How Much a Tesla Cybertruck Costs Now — and How Long You'll Wait
The cheapest Cybertruck has gone from $59,990 to $74,990 in six months, and the queue has turned into inventory. Here's what each trim costs, what you get, and how fast one arrives.
A Tesla Cybertruck costs between $74,990 and $99,990 before destination and taxes, depending on trim. That is the easy part. The hard part is that the cheapest trim was $59,990 in February, $69,990 in March, and $74,990 since late August, while the wait has swung from "more than a year" to "about 3,000 trucks in inventory" in the same stretch.
This guide covers what each version costs today, what separates them, and how quickly you can actually get one. The one thing we cannot verify is Tesla's per-trim delivery estimate, which lives only in the configurator and changes without notice; we flag that below rather than guess.
How much does a Cybertruck cost right now?
Tesla updated its online configurator on the night of August 24, 2026, adding $5,000 to two of the three trims without changing a single spec, according to Electrek. The current lineup:
- Dual Motor AWD — $74,990 (up from $69,990)
- Premium AWD — $84,990 (up from $79,990)
- Cyberbeast — $99,990 (unchanged)
All three figures exclude destination, taxes, and registration; Tesla shows the destination fee only inside the order flow, and we could not confirm the current number independently. The federal EV tax credit expired on September 30, 2025, so the configurator price is what you pay, minus any state incentive.
What you get with each trim
Every Cybertruck shares a 325-mile range estimate, steer-by-wire with rear-wheel steering, an 18.5-inch center screen, and 121 cubic feet of cargo volume under the tonneau; Tesla says a Supercharger adds more than 130 miles in 15 minutes. The trims split on power, suspension, and towing.
Dual Motor AWD is the truck Tesla introduced in February to replace the short-lived rear-wheel-drive model: two motors, a 4.1-second 0–60 mph time, and a 7,500-pound tow rating. It rides on adaptive dampers rather than air suspension and skips the rear-seat display, but keeps the bed outlets and Powershare vehicle-to-home capability the old RWD truck dropped.
Premium AWD makes 593 hp from its dual motors, rides on adaptive air suspension that lifts the body for up to 16 inches of ground clearance, adds the 9.4-inch rear display, and tows 11,000 pounds.
Cyberbeast adds a third motor for 834 hp and a claimed 2.6-second 0–60 mph run, keeps the 325-mile range and 11,000-pound tow rating, and costs $15,000 more than the Premium, a gap the August increase narrowed from $20,000.
How the price got here: the 2026 timeline
The sequence, based on configurator changes tracked by Electrek and InsideEVs:
- February 19 — Tesla launches the Dual Motor AWD at $59,990 and cuts the Cyberbeast from $114,990 to $99,990, reversing a $15,000 increase from August 2025. The existing all-wheel-drive truck is renamed Premium AWD at $79,990.
- February 20 — Elon Musk says the $59,990 price will last only 10 days. A banner on the configurator confirms an increase after February 28.
- March 1 — Dual Motor AWD moves to $69,990.
- August 24 — Dual Motor AWD rises to $74,990 and Premium AWD to $84,990. Cyberbeast stays at $99,990.
That is a $15,000 swing on the same truck in six months. For context, the Foundation Series trucks that opened deliveries in late 2023 listed at around $120,000, and the $69,990 rear-wheel-drive version sold from April to September 2025 was withdrawn after 173 sales, per Electrek.
How long is the wait, really?
The answer changed twice in the first week after the February launch. On February 24 the configurator's estimate for new Dual Motor AWD orders moved from June 2026 to September–October 2026, as Teslarati and Drive Tesla reported from the order page. Two days later Teslarati reported it had jumped to April 2027 — roughly 14 months out. Tesla never explained the shift; the outlets tracking it read it as demand for the introductory price. Treat those dates as reported, not confirmed by Tesla.
