How much does THE OUT car hire cost? Every fee, sourced

Affiliate disclosure: this post covers THE OUT referral code CI311. A first booking made with it takes £50 off for you and pays £50 in account credit to the referring member. I have not hired a car from THE OUT, so nothing below is a price I was quoted. Every figure is either THE OUT's own published terms or a named third party, with the date it was read.

Short answer: THE OUT publishes no rate card, and the cheapest current figure for its car hire comes from Skyscanner, which put a London day at £452 at its cheapest and £695 on average when read on 13 August 2026. The £195 first day in Jaguar Land Rover's 2019 launch release is a floor, not a price. But the largest number in a THE OUT booking is not the daily rate: its own help centre puts a £5,000 deposit hold on every vehicle in the fleet, pre-authorised on your card 24 hours before delivery, and takes 3 to 10 working days to give back.

Nobody on the public web publishes what THE OUT costs today, because THE OUT does not. Every booking is quoted inside its iOS app for your vehicle, dates and delivery address, and none of its public vehicle pages carry a price. What fills the gap is a handful of figures of wildly different ages, and the gap between the lowest and the highest is 4.5 times.

The £5,000 hold is the number nobody quotes

THE OUT's help centre answers this directly, and the wording leaves no room:

All our vehicles have a deposit/excess value of £5000. In practice this means, that we put a hold on this amount of money on your card, the amount is not debited from your account, but you can't use it until it's released.

That is THE OUT's own help centre (opens in new tab), in the archived copy captured on 25 May 2024. The date matters: THE OUT moved its help centre onto a platform that renders only inside a browser, so 25 May 2024 is the most recent version of that article readable on the open web. Its current terms and conditions (opens in new tab), archived 29 January 2025, confirm the mechanism without naming an amount: you provide "a security deposit as set out in the booking confirmation". So treat £5,000 as the documented figure for the fleet, and the confirmation screen as the one that binds.

Four details of how the hold works change what you need to plan for.

• It lands 24 hours before delivery, or at the moment of booking if you book with less than a day's notice.
• It has to be the same card you booked with. THE OUT cannot move it to another card, and it warns you to check your transactional limit with your issuer, and with Apple Pay if you paid that way, so the £5,000 goes through.
• Getting it back takes 3 to 10 working days after release, depending on your bank, even on a clean return.
• Hires longer than 29 days get re-authorised every 30 days, and THE OUT notes the deposit can show twice for a day or so while the first one clears.

Set that against the daily rate. At the £452 Skyscanner quoted as the cheapest London day, £5,000 is about eleven days of hire. A three-day booking at the same rate is £1,356, so the hold is roughly 3.7 times the price of the trip it secures.

THE OUT's own documents disagree on whether the waiver removes it

This is the part worth checking on your own booking screen, because three of THE OUT's own pages do not agree.

Its terms and conditions say that if you buy the Excess Waiver, "no deposit will be taken (subject to eligibility)". Its deposit explainer (opens in new tab), captured 25 May 2024, says the waiver "reduces your deposit to zero". But the most recently archived of the three, "How can I reduce my deposit" (opens in new tab) from 15 January 2025, says the opposite:

It's not possible to reduce the deposit you need to pay for rental, however you can reduce your liability to zero. If you opt for the 'damage waiver,' this reduces your damage liability to zero. However, the deposit is still pre-authorised for the duration of the rental.

Two pages say the waiver removes the hold. The newest one says it removes only your liability and the £5,000 is still taken. If you are buying the waiver specifically so you do not need £5,000 of headroom on one card, that is the difference between a booking that works and a booking that gets cancelled.

Every price figure in circulation, and where it came from

The 2019 rate is the one most articles still repeat, and it is seven years old and the lowest number here. Read it as a floor: the least THE OUT has ever cost, on its cheapest model, in its first month of trading. The spread from that £195 first day to the £883 a Fullsize SUV starts at is 4.5 times.

Skyscanner is worth naming rather than laundering into "prices start from", because it is an aggregator's estimate and not THE OUT's own price. It is also the only current daily figure anyone publishes, which is the sole reason to use it at all.

Skyscanner's weekly figures are not usable, and here is why

The same provider page publishes a one-week block alongside the daily one. Read live on 13 August 2026, it gave a cheapest week of £3,164 and an average week of £1,862.

