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We run Sevetu, one of the apps below. Each was checked on its own page or in news reports on the dates in Sources.
Short answer
For a steady monthly salary driving one family's car, use an app where families post driver jobs, such as Sevetu, which is free and takes nothing from your salary. For driving passengers in your own or a rented car, use a cab app, and count the subscription, fuel and car costs. For driving other people's cars by the hour, an acting driver app pays per booking.
Family driver jobs: monthly salary, the family's car
A family pays you a salary to drive their car: school runs, office, errands, sometimes outstation. You don't pay for fuel or the car. On Sevetu's published national ranges, full-time family drivers earn ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 a month and live-in drivers ₹20,000 to ₹32,0001.
On Sevetu, families post driver jobs with the car, hours and salary. You make a profile, add your licence class and experience, verify your ID once with Aadhaar, and apply. Joining and applying are free, and you keep 100% of the pay you agree2.
Cab apps: your car or a rented one
Uber, Ola and Rapido have moved drivers from a commission on every ride to a subscription. Reports in 2025 and 2026 put Ola's cab subscription at ₹67 a day for 30 days and Rapido's at ₹9 to ₹29 a day3, and Uber moved to daily and monthly plans for cars, autos and bikes, where it used to take 15 to 20% of a fare4.
You keep more of each fare. You also pay for fuel, the car's EMI or rent, insurance and repairs. Count those before comparing with a salary. Family driver or cab driver: which pays more →
Acting driver apps: customers' cars, per booking
Acting driver apps send you to drive a customer's own car for a few hours. You don't need a car. The app takes a share of each booking, and your income depends on how many bookings come. DriveU is the best known; it says its drivers are background verified5.
Job boards: company and fleet jobs
apna, WorkIndia and JobHai list many driver jobs, mostly with companies, fleets, schools and hotels. Most say applying is free. Read the job: whose car, what hours, and is there a weekly off.
The fees you should never pay
Some services ask drivers for a small registration fee. HurryUp Cabs, for example, says on its site "Register with us for just ₹5!" for by-the-hour driver jobs6. A small fee is easy to pay, which is why it's the most common way scams start.
Our take: if a job app asks you for money before you get a job, it isn't a job app. Don't pay for:
- registration, a "form" or a "guarantee"
- a deposit before you start
- someone to keep your original licence or Aadhaar
Before you start with a family
Agree in writing: salary and pay date, start and end times, weekly off, what happens after a late-night drop, outstation allowance with food and a place to sleep, and notice. Make sure your licence class covers their car. Which licence you need →
More for drivers: acting driver job: pay per trip → · what family drivers told us
Read next: what a family driver earns in 2027
Questions people ask
For a family driver job on a monthly salary, an app where families post jobs, such as Sevetu, which is free and takes no commission. For driving passengers, a cab app; count the subscription and car costs. For driving customers' cars, an acting driver app.
Yes. Sevetu is free for drivers to join and apply and takes nothing from your salary. Most job boards also say applying is free.
They have moved to subscriptions. Reports put Ola's cab subscription at ₹67 a day for 30 days and Rapido's at ₹9 to ₹29 a day, and Uber moved to daily and monthly plans. Check the current plan in the driver app.
On Sevetu's published national ranges, ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 a month full-time and ₹20,000 to ₹32,000 live-in. Metros run higher.
No. A real employer pays you. If anyone asks for a fee, deposit or your original licence before you have a job, don't pay.
Sources
- Sevetu, Hire a driver, cost section, read 12 November 2026: full-time household driver ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 a month; live-in ₹20,000 to ₹32,000. sevetu.com/hire-a-driver/
- Sevetu, Pricing, read 10 November 2026: for workers, joining and applying are free; no commission; you keep 100% of the agreed pay; Sevetu never asks for a registration fee, deposit or original documents. sevetu.com/pricing/
- Outlook Business, Ola extends zero commission model to cab drivers after autos, read 12 November 2026: "Rapido's subscription fee ranges from ₹9 to ₹29 per day"; "Ola now offers a 30-day subscription at ₹67 per day". outlookbusiness.com
- Angel One, Uber joins Ola, Rapido with subscription model, updated 13 October 2025, read 12 November 2026: drivers pay a daily or monthly subscription; under the earlier system "Uber deducted 15-20% of a driver's fare". angelone.in
- Apple App Store, DriveU: Hire Driver for Car, read 12 November 2026: "Hire Background Verified Car Drivers 24X7". apps.apple.com
- HurryUp Cabs, Drivers, read 10 November 2026: "Register with us for just ₹5! to be appointed as car driver jobs." hurryupcabs.com
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Written by the Sevetu teamSevetu is a hiring marketplace for household work in India, operated by Fiel Private Limited. These guides come from the questions families and workers ask us. Nothing here is sponsored, and where a number has no defensible source we say so instead of inventing one. About Sevetu
