Twende Pamoja.
Everyone verified, and the money held until you arrive.
We'll message you the moment your route opens.
We're recruiting the first drivers on the Eldoret–Nairobi corridor. Get verified early and you take the first bookings when the route opens.
Register as a driver →Drivers hand over licence, logbook, and insurance that covers fare-paying passengers. We check the class of cover, not just that a certificate exists. Passengers verify their identity too. Nobody travels with an unknown.
How we check →Passengers pay by M-Pesa at booking. The payment provider will hold it and release the driver's earnings once you both confirm arrival.
See the flow →Cars run between Nairobi and Eldoret all day, most of them carrying one person. Same fuel, same tolls, same road — and three seats earning nothing.
| Three seats sold | KES 10,500 |
| Our share — 18%, and never more | − KES 1,890 |
| Yours | KES 8,610 |
| Your fuel for the run — the same carried or empty | KES 5,137 |
on one Nairobi–Eldoret run with three seats at the Standard floor of KES 3,500. Your fuel is the same figure whether you carry three people or none, so the KES 8,610 is money that was not going to exist. Fill the fourth seat and it is KES 11,480. Price above the floor, or drive a bigger car, and you keep more — the same three seats in an Executive leave you KES 14,760. Our eighteen per cent does not change with any of it.
Every corridor below is in the system. We open them one at a time, once there are enough verified drivers to make a search worth doing. Fares shown are indicative and vary by vehicle class — see how fares are set.
Where we start
Planned for after the pilot
A separate market — later
A seat in a Vitz and a seat in a Prado are not the same seat. Every route carries a floor and a ceiling, and drivers choose their price inside that band. The floor stops the corridor being bid down to nothing; the ceiling stops it pricing itself out of reach on a Friday afternoon.
Rates are per seat per kilometre and set the band within which a driver prices a trip. The floor is not there to recover fuel — a driver already making the journey spends that whether the seats are full or empty. It is there so the corridor is not bid down to the point where nobody bothers. Vehicle class is assigned at verification from the logbook, not chosen by the driver. Fares shown across this site are indicative and subject to change before launch.
The same car, the same driver, the same road. What changes is who else is in it — and whether you want that to be nobody but the people you came with.
Private and Family take the whole vehicle, so the fare is every seat in it. Family additionally requires a vehicle verified as carrying child seats to an approved standard, and a list of everybody travelling — because a passenger who is not named is a passenger an insurer has not been told about. We will not open it on a policy that pays nothing on the death of a child, and until an insurer confirms that in writing it stays shut.
Carpooling only works if both sides know who they're dealing with. That check happens before anyone travels, not after something goes wrong.
Drivers and passengers both confirm their identity. Verification level shows on every profile.
Payment sits with a regulated provider and reaches the driver only when you both confirm the trip is finished.
Calls and messages run through the app. Neither side sees the other's real phone number.
One tap will send your location and trip details to our safety desk and your emergency contact.
Send a live trip link to family before you set off, so someone always knows where you are.
Both sides rate each other after every trip. A pattern of complaints removes an account.
Identity document, driving licence, logbook, insurance certificate and a photograph of the vehicle. No listing goes live until every one has been read by a person.
The same journey from both sides. Money moves only when the trip is done.
ID, driving licence, logbook, insurance and a photo of the vehicle. Checked before your first listing goes live.
Route, departure time, and how many seats you're willing to fill.
A seat is confirmed only once the passenger has paid. You both get confirmation by app and email.
Message inside the app beforehand. Neither of you sees the other's real number.
Both confirm you've met. Tapping Start Trip will open navigation and arm the SOS button.
Both tap Arrived. Your share is released to M-Pesa — no chasing anyone for cash.
Where you're going and when. You see the driver's name, rating, vehicle and what each seat costs.
Verification badges, past reviews, vehicle photos and cancellation terms — before you commit.
M-Pesa. Your fare will go to the payment provider rather than to the driver, and reach them only once you have both confirmed you arrived.
Exact pickup point, luggage, timing. Your phone number stays private.
You will be able to share your live trip with someone at home, with SOS available for the whole journey.
Both tap Arrived, the driver gets paid, and your review helps the next passenger.
We haven't launched, so we have no earnings history to show you. Here is the arithmetic on a single Eldoret–Nairobi run in a Standard-class car.