A cheapest price above an average price is impossible. And £3,164 divided by seven is £452.00, which is the daily rate exactly, so the "cheapest week" cell looks like the day rate multiplied by seven and labelled as a week.

The daily figures are steadier but still move. Across the live read and the two index snippets of that one URL, the cheapest day ran £452, £541 and £544, a spread of about 20%, and the average ran £603 to £1,278, which is 2.1 times. Neither search engine exposes when it crawled, so read that as crawl-to-crawl variance rather than a week's worth. The cheapest day is the only figure on the page worth any weight, the average belongs in a sentence with a date attached to it, and the weekly block should be ignored.

"No additional charges or hidden extras", and the fee schedule underneath

THE OUT's own pricing article (opens in new tab), captured 14 June 2024, makes a flat promise: "There are no additional charges or hidden extras." Its terms and conditions then set out what follows, all of it from the version archived 29 January 2025 unless noted.

The first row is the one that catches people, because it charges you for a booking you never got. If the £5,000 does not clear on the card you booked with, THE OUT cancels the rental and still takes the first day plus delivery.

The congestion charge one has a date on it. THE OUT's terms say the charge stopped being included in the rental fee for bookings made on or after 8 September 2023, and it applies if the car is merely delivered to or collected from an address inside the zone, whether or not you drive it anywhere.

"Unlimited mileage" stops at 600 miles a day

Unlimited mileage sits on THE OUT's homepage as an included extra, unqualified, and it is repeated that way almost everywhere the brand is written up. THE OUT's own gloss, in that same pricing article (opens in new tab), is narrower:

Unlimited mileage (fair usage allowance of 600 miles per 24h, extra miles charged at 30p/mile)

The terms put it less gently: mileage above 600 miles in each 24 hours "constitutes excessive mileage". Six hundred miles a day is a generous allowance and most weekends will not touch it. It is still a cap, and 100 miles past it is £30.

What the £50 referral code is actually worth

THE OUT runs no public voucher codes, so the refer-a-friend code is the only discount that exists. Code CI311 takes £50 off a first booking, and pays £50 in account credit to the member who referred you. Against the figures above:

• 11% of one day at Skyscanner's cheapest London rate of £452
• 7% of one day at its £695 average
• 1% of the £5,000 you need sitting available on the card you book with
• Half of the £100 no-show fee THE OUT adds for handing the car back 21 minutes late, on top of a full day's rental

Claim it, because nothing else on offer beats it and it costs nothing to use. It does not move THE OUT into a different price bracket, and no honest reading of these numbers says it does.

FAQ

How much does THE OUT cost per day?

THE OUT publishes no rate card and quotes every booking in its app. The only current third-party figure is Skyscanner's provider page, which put London hire at £452 a day at its cheapest and £695 on average when read on 13 August 2026, broken down as Intermediate SUV from £452, Premium SUV from £557 and Fullsize SUV from £883. Jaguar Land Rover's April 2019 launch rate of £195 for the first day and £100 a day after is seven years old and should be read as a floor.

How much is the deposit for THE OUT?

THE OUT's help centre states a deposit and excess value of £5,000 on every vehicle in its fleet, held as a pre-authorisation on the card you booked with rather than charged. It lands 24 hours before delivery, or at the time of booking if you book with less than a day's notice, and takes 3 to 10 working days to become available again after release. Its terms say the exact figure for your rental is the one on your booking confirmation.

Does THE OUT really have unlimited mileage?

Not without a cap. THE OUT advertises unlimited mileage and defines it as a fair usage allowance of 600 miles per 24 hours, with extra miles charged at 30p each. Its terms describe anything above 600 miles in 24 hours as excessive mileage.

Is there a THE OUT discount code?

No public one. THE OUT runs no voucher or promo codes that anyone can use. The only discount is its refer-a-friend code, CI311, which takes £50 off a first booking and pays £50 in account credit to the referring member.

What is not included in THE OUT's price?

The London Congestion Charge has been excluded from the rental fee for bookings made on or after 8 September 2023, and carries a £20 handling fee per rental on top. Fuel is charged at pump price after the car comes back, delivery outside the free zone (London Zones 1 to 5, select airports and Greater Birmingham) is charged per mile, and the terms carry a fee schedule covering late returns, late changes, cleaning and traffic penalties.