Diary, online booking, pupil progress, payments and the office view across a team of instructors. This survey sets out what each provider publishes, what it charges for and, where it matters, what it does not say.
For a single instructor, published single-instructor plans run from £9.99 to £26 a month, and two providers currently charge nothing.
For a school with several cars it is a different question, because the providers charge by different units. A six-instructor school pays £39 a month on the cheapest flat per-school plan, £72 on the cheapest tiered per-instructor pricing and £102 on a flat per-instructor licence. The dearest published option for that school is £120. The £72 sits below MyDriveTime's £79 only on our reading of that provider's published bands as a staircase, and that reading would need confirming.
Four of the eight providers state whether their published price includes VAT.
Every figure below is taken from the provider's own pricing page. Surveyed 8 November 2026.
| Software | Price | Billed by | VAT stated | Free trial | Payment fees | School features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesson Diary | Free (3 pupils, 12 lessons) · £9.99/mo (Solo) | instructor | not stated | 14 days | n/s | single paid plan only |
| DriveInstruct | Free · £10/mo (Pro) · £49/mo (School) | instructor, or flat to 10 instructors | not stated | 1 month | n/s | ✓ dashboard, per-instructor analytics |
| GoRoadie Pro | £17/mo | instructor | not stated | 60 days (FAQ: 1 month) | 1.9% when instructor requests payment; Stripe fee to pupil when pupil pays in app | ✓ GoRoadie Schools, no published price |
| Total Drive | £18 · £23 · £24 · £26/mo (1 instructor), from 2 instructors £12 · £17 · £18 · £20 each | instructor, tiered by fleet size | ✓ inc. VAT | 30 days | no charge for reminders | ✓ school price published for 1 to 15 |
| MyDriveTime | £19/mo, then £15 · £10 · £5 per further instructor | instructor, tiered by fleet size | ✓ inc. VAT (schools) | 30 days | n/s | ✓ free admin accounts |
| DriveSchoolPro | £0 until 31 Mar 2027, then Free · £22/mo (Solo) · £22 + £10 per extra instructor (School) | early access, all users; from Apr 2027 instructor | ✓ not VAT-registered | n/a | 3% on card payments, Stripe fee separate; none on cash or bank transfer | ✓ solo and multi-instructor |
| DriveBest | £39/mo or £399/yr per school | school, flat to 10 instructors, then £3.90 each | ✓ no VAT charged | 14 days, no card | no payment processing; payments taken directly are recorded | ✓ school, instructor and pupil views |
| ADI Network | £0 | no subscription | n/a | n/a | n/s | n/s |
Surveyed 8 November 2026. “n/s” means the provider does not state this publicly. Total Drive's four packages are Basic, Ultimate, Pro and Elite and differ by online booking and teaching aids; the price within each falls with fleet size, from £18 to £12 per instructor on Basic between one and nine cars, and further to £11 from ten and £10 from twenty. DriveInstruct's School plan covers up to ten instructors at a flat rate; its Pro plan is a single-instructor licence. MyDriveTime's school pricing starts at £19 for the first instructor, then £15 each for instructors two and three, £10 each for four to ten and £5 each from eleven. GoRoadie Pro's page gives its free trial as 60 days in the header and as one month in its FAQ. DriveSchoolPro publishes the prices that apply from 1 April 2027: Free for one instructor and up to 60 lessons a month, Solo at £22 a month and School at £22 a month plus £10 per extra instructor; accounts that add a card by 1 March 2027 get a founding member price of £15 a month for 24 months, or £15 plus £8 per extra instructor on School. DriveBest's per-school price covers up to ten active teaching members, additional instructors cost £3.90 each a month, and the annual plan works out at £33.25 a month. Is a provider missing, or is an entry wrong? Tell us and we will correct it free of charge.
