Last Updated on 9 February 2026 by Dan Wilderness
Hello everyone! Ride and takeaway hailing app Uber has an ongoing subscription service called Uber One, aimed at those making frequent use of Uber’s range of services like ride hailing and food delivery. Uber One charges you a regular fee, but in exchange offers you a range of discounts. Is it worth it for Uber UK customers? Read our review!
Quick Verdict on Uber One
Uber One is a service that can save you money but shouldn’t be signed up to without thinking about the breakeven point. It is generally not worth it for those taking short ride-hailing journeys, however for those combining with food delivery it can save quite a bit of money.
How we tested Uber One
I’m an occasional Uber user when I need to, mainly for airport runs, nights out when having a drink or times my car isn’t available for some reason.
I’ve signed up to Uber One twice so far when I felt it was particularly beneficial to me and measured my savings.
The first time I subscribed was when I was making a number of airport runs (bigger journeys for me usually costing £60+) over a couple of months, as this provided some of the heavier use that makes Uber One worth it.
The second time was when Uber offered a year’s Disney+ subscription with a year’s membership, as I wanted that anyhow and saw an instant breakeven opportunity.
What is Uber One?
Uber One is an entirely optional additional service from Uber which costs a recurring billing of £4.99 a month or £50 a year (may vary outside the UK).
In exchange for this you get a number of potential discounts on use of services within the Uber Family – they’re really designed to provide an incentive for you to use the Uber Services more by making heavy use cheaper.
Let’s take a look at what you get with Uber One and review if the service is worth it! We’re going to assess each individual piece of the Uber One offering, and then look at if it’s worth it as a whole.
How do I get Uber One?
Select “account” in the bar within the Uber App – you’ll see an option for Uber One in the list of options that appears, underneath the big grey buttons.
Selecting this brings up details of Uber One and will allow you to select to opt in.
Benefits from Uber One in the UK
Here’s a list of the various benefits from Uber One in the UK, along with our assessment of these perks are worth it or not.
Uber One discounts on car rides
With Uber One you get:
- 5% off basic trips with UberX, Comfort or UberXL
- No cancellation penalties.
- 10% off trips using an Exec/Lux
Is this perk worth it?
Potentially, it’s definitely one of the better pieces of Uber One. If you’re taking a couple of longish journeys home that stray into the higher cost brackets, this can generate savings.
However you do really need to be a regular user for the savings to work in your favour.
If you’re an UberX basic user you’d need to make just over £120 of journeys each month just to cover the monthly cost – if you’re Executive or Lux user it’s a lower amount of £60 (although the rides themselves are more expensive).
No delivery fees on eligible food and groceries.
Usually ordering through Uber Eats will attract a varied delivery charge depending on how close you are to the takeaway place. I’m in a London borough and I find these usually range from £0-4.
Exclusions from the Uber One Delivery fee perk
There’s a couple of exclusions worth highlighting as where users can get caught out.
It’s only applies to places with the Uber One logo – however a quick check showed that nearly every takeaway place and grocery shop near me did recognise Uber One. (I’m in Zone 2 London so I’m not sure this would actually be the case everywhere).
The second is that this applies to the delivery cost rather than Uber’s service fee. An Uber Eats service fee can be between 10-12% of your order value, so this cost still being there can be substantial.
There’s also a requirement of a minimum spend of £15 for food orders, or £25 for grocery orders, so it may not necessitate a saving if making a small order just for yourself – don’t just get a coffee via Uber Eats and expect this to benefit you!
Is this perk worth it?
Potentially if you order multiple takeaways or grocery orders a month from somewhere further away from you. If your favourite takeaway place is very close, it’s likely that the delivery fee you’re paying is nothing or minimal to begin with.
The fact service fees still apply is a bit of a pain point as these can still leave some add-on costs.
FYI – once you’ve got Uber One, you can see there’s a little logo next to delivery fee which shows if the delivery fee discount applies to this.
Discount off Eligible Deliveries and Pick Up Orders
Uber One will give you an additional 5% discount off certain deliveries and pick up orders, including groceries. It doesn’t apply on everything, but will generally apply with the Uber One logo appearing.
Again, there’s a £15 minimum spend requirement.
Is this perk worth it?
It’ll save you a few pennies, but you’ll need to be making fairly large orders to cover the cost of Uber One. It’s still helpful if making regular orders or in combination with other services, whilst being unlikely to be worth subscribing to Uber One solely for.
Latest Arrival Estimate Promise
You will be paid £5 in credit if the “latest arrival” that’s cited on your delivery when ordering a takeaway isn’t met.
Is this perk worth it?
Absolutely not, latest arrivals are largely smoke and mirrors where very large amounts of time are built in to ensure the stated timeframe is met.
Nice to get a fiver if it’s that delayed, but you’re probably more concerned with where your takeaway is and well into “bad service” if it hasn’t appeared by now.
