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Austria Vignette 2026: Digital Toll Sticker for Austrian Motorways
Buy your Austria vignette online and skip the queue at the border. The Austrian toll sticker is now a digital vignette: it is registered to your number plate in the official ASFINAG system and checked by camera, so nothing goes on your windscreen. You need one on every Austrian motorway and expressway, from the moment you take the slip road. Choose 1 day, 10 days, 2 months or a year, pick your start date, and pay by card, PayPal or Klarna.
The Austria vignette at a glance
| Where is it compulsory? | On every Austrian motorway (Autobahn) and expressway (Schnellstraße); ordinary local and country roads are free. |
|---|---|
| What form does it take? | A digital vignette registered to your number plate in the ASFINAG system, with nothing to fix to the windscreen. |
| Which vehicles? | Cars, camper vans and motorcycles up to 3,500 kg; a caravan or trailer needs nothing extra, while vehicles over 3,500 kg use a GO-Box instead. |
| Durations | 1 day, 10 days, 2 months or a year; there is no 14-day and no one-month option. |
| Price | Car €9.60 (1 day) to €106.80 (annual), motorcycle €3.80 to €42.70, the official ASFINAG rate, plus €6.99 administration and service fee per vignette. |
| Earliest start date with us | 2 days ahead for the 1-day and 10-day vignette, 20 days ahead for the 2-month and annual vignette. |
| Driving without one | A replacement toll (Ersatzmaut) of €200 for a car or €100 for a motorcycle, and a fine of €300 to €3,000 if that goes unpaid. |
| Not included | Section tolls (Sondermaut) such as the Brenner, Tauern, Karawanken, Arlberg and Pyhrn tunnels, which are paid per journey. |
What is the Austrian motorway vignette?
The Austria vignette is the toll pass for the Austrian motorway network: you need one on every motorway (Autobahn) and expressway (Schnellstraße). It used to be a sticker (Pickerl) glued to the windscreen, which is why you will still hear it called the Austrian toll sticker, but it is now sold as a digital vignette. The e-vignette is registered to your number plate in the official ASFINAG system and enforced by number plate cameras, so there is nothing to carry, show or stick on. One vignette covers cars and camper vans up to 3,500 kg; motorcycles have their own, lower rate.
The digital vignette is linked to your number plate, so there is no sticker to collect, no sticker to post and nothing to scrape off the glass or keep in the car. Just hold on to your order confirmation until the end of the validity period as proof of purchase.
Austria goes fully digital in 2027
The windscreen sticker is on its way out. From the 2027 vignette year Austria switches entirely to the digital system, and ASFINAG stops issuing the printed Pickerl altogether; 2026, in bright red, is the last sticker year. The 1-day vignette has only ever existed digitally. Taking the e-vignette on your number plate now puts you on the system everyone will be using, with nothing to peel off, nothing to tear and no risk of a sticker ending up on the wrong car.
Do I need a vignette for Austria?
You need one the moment you join an Austrian motorway (Autobahn) or expressway (Schnellstraße), even if you use it for a single kilometre and even if you never stop in the country. That catches out a great deal of transit traffic: the run to Italy over the Brenner, the drive to Croatia through the Tauern and Karawanken tunnels, and the usual ski routes into Tyrol and Salzburgerland all use the motorway network. Ordinary local and country roads need no vignette at all, so crawling through the valleys is perfectly legal, if slow. There is no grace period after the border.
Vignette-free motorway sections
A few stretches of motorway just inside the border have been vignette-free since December 2019. They let you reach the first exit, or drive into Salzburg, without paying anything.
- A1 Westautobahn: vignette-free between the German border at Walserberg and the Salzburg-Nord junction.
- A12 Inntalautobahn: vignette-free between the German border at Kufstein/Kiefersfelden and the Kufstein-Süd junction.
- A14 Rheintalautobahn: vignette-free between the German border at Hörbranz and the Hohenems junction.
- A26 near Linz (Westring): temporarily vignette-free until it is connected to the A7, which is expected around 2031.
Stay on the motorway past those exits and a valid vignette is required from that point on, with no tolerance. The A26 exemption is temporary and ends once the link to the A7 opens.
