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Your real threshold in €/km, from your own figures.
Two steps: your charges give your cost per kilometre, then we test any ride against your threshold. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent, nothing is stored.
Step 1 — your cost per kilometre
Insurance, lease or loan, licence, accountant, business tax, phone.
Fuel or electricity, tyres, maintenance, washing.
Including approach and empty returns.
Reaching the passenger, returning empty. Most drivers sit between 30 and 45%.
What you want left once every charge is paid.
As a percentage of your revenue, not your profit. The rate depends on your status — put in yours.
The starting values are orders of magnitude, not official averages. Replace them with your own: that is the whole point.
What that gives
- Cost per kilometre driven
- 0.44 €/km
- Cost per billed kilometre
- 0.73 €/km
- Billable kilometres per year
- 27,000 km
- Contributions due
- €14,046
- Revenue needed
- €63,846
- Your acceptance threshold
- 2.36€/km
The gap between the first two figures is the price of your empty kilometres: they cost without earning, so your billed kilometres carry them.
Contributions are computed on what you take in, not on what is left. So they cannot simply be added to costs: you have to work back to the revenue that, once contributions are paid, still covers your costs and your pay. Almost no calculator does this line, and it moves the threshold by more than 25%.
Step 2 — would you take this ride?
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Your settings
The verdict
- Revenue per kilometre
- 2.12 €/km
- Revenue per hour
- 84.64 €/h
- Threshold applied
- 2.00 €/km · €25
The four rules, in order
- 01If the fare is below your minimum fare, it is DECLINE — whatever the €/km.
- 02If the €/km reaches your target, it is WORTH IT.
- 03If the €/km stays within the tolerance under your target, it is BORDERLINE.
- 04Otherwise, it is DECLINE.
This is exactly the application's algorithm, with no reinterpretation.
“Everyone quotes €0.60/km. Why is your figure three times higher?”
Because these are two different figures, and confusing them is the costliest mistake in the trade.
Cost per kilometre measures what one driven kilometre costs you: fuel, insurance, maintenance, tyres, depreciation. It is the point where you stop losing money. It does not pay you.
Your acceptance threshold has to cover three more things: your own pay, the kilometres you drive with no passenger, and the fact that those empty kilometres are carried by the billed ones alone. That third point is the one almost nobody computes, and it is the one that doubles the figure.
The calculator above makes the distinction explicit: it shows you both, and the gap between them.