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Both Take a Cut of Every Fare. Only One Lets You Buy Your Way Out.

Onde is a serious platform: over 400 operators, native apps in its cheapest tier, and no ceiling on drivers or orders anywhere. It also charges $4,500 up front, $99 a month, and 1.9%–3.9% of every completed trip depending on the product. BetterTaxi charges a flat monthly fee plus 1.9% of each completed trip, with no ceiling on orders or cities either — or a licence you run yourself with no fee at all.

$588 vs $5,688

First year in fees

1.9% vs 1.9–3.9%

Share of each fare

Yes vs no

Source licence you can buy

Quick Verdict

It Comes Down to What You Pay at Volume.

Both platforms put your brand on native customer and driver apps and give your dispatchers a desk to work from. They bill for it in opposite ways, and that is the decision.

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BetterTaxi

BetterTaxi

A white-label ride-hailing platform billed like software: a flat monthly subscription, or a one-time licence you run on your own servers. We take 0% of what your riders pay you.

  • Best for: keeping the platform's share of each fare as small as possible
  • Best for: teams that want the option to self-host or hold the source
  • Best for: adding delivery, parking or bookings from the same vendor

Consider: the hosted plan adds 1.9% of every completed trip on top of its monthly fee, and includes one business type — another is priced separately. We will theme your branded apps and put them on the App Store and Google Play for you, and we will run app-store optimisation or a launch campaign if you ask — but you are asking for it, where Onde builds it into the price.

Onde

Onde

A mature ride-hailing platform with more than 400 operators behind it. Native apps, no fleet or order ceiling on any tier, and a team that will run your launch marketing — paid for with a one-time fee and a share of every trip.

  • Best for: operators who want launch marketing bought with the software
  • Best for: buyers who want a vendor with hundreds of live operators behind it
  • Best for: testing a market first on Onde.Light with nothing up front

Consider: the share keeps taking as you grow — 1.9%–3.9% depending on the product, matching BetterTaxi on their entry product and roughly doubling it on the full platform — and only the entry product's rate is published, so the main platform's needs a sales call. Delivery arrives as a second vendor's product.

Feature comparison

The Full Breakdown.

What each platform costs, what it caps, and what you own at the end. Onde takes the two rows about ceilings; we take the rest.

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Feature

BetterTaxi
Onde

Onde

Commercial model

Cost to start

What you pay before the first ride

SupportedNo setup fee
Not supported$4,500 to $23,000 one-time

Ongoing cost

What the platform bills every month

Supported$49 a month
Partly supported$99 a month

Share of each fare

What the vendor takes from what your riders pay

Supported1.9%, or nothing on a self-hosted licence
Not supported1.9%–3.9% of every trip, indefinitely

Priced in public

Whether you can model the total before a sales call

SupportedEvery tier and add-on priced on the site
Partly supportedFees yes, the main platform's rate on a call

Scale and limits

Drivers and riders

Whether the plan caps how many people use it

SupportedUnlimited on every plan
SupportedUnlimited on every plan

Monthly order volume

Whether the plan caps how much you can sell

SupportedNo cap on any plan
SupportedNo cap on any plan

Software cost per order

What the platform itself takes out of one ride

Supported1.9% of the fare
Not supported1.9%–3.9% of the fare, by product

Cities included

Whether the plan limits where you can operate

SupportedEvery city, no limit
SupportedAny location, no limit

Ownership and launch

Branded customer and driver apps

Native iOS and Android under your own name

SupportediOS, Android and web, under your brand
SupportediOS and Android, under your brand

Depth of branding control

How far your brand goes past a logo swap

SupportedTheming, custom domain, your own store listings
Partly supportedYour branding, their shell

Self-hosting and source code

Whether you can run it on your own infrastructure

SupportedBinary or self-host licence from $4,999
Not supportedCloud only, at every tier

Launch marketing

App-store optimisation and paid user acquisition

SupportedOn request, so you never prepay for it
SupportedAd campaigns in the package, at the package price

Support cover

Who you can reach, and how fast

SupportedPriority email and chat, with a response guarantee
Supported24/7, on every tier

Platform scope

Taxi and ride-hailing

The core use case both platforms are built for

SupportedCore product
SupportedCore product

Courier and parcel delivery

Point-to-point drops on the same fleet

SupportedPart of BetterTaxi, switched on when you want it
Partly supportedService types yes, delivery platform on Super App

Food and goods marketplace

Vendor storefronts, menus and carts

SupportedBetterShop, same stack, $99 a month extra
Partly supportedSuper App, with partner Playfood

Service and parking booking

Adjacent local business models on the same stack

SupportedBetterParking and BetterServices, one admin
Not supportedNot offered

Deep dive

Where the Difference Actually Shows Up.

Onde is a good product, and these are the four places the two genuinely diverge. On rate they now meet at the bottom, so the one that decides most cases is what you pay before the first ride.