Austria vignette price 2026: cost per duration
How much a vignette for Austria costs depends on how long you need it and what you drive. There are four durations to choose from: a 1-day vignette, a 10-day vignette, a 2-month vignette and an annual vignette, each at a car rate or a motorcycle rate. The prices in the table below are the official ASFINAG declaration rates, which we pass on at cost. We also charge a one-off €6.99 administration and service fee per vignette.
| Duration | Car | Motorbike |
|---|---|---|
| 1 day | €9.60 | €3.80 |
| 10 days | €12.80 | €5.10 |
| 2 months | €32.00 | €12.80 |
| 1 year | €106.80 | €42.70 |
The vignette prices above exclude our administration and service fee. The ASFINAG declaration is passed on at cost (0% VAT); on top of that we charge a one-off €6.99 administration and service fee per vignette (including 21% VAT).
Each duration runs on its own clock. A 10-day vignette covers the start day plus the nine following calendar days, so a start on 10 July runs to the end of 19 July. A 2-month vignette runs to the same date two months later: 10 July to 10 September. The 2026 annual vignette is valid from 1 December 2025 until 31 January 2027, fourteen months in all. Because there is no 14-day and no one-month option, a fortnight in the mountains means taking the 2-month vignette. For a ski week or a long weekend in Tyrol the 10-day vignette is the natural choice, and if you cross Austria more than twice a year it is worth comparing the annual rate before you buy.
Your vignette covers the whole motorway and expressway network apart from a handful of Alpine routes. The Brenner motorway (A13), the Tauern Tunnel (A10), the Karawanken Tunnel (A11), the Arlberg Tunnel (S16) and the Gleinalm and Bosruck tunnels on the A9 are run as separate section tolls and charged per journey on top. Everywhere else on the network, the vignette is all you need.
Tolls in Austria: vignette, section tolls and GO-Box
Austria charges for its roads in three different ways, and mixing them up is the usual reason drivers get caught out. Cars and motorcycles up to 3,500 kg buy a time-based vignette. A few Alpine tunnels and passes are excluded from that and charged per journey as a section toll. Anything over 3.5 tonnes leaves the vignette system altogether and pays by the kilometre. Most drivers coming from the UK only ever deal with the first two.
- Vignette: a time-based pass for the whole motorway and expressway network, for vehicles up to 3,500 kg. One price per duration, however many kilometres you cover.
- Section toll (Sondermaut or Streckenmaut): a separate charge for one specific tunnel or mountain route, paid per journey on top of the vignette.
- GO-Box: the distance-based toll for lorries, coaches and motorhomes over 3.5 tonnes. The box is obtained before you use the motorway and replaces the vignette entirely.
Section tolls 2026: Brenner, Tauern and the other toll routes
These routes are not covered by the vignette. The prices below are 2026 rates for a car, one way.
- A13 Brennerautobahn, Schönberg to the Brenner pass: €12.50.
- A10 Tauernautobahn, the Tauern and Katschberg tunnels between Flachau and Rennweg: €15.00.
- A11 Karawanken Tunnel, the route into Slovenia and on towards Croatia: €9.00.
- A9 Pyhrnautobahn: €12.00 for the Gleinalm Tunnel and €7.00 for the Bosruck Tunnel.
- S16 Arlberg road tunnel, the year-round link between Vorarlberg and Tyrol: €13.00.
You can pay at the toll plaza as you arrive or buy the digital section toll online before you travel. We do not sell section tolls, so budget for them separately alongside your vignette.
How to buy a vignette for Austria online
Ordering takes about a minute and you can do it from your phone before you set off. Here is how buying an Austrian vignette online works with us:
- Select your vehicle (car or motorcycle) and the duration you need: 1 day, 10 days, 2 months or a year.
- Choose the start date from which the vignette should be valid.
- Enter your number plate, the country of registration and your email address.
- Pay securely with card, Apple Pay or PayPal.
We then register the vignette to that number plate in the official ASFINAG system and email you a confirmation. From the start date you chose, every camera on the Austrian motorway network reads your plate as paid. Keep the confirmation until the vignette expires.
