Class B driving license costs 2026
Cost statistics for the class B car license: €2,033 cost benchmark, €65 median lesson price and 11,041 analyzed driving schools.
Costs, lessons and exams at a glance
The car license is the biggest investment most people make before buying their first vehicle – and the price gap between driving schools surprises many. German law requires 12 mandatory special drives (5 rural, 4 motorway, 3 night), plus an average of around 20 practice lessons of 45 minutes each. How much you end up paying depends mainly on how quickly you learn and where you live.
A B (car) license costs around €2,033 on average nationwide. A single practice lesson (45 min) runs about €65. These figures are based on approx. 11k driving schools across approx. 1.4k cities (updated June 13, 2026). Lesson prices range between €51 - €84. A typical cost breakdown includes base fee €399, lesson €65, special drive €71, theory exam €65, practical exam €190 – plus individual practice hours on top. Location makes a difference too: costs range from €2,267 in Berlin to €3,717 in München.
The biggest cost driver remains the number of practice lessons – ten more or fewer lessons can easily mean several hundred euros difference. Compare the base fee, lesson price and special-drive prices in your city before committing to a driving school.
- Driving license cost
€2,033
Nationwide cost benchmark for B (car)
- Median lesson price
€65
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 B (car), 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: June 13, 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 B (car) 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.
