Four ways to manage a privately owned Cybercab, priced as one whole month, with every formula shown.
Published by DockDuty, which sells one of the four models compared here. Rates checked November 12, 2026.
A robotaxi still needs a place to sleep, power, cleaning between riders and someone to call when it stops in the wrong place. Who does that work, and how you pay for it, decides what is left of the fare.
Every model below is offered or published today, though none is running privately owned robotaxis yet. Each is described by what you pay and what stays your job.
For one car, parked at home, with an owner who has the time.
$270per car per month in cash, plus your hours
For owners who want to buy services one job at a time.
$1,467per car per month at the default assumptions
For owners who want the car to live somewhere staffed. This is DockDuty's model.
$1,514per car per month at $6,429 in fares
For owners who want one fixed bill and the repairs inside it.
$2,375per car per month, plus a $125 Tesla reserve
Move the two sliders. Everything else is a published rate or an assumption you can change below.
Before the network takes its share. $6,429 is DockDuty's modeled gross fares per car at 65% utilization, an example, not a forecast.
Visit counts, electricity and parking follow the defaults of a published per-visit calculator (2.5 visits a day at 65% availability, less service stops; $10 a day of electricity at 65%). Its $29 launch-city rate is not applied. Electricity and parking are already inside the depot retainer and the flat fee, so they only change the first two models.
At these numbers, pay per visit costs $47 a car less than the depot retainer. Below $6,110 in fares, the retainer is cheaper.
| Model | Formula per car | Fleet total |
|---|---|---|
| Run it yourself | electricity + parking | $540 |
| Pay per visit | software + visits × blended rate + stops × $55 + parking + electricity | $2,933 |
| Depot retainer | retainer + percentage × fares | $3,029 |
| All-in flat fee | $2,375 | $4,750 |
The depot percentage is applied to the full fare, before the network's share, the same way DockDuty's own calculator applies it. Not included anywhere: the car, financing, insurance, registration and the network's cut. Parts and repairs are extra in every model except the flat fee. These are projections from published rates, not quotes.
The first question to ask any operator, not the last.
Ask every operator the same four things before you put down a deposit. Here is what a straight answer sounds like, and ours, since we publish this page.
"At 2 a.m., where is my car parked, and who can get to it?"
Listen for a named site with an address and controlled access. "Wherever you find parking" means the night is still your problem. Ours: an assigned stall at a DockDuty depot. Orlando is the lead market, with the first depot targeted for Q4 2026 or Q1 2027.
"A rider leaves a bag, or the car stops in a fire lane. Who goes, and how fast?"
Listen for a person on call around the clock, not a ticket queue. Ours: 24-hour incident response is part of the retainer.
"If you never open a site near me, do I get my money back?"
Listen for refundable on request, in writing, with no window to miss. Ours: the $450 deposit per stall is refundable at will until onboarding, then credited against the $1,000 onboarding fee.
"How many owners' cars are in your care right now?"
Listen for a number, and a straight one. This market is new, and most operators, us included, are taking reservations rather than running fleets. Ours: no depot is open yet and no client vehicle is in our care. An operator who will not give you a number is telling you something too.
No. Tesla has not published owner-participation terms, so the share a ride-hailing network keeps is unknown. It is left out of every model equally, so the comparison between models still holds. Whatever the cut turns out to be, it comes off your side of the ledger, not the operator's.
It depends on your fares and your fleet size. A percentage falls when fares fall, so it costs less in a slow month. Per-visit pricing stays flat as fares rise, so it costs less in a busy one.
At the default assumptions, the crossover for one or two cars is about $6,110 in monthly fares. From seven cars up, the depot rate drops to $475 plus 13%, and the crossover moves to about $7,600 to $7,630.
The car and its financing, your commercial insurance and registration, in every model. Parts and repairs are billed separately in every model except the all-in flat fee, which bundles routine repairs up to its stated limits.
For one car with a home charger and a flexible schedule, it is the cheapest in cash, and we say so in the calculator. The cost is your time: every cleaning, every lost item and every stuck ride is yours, at any hour, and the car earns nothing while it waits for you.
No. DockDuty: Not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc.; "Tesla" and "Cybercab" are trademarks of Tesla, Inc., used here for descriptive reference only. The photographs show Cybercab show cars on public display.
DockDuty, which sells the depot retainer model. We have tried to make that matter as little as possible: every rate is a published one, every formula is on the page, and the percentage is applied to the full fare. Where another model costs less, the calculator says so.
The full rate card shows each fee and what it buys. Or reserve a stall with a $450 deposit, refundable on request until onboarding.