I’ve only ever had a missed latest arrival happened once, and it was when I attempted to order a takeaway during the football World Cup final (for future reference, I don’t advise doing this).
Uber One offers special discounts and promotions.
Cited as a benefit of the sign-up page but low on detail is that Uber One will give you access to special discounts and promotions.
I initially didn’t see very much on this perk at all for a long time. However more recently I’ve started to receive a number of offers which provide cashback (in the form of Uber credits) on newer services Uber is trying to promote such as trains and airfares.
Whilst the cashback level seems good, what we haven’t been able to judge is if being an Uber One member is providing any significant extra benefit to Uber’s push on these.
Outside this, some of our readers have reported getting benefits we didn’t – one got a couple of months of Odeon Cinema tickets as a perk. This is the only one we’ve heard of to date, but please do write in and let us know if you’ve been offered anything yourself.
Uber has also had a tie in with Disney+ enabling you to get a free subscription for the Standard with Ads approach for 6 months with a monthly membership or 12 months with an annual membership. This seems to still be sent out by Uber post their big promotion push on – we were offered it. However isn’t directly an advertised benefit, so we’re have to note some caution in saying you’ll definitely get it.
Is this perk worth it? We haven’t tried booked trains or flights via Uber but the cashback rates on flights in particular have seemed like a good potential perk, as it’s a sector that doesn’t generally pay cashback.
I’ll just note that as I haven’t used Uber to book these services myself, I can’t comment either way on how effective they are at customer service on these.
The best perk has been the Disney+ one – you were essentially getting Disney+ free with the Uber membership, providing a really obvious benefit even if you’d only use Disney+ sporadically.
Our 2026 Uber One Breakeven Calculator
Given with the combination of services it can be a challenge to work out if you’ll breakeven or not, we’ve put together a summary of some typical Uber usage profiles to highlight how much you need to use the services to be in the money.
We’ve done this based on a full £59.99 annual fee.
| Your Main Use | Typical Discount per Order | Orders Needed to Break Even |
| Uber Eats (Dinner) | £2.50 (Delivery Fee Saved) | 24 orders / year (2 per month) |
| Uber Rides (Short Distance) | £0.75 (5% off £15 ride) | 80 rides / year (7 per month) |
| Uber Rides (Airport Run) | £2.50 (5% off £50 ride) | 24 rides / year (2 per month) |
| Combined User | Mix of Eats & Rides | ~3 orders/rides per month |
What this table highlights is despite Uber being best know as a ride hailing app, the biggest savings with Uber One actually come from those making use of the food delivery service.
Our Value Conclusion on Uber One
If you’re using Uber Eats to get at all a couple of takeaways each month, and a little ride hailing on top then the breakeven point comes quite quickly, and you can start to make some pretty substantial savings with Uber One.
The wildcard in this is when Uber offer promotions that also combine additional services to the standard offering – for instance in the period of them offering a bundled Disney+ subscription (which I wanted anyway) I’ve been able to hit a breakeven point simply by taking that subscription, even if I’d never used Uber services!
Discounts on my Uber usage have then effectively been a bonus discount which has been nice.
Uber One Student Discount
It’s worth noting Uber offer a student discount on Uber One for 50% off, bringing it to £2.49 a month or £25 per year. This makes it a much more attractive proposition.
It’s only available to students via UniDays – log in to the UniDays’s system and search for Uber One to see details of the offer.
Overall Review – Is Uber One worth it?
At it’s core, Uber One is a combination of two real things providing value – discounted car trips and discounted delivery fees.
If you use Uber or Uber Eats just occasionally to take a ride or get a takeaway (on a once a month type basis) it’s really unlikely that there’s enough benefit to subscribing for you.
If you are using an Uber to take a reasonably substantial journey more than twice a week or ordering a weekly takeaway from somewhere which is not right around the corner from you, Uber One can represent something that does save you money, with the emphasis on the takeaway side.
Personally, I think it’s worth spending 10 minutes to examine our breakeven table above and think about how that matches your own use. Heavier users, particularly those getting takeways can save some good money.
The biggest benefits come from using a combination of Uber services – which is clearly what they’re trying to encourage you into! Just make sure you keep a monthly check on if you’re using (or expect to be using) the Uber services enough to make sure this doesn’t become a leak of money via an unused subscription.
I have given a star rating of 4, which is on the basis that money really can be saved with Uber One for heavy usage. However, we took off points on the basis that the value of discounts is slightly inconsistent between services and factors like service charges remaining as inclusions on food orders create a few gotchas.
Top tip: Remember Uber One is a monthly service – as with all subscriptions, you can simply switch it off when you’re not using it and reapply when you are, such as you know when you have a heavy-use month coming up.
Advantages
- Real ability to save money if regularly taking car journeys or ordering takeaways
- Design of scheme is fairly priced for regular users.
