Booking a GetGo car is the closest most Singaporeans get to owning a vehicle without paying for one. You open the app, find a car parked in your HDB carpark, open it with your phone, and pay only for the hours you drive. As of June 2026, GetGo runs more than 3,000 vehicles across over 1,700 locations, which makes it the largest car-sharing operator in the country. The advertised rate starts at $3 an hour off-peak, but the number that actually lands on your card adds a per-kilometre charge, a $1.20 platform fee, and an insurance excess that can reach five figures if you skip the optional damage waiver. This guide lays out what a GetGo booking truly costs, who can sign up, and the trip length where it quietly beats owning a car.
GetGo is station-based car sharing, which means you collect a car from a fixed bay and return it to the same bay. There is no deposit and no membership fee to open an account, so the cost is purely per booking. Every trip is built from four lines: a time charge, a mileage charge, a flat platform fee, and an optional collision damage waiver. Fuel or charging and basic insurance are already included in the rate, which is the main reason point-to-point sharing reads cheaper than a peer-to-peer listing where you may pay for petrol separately.
The time charge moves with demand. GetGo splits the clock into off-peak, normal, peak, and super-peak bands, so the same Economy car can cost $3 an hour at 6am on a Tuesday and $10 an hour on a Friday evening. The mileage charge is flat per category: $0.44/km for petrol, diesel and hybrid cars, $0.54/km for Luxury, and $0.29/km for electric models. On top of that sits a $1.20 platform fee on every booking. If you want lower accident liability, you add a damage waiver priced as a percentage of the bill.
The table below lists GetGo's published hourly bands and the capped full-day rate for the main categories, taken from the GetGo rates page as of June 2026. Hourly pricing is what you pay for short errands; the full-day cap kicks in once a 24-hour booking would otherwise cost more than the cap, so a weekend road trip is billed at the day rate rather than 24 separate hours.
Electric categories carry the lowest mileage charge at $0.29/km, which matters more than the hourly rate on long drives. If you are weighing a petrol Economy car against a Standard Electric for a 120km day out, the cheaper per-kilometre rate on the EV can wipe out its higher hourly band. Rates shift with demand and promotions, so treat these as the published figures and confirm the live quote in the app before you tap book.
| Category | Off-peak /hr | Peak /hr | Mileage | Full-day (Mon-Thu) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economy (petrol) | $3 | $9 | $0.44/km | $70 |
| Standard (petrol) | $3 | $10 | $0.44/km | $80 |
| Select (petrol) | $4 | $11 | $0.44/km | $90 |
| Grand / Plus (petrol) | $6 | $13 | $0.44/km | $100-$110 |
| Luxury | $15 | $21 | $0.54/km | $240 flat |
| Standard Electric | $4 | $11 | $0.29/km | $90 |
| Plus Electric | $9 | $14 | $0.29/km | $120 |
The advertised hourly rate is rarely the figure that hits your card. Mileage and the platform fee can add 40% or more to a short booking. Take a two-hour IKEA run in an Economy car at the $5 normal rate, covering 30km: that is $10 in time, $13.20 in mileage, plus $1.20 platform, for about $24.40 before any damage waiver. The mileage line, not the hourly rate, is the part most first-timers underestimate.
Add the Standard waiver at 5% and the same trip is roughly $25.60; the Enhanced waiver at 10% pushes it to about $26.80. Whether that extra dollar or two is worth it depends entirely on the excess you would owe in an accident, which is the next thing to understand. To sanity-check whether sharing or owning fits your year, run your real annual mileage through the car cost calculator before you commit either way.
Every GetGo booking includes basic motor insurance, but basic insurance still leaves you holding an excess. The excess is the amount you pay out of pocket toward repairs and any third-party claim before insurance covers the rest, split into Own Damage Excess and Third Party Excess. For an experienced driver with no waiver, the total excess on most GetGo cars is around $6,600. A collision damage waiver lowers that ceiling: the Standard waiver brings it to about $2,300, and the Enhanced waiver to about $900, as of June 2026.
