PAXO

Pricing

One quote, all of it visible, settled before you book.

PAXO computes a fare once, on the server, for one specific trip, and shows it to you whole. The app never does fare arithmetic of its own, and neither does this website. What follows is how that number is put together.

What goes into a fare

  1. The metered amount A base fare, plus a rate for the distance of the trip, plus a rate for the time it is expected to take. The three constants are set by PAXO and published to the app.
  2. The tier Standard, comfort and XL are multiples of that metered amount. A bigger car costs more in proportion, which is why the tier applies before anything is rounded off.
  3. The minimum fare A very short trip is charged the minimum rather than the metered amount, because the driver's time getting to you is real whether the trip is two blocks or twelve.
  4. Fixed additions A booking fee, and any toll or airport surcharge that actually applies to your route. These are listed separately in the quote, not folded into a single number.
  5. Your promo code, last A discount comes off the end and stops at zero. A code can make a ride free; it cannot make PAXO owe you money.

Amounts are held as whole cents from beginning to end, and rounded exactly once, at the end. That is a deliberate engineering rule, not a detail: rounding at every step is how a fare and a receipt end up disagreeing by a cent.

Why there is no surge line

The multiplier is 1.0

Every quote PAXO issues carries a surge multiplier of 1.0. Not "usually 1.0" — surge is switched off platform-wide, so the multiplier has no effect on any quote we produce today.

You will still see the field in a breakdown. Showing it at 1.0 is more honest than hiding it, and it means a rider can check rather than take our word for it.

What that means at 5pm

Weather, rush hour, a stadium emptying, a holiday — none of them change the rate card. The same trip at the same distance and duration quotes the same way at 3am as it does on a wet Friday evening.

Demand still exists, of course. PAXO handles it by matching you with a driver or telling you it cannot, rather than by raising the price until enough people give up.

The savings comparison

Every quote states what a named competitor would charge for the identical trip, and the difference between that and PAXO's fare. It appears at the moment you are deciding whether to book, which is the only moment it is useful.

  • The comparison is per trip, not an average. It is computed for your actual origin, destination and tier.
  • Competitor rates are versioned and dated, so any claim we make can be traced back to the rate card it was based on.
  • The difference is floored at zero. When PAXO would cost more for a particular trip, no saving is shown — we do not display a negative number dressed up as a discount.

PAXO does not publish a headline savings percentage.

Not yet, and not as a number somebody typed. The figure on this page is generated from the pricing module's own competitor rates and validated when the site is built, so it cannot drift away from the fare model the way a hand-edited percentage does. Until that job has run, the honest answer is the one above: the comparison lives in the quote, per trip, where you can check it.

What PAXO charges a driver

One thing: a $25.00 Day Pass for a day of driving. Not a share of each fare, and nothing at all on a day a driver stays home. The Drivers page sets out how it works, including what happens when a renewal fails mid-shift.

Refunds issued to riders are absorbed by PAXO and never deducted from a driver's earnings. Tips are charged separately from the fare and go to the driver in full.