Tesla Cybercab Orders Open: $29,990 Plus a $299 Monthly Fee
Tesla is inviting select customers to order its two-seat Cybercab for personal use, but the car needs a $299 monthly subscription and only works inside Robotaxi areas in Texas and Florida.
Key Takeaways
- Select customers are being invited to order the Cybercab for private use, priced at $29,990 excluding taxes.
- A $299 monthly Autonomy Subscription is required to operate the car, with the first month included.
- Buyers pay a $1,000 non-refundable deposit, with estimated delivery in December 2026 in Austin.
- The Cybercab works in Tesla's Robotaxi areas: eight cities across Texas and Florida.
- A tracker cited by Electrek found actual pickup zones are about 59% to 78% the size of the advertised geofences.
- Per Electrek and MLQ.ai, the safety regulator has not ruled on whether a car with no foot brake meets a federal standard.
Tesla's Cybercab is a two-seater with no steering wheel and no pedals. Now select customers can order one for personal use, and the price tag comes in two parts.
The purchase price is $29,990 before taxes, and the car needs a $299 monthly Autonomy Subscription to operate. Tesla's order page says the first month is included, and delivery is estimated for December 2026 in Austin, Texas.
Here is what the offer includes, where the car works, and the regulatory question hanging over it. Let's get started.
Opening Cybercab Orders
Tesla has opened the door to its two-seat Cybercab, but only a crack. On Friday evening its Robotaxi account on X said select customers are being invited to buy one for personal use.
Tesla's ordering page prices the Cybercab at $29,990, excluding taxes, and pencils in Austin deliveries for December 2026. Buyers put down a $1,000 deposit that is not refundable.
It seats two, has a 21-inch screen and 20.1 cubic feet of storage, and has no wheel or pedals. Tesla says initial availability is limited, and the invitation comes with conditions the next sections unpack.
Pricing the Monthly Fee
The price has two parts. The order page pre-checks a $299 monthly Autonomy Subscription, with the first month included, and says the subscription and regular vehicle maintenance are required to operate.
Electrek reports that the invitation email limits the car to supported service areas and says the subscription is needed to operate it. Tesla's order page, as the outlets describe it, treats the subscription as part of operating the car.
Not a Tesla App points out that the fee is a subscription whose price can change at any point. Tesla also lists the first month as included.
Mapping Robotaxi Zones
A Cybercab with no steering wheel can only run where Tesla's driverless service operates, MLQ.ai notes. Robotaxi service covers five Texas cities (Austin, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, San Antonio) and three Florida cities (Miami, Orlando, Tampa).
The map has limits of its own. An independent tracker cited by Electrek found that the zones where Tesla really serves riders are roughly 59% to 78% the size of the maps it advertises across six cities, and about 59% in Austin, where the first deliveries are set.
The invitation email also restricts the car to Tesla's supported service areas. A single tracker's check of six cities is the only measurement of the gap in these sources.
Facing Regulator Questions
There is also a safety question mark. According to MLQ.ai, the US auto safety regulator NHTSA formally ordered Tesla in September to certify, under oath, that a car without a foot brake meets federal standard FMVSS 135.
Tesla replied on October 30 and requested confidentiality for its full reply, Electrek reports, and the agency has not ruled. MLQ.ai adds that Tesla has no Part 555 exemption, unlike Amazon's Zoox, which used that route for its control-free robotaxi in July.
So Tesla is taking orders while a federal question about the car's brakes remains open. That does not mean the car fails the standard, only that the agency has not ruled.
Reading the Fleet Strategy
The consumer offer sits beside a bigger fleet plan. Not a Tesla App notes that in September Tesla began collecting business interest in buying Cybercabs for fleets.
On Tesla's earnings call, Musk said most Cybercabs will stay in Tesla's hands, run as a transport service, according to StockAnalysis. Through October, all Cybercabs produced at the Texas plant went into Tesla's own Robotaxi fleet.
Tesla's engineering head, Lars Moravy, said customer sales would begin on a small scale this year, and paid rides in a small Austin fleet began in September.
Long Story Short
Tesla has opened Cybercab orders to select customers. The price is $29,990 before taxes, plus $299 a month, and the monthly subscription is required to operate the car. The car works only in Tesla's supported Robotaxi areas, and a tracker cited by Electrek found those areas are smaller than the advertised maps. A federal safety question about the car's brakes is also still open at NHTSA. Deliveries are only estimated for December, so real-world ownership reports are still to come. Musk said most Cybercabs will stay in Tesla's hands, run as a transport service, according to StockAnalysis.