A1 driving license costs 2026
Cost statistics for class A1: €1,949 cost benchmark, €72 median lesson price and 11,041 driving schools.
Your budget for first motorcycle training
Ride a 125cc motorcycle from age 16 – that is what class A1 enables. Training includes 12 mandatory special drives (5 rural, 4 motorway, 3 night), plus around 12 practice lessons on average. Unlike B196, A1 is a full license with both theory and practical exams, valid internationally and serving as the foundation for upgrading to A2 later.
A A1 (light motorcycle) license costs around €1,949 on average nationwide. A single practice lesson (45 min) runs about €72. These figures are based on approx. 11k driving schools across approx. 1.4k cities (updated August 25, 2026). Lesson prices range between €56 - €85. A typical cost breakdown includes base fee €399, lesson €72, special drive €77, theory exam €63, practical exam €200 – plus individual practice hours on top. Location makes a difference too: costs range from €1,958 in Berlin to €3,162 in München.
Motorcycle lessons tend to be more expensive than car lessons, and individual practice needs on two wheels vary widely. The advantage of A1 over B196: after two years you can upgrade affordably to A2, and you are not limited to Germany.
- Driving license cost
€1,949
Nationwide cost benchmark for A1 (light motorcycle)
- Median lesson price
€72
Price per 45-minute practice lesson
- Data basis
approx. 11k schools / approx. 1.4k cities
Analyzed driving schools and cities
- Data updated
Time of the latest statistics calculation
Methodology and data source
The statistics are based on the drive bee database with approx. 11k driving schools in approx. 1.4k cities. Visible and approved driving schools with structured price and location data for the selected class are included.
For A1 (light motorcycle), median values are used so individual outliers have less impact on the core finding. The cost benchmark combines the typical price components: base fee, practice lessons, mandatory special drives and exam fees.
The visible update date shows when the statistics were last calculated from the available price and location data: August 25, 2026.
Definitions
- Median lesson price
- The middle price for a 45-minute practice lesson: 50 percent of recorded prices are below it and 50 percent are above it.
- Driving license cost
- The cost benchmark for A1 (light motorcycle) combines the most important price components of training and uses median prices from the recorded driving-school data.
- Data basis
- The rounded number of driving schools (approx. 11k) and cities (approx. 1.4k) currently included in the statistics.
