Uber, Bolt, Cabify and Free Now commissions (2026)

In short: in Spain, the platforms you drive for keep a commission of between 5% and 25% of each ride, depending on the app, the city and your terms. As a rough guide: Free Now ~12%, Joinup ~15%, Imbric ~10%, PideTaxi ~5%, Uber ~25%, Cabify ~20% and Bolt ~18%. Cash and card payments carry no commission. These are estimated, editable percentages — what actually matters is the one in your contract.

Estimated commissions by platform

These are estimated market percentages, meant as a starting point. They are not official figures from each company: the real commission varies by city, contract type and ongoing promotions, and in the app you can edit each platform's rate to match your exact terms.

Estimated commissions, 100% editable in Taxio. Check the real percentage in your contract with each platform.

Each platform explains the mechanism its own way. According to Bolt's official driver help page, the commission applies to the final price of each trip — whether the passenger pays in cash or by card within the app — and it's calculated and deducted automatically from your earnings, with no separate monthly fee. And the market itself shows just how much that percentage can move: in early 2026, to attract taxi drivers in Barcelona, Cabify announced a brokerage commission of just 7%, well below the ~20% it typically applies overall, according to El Español.

Why the commission decides what you earn

The commission isn't a minor detail: it's the difference between what you bill and what you take home. A €25 ride through an app with a 25% commission leaves you €18.75; that same ride in cash leaves you the full €25. It's not an arbitrary figure: according to Uber's official driver help page, the platform adjusts this service fee trip by trip, trying to keep it as close as possible to 25%, raising or lowering it based on the gap between the trip's estimated price and what the passenger actually pays. If you add up every ride of the day as if they were all worth the same, you're fooling yourself — you're counting money the platform has already kept.

Multiply that gap by 12–15 rides a day and 25 days a month, and the difference between your gross and your real net can add up to hundreds of euros a month. That's why it matters to apply the right percentage to each ride, not an average.

How to keep track without a calculator

Doing it by hand — or in an Excel spreadsheet — means typing in the amount, platform and percentage for every ride once you get home; almost nobody keeps it up for more than a few weeks. That's exactly what Taxio automates: you log the ride in three taps from the car, pick the platform, and the app deducts its commission and adds the net to your day instantly. At the end of the month, the report broken down by platform comes out on its own, as a PDF or Excel file for your accountant.

Frequently asked questions about commissions