VignetDirect is an independent service and not ASFINAG. You pay the official ASFINAG rate for the vignette itself, passed on at cost, plus one administration and service fee per vignette for handling the order. In return you order in English on a single page, pay in euros by card, PayPal or Klarna, receive a proper invoice, and never need an ASFINAG account of your own. If something is wrong with a number plate, our support sorts it out in English. What we cannot do is undercut the rate, because the ASFINAG price is fixed and identical wherever you buy.
Austria vignette start date and validity
You choose the start date yourself, and it pays to plan ahead. For the 1-day and 10-day vignette the earliest start date is 2 days from today: that is the processing time we need to get your vignette registered with ASFINAG. For the 2-month and annual vignette the earliest date is 20 days out, and that is not us being slow: 18 of those days are the statutory cooling-off period that applies to vignettes sold online (your right of withdrawal), and 2 days are our processing time. The order screen fills in the earliest possible date for you. If you need cover that starts today, an ASFINAG sales point at the border or on a motorway is the only place that can arrange it.
Keep an eye on the end date as well as the start. A 1-day vignette covers one calendar day, a 10-day vignette the start day plus nine more, and a 2-month vignette runs to the same date two months later, while the 2026 annual vignette expires on 31 January 2027. The confirmation email states the exact period. Keep it until the vignette runs out, because it is the record that your number plate was registered for those dates.
Enforcement and fines: how Austria checks your vignette
Austria checks the vignette automatically. Around 20 mobile enforcement units, moved regularly around the network, photograph number plates and match them against the ASFINAG database, and ASFINAG toll inspectors (Mautaufsicht) also stop drivers at the roadside. Because the vignette is digital there is nothing to display and nothing to discuss: either your plate is registered for that day or it is not. If it is not, you are charged the replacement toll, the Ersatzmaut, which since 1 January 2026 has been €200 for a car and €100 for a motorcycle, payable on the spot or by post.
Never drive on an Austrian motorway without a valid vignette. If your number plate is checked and nothing is registered to it, you pay an on-the-spot Ersatzmaut (replacement toll) of €200 for a car or €100 for a motorcycle, far more than any vignette costs. Leave that unpaid and the formal penalty runs from €300 up to €3,000, plus the cost of the proceedings.
Driving in Austria from the UK: what you need
A trip to the Alps asks a little more of the boot than a run to the coast. This is what Austria expects from a UK-registered car.
- A valid vignette for every motorway and expressway, registered to your number plate before you join the network, plus the section toll for the Brenner, Tauern, Arlberg or Karawanken if your route uses them.
- Winter tyres are compulsory from 1 November to 15 April whenever conditions are wintry, with at least 4 mm of tread. On continuous snow or ice you may fit snow chains to at least two driven wheels instead.
- A warning triangle, a first-aid kit and a reflective jacket for the driver must be in the vehicle. Keep the jacket within reach of the driver's seat rather than in the boot, because you are meant to put it on before you get out.
- Speed limits are 130 km/h on motorways, 100 km/h on other roads outside built-up areas and 50 km/h in towns. Everything is signed in kilometres, so read the inner scale of your speedometer.
- Carry your driving licence, the V5C registration document and your insurance details, and ask your insurer whether a green card is needed. UK cars also need a UK identifier, either on the number plate or as a separate sticker, plus headlamp beam deflectors, and you drive on the right.
- Neighbouring countries have their own rules: Germany has no vignette but its low-emission zones need an Umweltplakette, France requires a Crit'Air sticker, Switzerland, Slovenia, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia each sell their own vignette, and Italy charges toll per section. The German and French stickers can be ordered from us.
Not sure which countries your route actually crosses? Our route planner works out which vignettes and stickers a journey needs and lets you order them together in one go.
Driving through more than one country?
Enter your route in the route planner and see straight away which vignettes and emissions stickers you need for France, Germany and Austria. All in one order.
Frequently asked questions about the Austria vignette
Yes, if your route uses the motorway network. A vignette is compulsory for every car, camper van and motorcycle up to 3,500 kg on Austrian motorways (Autobahn) and expressways (Schnellstraße), from the moment you take the slip road, even for a single kilometre. Ordinary local and country roads need nothing. There is no grace period at the border: drive without one and you pay a replacement toll of €200 for a car, €100 for a motorcycle.
