If you drive for a ride app or a taxi service, the most important number isn't the fare on the screen. It's what's left after everyone else has taken their share.
That number varies a lot depending on who you drive for, and it's worth understanding before you decide where to spend your time.
The three models you'll run into
Commission per trip. The platform takes a percentage of every fare. This is how most international ride apps work, and the percentage is usually somewhere between 15% and 30%. On a $2,000 trip, a 20% cut means $400 you don't see.
Subscription or plan tiers. Instead of (or alongside) a percentage, you pay to be on the platform, often with tiers that give better terms the more you pay. RideGY in Guyana, for example, describes Silver and Gold plans for drivers on its app listing. The trade-off is that you pay whether or not it's a good week.
No cut at all. The rider pays you directly and the platform takes nothing. This is how Intra works — the fare you quote is the fare you keep, handed to you in cash at the end of the trip.
Why this matters more than the headline fare
A platform with higher fares and a 25% cut can leave you worse off than one with lower fares and no cut. The comparison that matters is take-home per hour, not the number quoted to the rider.
It's worth running your own numbers:
| What the rider pays | What you keep | |
|---|---|---|
| 20% commission | $2,000 | $1,600 |
| 25% commission | $2,000 | $1,500 |
| No commission | $2,000 | $2,000 |
Multiply that difference across a week of driving and it stops being small.
The other half: who decides the fare
Commission is only half the picture. The other half is whether you have any say in the price.
On most apps you don't — the platform calculates the fare and you accept or decline it. When they run a promotion or cut prices to compete, your earnings move with it and you have no say.
On Intra you send your own price on every trip. The rider sees your offer alongside other drivers' and chooses. If a trip isn't worth doing at a low price, you don't have to offer a low price. And because there's no commission priced into what you quote, you can often come in competitively and still keep more than you would elsewhere.
Questions worth asking any platform
Before committing your time to any app or service, get clear answers to:
- What percentage do you take per trip?
- Are there fees, plans, or tiers on top of that?
- Who sets the fare — me, or you?
- How and when do I actually get paid?
- Can I drive for other services at the same time?
If the answers are hard to find, that's information too.
Where Intra stands
No commission. No fees. No plans. You set your own price on every trip, the rider pays you in cash directly, and you can drive for anyone else you like at the same time — there's no exclusivity.
Being straight about the trade-off: Intra is new in Guyana and Suriname, so there are fewer riders than on established services. Keeping 100% of a trip you don't get isn't worth anything. That's exactly why it makes sense to run Intra alongside what you already do rather than instead of it — it costs you nothing to have installed, and every trip that does come through, you keep whole.
Commission ranges above are general industry figures, not quotes for any specific platform. RideGY's Silver and Gold driver plans are described on its own Google Play listing as of September 2026. Always check current terms directly with any platform before signing up.