407 ETR Toll Calculator

The calculator

The 407 is the most misunderstood road in the region: drivers avoid it on principle and then sit on the 401 for an hour, or use it daily and find a $300 bill at the end of the month. Both are avoidable with arithmetic, which is what the calculator above does. It is an estimate — the 407 sets a different rate for each of its zones and directions by time band, and only the operator's own chart resolves your exact trip — but the range and the fixed fees are the published ones and the answer is close enough to decide.

Where the numbers come from

The 407 ETR announced its 2026 rate schedule in November 2025: per-kilometre rates for light vehicles ranging from about $0.50 overnight to $1.19 in the most congested zones at peak, with increases of up to 34 cents per kilometre on a few central sections in the afternoon and no change on lighter zones; a $1 trip charge for light vehicles ($2 for heavy single-unit and $3 for tractor-trailers); a $5.30 camera charge and a $5 monthly account fee for light and medium vehicles without a transponder; and an annual transponder lease of $31.50 plus tax, with additional transponders on the same account at $12.60. The operator's own rate chart gives the rate for each zone, direction and time band, and this page will be updated when the schedule changes.

How to read the estimate

The per-trip figure is the low and high end of the published range for the time band you chose, times the kilometres, plus the trip charge and — without a transponder — the camera charge. The monthly figure multiplies by your trips and adds the account fee or a twelfth of the transponder lease. The yearly figure is the monthly times twelve. A 30-kilometre weekday peak commute twenty times a month with a transponder lands somewhere between the two figures the calculator shows; the exact number is on your 407 statement, but the range tells you whether the road is a hundred dollars a month or four hundred.

When the 407 is worth it

Our chauffeurs answer this question with a stopwatch rather than a principle. The 407 runs parallel to the 401 across the whole region and is almost never congested; the 401 through Toronto is the most congested highway in the country from 6:30 to 9:30 am and 3:30 to 7 pm on weekdays. Between Pearson and Durham, or Pearson and Vaughan and Markham, the 407 saves twenty to forty minutes in those windows and nothing outside them. Between Pearson and Milton for the Kitchener and London runs it saves the Mississauga collectors in the morning. Between Pearson and downtown it is irrelevant — the route is the 427 and the Gardiner. The Oshawa route page works the decision through hour by hour.

Why the toll is inside our fare

A chauffeur paying the toll out of a fixed fare has an incentive to avoid it; a rideshare driver paying it out of a surge fare has a stronger one; a taxi on a meter is paid more for the slow road. We removed the incentive: the decision to take the 407 is made at pickup on the live traffic board, and the toll is inside the fixed fare the reservation engine quoted, whichever road the chauffeur takes. Passengers see the fare before they book and never see a toll line. The flat-rate page explains the rest of the fare.

Transponder or camera: the fixed-fee arithmetic

Without a transponder every trip carries a $5.30 camera charge and the account a $5 monthly fee — $111 a month for twenty trips before a single kilometre. A transponder lease is $31.50 a year. The break-even is about seven trips a year; anyone who uses the road more than once a month should lease one, which is why the 407 offers it. Our fleet carries transponders.

The 407 and the airport

The 407 passes about ten kilometres north of Pearson and connects to the 427, the 410, the 400 and the 404 — which is why it is the chauffeur's road from Pearson to Brampton, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham and Durham in the commute, and from Pearson to the 400 for Barrie and Muskoka on a Friday afternoon. The Highway 412 and 418 links in Durham are separate provincially owned toll roads with their own rates.

Other toll roads a Toronto driver meets

Ontario's other toll roads are the 412 and 418 in Durham; the bridges to the United States each charge a toll — the Peace Bridge, the Niagara Falls bridges, the Ambassador Bridge, the Blue Water Bridge — published by their operators and inside our cross-border fares; and the US Thruway and Pennsylvania Turnpike are tolled by distance. The border page links each bridge's operator.

Let the chauffeur decide, with the toll inside the fare

Sources and the estimate's limits

The fee structure and the per-kilometre range are from the 407 ETR's published 2026 rate schedule, announced 21 November 2025 and effective 1 January 2026, and the operator's rate chart is the source of record for any single trip. The calculator does not model zone-by-zone rates, direction, heavy-vehicle classes or the interest on unpaid accounts; it exists to answer "roughly what will this cost," and it does that.

Three worked examples

The Pearson-to-Markham commuter. 32 km on the 407 from the 427 to Highway 404, twenty weekday afternoons a month, with a transponder. The calculator's peak band gives a per-trip range in the high twenties to low forties of dollars, and a monthly figure in the hundreds — the figure a Markham resident recognises from the statement. Against it: forty minutes a day on the 401, which is why the road is full.

The Kitchener departure. 18 km on the 407 from Milton to the 427 on a weekday morning, once. A single-trip figure in the low twenties with a transponder, or about five dollars more on the camera. The chauffeur pays it to avoid the Mississauga collectors at 7 am, and the passenger sees a fixed fare that did not change. The Kitchener route page explains when.

The Sunday cottage return. 20 km on the 407 from the 400 to the 427 on a Sunday evening — the weekend band — with a transponder. A per-trip figure in the mid-teens, and forty-five minutes saved past the 401's cottage surge. The Muskoka page describes the Sunday problem.

The zones, briefly

The 407 is divided into zones from the 403 in Burlington in the west to Brock Road in Pickering in the east, and the rate for each zone differs by direction and time band; the most congested central zones — roughly between the 427 and the 404 — carry the highest afternoon rates, and the outer zones the lowest. The operator's chart resolves any trip to its zones; the calculator's range brackets it.

Interest, unpaid tolls and licence-plate denial

Unpaid 407 balances accrue interest and, under the provincial legislation that governs the road, can lead to a licence-plate renewal being denied until the balance is settled. That is not a problem a passenger in a chauffeured car ever meets — the toll is ours — but it is the reason a private driver who uses the road occasionally should watch for the camera invoice in the mail.

The 407 and the airport transfer, by destination

From Pearson: the 407 is used to Brampton, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham and Durham in the commute windows; to the 400 for Barrie and Muskoka on Friday afternoons; and to Milton for the Kitchener and London runs on weekday mornings. It is not used for downtown, Oakville, Hamilton or Niagara, whose roads run south of it. The chauffeur's decision is made on the traffic board at pickup, and the route pages say for each journey when the toll road earns its keep.

What a private driver actually pays in a year

The calculator's yearly figure is the one that surprises: a daily commuter across the top of Toronto with a transponder spends in the thousands per year, and the road's revenue depends on that being worth it against the 401. For an occasional user — a few airport runs and a Sunday cottage return — the yearly figure is small and the transponder still pays for itself. The break-even against the 401 is time: forty minutes a day, five days a week, is more than three weeks a year, which is the number that makes the commuter's bill rational.