Two things make up the price. The first is the official ASFINAG rate for the duration and vehicle you choose, which is fixed nationally and which we pass on at cost with no mark-up. The second is one administration and service fee per vignette. You see the exact amount for your vehicle and duration, car or motorcycle and 1 day, 10 days, 2 months or a year, as soon as you start your order. For a normal holiday the 10-day vignette is the cheapest realistic option.
Online before you leave, or at an ASFINAG sales point once you are on your way. The official channel is the ASFINAG Toll Shop, and ASFINAG sales points and petrol stations near the border sell it too. The rate is fixed, so the price is identical everywhere. Ordering online from us means you do it in English, pay by card, PayPal or Klarna, and skip the queue, provided you order in good time.
ASFINAG is the official operator, and its Toll Shop is the official place to buy. ASFINAG is the Austrian state motorway company: it sets the rates, holds the vignette database and runs the enforcement cameras. VignetDirect is an independent service and not ASFINAG. We pass the official ASFINAG rate on at cost and add one administration and service fee for handling your order in English and registering the vignette to your number plate.
Exactly the same as anywhere else. ASFINAG sets one fixed rate for each duration and each vehicle type, so a vignette bought at a border petrol station costs the same as one bought online. What you save by ordering in advance is time, not money: at the border you queue at a counter and pay there, and the 1-day vignette is not sold as a physical sticker at all, because it exists only in digital form.
Not when you order it from us. Our earliest start date is 2 days ahead for the 1-day and 10-day vignette, and 20 days ahead for the 2-month and annual vignette, because Austrian consumer law applies an 18-day cooling-off period to those two before they take effect. In the official ASFINAG Toll Shop the 1-day and 10-day vignette are valid straight away and buyers can waive the cooling-off period. If you need cover today, use an ASFINAG sales point near the border.
We register most orders with ASFINAG within 24 hours. That processing time is built into the order screen: the earliest start date is 2 days ahead for the 1-day and 10-day vignette, and 20 days ahead for the 2-month and annual vignette, where an 18-day statutory cooling-off period applies to online sales. Plan your start date around it and order before you set off.
No. Your vignette is fully digital and registered to your number plate, so nothing is posted to you and nothing goes on your windscreen. ASFINAG checks number plates with roadside cameras, which means there is no sticker to lose, no sticker to scrape off at the end of the year and nothing extra to carry in the car. Your order confirmation is your proof of purchase.
Nowhere, because there is nothing to stick on. The digital vignette lives on your number plate in the ASFINAG database, so the windscreen stays clear. If you do end up with a paper Klebevignette from a sales point, it belongs on the inside of the windscreen, either top left or just behind the rear-view mirror, and never in the tinted band along the top edge, where an inspector cannot read it properly.
Your number plate is the vignette. When you order, the plate and its country of registration are entered in the official ASFINAG system for the duration you chose, and from your start date the cameras watching the motorway network simply read the plate as paid. Nothing is posted to you, nothing goes on the windscreen and there is no code or barcode to show. Keep the confirmation email until the vignette expires, as it is your proof of purchase.
There are four: 1 day, 10 days, 2 months and a full year, each at a car rate and a lower motorcycle rate. There is no 14-day and no one-month vignette, so for a stay somewhere in between you take the 2-month one. All four are valid on the entire Austrian motorway (Autobahn) and expressway (Schnellstraße) network. The annual vignette for 2026 runs from 1 December 2025 to 31 January 2027.
It depends entirely on how long you stay. For a normal holiday or a week in the mountains the 10-day vignette is almost always the cheapest sensible choice, because it covers the drive out and the drive home. The 1-day vignette only makes sense if you clip a corner of Austria in a single day, for example on a transit run to Italy. If you make more than two trips a year, the annual vignette costs less per journey than buying short ones over and over.
Just three things: your number plate, the country the vehicle is registered in, and an email address. Because the vignette is digital there are no documents to upload and no registration papers to scan. Check the number plate carefully before you pay, because the vignette is registered to exactly the characters you enter, and that is what the cameras compare against.
It is valid on the entire motorway (Autobahn) and expressway (Schnellstraße) network, which is exactly where a vignette is required. Ordinary local and country roads never need one. The exceptions run the other way: a handful of Alpine tunnels and passes, such as the Brenner motorway (A13), the Tauern Tunnel (A10) and the Karawanken Tunnel (A11), are separate toll routes you pay for on top of your vignette.