The Percentage Is the Price

Both platforms take a share of every completed trip. Ours is 1.9%, flat, on every plan and at every volume. Onde's is 1.9% on Onde.Light after 1,000 free rides a month, and 3.9% on the full platform — level with us at the bottom and about double at the top, charged for as long as you stay. The difference at the entry tier is not the rate but the $4,500 you pay before reaching it.

BetterTaxi

1.9% of each completed trip on top of a flat monthly fee — or a one-time licence with no share at all.

Onde

A one-time fee, a monthly fee, and 1.9%–3.9% of every fare on top — a cut that grows exactly as fast as you do.

The Entry Fee Lands After You Commit

Onde's answer to trying before you buy is Onde.Light, and it is a real one: nothing up front, 1,000 free rides a month, then 1.9%. What their pricing page also shows is where the one-time fee sits — not on that product, but on every tier above it, from $4,500 to $23,000. The largest cheque is written at the point you have proven the model and want the full platform, which is the point it is hardest to walk away. BetterTaxi charges no setup fee on any plan: $49 a month and 1.9%, on the first ride and the ten-thousandth alike.

BetterTaxi

No setup fee on any plan. The first month costs what the hundredth costs, and you can stop after either.

Onde

Onde.Light asks nothing up front. Every tier above it opens at $4,500 and runs to $23,000, before a single fare.

Delivery Comes From a Second Vendor

Parcels ride on the same fleet as fares in BetterTaxi, with no second product to buy. Onde's base tiers carry courier and cargo service types, but the delivery platform itself sits in the Super App — a joint product with Playfood, a separate company, at $6,500 one-time and $259 a month, and it takes a share of cart totals as well as fares. That is an integration between two vendors, not one platform — and parking and service bookings are not offered at all.

BetterTaxi

Parcel jobs are part of BetterTaxi at no extra cost. Shops, parking and bookings are modules of the same codebase, behind one admin, billed as an add-on to your plan.

Onde

Rides and couriers from Onde, the vendor marketplace from Playfood — two products, two roadmaps, two commercial relationships.

You Can Take the Code

Onde is cloud-only: the platform runs on their infrastructure, and there is no self-hosted or source option at any tier. BetterTaxi is available the same way, and also as a binary licence from $4,999 or a full source licence you run yourself — which is the difference between renting a platform and owning one.

BetterTaxi

Subscribe, or buy the binary, or buy the source. The last two do not stop working when the invoice does.

Onde

Cloud only, at every tier. The apps, the data and the dispatch desk stay on their platform.

PRICING

The Two Bills, Side by Side

Onde's published figures against ours, first year against first year. Neither card includes the revenue share, and on the right-hand one it is 1.9%–3.9% of every trip on top of everything shown.

0% OF YOUR FARESBetterSuite

BetterSuite

$49/ mo

or $4,999 once, for a licence you host yourself — about what Onde charges in setup fees alone

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  • 1.9% of each completed fare, with no setup fee
  • No caps on rides, drivers or cities — no mid-month cut-off, no overage fees
  • Add delivery, parking or bookings for $99 a month each
  • Even our dearest tier undercuts their commission past about 3,000 rides a month

$588Your first year, before the 1.9%

Onde

Onde

$4,500one-time

plus $99 a month and 1.9%–3.9% of every trip

  • $4,500 to $23,000 up front — the tiers differ by advertising, not software
  • Unlimited drivers, riders, orders and cities
  • Super App adds delivery at $6,500 and $259 a month, and takes a share of cart totals too
  • Onde.Light starts at $12 a month with 1,000 free rides, then 1.9% — but web booking instead of a branded rider app

$5,688Their first year, before commission

Onde prices its revenue share by product: 1.9% on Onde.Light, charged after 1,000 free rides a month. Their pricing page does not publish a rate for the paid tiers — it describes the share only as a percentage of the trip cost — so the 3.9% we quote for the main platform is the figure Onde's CEO gave on the record to GetLatka, not one they publish. Every other figure on this page is from Onde's own pricing page, read on 30 August 2026. Sources: Onde pricingOnde.Light pricingTaxi Web Design, 2026 reviewGetLatka, Onde CEO interview

Who It's For

Choose the Right Tool for Your Situation.

Choose BetterTaxi if...

Choose BetterTaxi if...

You want your software bill to be a number you can predict.

  • You would rather pay a flat fee than a share of every fare
  • You want the option to self-host or hold the source
  • You expect to add delivery, parking or bookings from one vendor
  • You already have a way to reach riders and drivers
Choose Onde if...

Choose Onde if...

You want a specialist who will also launch you.

  • You want app-store optimisation and paid acquisition bought with the software
  • Your order volume is large or spiky and you do not want a ceiling
  • You are running in several cities and do not want to pay per location
  • You want to test the market first on Onde.Light with nothing up front

Ready?

Run the Numbers on Your Own Volume

If you want a launch partner who will also buy your first riders, Onde is a real answer. If you would rather pay nothing to start, know your bill a year out, and keep the option of taking the code, that is BetterTaxi.

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