If you are under 23, aged 70 or above, or hold less than two years of driving experience, GetGo classes you as a young, inexperienced or elderly driver, and the excess jumps sharply. Without a waiver, your total excess on standard cars sits around $11,000, and on Luxury or Plus Electric vehicles it can reach $16,500. For a newer driver, buying the Enhanced waiver on every booking is usually the cheaper gamble than carrying that exposure. Singaporeans have been billed thousands after minor knocks, so read the excess line the same way you would read a deductible on a health policy.
| Driver type | No CDW | Standard CDW | Enhanced CDW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experienced (23-69, 2+ yrs) | ~$6,600 | ~$2,300 | ~$900 |
| Young / inexperienced / elderly | ~$11,000 | higher | higher |
| Luxury / Plus Electric (YIED) | ~$16,500 | higher | higher |
GetGo's entry bar is lower than most rental counters. You can sign up from age 19 if you hold a valid licence with at least one year of driving experience. If you have no driving experience yet, you need to be 25 or older. Probationary P-plate and junior licences are generally not accepted on their own, though a P-plate holder aged 25 or above may register without the experience requirement. Foreigners can sign up but must submit extra documentation to verify their licence.
Sign-up is done in the app: you upload your NRIC or passport and driving licence, GetGo verifies them, and you can book once approved. There is no annual fee waiting for you, unlike a credit card, so the account costs nothing to hold between trips. Payment runs off a debit or credit card or PayLah!, and the fuel card and IU device in each car handle petrol and ERP tolls for you.
The honest answer to whether a GetGo car beats owning is: it depends on how far you drive each year. Owning a car in Singapore means a six-figure COE-loaded purchase plus road tax, insurance, parking, fuel and depreciation that runs into thousands a month whether you drive or not. Car sharing converts all of that into a marginal cost you pay only when you turn the key. For a household driving a few times a month, the maths favours sharing comfortably; for a daily school-run-and-commute family, ownership starts to win. The crossover sits roughly where your monthly sharing bill would exceed the fixed monthly cost of owning, which our breakdown of the true cost of owning a car lays out in full.
Against ride-hailing, the trade is different. A single point-A-to-point-B trip is almost always cheaper and faster on Grab once you price in your time and the return leg. GetGo wins when you need the car for the day, make multiple stops, or haul something a taxi boot will not take. If you mostly take single trips, our look at car sharing versus Grab and taxi shows where each option breaks even.
Most of the saving on a GetGo car comes from timing and route, not from chasing promo codes. Booking in off-peak bands roughly halves the hourly rate versus peak, and a capped full-day rate beats hourly booking the moment a trip runs past five or six hours. Because mileage is flat per kilometre, the single biggest lever on a long day is choosing an electric category at $0.29/km instead of petrol at $0.44/km.
As of June 2026, an Economy GetGo car starts at $3 an hour off-peak and rises to about $9 an hour at peak. On top of the hourly time charge you pay $0.44 per kilometre for petrol models and a flat $1.20 platform fee on every booking, before any optional damage waiver.
No. GetGo charges no deposit and no membership fee to open or hold an account, so you pay only for the bookings you make. Fuel or charging and basic insurance are bundled into the per-booking rate, though an optional collision damage waiver costs extra if you want a lower accident excess.
Basic insurance is included, but you still owe the excess. For an experienced driver with no waiver the total excess is around $6,600, falling to about $900 with the Enhanced waiver. Young, inexperienced or elderly drivers face up to roughly $11,000 without a waiver, which is why buying CDW is usually worth it for newer drivers.
You can sign up from age 19 if you hold a valid licence with at least one year of driving experience. P-plate and junior licences are generally not accepted on their own, although a P-plate holder aged 25 or above may register. Newer drivers also fall into a higher insurance-excess band.
This is general financial information for Singapore, not personal financial advice. Figures change — verify current rates against the official sources above before acting. See our full disclaimer.