Same school, same month, published list prices only. No discounts, no setup, no card fees.
| Provider | Calculation | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| DriveSchoolPro | early access, ends 31 March 2027 | £0.00 |
| ADI Network | no subscription | £0.00 |
| DriveBest | flat per school, up to 10 active teaching members, monthly plan | £39.00 no VAT charged |
| DriveInstruct School | flat rate, up to 10 instructors | £49.00 |
| Lesson Diary | 6 × £9.99, single-instructor plan | £59.94 |
| Total Drive Basic | 6 × £12, the two-to-nine band | £72.00 inc. VAT |
| DriveSchoolPro School from 1 April 2027 | £22 + 5 × £10; founding member price £15 + 5 × £8 = £55 | £72.00 no VAT charged |
| MyDriveTime | £19 + 2 × £15 + 3 × £10 | £79.00 inc. VAT |
| GoRoadie Pro | 6 × £17 | £102.00 |
| Total Drive Elite | 6 × £20, the two-to-nine band | £120.00 inc. VAT |
DriveBest's flat £39 covers the school up to ten active teaching members, which makes it the cheapest paid option from four instructors, where four Lesson Diary licences cost £39.96; on annual billing it works out at £33.25 a month. DriveInstruct's £49 School plan costs more than three Pro licences at £30 and less than six at £60, so its crossover against its own Pro licence sits at five instructors. The MyDriveTime figure reads the provider's published bands as a staircase, and that reading would need confirming.
Published single-instructor plans run from £9.99 to £26 a month, and two providers currently charge nothing at all. A six-instructor school pays £39 a month on DriveBest's flat per-school plan, £49 on DriveInstruct's flat School plan, £72 on Total Drive Basic, £79 on MyDriveTime and £102 on GoRoadie Pro.
Four of the eight providers say. Total Drive prints its prices as inclusive of VAT, and MyDriveTime states that its school pricing includes VAT. DriveSchoolPro states that it is not VAT-registered, and DriveBest states that no VAT is charged. GoRoadie Pro, Lesson Diary and DriveInstruct do not state either way on their pricing pages. On a £19 subscription the difference is about £3.80 a month.
ADI Network is free with no subscription; it is operated by Star Genie Limited, the company behind the learner booking brand PassMeFast, and routes learner work to instructors on the network. DriveSchoolPro is currently £0 for solo ADIs and multi-instructor schools during early access, which the provider states runs until 31 March 2027; after that it keeps a permanent Free plan for one instructor and up to 60 lessons a month. DriveInstruct has a free tier, and Lesson Diary a free account limited to three pupils and twelve lessons. MyDriveTime is free for PDIs until they qualify. DriveInstruct gives PDIs the diary, up to five pupils, booking and the progress portal free for twelve months while they train. Total Drive offers PDIs free use for up to twelve months on production of a PDI badge. GoRoadie Pro states that PDIs have unlimited free access.
Four things separate a school product from an instructor diary: allocation of pupils and lessons across instructors with the record intact, an office view of every diary at once, consolidated finance across every car, and permissions for staff who do not teach.
Card payment fees are the main one, and they are charged differently. GoRoadie Pro applies a 1.9 per cent service fee when the instructor requests payment, roughly 55p on a typical lesson, and passes the Stripe fee to the pupil when the pupil pays in the app. DriveSchoolPro charges 3 per cent on card payments collected through it, with Stripe's own processing fee on top, and nothing on cash or bank transfer. DriveBest does not process lesson payments; schools record the payments they receive directly. Text message allowances are the second: DriveInstruct includes 100 SMS and 200 emails a month on Pro, and 500 SMS with 1,000 emails on School.
Ask for the billing unit. Per instructor, per active pupil, per school or per office seat are four different answers, and they determine what happens to your bill when you add a car. Five providers publish a school figure outright: DriveBest £39 a month or £399 a year per school for up to ten active teaching members, DriveInstruct a flat School plan at £49 a month for up to ten instructors, Total Drive a selector for one to fifteen instructors, MyDriveTime its published bands, and DriveSchoolPro £0 while its early access runs and £22 a month plus £10 per extra instructor from 1 April 2027. Above fifteen instructors Total Drive offers a sales contact.