Tesla · Cybercab · 14 Nov 2026
Invited customers can now order a Cybercab for $29,990. The $299 a month is the real price
Tesla has opened Cybercab orders to invited customers for personal use. The order page lists $29,990 before tax, a $1,000 non-refundable deposit, a required $299-a-month autonomy subscription and an estimated delivery of December 2026, with delivery limited to five Texas cities (as of 14 Nov 2026, 3:44 a.m. ET). Hours later, Elon Musk said the monthly fee is too high and should be closer to $115. Nothing has been delivered yet, and the fee has not changed.
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Tesla's Robotaxi account announced it on Friday, Nov 13, at 6:27 p.m. ET (3:27 p.m. PT): "Select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use." The main @Tesla account quoted it 20 minutes later with a cowboy emoji. The image attached to the Robotaxi post is a capture of the order page itself, so the numbers below come from Tesla.
Select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use
— Robotaxi (@robotaxi) November 13, 2026
What the order page says
- Vehicle: $29,990, excluding taxes.
- Due at order: $1,000, labelled a "Non-Refundable Order Deposit."
- Autonomy Subscription: $299 a month, billed separately each month until canceled. One month is included with purchase. The page says the "subscription and regular vehicle maintenance [are] required to operate."
- Warranty and insurance: listed as a separate item, with no price shown in Tesla's image.
- Estimated delivery: December 2026, with Austin, Texas, selected.
Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) placed an order and posted what he saw that evening. His screenshot shows five delivery choices: Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth. He also wrote that the car "only operates in those existing geofenced areas," that orders are limited to one vehicle per customer, and that the car "requires a $300 monthly subscription to operate." The geofence and one-per-customer points are his reading of the terms; Tesla's own image doesn't show them, and Tesla hasn't published the full order agreement publicly. The $300 figure is his rounding; Tesla's page lists $299 a month.
Those five cities are the ones where Tesla already runs its Robotaxi service. I've covered the Fort Worth and San Antonio launches, the earlier Austin service, and the switch to 24/7 service in every city on Nov 11.
Promise vs. order page
At the We, Robot event on Oct 10, 2024, Musk said "you will be able to buy one" for below $30,000, and that he expected production in 2026, "before 2027," while admitting he is often too optimistic on timing (TechCrunch, CNBC). He also described owners managing cars that earn on a ridesharing network, Engadget reported. Here is how that lines up.
| Oct 2024 pledge | Nov 13, 2026 order page | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Price below $30,000 | $29,990 before tax | Met on sticker price, $10 under |
| Buyable by the public | Invite only, five Texas cities | Partly: limited rollout |
| In customers' hands before 2027 | Estimated delivery December 2026 | Pending: an estimate, no deliveries yet |
| Owners managing cars that earn on a ride-share network | "Purchase Cybercab for personal use" | Not offered at launch |
The subscription is where the money is
The sticker price grabs the headline, but you can't run the car without the subscription. Here's what the car plus the fee costs before tax, insurance, maintenance and charging, assuming the one free month and no price changes. These are my calculations from Tesla's listed prices, and from Musk's ~$115 figure, which is a statement of intent, not a price on the order page.
| Ownership | At $299/month (today) | At ~$115/month (Musk's number) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per year (12 billed months) | $3,588 | $1,380 | $2,208 |
| 3 years: car + 35 billed months | $40,455 | $34,015 | $6,440 |
| 5 years: car + 59 billed months | $47,631 | $36,775 | $10,856 |
Over five years at today's rate, the subscription adds more than half the car's price again. That is my own arithmetic from Tesla's listed prices.
Musk: the fee is too high
Musk replied to Brownlee's post at 1:38 a.m. ET on Saturday, Nov 14 (10:38 p.m. PT Friday):
@MKBHD It will be available nationwide, as we receive regulatory approval.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2026
But the monthly fee is too high. Should match the cost of Tesla FSD and connectivity for other models, which is more like ~$115/month.
Treat both halves of that as statements of intent. As of 14 Nov 2026, 3:44 a.m. ET, Tesla hadn't announced a lower price and the order page in its post still showed $299. "Nationwide" also depends on regulators, and Musk gave no dates.
What's still unknown
- Warranty and insurance terms and prices, which the order page lists as a separate item.
- Whether, and when, owners can add a Cybercab to Tesla's ride-hailing network and earn from it.
- What the car does outside the geofence, if anything, and what happens if you move.
- Whether the first deliveries actually land in December, which is what decides the "before 2027" promise.
My read
Tesla hit the $30,000 line on the sticker, if December deliveries happen. For now this is a car invited buyers can only use inside Tesla's existing Robotaxi zones, for personal trips, with a monthly fee that the CEO himself says is too high. If the fee drops toward $115 and owners get a way to put the car on the network, the math changes a lot. I'll update this page when Tesla changes the price or the first car is delivered. If you got an invite, would you order at $299 a month, or wait for the cut?
— Alex R
Sources: @robotaxi on X with Tesla's order-page image (Nov 13, 2026); @Tesla on X (Nov 13); @elonmusk on X (Nov 14); @MKBHD on X (Nov 13); TechCrunch on We, Robot (Oct 10, 2024); CNBC on We, Robot (Oct 10, 2024); Engadget on We, Robot (Oct 10, 2024). Cost tables are my own math from Tesla's listed prices and Musk's ~$115 figure. Hero photo: Daniel Lu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Never Electrek.
