$ ./fuehrerschein-kosten live
What does a driving licence cost in Germany?
For learners in Germany, their parents, and expats who need a German licence. Pick the class, region and number of lessons; the calculator shows a cheap, typical and expensive total and every item, and you can replace any estimate with your driving school's quote.
$ cat features.md
- Classes B, B197, BE, A1, A2, A, AM and Mofa, each with what it actually requires: theory and practical test, special drives, eye test, first aid, application at the licence office.
- Official TÜV/DEKRA exam fees from the GebOSt (theory €24.99, practical €129.83 or €162.67) with the source and the date they apply from.
- Special drives by class from Annex 4 FahrschAusbO (class B: 5 country road, 4 motorway, 3 night), editable to try the planned reform.
- A low, typical and high total from estimated driving school prices, shifted by federal state and town size; every estimate is labelled as one.
- Enter the prices from your driving school's quote, add failed theory or practical tests, and see what a retake costs.
- Shows the status of the 2026 driving licence reform as of 19 October 2026. Runs in your browser; inputs stay in your browser or in a share link.
$ cat why.md
Driving school price lists are hard to compare: one school has a cheap registration fee and expensive lessons, the next the other way round, and the exam fees and the licence office come on top. I work with driving schools through my software for them, and the question I hear most from learners is simply what it will cost in the end. This calculator answers that with a range and every item, and lets you check a school's quote against it.
$ self-host-it
- Requirements
- Static files, no build step and no dependencies. Any web server works; tests run with Node.js 20+ (node --test tests/).
- Built with
- HTML, JavaScript
- License
- MIT
The repository goes public on GitHub soon. Until then, ask me for the code and I'll send you access.
Get the source