- Can subscribe just for a month in heavy travel periods.
Disadvantages
- Some benefits (late delivery promise) are marketing points and don’t actually give value.
- Service charges are still applied to Uber Eats Orders
- Easy to end up with a recurring subscription without realising and getting charged.
Examples of Uber One Savings
Just before we’d close I’m going to share some examples of how I used Uber One over the last month to illustrate the potential savings.
- I took an Uber Comfort journey from our home to Heathrow at a cost of £45 each way. As you save 5% on each comfort journey, that’s a saving of £4.50
- I took two short Uber X journeys locally to drop me to and from my car’s MOT at about £10 each – this was a 50p saving twice.
- And finally I ordered a takeaway which would normally have had a £2 delivery charge.
In my example case I’m making a small saving here of about £2.50 (£7.50 in Uber One savings vs. the £4.99 monthly charge). Still worth having, but not a substantial discount.
However for those who are using it frequently to get around a city, or are not drivers there are some really substantial savings to be made.
FAQ’s about Uber One
If you want to cancel Uber One, select the account button in the app then Uber One in the menu that subsequently appears. Select cancel on the page that subsequently appears, and you’ll be asked for your reasons for cancelling.
You must fill out this, and then select to still cancel on the confirmation screen that pops up, or it won’t go through.
You’ll keep your membership until the next natural point that you would have been billed, whereupon it’ll expire without you being charged.
I’ve noted some people are checking in to this article what they think to be a random 4.99 charge from Uber – if you’re seeing this it’s likely you have subscribed to Uber One, intentionally or unintentionally.
Follow the step above for details on to cancel or read the rest of the article to see if it might be worth it for you.
Yes you can – however, you’re defaulting onto subscribing to the service so if you’re literally wanting to try it only for the free trial period, it’s better to cancel straightaway as your membership will still be valid until the end of the trial.
If you decide you’d like to subscribe on a longer term basis, you can always cancel your cancellation!
Analysis of Uber One vs. Deliveroo Plus
Before we finish, one question our readers often have is if an Uber One subscription is worth it compared to rivals Deliveroo who have a similar frequent usage subscription in the form of Deliveroo Plus.
Deliveroo Plus has a couple of different subscriptions. You can read our in-depth review of Deliveroo Plus here for more, but we’ve included a summary of the key differences below.
| Plan | Price (2026) | Free Delivery Threshold | Key Notes |
| Uber One | £4.99/m or £59.99/yr | £15+ (Food) £25+ (Grocery) | 5% off car rides. Includes Service Fee discounts. |
| Deliveroo Plus Silver | £3.49/m | £15+ (Food) £25+ (Grocery) | Free for Amazon Prime members. |
| Deliveroo Plus Gold | £7.99/m | £10+ (Food) £15+ (Grocery) | Get £5 credit for late delivery. 10% credit back on orders £30+. |
Quick verdict on Deliveroo Plus vs. Uber One
We think the key point here is that Deliveroo Plus Silver is free to Amazon Prime subscribers (see how to take advantage on our Deliveroo Plus Guide).
If you have this, and are predominantly asking the question as you want food delivery services, being able to avoid the monthly subscription means Deliveroo Plus is likely the better choice.
If you don’t have Amazon Prime, there’s little difference – but if you’d also make occasional use of ride hailing services, Uber One offers this as an extra which Deliveroo doesn’t match so it’s likely to be the better choice.
Any questions?
If you have any questions, we’d love to hear from you! Just let us know in the comments below.
And if you’re looking for other apps to try and save you some money, you may be interested in our guide to the best loyalty cards and apps in the UK!
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I am a Uber one member. A while a go I used to get free odeon tickets every month. I haven’t received any since November last year. Has this now stopped??
Hi Jackie, thanks so much for reading! I’ve done a little research around this and it seems you’ve got one of the mysterious Uber One Perk/Benefits I made reference to above – they weren’t offered to every customer (including myself) but there’s definitely others who got this as well.
I haven’t been able to find a definitive answer on this, but a few implications it’s a temporary promotion that has finished.
Hi,
I was interested in joining uber one, but just had a quick question.
If i ordered food ( over £50 for e.g.) from an uber eligible supermarket every week.
would my Monthly subscription cover this? would there be any other fees?
You say “I’ve noted some people are checking in to this article what they think to be a random 4.99 charge from Uber – if you’re seeing this it’s likely you have subscribed to Uber One, intentionally or unintentionally.”
On a ride just now in the UK as I put my phone back on my pocket I glimpsed a message flashing up welcoming me to Uber One. I had no intention of subscribing so this must just have been an accidental touch of the screen. I checked again on getting to my destination and cancelled but had I not done so it might have been months before I picked up this additional charge. Seems pretty sneaky to me to set up a subscription without some sort of notification and confirmation and explanation of how to cancel if unintended.