Estimates, not quotes.

taxi-fare.com.au is a free, calculator-first reference for Australia’s regulated taxi tariffs. We are not a booking service, we don’t dispatch cars, and we have no commercial relationship with 13cabs, Silver Service, Black & White, Yellow Cabs, Uber, DiDi, Ola or any other operator.

Every fare on this site is an estimate against the regulated maximum published by the state or territory regulator. Drivers can charge less. Real-world tolls, surcharges, traffic detours and the route the driver actually takes can move the final meter up or down. Treat the numbers as a sanity-check, not a quote.

taxi-fare.com.au is operated as a public-interest publication. We don’t collect personal data, run accounts, or take payments — see the privacy policy for the full data flow. Questions about anything on this page can go to hello@taxi-fare.com.au.

• Estimates, not quotes

  All fares shown are calculated from the regulated tariff schedule and a Google Routes-derived distance and duration. They are an upper-bound estimate of the meter, not a binding quote. No driver, dispatcher or operator is contractually bound to the number you see.

• Regulated maxima

  In every Australian state and territory, taxi fares are set as a regulated maximum. A licensed driver may charge less; they cannot charge more outside of a specifically gazetted fixed fare (e.g. Sydney Airport → CBD rank/hail).

• Tolls and surcharges

  Tolls displayed are sourced from publicly available toll-road schedules and reflect the typical route a driver would take at the time the page was generated. Airport pickup levies, late-night uplifts and booking-service fees are applied per the relevant state schedule, but operators occasionally vary these inside the regulated window.

• Last-verified dates matter

  Each rate page shows a “last verified” date and a link to the regulator’s source PDF. If the regulator updates a flagfall or per-km figure between our verification cycles, the meter on the night will be the regulator’s number — not ours.

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Logos, company names and trade marks of taxi operators or rideshare apps that appear in comparisons on this site belong to their respective owners and are used for descriptive purposes only. No endorsement, sponsorship or partnership is implied.

• Personal, non-commercial use of the calculator is free and unrestricted.
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We do not accept payment to alter regulated fare numbers, to omit a competitor from a comparison, or to recommend one operator over another. Editorial decisions are independent of commercial arrangements.

We work hard to keep tariff data current — every rate page is rebuilt from data/tariffs.yaml, and a weekly CI tripwire flags regulator URLs whose content has changed. Despite that, taxi-fare.com.au is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including (without limitation) warranties of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by Australian law, taxi-fare.com.au and its operators accept no liability for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss arising from your reliance on a fare estimate, a rate page, a tariff comparison, or any other content on this site. If the figure you see here is materially different from what a driver charges on the night, the regulated tariff applies — not our estimate.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies a right or remedy you may have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot be excluded.

We link out to regulator pages, news articles, official PDFs, operator sites and similar third-party resources. We don’t control those destinations and aren’t responsible for their content, accuracy or availability. External links open in a new tab and carry rel="noopener noreferrer" for safety. Linked regulator URLs in particular are the source of truth — if our page and the regulator disagree, trust the regulator and tell us so we can correct it.

The site design, written analysis, code and original visualisations are © taxi-fare.com.au and are released under standard copyright unless otherwise marked. Regulated tariff schedules belong to the relevant state or territory and are reproduced here under the fair-use convention that applies to public-interest reporting on government-published fare schedules. POI labels, place names and map data come from third-party providers including Google Maps Platform and OpenStreetMap contributors.

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. If you take a dispute to court, you agree that the courts of New South Wales have non-exclusive jurisdiction. That choice doesn’t override consumer-protection rights you may have in another Australian state or territory.

We may update these terms when products change (e.g. when we add affiliate links, when a new state introduces a fixed-fare scheme, or when a regulator changes how tolls and surcharges interact with the meter). Any change is reflected by bumping the “last updated” date below — your continued use of the site after that date constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.