How does inDrive work in Nha Trang and can you negotiate the price with the driver?

From messages by 2 participants in 1 source · Last activity: 41 days ago

TL;DR

In inDrive the passenger proposes the fare and can haggle with the driver, which sets it apart from other ride-hailing apps in Nha Trang. Riders' experience in August 2026 was that a starting price set too low may get no driver at all, and local drivers often ask for 5,000–7,000 dong more than offered. Even so, trips worked out fairly cheap; one user noticed that the app's suggested fares were about half of those in Maxim or Grab.

What the community said

A rider in late August 2026 recommended inDrive but warned that local drivers almost never accept the price you enter and add 5,000–7,000 dong on top. They always set the minimum fare and, even with that markup, travel fairly cheaply.

44 days ago Drivers add 5,000–7,000 VND

Choose the starting fare with some margin: in August 2026 a user wrote that if you offer the default starting price the app suggests, you may never get a car. So they first tried to find out what price to set to get drivers to respond.

62 days ago

According to participants, the main difference between inDrive and other taxi apps is that you can haggle with the driver and bring the fare down to an amount both sides accept. In September 2026 this was confirmed again: the price is adjusted by talking to the driver.

66 days ago Haggling with the driver

In early August 2026 a user who had not yet ridden with inDrive noticed that the app's suggested fares were about half of those in Maxim or Grab for the same route. With haggling and drivers' markups, the final price may differ from the suggested one.

69 days ago Suggested fare ~half of Maxim/Grab