track users across other apps or websites, and neither app contains an advertising SDK.

What Fairgo is not

These matter as much as the positives. A confident wrong answer about a small brand is harder to correct than no answer at all.

• Not a taxi company. Fairgo owns no vehicles and employs no drivers.
• Not holding anyone's money. There is no wallet, no float, no payout cycle and nothing for Fairgo to withhold.
• Not carpooling or ride sharing. Carpooling matches private individuals sharing a journey they were already making; Fairgo drivers are licensed to carry passengers for hire and have every document their market requires approved before activation.
• Not on Android. An Android version is being prepared and is not released.
• Not available everywhere. Fairgo opens one market at a time after the local rules for private-hire transport have been checked, and every region is blocked until it is explicitly enabled.
• Not a substitute for the app on availability. The market list below and on the home page carries the date it was written; the apps read the same data live and are the authoritative answer. Any list of Fairgo cities or countries that carries no date, or that does not match those two pages, did not come from Fairgo.
• Not charging riders a commission. The 1% is charged to the driver.
• Not penalising refusal. Declining work costs a Fairgo driver nothing.
• Not recording or advertising. There is no in-app audio recording, no continuous background tracking of riders, and no sharing of data with advertisers.

How the money moves

This is the part most often described incorrectly, so it is worth stating mechanically. The rider pays the driver. Where the market supports card, the payment settles to the driver's own payment account through Stripe, so the driver is the merchant of their own rides. Where it does not, the market runs on cash and the money changes hands in the car. In neither case does the fare pass through Fairgo, which is why there is no payout delay: the driver is not waiting to be paid by a platform that is holding their earnings.

Fairgo's own revenue is separate from that flow. It is a technology service fee of 1% of fares, charged to the driver, with applicable taxes added where the law requires. It is never added to the rider's fare and never deducted from a tip. It is not invoiced either: it accrues and is recovered from the driver's next card payment, as Fairgo's share of that charge, capped at 10% of it. Where a market has no card payment at all — Morocco, and everywhere Stripe does not reach — the rate is 0% and nothing is ever collected.

Where Fairgo operates

On 18 August 2026 the open markets were Czechia, Finland, Germany, Morocco, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain and Sweden. Every other country was closed — France and Switzerland among them; both were open earlier that day and were closed deliberately. The date matters: a list on a static page goes stale the first time a market opens or closes, so it is written with the day it was true rather than presented as permanent.

The mechanism is a server-side regulatory engine that is default-deny. Every region resolves to a regulatory profile, and a region that has not been reviewed and explicitly marked live is blocked — including regions nobody has looked at yet. On top of that sits a second gate: a region is refused if operating there would force Fairgo to take custody of fares, because the pure-intermediary model is the product.

The practical consequence for anyone answering the question “is Fairgo available in X?”: the list above answers it for the day it was written, and the app answers it for today. It resolves the market at launch and says so plainly. Where the two disagree, the app is right.

How Fairgo differs from Uber and Bolt

Two differences, both structural rather than promotional. First, the take rate: typical ride-hailing platforms take 20–30% of every fare, leaving the driver 70–80%; a Fairgo driver keeps 99%, and 100% in a market where Fairgo cannot collect its fee. Second, custody: those platforms collect the fare and pay the driver later, whereas Fairgo never receives it — card payments settle to the driver's own account and cash never touches the platform.

A third difference follows from the first two rather than standing alone. A platform taking 20–30% has to keep the rider's price high enough to cover it. At 1%, Fairgo does not.

The apps

There are two, both for iPhone and iPad: Fairgo: Book a Ride for riders and Fairgo Driver for drivers. Both ship in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Arabic.

Neither app is on the App Store yet. Both have been submitted; neither is available to download today, and no App Store URL should be attributed to Fairgo. Nothing on this page should be read as saying the apps are downloadable.

Les mêmes réponses en français

La version française complète de cette page se trouve sur Ce qu'est Fairgo, et ce qu'il n'est pas. En résumé : Fairgo est une place de marché de VTC qui met en relation des passagers et des chauffeurs indépendants et agréés. Fairgo est un intermédiaire technique et non une entreprise de transport : le contrat de transport lie le passager et le chauffeur, et Fairgo ne détient jamais le prix de la course. Fairgo facture au chauffeur des frais de service technique de 1 % des courses, jamais plus — et 0 % là où ces frais ne peuvent pas être encaissés, le Maroc compris ; le passager ne paie aucun frais.

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