Tesla Opens Cybercab Personal-Use Invites at $29,990

Tesla is inviting a limited group of buyers to order a Tesla Cybercab for their own use. Via @robotaxi on X, the company said at 23:27 GMT on 13 November 2026: “Select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use.” The post included a screenshot of an order page.

That page, as shown in Tesla’s image, lists an estimated purchase price of $29,990, excluding taxes, a required Autonomy Subscription of $299 a month, with the first month included, and a $1,000 non-refundable order deposit due today. Estimated delivery is December 2026 in Austin, Texas. The configurator states: “Subscription and regular vehicle maintenance required to operate.”

The Tesla Cybercab order page makes the $299 subscription a condition of use

The official screenshot puts the Autonomy Subscription in a checked box at $299 a month, and says the price “excludes taxes and is billed separately each month until canceled.” Placing an order, the same panel says, means agreeing to a Cybercab Order Agreement, Terms of Use, an Autonomy Subscription Agreement and Tesla’s Privacy Notice.

tesla.com/cybercab is not an open public storefront. The company’s invitation language, and the public page at that address, which currently presents Tesla’s Robotaxi marketing and an interest form rather than a generally available order ticket, are consistent with an invite-only process. Tesla has not, in the verified @robotaxi post, said how invitees were chosen or how many invitations were sent.

The personal-use offer sits against earlier Tesla remarks about putting unsupervised driving into owners’ cars and about Cybercab’s place in the business. TSN has already reported Tesla’s target of unsupervised FSD in owners’ vehicles in the second quarter of 2027, and Musk’s claim that Optimus and Cybercab would account for most of Tesla’s value. This invitation is a narrower, nearer step: a vehicle offered to selected customers, with a monthly fee attached, and an estimated first delivery in Austin, a city already central to TSN’s earlier Cybercab coverage of Tesla’s Texas registry and Austin service.

Musk says the monthly fee is too high, and nationwide sales depend on approvals

Replying to Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) at 06:38 GMT on 14 November, Musk wrote: “It will be available nationwide, as we receive regulatory approval. But the monthly fee is too high. Should match the cost of Tesla FSD and connectivity for other models, which is more like ~$115/month.”

That is Musk’s statement, not a revised price on the order page Tesla had posted hours earlier. The $299 figure remains the one shown in the official screenshot. Nationwide availability, in the same reply, is conditional on regulatory approvals.

Press coverage of the invitation goes further than Tesla’s short post on where a personal Cybercab could be used. The Verge, Electrek and TechCrunch, writing on 13 and 14 November, said availability was limited to supported Robotaxi service areas. TechCrunch quoted Tesla’s Ashok Elluswamy as saying the Cybercab works “unsupervised inside all the same geo locations as @robotaxi, just serving the owners’ needs.” That wording is reported by TechCrunch; it is not in the @robotaxi announcement TSN verified.

A personal-use invitation is not yet a nationwide price list

The facts Tesla itself has put on the record are tightly drawn. Selected customers are being invited to buy. The screenshot price is $29,990 before taxes, plus a $299 monthly subscription that is required to operate the vehicle, plus a $1,000 non-refundable deposit, with estimated delivery in December 2026 in Austin. Musk then said the monthly fee ought to be lower, and that sales could go nationwide as approvals arrive. He did not post a new order page, and he did not say those approvals had already been granted.

That leaves a gap between the invitation and the broader claim. A required subscription, described by Tesla as necessary to operate the car, is a different commercial object from an optional driver-assistance add-on. Musk’s comparison with “Tesla FSD and connectivity for other models” at about $115 a month makes that difference explicit, and also underlines that the $299 figure on the official page has not been changed by his comment. Until Tesla publishes a new price, the number that can be stated as the listed fee is still $299.

The press account of “supported Robotaxi service areas,” and TechCrunch’s Elluswamy quotation about the same geographies as the Robotaxi service, sit in the same gap. They are consistent with a vehicle that is being sold for personal use but is still tied to Tesla’s existing service map. They are not a substitute for a Tesla post that names every city, and they should not be stretched into a launch announcement for places Tesla has not listed on the official order-page image. The only delivery location on that image is Austin.

The next official facts worth waiting for are ordinary ones: whether Tesla alters the $299 Autonomy Subscription toward the ~$115 figure Musk suggested, whether the invite-only door opens more widely, and whether a later Tesla notice, rather than a reply, sets out where a personally owned Cybercab may operate. Until then, the story is an invitation, a listed price, a required subscription, and a conditional remark about going nationwide.