It is the first question every driver asks, and the one most apps answer with a big number and a small asterisk. We are not going to give you a number, because on Intra the number is genuinely yours: you set the price on every trip, and how many trips come through depends on riders near you at that hour. What we can do is show you the arithmetic honestly, so you can work it out for your own car, your own part of Lagos and your own hours.
Start with what you keep: all of it
On most ride apps the fare on the screen is not what you get. A commission comes off first — on the big international apps, typically somewhere between a fifth and a quarter of every fare. On Intra there is no commission, no plan and no fee — the fare you quote is the cash in your hand at the end of the trip. If you want the detail on how the different models compare, it is in Bolt, inDrive, LagRide or Intra Cab: what each leaves in a driver's hand.
That changes the arithmetic from the start, because the only things you have to subtract are your own real costs — and in Lagos today, that mostly means fuel.
The formula
What you make in an hour is:
(trips you win in that hour) × (what you quote per trip) − (fuel for those trips)
Three levers. You control the second one completely. You influence the first with your price, your speed to respond and your rating. The third you already know better than we do, down to the litre.
A worked example, Lagos mainland
The numbers below are illustrative. Put your own in.
Say you take short in-town runs — Surulere to Yaba, Ikeja to Maryland, Ogba to Computer Village, that sort of distance — and you'd normally charge ₦3,000 for one. In a busy hour you win three of them. That's ₦9,000 gross, with perhaps 15 kilometres of driving. Take off what 15 kilometres costs you in petrol at this week's price and the rest is yours.
Now the same hour on an app with a 25% commission: ₦9,000 becomes ₦6,750 before you've bought a litre. To take home the same ₦9,000 you'd have to quote ₦4,000 per trip — the rider pays a third more, and you end up where you started.
For context, ₦9,000 is a little under US$7 at the rate the app is using for Nigeria today (about ₦1,331 to the dollar). You never need to think in dollars — you quote in naira and get paid in naira — but it is a useful sanity check against what drivers elsewhere clear in an hour.
On a bike, the arithmetic is sharper
If you ride okada where it is legal — Ibadan, or the Lagos LGAs outside the ban — the same formula applies with much smaller fuel costs and shorter trips. Three ₦500 hops in an hour is ₦1,500 with a fraction of a car's petrol, and on Intra there is no bike app taking a cut of it, because right now there is no other bike app. There are also, as of October 2026, no motorcycle drivers on Intra in Nigeria yet, so a bike request near you is yours alone to answer. More in an okada app for Nigeria.
The same example, Island side
Same logic, different prices. A run from Victoria Island to Lekki Phase 1 that you'd do for ₦4,500; an airport run from Ikoyi to Murtala Muhammed that you'd price properly for the distance and the bridge. Quote what you already charge. The point is that nothing disappears between the quote and your pocket.
What moves the "trips per hour" lever
- Where and when you are. Ikeja, Yaba and Surulere at the start and end of the working day; the Island in the evening; the airport around flight times; Lekki and Ajah when the Expressway is moving.
- How fast you answer. Riders often take the first solid offer. You get a push notification for each new trip near you, and a WhatsApp message if you haven't reacted within a minute, so you can respond from wherever you're parked.
- Your price next to the others. The rider sees offers side by side. You don't have to be the cheapest — a fair price from a well-rated driver beats a slightly lower one from an unknown — but you do have to be in the conversation.
- Your rating. It builds over trips and it is the main reason a rider picks you over someone a little cheaper.
What we won't tell you
We won't tell you a weekly or monthly figure, because we don't have an honest one. Intra has only just opened in Nigeria, the number of riders is growing from almost nothing, and for now most hours nothing will come through at all.
We also won't tell you it replaces what you earn from Bolt, inDrive or your regulars today. It doesn't. It adds to it. Keeping 100% of a trip you didn't get is worth nothing, which is exactly why the right way to run Intra right now is alongside what you already do.
How to find out for yourself in a week
- Sign up — it takes about ten minutes. Here is exactly what you need.
- Keep the app open while you're already out driving. Don't change your routine.
- Quote on everything near you for seven days, at prices you're happy with.
- Count the trips and the cash at the end of the week and set it against the hours you were already working anyway.
That is your number. Not ours, not an estimate — yours, from your own car.
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