Car Rental in Georgia 2026: Prices, Deposit, Where to Book

A basic economy car in Georgia runs from $40 a day at OG Drive to €56 a day at Pro Auto Rent for a short booking, and the deposit swings just as widely: $100 held on a card at one outfit, nothing at all at another. Neither number is fixed - the day rate drops the longer you book, and the deposit rules change again from one company to the next. Here’s what five real operators charge and hold as a deposit as of August 2026, and how to read past the marketing.

Checked 08.08.2026. Every price, deposit and fee below comes straight from the operator’s own site as of this date. Rental companies change rates with the season, with what’s actually left on the lot, and with running promotions - confirm the current price and deposit policy with the company itself before you book.

What a rental actually costs by class

Tbilisi-based OG Drive publishes per-class pricing on its own site rather than hiding it behind a quote form, so its numbers make a clean baseline:

A second Tbilisi company, Pro Auto Rent, prices its own Toyota Corolla (an economy automatic) at €56 a day for a booking of 1-3 days, dropping with every length tier down to €41 a day past two weeks. Its C-HR and Suzuki S-Cross, both easy off-roaders, run €60-78 depending on how long you keep the car, and the Toyota Fortuner - a proper off-roader for rough terrain - starts at €76 and tops out around €93. Different currency, different company, but the same order of magnitude as OG Drive’s dollar prices once you account for the exchange rate: that’s a useful sanity check when a third quote looks suspiciously cheap.

One thing that doesn’t change much between companies: mileage. Pro Auto Rent, Royal Car Rent, StarCar and DW Auto all advertise unlimited kilometres as standard, so a long loop out to Kazbegi and back isn’t going to trigger a per-kilometre surcharge at the end. Fuel is a separate story - nobody bundles it in, and every company we checked expects the tank back at the level you picked it up. What the daily rate almost never includes is real insurance depth: Pro Auto Rent’s optional Super Cover pairs full Casco with third-party liability up to $100,000, which is worth knowing exists even if you end up reading the fine print on rental car insurance in Georgia instead of taking the upsell at the counter.

Deposit: it depends on the company, not just the car

“No deposit” gets used loosely, and it means at least three different things in practice. At OG Drive, the deposit is a genuine card hold that scales with the car: $100 for economy, $200 for an SUV or convertible, released the day you return the car - though the bank can take up to 14 working days to actually clear it from your statement. At Royal Car Rent in Tbilisi, “No Deposit” is the headline across every class, paired with full insurance built into the price instead of charged separately. StarCar and Pro Auto Rent go further still: both say outright that no funds are ever blocked on your card, deposit or otherwise. At StarCar, which meets flights at Batumi airport, arrivals delivery is cash-only - euros, dollars or lari; book an office pickup instead and card payment is available for a 2% processing fee, but either way nothing gets held on the card.

The practical takeaway: “no deposit” in an ad is a start, not an answer. Ask exactly what happens if the car comes back scratched - some of that “no deposit” saving is really insurance you’re paying for whether you use it or not. For the fine print behind the phrase itself, see renting a car in Georgia with no deposit.

Where to book: airport counter, city office or online

You’ve got three practical entry points, and they’re not interchangeable:

• Airport counter or pickup. All three international airports - Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi - have rental desks or operators who meet arrivals with a name board; our own city guides cover exactly who’s there and what to expect at renting a car in Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi airport. StarCar’s whole pitch at Batumi is a 10-minute handover at arrivals with 24 hours’ notice, sometimes less via WhatsApp. A second operator at the same airport, DW Auto, lists flat per-day rates for bookings of four days or more: a Ford Mustang, Jeep Renegade or Ford Explorer from $60 a day, a Kia Sedona minivan or BMW 528i from $70, with a roughly $100 deposit that varies by class and gets confirmed at booking.
• A city office. Slightly more hassle to reach, sometimes a slightly better rate once you skip an airport premium, and easier if something needs sorting out face to face mid-rental.
• Book online ahead of time. Locks in the rate and the exact car class before you land, which matters most in July and August when the good cars go first. It’s also the only realistic way to compare five companies’ pricing without opening five tabs by hand.

Documents, minimum age, insurance excess and what to photograph before you drive off - that’s the procedural side, and we cover all of it separately in how to rent a car in Georgia so we won’t repeat it here.

Book longer, pay less per day

Pro Auto Rent’s tiered pricing is worth doing the maths on, because the saving is bigger than it looks. Book a Corolla for a week at the 7-13-day rate and you’re paying €44 a day, or about €308 for seven nights. Book three days, like the trip, and extend day by day instead, and you’re stuck on the €56 rate the whole time - €392 for the same week, roughly €84 more for identical use of the same car. The lesson isn’t specific to this one company: rental pricing almost everywhere in Georgia rewards committing to your real trip length upfront rather than booking short and hoping to extend.

What pushes the price up

A handful of things move you off the base rate and onto a pricier tier:

• Where you’re driving. Svaneti, Tusheti and Khevsureti need genuine 4x4 clearance, not just an SUV badge, which is why Pro Auto Rent’s own off-road tier costs roughly double its Corolla rate.
• Your age. Some companies add a young-driver surcharge under 25; StarCar explicitly doesn’t, with a minimum age of 20 and no extra fee for it - worth asking about directly rather than assuming either way.
• Crossing a border. Taking a rental into Armenia, Azerbaijan or Turkey usually needs written permission and a green card insurance policy, and a fair few companies simply won’t allow it.
• One-way drop-off. Picking up in Tbilisi and leaving the car in Batumi is common enough, but whether it costs extra depends on the company: StarCar, for one, charges nothing for a one-way swap between Batumi, Tbilisi and Kutaisi, while other operators add a flat fee for the same route.
• Season. July and August are Georgia’s busiest months on the road as well as the beach, and the cheapest cars in each class sell out first.

A real week, priced out

Put the pieces together for a fairly typical trip: a week with an economy car, booked in advance rather than extended day by day. At Pro Auto Rent’s weekly rate that’s around €308 for the car itself. Budget separately for the deposit as money you’ll get back, not money you’re spending - $100 on a card at OG Drive’s equivalent economy tier, cleared within two weeks of returning the car, or nothing at all if you book with an operator whose “no deposit” claim actually means no deposit. Add fuel, which isn’t included anywhere in this comparison, and a rough week for two people sharing one economy car lands closer to the overall trip budget we’ve worked out for Georgia than the headline daily rate alone would suggest.

None of these five companies is “the” right answer - the right one depends on which city you’re flying into, whether you can pay cash, and whether a €50 difference over a week matters more to you than a ten-minute pickup at arrivals. What matters is comparing actual listed prices rather than a single average, which is exactly what shifts between one operator and the next.