Yes. You may enter Austria and drive around it without a vignette as long as you stay off the motorways (Autobahn) and expressways (Schnellstraße), because ordinary local and country roads are free. Three border stretches of motorway are vignette-free as well: the A1 from Walserberg to Salzburg-Nord, the A12 from Kufstein/Kiefersfelden to Kufstein-Süd, and the A14 from Hörbranz to Hohenems. Carry on past those exits and a valid vignette is required immediately.
Buy one before you join the motorway, because there is no way to put it right afterwards. A vignette is only valid from the start date you chose, so you cannot buy cover for a journey you have already made. If your plate was recorded without one, ASFINAG issues a replacement toll (Ersatzmaut) of €200 for a car or €100 for a motorcycle, which settles the matter on the spot or by post. Leave that unpaid and the administrative fine runs from €300 to €3,000.
Automatically, by camera. ASFINAG runs around 20 mobile enforcement units that are moved regularly around the network, alongside roadside toll inspectors (Mautaufsicht). The cameras read your number plate and check it against the ASFINAG database in seconds, so there is nothing for anyone to look at on your windscreen and nothing you can show a patrol. If no valid vignette is registered to the plate, you are charged a replacement toll (Ersatzmaut) of €200 for a car or €100 for a motorcycle.
A vignette buys time; a toll buys a stretch of road. The Austrian vignette is a time-based pass: one fixed price for 1 day, 10 days, 2 months or a year on the whole motorway and expressway network, however far you drive. A section toll (Sondermaut) is a separate charge for one specific tunnel or mountain route, such as the Brenner or the Tauern, paid per journey on top of the vignette. Vehicles over 3.5 tonnes pay by the kilometre with a GO-Box instead.
In 2026 it is €12.50 for a car, one way. The Brenner pass toll is a section toll (Sondermaut) on the A13 Brennerautobahn between Schönberg and the Brenner pass, and it is charged on top of your vignette rather than instead of it, so you still need a valid vignette for the rest of the A13. You can pay at the Schönberg toll plaza or buy the digital section toll online before you travel. We do not sell section tolls.
No. In Austria a trailer or caravan does not need a vignette of its own. As long as the towing vehicle stays within 3,500 kg maximum permitted weight, the whole combination travels on the car vignette. Above 3,500 kg the towing vehicle leaves the vignette system altogether and pays a distance-based toll with a GO-Box instead.
No. The vignette only covers vehicles with a maximum technically permitted weight of up to 3,500 kg. If your motorhome is heavier than that, Austria charges a distance-based toll instead: you need a GO-Box, fitted and topped up at a designated sales point before you use the motorway. Cars, camper vans and motorcycles under 3,500 kg all stay within the vignette system, and a caravan behind a car needs nothing extra.
No. The Austrian vignette stops at the Austrian border. Slovenia runs its own e-vignette, also registered to the number plate, and it is compulsory on Slovenian motorways and expressways, so a drive to Croatia through the Karawanken Tunnel means you need both. Switzerland, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia each sell their own vignette as well. Germany has no vignette for cars, but its low-emission zones need an emissions sticker.
No. An Austrian vignette covers Austrian motorways only, and every country runs its own scheme. Germany has no vignette for cars but requires an emissions sticker (Umweltplakette) for its low-emission zones, and France requires the Crit'Air sticker. You can order both from us alongside your Austrian vignette, so a route through several countries is dealt with in one go.
Summary: Austria vignette 2026
A vignette is compulsory on every Austrian motorway (Autobahn) and expressway (Schnellstraße) for vehicles up to 3,500 kg, and it is now digital: registered to your number plate with ASFINAG and checked by camera rather than stuck to the windscreen. You can choose 1 day, 10 days, 2 months or a year. Driving without one costs a replacement toll of €200 for a car or €100 for a motorcycle, rising to a fine of €300 to €3,000 if that is left unpaid. From the 2027 vignette year the sticker disappears completely.
To order from us you need three things: your number plate, the country of registration and an email address. Pick your duration and start date, pay by card, PayPal or Klarna, and we register the vignette with ASFINAG, usually within 24 hours. You get a confirmation by email, nothing in the post and nothing to fix to the glass.
