Toll roads in Norway

What tolls cost: six drives

Calculated with Roadme on 19 September 2026 for a departure on Tuesday 22 September at 11:00, outside rush hour. Tolls only — ferries and fuel are counted separately further down.

Three things are worth reading out of that table. The tolls are rarely the big number. Oslo–Bergen costs 260 kroner in tolls and 897 in petrol, 1 157 kroner for the drive. On Bergen–Stavanger the two ferries cost 354 kroner, more than the tolls and not far off the fuel. A short drive can cost more than a long one. The 52 kilometres in from Oslo airport cost more in tolls than the 113 from the Swedish border, because both toll rings of the capital sit on those last few kilometres. And the spread between vehicles is enormous. The same road to Bergen is 632 kroner in a motorhome over 3.5 tonnes, 142 in an electric car with a tag, and nothing at all on a motorcycle.

This is what one of those drives looks like station by station — Oslo to Bergen in a petrol car at 11:00: E18 Bygdøylokket 38 kr, E16 Avtjerna 51 kr, E16 Skaret 51 kr, Rv 7 Brekkebygda 88 kr, Åsanemyrane on the way into Bergen 32 kr. That is the 260. Two more passages on the same road cost nothing, because the hour rule covers them; the calculator lists them as free and names the station that paid for them.

How toll roads work in Norway

Norway has 463 toll stations in 55 toll projects, and not one of them has a barrier or a booth. A camera reads the number plate as you pass under the gantry at normal speed. If the vehicle has an AutoPASS agreement the passage is charged to it; if it has none, the registered owner is invoiced afterwards, and for a foreign vehicle that invoice comes from Epass24. There is nothing to do at the station, nothing to stop for, and no way to pay cash — there is nobody to pay.

What varies is the price, and it varies more than most visitors expect. The same gantry charges a different amount for a petrol car, a diesel car and an electric car; 180 of the 463 stations charge more in rush hour; and 310 of them sit in one of 24 groups where the hour rule makes the second passage free. Roadme reads all of it from the national road database every night, direction by direction, and prices each station for the minute you actually pass it rather than the minute you leave home.

Paying with a foreign car

You do nothing at the toll station and nothing at the border. Foreign cars pay the same rates as Norwegian ones, and Epass24 collects for every Norwegian toll project. How much you pay on top of the tolls depends on whether you register in advance.

Without registering, Epass24 traces the owner through your own country's vehicle register and posts the invoice a few weeks after the trip. The trace costs money and it is passed on to you as a lookup fee, itemised on the invoice: 5.10 euro for Germany, 14 euro for Austria, 8.67 euro for Spain, 47.40 złoty for Poland, at the rates AutoPASS published as correct from 1 May 2025. The vehicle is also charged as an ordinary car, so an electric car that nobody has registered pays the petrol rate.

With a free Epass24 account — the vehicle and a payment card entered before you drive — the lookup fee disappears, the passages are billed monthly to the card, and the car is charged on its real environmental data, which is the only way an unregistered foreign electric car gets the electric rate. There is no discount: for that you need a tag.

The AutoPASS tag: 20 per cent off

AutoPASS is the national toll system. You sign an agreement with one toll company, a tag arrives by post, and the agreement then works at every toll station in the country — and on the ferries, where it takes 10 per cent off. In tariff group 1, everything up to 3.5 tonnes, the tag takes 20 per cent off most stations. Heavy vehicles get no discount at all, and for heavy vehicles in commercial traffic the tag is not a discount but a legal requirement.

Whether it is worth it for a visit is arithmetic, not opinion. On a two-week round trip through Oslo, Bergen and the fjords the discount is worth a few hundred kroner; on a single drive from the Swedish border to Oslo it is 15. The tag has to be ordered in advance and posted to you — you cannot pick one up at the border for a light vehicle — so for most visitors an Epass24 account is the practical choice and the tag is for people who drive in Norway often.

Rental cars

A Norwegian rental car already has a tag and an agreement, so the tolls are charged to the rental company and passed on to you, usually with an administration fee per rental or per passage. Read that line in the contract before you compare quotes: on a long drive the fee can be larger than the tolls it administers. The rate itself follows the car's own environmental data, so an electric rental gets the electric rate. The calculator above is the way to check the bill afterwards — it prices the exact stations on the exact road you drove.

Electric cars pay too

The exemption is over. Since 2023 toll companies have been allowed to charge electric cars up to 70 per cent of the ordinary rate, and what they take varies: Oslo charges 21 kroner against 42 for a diesel, Bergen 22 against 38, while most road projects sit at the full 70 per cent. Roadme uses the city rates where they exist and the 70 per cent rule everywhere else.

