Lyft vs Uber: Who Is Winning the Ride-Sharing Battle?

Uber and Lyft – both services look the same – but aren’t. Uber’s business is expanded into many vertices while Lyft is centered around Taxi Booking. If you are an entrepreneur planning to make an app like Uber or Lyft, you can learn a lot from the strategies of both.

Well, the answer to this question varies from city to city – Lyft is considered to be cheaper. For longer trips, Uber charges more money as compared to Lyft as its per-minute cost is slightly higher. Also, Uber uses price surging technique while Lyft follows no such strategies.

There are many differences between Uber and Lyft. While Uber is available in more than 70 countries Lyft’s availability is restricted to North America. Also, Uber’s business is expanded into a number of vertices where Lyft is just confined to transportation.

It is a bit difficult to give a cost estimate for developing an app like Uber or Lyft as it depends on several factors like Platform you want to launch your app on, features you want to integrate and tech stack that you use. But to give you a rough estimate I can say that it would cost you somewhere around $30k – $40k with just the basic features.