September looks different. Electrek put U.S. inventory at roughly 3,000 unsold trucks at the time of the August increase, and Tesla is running nationwide lease promotions on the Premium AWD and Cyberbeast this month. Neither happens to a vehicle with a year-long queue. For the two upper trims, a truck in stock near you is the realistic scenario; for the Dual Motor AWD, the only reliable answer is whatever the configurator shows for your ZIP code today.
One trap if you own another Tesla with a paid Full Self-Driving license: the transfer program originally let you qualify by ordering before March 31, 2026, then quietly switched the condition to taking delivery by that date, according to Electrek. Dual Motor AWD buyers with late-2026 or 2027 estimates lost the transfer. FSD is now subscription-only for new buyers at $99 per month.
Lease or buy?
Tesla's September lease offers, listed on the U.S. configurator and reported by Autoblog, run 36 months at 10,000 miles per year:
- Premium AWD — $1,129 per month with $6,824 due at signing
- Cyberbeast — $1,439 per month with $7,134 due at signing
Due at signing covers $5,000 down plus the first payment and Tesla's fees; taxes and registration are extra. The offers are for well-qualified applicants in participating states, and a buyout at lease end depends on state rules. There is no advertised lease on the Dual Motor AWD.
The case for leasing is the pricing history above: if Tesla cuts again, a lease shields you from the resale hit. The case for buying is the same history read the other way — the trims Tesla is promoting are the ones it most needs to move.
What the sales numbers say
Tesla does not report Cybertruck sales, so the best figures are Cox Automotive's Kelley Blue Book estimates: 20,237 trucks in 2025, down 48.1 percent from 38,965 in 2024, and 7,263 in the first half of 2026 — 3,519 in Q1 and 3,744 in Q2, according to Cox's Q2 report. That is 32 percent below a year earlier, yet still enough to make the Cybertruck the best-selling electric pickup in the U.S., ahead of the Ford F-150 Lightning, Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC Sierra EV, and Rivian R1T.
Two caveats. Registration data analyzed by S&P Global Mobility and first reported by Bloomberg showed that of 7,071 Cybertrucks registered in the U.S. in Q4 2025, SpaceX took 1,279 and Musk-controlled companies 1,339 in total, per Electrek. And Electrek estimates the Austin line builds fewer than 20,000 trucks a year against a planned 250,000 — a figure Tesla has not confirmed.
Lead engineer Wes Morrill said on September 7 and 8 that Tesla has swapped the aluminum aero shield under the truck for a self-reinforcing polypropylene part and reshaped the side-camera housings to shed water — running production changes, not a new model year.
Cybertruck vs. Cybercab: not the same thing
Search results routinely blend the two. The Cybertruck is the stainless-steel pickup you can buy today. The Cybercab is Tesla's robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, carrying public riders in Austin since September 4 and not for sale to individuals. If that is what you were after, our explainer on how to ride a Cybercab in Austin and our Cybercab vs. Waymo comparison cover it.
What we don't know yet
- Current delivery estimates by trim. Tesla shows these only in the configurator, by ZIP code, and moves them without announcement. Check the order page before relying on any date, including the ones above.
- Whether Dual Motor AWD stays on the menu. It survived the August increase, but Tesla pulled the $59,990 introductory price after 10 days and killed the RWD truck after five months in 2025.
- The exact destination charge. Tesla does not publish it outside the order flow.
- Third-quarter sales. Cox Automotive's Q3 2026 EV report is due in October and will show whether the August increase moved volume in either direction.
- Tesla's plans for the truck. No confirmed refresh, no announced 2027 model year, no official word on discontinuation. Musk brushed off a shutdown on an earnings call earlier this year, per Electrek; the running engineering changes are the only concrete signal.
What's next
The next hard data point is Cox Automotive's third-quarter estimate in October. The September lease offers expire at month's end and will be renewed, sweetened, or dropped — which will say more about inventory than any Tesla statement. The FSD transfer terms, changed twice in 2026, are worth rechecking if you are trading in another Tesla. We will update this page as each of those lands.
