Taxis in Georgia 2026: Bolt, Yandex Go and Airport Fares

In Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi you’ll order a taxi through an app, Bolt or Yandex Go, and the app quotes a fare before you confirm. A benchmark sits at Tbilisi airport, where the official kerbside taxi runs around the clock at a fixed 40 GEL to the centre (about $15, €14 or £12). Keep that number in your head: it tells you when an app quote at 2 a.m. has stopped being a bargain. The fares and tariffs below come from the operators’ own pages, read on 31 October 2026.

Two apps, three cities

Bolt’s cities page lists ten places in Georgia: Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi, Rustavi, Gori, Telavi, Zugdidi, Poti, Bakuriani and Gudauri/Stepantsminda. Yandex Go has tariff pages for Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi. On its Georgia page Yandex says you see the fare and the route time before you order, and that you can pay in cash or by card.

The menu isn’t the same in every city, which catches people who learned the app at home. In Tbilisi, Bolt offers Economy, Bolt, Premium, XL, Electric, Pets, a Travel option for intercity trips and a “Taxi Tbilisi” option that it describes as a ride in the bus lane. That last label has a basis in city rules: in April 2023 Georgian Public Broadcaster reported that A-Category taxis with vehicles no older than ten years could use bus lanes from 1 June 2023. On a jammed avenue, a car allowed into the bus lane may keep moving while the queue beside it doesn’t. Batumi’s list is shorter: Economy, Bolt, Premium, XL and Travel.

Kutaisi is the odd one out. Bolt’s Kutaisi city page and its Kutaisi airport page list only the Travel categories, so don’t count on a standard city car appearing at the kerb. Open the app and look before you rely on it.

Both apps need data. If you’re landing at night, sort a SIM or eSIM before the flight instead of hunting for a shop at the terminal (the options are compared in SIMs and eSIMs in Georgia).

How the fare is built, and where to read it

Bolt prices a ride from a base fare, a minute rate and a distance rate, then adds dynamic pricing when demand is high. When it applies you’ll see an arrow pointing up next to the price. The number you accept isn’t a ceiling, because Bolt Support lists what can raise the final fare: heavy traffic, parking or airport fees, extended stopovers or a changed destination. To see the rates of a category, select it in the app and tap the vehicle icon.

Yandex Go publishes its tariffs on the web, city by city, as maximums for the base formula “without additional coefficients”, in the page’s own words. This is what the Economy tariff said on 31 October 2026:

Read that as the skeleton of a price: the quote in the app adds what’s missing. The same pages list a “hot hours” coefficient, a linear-density coefficient and a paid pickup that’s added to the fare, and they say the tariffs of partner taxi services may differ. That matches how Yandex describes itself: an information service, with the ride provided by a carrier, not by the app. Each page carries an expiry date only a few days ahead, so treat the table as a snapshot of 31 October 2026 and open the live page for Tbilisi, Batumi or Kutaisi for today’s figures.

One detail from those pages helps if your phone has no data: they give one order line for all three cities, +995 (32) 2 800000, with a phone-order surcharge of up to 1 GEL.

Flagging a car in the street

The UK Foreign Office, whose Georgia advice was still current on 31 October 2026, tells visitors not to flag taxis in the street, to pre-book through an app and to check that the seatbelts work. The piece on whether Georgia is safe puts that advice next to the other governments’.

If you do wave one down, settle the price before the doors close: once the car is moving, you’ve lost your leverage. For short hops where a taxi is overkill, the metro, buses and marshrutkas are laid out in Tbilisi public transport.

Tbilisi airport: the 40 GEL benchmark

The airport’s website lists a taxi service outside the terminal, at the kerb of the arrivals hall, running 24 hours a day. The ride to the centre takes 20-30 minutes, depending on traffic. The fixed rate is 40 GEL to the centre and 50 GEL to suburban areas. The operator, TBS Taxi, run by Limo Service LLC, calls itself the official airport transfer service and quotes the same 40 GEL from the airport to the centre. At the National Bank rates of 30 October 2026 that’s roughly $15, €14 or £12, and the operator’s site promises no surge pricing. A minivan for groups starts from €30 (about 87 GEL) on the same site.

Use it as a yardstick. Open Bolt or Yandex Go before you reach the kerb and compare the quote with 40 GEL. For scale, Bolt’s own route page from the airport to Liberty Square (19.6 km, about 27 minutes) estimated 19.90 GEL in the cheapest category (Basic, up to three passengers) and 23.30 GEL in the standard Bolt category (up to four) on 31 October 2026. Bolt says the pickup points at the airport are shown in the app, and that you should check the car and driver details against the app before getting in. If the quote is well under 40, take the app. If surge pricing has pushed it up towards 40, the official taxi is the safer buy, and its fixed fare is the same at 4 a.m. The bus and the train, and the gap in their night timetable, are covered in getting from Tbilisi airport to the centre.

Booking ahead doesn’t have to cost more. TBS Taxi takes bookings on its own site at the same 40 GEL from the airport to the centre: it tracks your flight, the driver meets you at arrivals with a name sign, and you can cancel free up to 2 hours before pickup. Kiwitaxi quotes from $34 per car for the airport run (about 88 GEL at the National Bank rate of 30 October 2026), fixed at booking, with flight tracking, a name sign, 90 minutes of free waiting and free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup. That’s more than double the official fare. Where Kiwitaxi goes further is group size: it lists minibuses for up to 19 passengers, while the official booking form stops at eight.

Batumi and Kutaisi airports after dark

Batumi airport says taxis wait right at the terminal exit and that the drive to the centre takes about 10-15 minutes. Bolt lists Batumi airport with the pickup point shown in the app. As at Tbilisi, ask the app for a quote before you walk out, and agree the fare first if you take a car at the exit. Kiwitaxi’s pre-booked transfer starts from $37 per car (about 96 GEL).

Kutaisi is harder to read, because the airport sits outside the city and the ride into town is longer. The airport’s taxi page lists a 24/7 desk in the arrivals hall run by Bene Exclusive. Ask for the price before you get in. The shuttle buses from Georgian Bus and Omnibus Express are adjusted to the flight schedule, according to the airport’s help page. Kiwitaxi’s price for the run into Kutaisi starts from $55 per car (about 143 GEL), with about 40 minutes on the clock. Bolt says it’s available at the airport, but remember the categories Bolt lists for Kutaisi. The Kutaisi airport guide sets shuttles and taxis side by side, and the overview of Georgia’s airports puts all three in one place.

Between cities

Bolt lists a Travel option for intercity trips in Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi, and the Bolt cities page includes Gudauri/Stepantsminda. The distances, journey times and what each mode costs are on the route pages, so they aren’t repeated here: Tbilisi to Batumi, Tbilisi to Kutaisi and Tbilisi to Gudauri. One rule carries over from the city: get the price in writing in the app, or agree it before you load the bags.

What we read, and when

Each page below was opened on 31 October 2026.

• Tbilisi airport and TBS Taxi: the airport’s taxi page and the operator’s site.
• Bolt: city and airport pages for Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi, plus three Bolt Support articles on price and the route page from the airport to Liberty Square. Bolt’s city pages list categories, its route pages show estimated fares for sample trips, and the per-minute and per-kilometre rates sit in the app.
• Yandex Go: the Economy tariff pages for the three cities, each with an expiry date a few days ahead, and the Georgia page.
• Kiwitaxi: the airport pages, from-prices per car, which move with date and vehicle.
• Batumi and Kutaisi airports: the taxi pages and the Kutaisi help page.

Fares, tariffs and categories change without notice. Treat every figure here as the state of the page on that day and check the app or the operator before you rely on it.