At the Standard floor of KES 3,500 per seat over 310 km. A four-seater with the driver in it.
Covers checking every driver and every certificate, the desk that answers an alarm, and the payment provider’s charges — which we pay rather than deduct from you.
About 24 litres for 310 km at 13 km per litre, at KES 214.03 — the pump price in Nairobi this cycle. Spent whether you carry anybody or not.
On a journey you were making anyway, so it is money that was not going to exist. The same three seats in an Executive car bring KES 14,760.
Worked on a 310 km Nairobi–Eldoret journey in a small saloon doing 13 km per litre, at the EPRA pump price for the current cycle. The fuel figure is shown because you will think of it anyway, not because the seats are paying for it. Tolls, servicing and insurance are on top. Your consumption, the price you set within the band and how many seats you fill all change the answer — this is the arithmetic, not a promise.
Before you apply. Carrying paying passengers needs motor insurance written for hire and reward, with passenger liability covering every seat you sell. An ordinary private policy does not cover them, however comprehensive it is. Cover in the right class starts at around KES 9,586 a year, about three Standard seats on the Nairobi–Eldoret run, out of a year of driving. Joining costs KES 1,499 once, then KES 499 a year.
If yours is not here, ring 0716 451 732 or write to info@boraridecarpool.com. A person answers both.
Every driver is verified before they can carry anybody: identity documents, driving licence, logbook and a photograph, all checked by a person rather than a scanner. You see their name, photograph, vehicle, registration and rating before you book.
While the journey runs it is tracked, and you can share it with whoever you like so somebody at home knows where you are. If something goes wrong you can raise an alarm from the app, and it reaches a desk with a person at it.
Nothing happens to it. Your fare goes to a licensed payment provider when you book — not to the driver and not to us — and it stays there until the journey is over and both of you have confirmed it happened.
If nobody comes for you, the money comes back. The driver is only paid once you have both said you arrived.
A vehicle cannot carry passengers on BoraRide unless its insurance covers carrying passengers. We read every certificate against five checks — the class of cover, the passenger liability, whether the registration matches, whether it covers the day of the trip, and whether it is genuine according to AKI's motor database.
An ordinary private motor policy does not cover carrying passengers who have paid. That is exactly why we check.
Because it is a different thing. A matatu is cheaper and a shuttle is cheaper, and we do not pretend otherwise.
What you are paying for is a seat in a car rather than a row in a van, leaving at the time that was agreed rather than when the vehicle fills, with a driver whose papers somebody has read and a journey somebody is watching.
M-Pesa, when you book. You will get a prompt on your phone and a booking reference once it goes through.
There is a window after booking in which you can cancel and get everything back. After that a portion is kept, because a seat held for you is a seat the driver could not sell to somebody else.
If the driver cancels, you get everything back regardless of when it happens.
Yes. Private takes the whole vehicle, so nobody else is aboard — the fare is every seat, whether you use them or not. It suits travelling with people you already know, or travelling alone.
Family does the same and adds fitted child seats and a list of everybody travelling. It is not open yet, and it will not open until an insurer confirms to us in writing that a child is covered.
Register, then upload your identity documents, driving licence, logbook and insurance certificate. Somebody reads them. Once you are approved you can post a trip, set your price within the band for your vehicle class, and the seats are offered to passengers searching that route.
You are paid after the journey, once both you and your passengers have confirmed it happened.
It depends on the route, your vehicle class and how many seats you fill. Rates are set per seat per kilometre, with a floor and a ceiling for each route. You are making the journey regardless, so the fuel is spent whether you carry anybody or not — a seat sold is money you would not otherwise have had.
You keep the great majority of the fare. Our share is a percentage of it, and we absorb the payment provider's charges rather than passing them to you.
We are opening corridor by corridor rather than everywhere at once, so that every route we list has enough drivers on it to be worth searching. Nothing is open yet. Nairobi – Eldoret will be first, and the status of every route is shown beside it on this page.
If we are not on your road yet, join the waiting list and we will tell you when we are.
Nairobi – Eldoret opens first. Get on the list now and you'll be taking bookings from day one.
Nairobi – Eldoret opens first. Everyone on the list hears the day it does, before anybody else.