The electric rate is not automatic. It requires a valid AutoPASS agreement and tag, or, for a foreign car, a registered Epass24 account. An electric car that nobody registered pays the same as a petrol car, which is the most common and most expensive mistake we see. Plug-in hybrids count as petrol or diesel, whichever they burn.

Motorhomes and caravans

A motorhome up to and including 3 500 kg pays as a car. Above that it is tariff group 2 — around 2.5 times the price at every station, and it gets no tag discount: 632 kroner from Oslo to Bergen against 260 for a petrol car. The weight that decides is the one on the registration document, not what you have loaded.

A car towing a caravan is charged for the car alone; the trailer adds nothing at a toll station. Ferries work the other way round and charge by total length, so the caravan that is free on the road is the expensive part of the crossing. Ferry fares and departures are a separate page.

Motorcycles pay nothing

Motorcycles and mopeds are exempt at every automatic toll station and in every toll ring in Norway, with no agreement and no application. Pick the motorcycle in the calculator and the toll line goes to zero — 0 kroner from Oslo to Bergen against 260 in a petrol car. Ferries still charge the motorcycle rate, which is low but not nothing: 120 kroner for the two crossings between Bergen and Stavanger.

One side effect is worth knowing. When tolls stop steering the route, the cheapest road changes: with no tolls to avoid, the calculator sends the motorcycle to Bergen over Rv 7 and Rv 13, fifteen kilometres shorter than the E16 it recommends for a car.

The Oslo toll ring

Three rings — the city boundary with 23 stations, the Oslo ring with 22 and the inner ring with 38 — charged by Fjellinjen. One rate applies across all of them. These are the prices per passage from 1 January 2026, without an agreement; with one, take 20 per cent off.

Rush hour is weekdays 06:30–09:00 and 15:00–17:00. Coming in from the west you cross the city boundary at Lysaker and the Oslo ring at Sjølyst: two rings, two passages, 76 kroner in a petrol car. From the airport it is Furuset and Alnabru on the E6, the same 76. The full Oslo ring guide is in Norwegian, station by station.

The Bergen toll ring

Bergen has the steepest rush-hour surcharge in the country: the rate roughly doubles. Ferde's prices from 1 January 2026, without an agreement, are 32 kroner off peak and 64 in rush for petrol and hybrid, 38 and 70 for diesel, 22 and 44 for an electric car, 13 and 24 for hydrogen. Heavy vehicles pay 88 and 154 for Euro V and older, 47 and 94 for Euro VI, nothing if they are zero-emission.

Rush hour is 06:30–09:00 and 14:30–16:30 — the afternoon window starts half an hour earlier than in Oslo, which catches people who plan their day by Oslo's clock.

Rush hour, the hour rule, the monthly cap

Rush hour. 180 of the 463 stations have their own rush rate. The commonest window is 06:30–08:59 and 15:00–16:59 on weekdays, but 40 stations start at 07:00 and Bergen runs 14:30–16:29 in the afternoon. It never applies at weekends. Roadme prices each station for the minute you reach it, so leaving Oslo at 08:00 means the first two stations are charged at the rush rate and the rest are not.

The hour rule. 310 stations sit in one of 24 groups; within a group you pay for the first passage and the rest are free for 60 minutes, two groups for 90. Drive from Sandvika into the centre and out again inside the hour and it is the city boundary once and the Oslo ring once, not five passages. In the Oslo and Bergen rings the rule applies to every vehicle; elsewhere it generally needs an AutoPASS agreement.

The monthly cap. Several rings stop charging after a set number of passages per vehicle per month: 60 at the Oslo city boundary, 120 on the Oslo and inner rings, 60 in Bergen. It needs an agreement, and the calculator does not apply it, because it depends on how many passages you have already made this month. If you commute through a ring your real bill will be lower than a single-trip figure suggests.

Ferries are not tolls

They are charged separately, by a different system, at a quay rather than a gantry — but they land on the same trip budget and they are often the larger number. The AutoPASS tag works there too and takes 10 per cent off. On the drive from Bergen to Stavanger the ferries cost 354 kroner against 96 in tolls; from Oslo to Lofoten they add 277 on top of 618. Roadme prices the crossings on your route with the real fare for your vehicle and shows the next departures. See ferries in Norway, or price the whole drive at once with tolls, ferries and fuel together.

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