Tesla has started selling the Cybercab to private buyers. "Select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use," Tesla's Robotaxi account posted on X at 23:27 UTC on Friday 13 November 2026. The order screen attached to the post lists $29,990 before taxes and delivery in December 2026 in Austin, Texas.
The price does not buy a car the owner can simply drive. The two-seater has no steering wheel and no pedals, and it moves only under Tesla's autonomy software, sold as a mandatory Autonomy Subscription at $299 a month. "Subscription and regular vehicle maintenance required to operate," the order page says.
| Item | Cybercab, invited US buyers |
|---|---|
| Estimated purchase price | $29,990, excluding taxes |
| Autonomy Subscription | $299 a month, first month included |
| Order deposit | $1,000, non-refundable |
| Estimated delivery | December 2026, Austin, Texas |
At that rate the subscription costs $3,588 a year, three times the $99 a month Tesla charges US owners for FSD (Supervised). It is the first price Tesla has put on driving with nobody at the controls.
What the order agreement says
An X user named Spencer posted Tesla's binding order agreement in a 12-part thread of screenshots, summarised by Drive Tesla. It gives Tesla a say over the car long after the sale:
- Resale: "You may not sell, transfer, assign, or encumber the Vehicle without Tesla's prior written consent." An unauthorised sale carries damages of the "greater of $50,000 or the full value received", and Tesla may disable the car.
- Buy-back: "Tesla may repurchase the Vehicle at any time at the then-current fair market value as Tesla reasonably determines."
- Charging and insurance: the car "is only compatible with NACS DC fast charging and can be charged at Tesla Superchargers". The owner pays for charging and must insure the car, including for trips it makes empty.
- Odometer: Tesla road-tests every Cybercab, so each arrives with about 250 miles on it.
Sales are by invitation, one car per customer unless Tesla agrees otherwise, and the agreement says its terms may differ for later sales. Drive Tesla adds that the subscription agreement confines the car to areas Tesla approves, needs separate permission for ride-hailing or rentals, and lets Tesla change the price on a month's notice.
From fleet car to owned car
Until now Cybercabs have gone to Tesla's own Robotaxi fleet, where they have carried paying riders in Austin since 3 September. On Tesla's third-quarter call on 21 October, vehicle engineering chief Lars Moravy said Tesla was "trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of this year", while Elon Musk said "the vast majority" would stay Tesla-owned. The $29,990 price meets the under-$30,000 target Musk set when he unveiled the car in October 2024.
Tesla has not said how many invitations it sent or where buyers must live. Not a Tesla App notes that operation is restricted to supported service areas, which for the Cybercab today means Austin.
Tesla is selling the car before a federal safety question about it has been settled. NHTSA's audit query into how Tesla certified the Cybercab, which has neither a steering wheel nor a brake pedal, to US safety standards is still open: Tesla filed its sworn answers on 30 October and asked for all of them to be kept confidential, as we have reported. NHTSA has published no outcome.
What it means in Europe
Nothing changes for European buyers yet. The Cybercab has no road approval and no price in Europe, where Tesla shows the production car only as a touring display, next in Bratislava and Düsseldorf on 20–21 November. The agreement's NACS-only charging also marks it as a US car: Superchargers in Europe use the CCS2 connector.
What European owners can buy is the supervised system, Tesla Assisted Driving, at €99 a month in the Netherlands, the first of 11 countries to approve it. Tesla has given no date for a driverless service, or a Cybercab sale, in Europe.
Update: 2026-11-14
Tesla's Autonomy Subscription Agreement shows that the $299 a month buys more than the driving software, so it is not a like-for-like comparison with the $99 a month for FSD (Supervised). According to the agreement, version 20261112, posted as screenshots in a 12-part thread and summarised by teslanorth.com, the subscription includes connectivity, remote support, roadside assistance and towing for about 50 miles (80 km). It also covers front and rear tyre replacement, flat tyres, windscreen replacement, wipers, cabin filters, inspections and camera-lens cleaning. Tesla can change that list, and damage from misuse is excluded. Owners still pay for insurance, registration, charging, parking and cleaning.
The Cybercab drives itself, empty, to booked service appointments. Touchscreen controls can move it short distances at up to 2 mph (about 3 km/h), off public roads and only for holders of a valid US driving licence. Tesla may locate or restrict the car remotely and put it into a safe state, and wraps, window tint or wheel changes must go through Tesla or an approved provider.
Elon Musk agreed on 14 November that the subscription costs too much. Replying on X to the tech reviewer Marques Brownlee, who had summed up the order terms, he wrote: "the monthly fee is too high. Should match the cost of Tesla FSD and connectivity for other models, which is more like ~$115/month." In the US, Tesla charges $99 a month for FSD (Supervised) and $9.99 for Premium Connectivity, as eletric-vehicles.com notes. Musk gave no date for a lower fee, and his benchmark leaves out the tyres, servicing and roadside cover the subscription bundles. He added that the Cybercab "will be available nationwide, as we receive regulatory approval."
The order page in Brownlee's post offers delivery in five Texas cities only: Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth, where Tesla already runs its Robotaxi service. Its Florida Robotaxi cities are not on the list. Ashok Elluswamy, who leads Tesla's AI software, wrote that owners' cars will "work unsupervised inside all the same geo locations as @robotaxi, just serving the owners' needs."