How tolls work in Greece: motorways, operators and 2026 prices
Greece has no vignette and no distance-based toll for ordinary drivers. You pay a fixed amount every time you pass a toll plaza, the amount depends on the plaza and your vehicle category, and each motorway is run by a different concessionaire that publishes its own price list. This guide maps the whole network as it stands in 2026.
GreeceTolls is an independent estimator and is not Attiki Odos, Nea Odos, Kentriki Odos, Aegean Motorway, Olympia Odos, Moreas, Nea Egnatia Odos, GEFYRA, or HELLASTRON. Prices below were read from those operators' 2026 price pages on 3 September 2026; confirm before you travel.
Published: 2026-09-03 · Last reviewed: 2026-09-03
One fee per toll plaza, no vignette
Greek motorway tolls are collected at plazas. The main ones sit across the carriageway and charge everyone who passes; smaller lateral plazas sit on entry and exit ramps at some interchanges and charge only traffic using that ramp. Kentriki Odos describes the model exactly: at each frontal toll station the rate is determined per direction, based on the total length of the zone to which it belongs. A lateral plaza such as Molos on the A1 is an exit station in the Athens–Lamia direction and an entry station in the Lamia–Athens direction, so you meet it only if you leave or join there.
Attiki Odos, the Athens ring motorway, is the exception in form but not in principle. All of its 39 toll stations, with 195 lanes, are placed at the entries, and drivers pay once, on entering, the same amount at every station regardless of day, hour, or distance travelled. Distance-based charging exists only for transponder holders on Olympia Odos, whose OLYMPIA PASS hybrid scheme charges per kilometre; the first kilometre gates on the Patras–Pyrgos section opened at Kato Achaia on 13 March 2026. Cash and card users there still pay the per-plaza list price.
The network and who runs it
Ten operators are members of HELLASTRON, the Hellenic Association of Toll Road Network, which puts the tolled network at 2,159 kilometres. The table lists the motorways a driver is most likely to use, the concessionaire, and the 2026 price for a passenger car (category 2) at each frontal plaza, in euros including VAT.
Greek toll motorways in 2026: operator, route, car price at frontal plazas, and the operator's transponder
Motorway
Operator
Route
Car price at frontal plazas (2026)
Transponder
Attiki Odos
Nea Attiki Odos Concession S.A.
Elefsina – Athens ring – Airport, plus the Ymittos ring
Two more HELLASTRON members, the Aktio–Preveza undersea tunnel and the Crete northern axis (BOAK), are not covered here.
Vehicle categories
Most concessions use a four-category scheme. Category 1 is motorcycles and three-wheelers. Category 2 is vehicles with or without a trailer up to 2.20 metres high, which covers cars, vans, and most campers. Category 3 is vehicles with two or three axles above 2.20 metres, and category 4 is vehicles with four or more axles above 2.20 metres, trailer axles included. Attiki Odos uses its own six-row table based on height over the first axle and axle count, and the Rio–Antirrio bridge uses nine categories with a two-metre height rule. The full rules, and what they mean for trailers and campers, are in our vehicle categories guide.
How to pay
Every operator accepts cash and bank cards at staffed lanes, and most also run automatic payment machines. Attiki Odos takes cash or card at collector lanes but not Diners or American Express. Olympia Odos accepts cash and contactless cards at its automatic machines and has no collectors at ramp stations or on the Patras–Pyrgos section. Aegean Motorway publishes the same price whether you pay by transponder, card or cash at a machine, or cash or card at a collector, and states that the price includes 24 percent VAT and applies to all users including transponder holders.
Electronic lanes are reserved for transponder holders: e-PASS on Attiki Odos and Moreas, Fast Pass on Nea Odos and Kentriki Odos, eway on Aegean Motorway, OLYMPIA PASS on Olympia Odos, EgnatiaPass on Egnatia. Nea Odos and Olympia Odos issue their devices free of charge. Nea Egnatia Odos states that no EgnatiaPass subscription programme is in force from 1 January 2026, so its tag now pays the list price.
One tag works everywhere
Since November 2020 the Greek operators run a shared interoperability scheme. Nea Attiki Odos states that an e-PASS can be used in the electronic lanes of all motorways in Greece, naming Olympia Odos, Moreas, Aegean Motorway, the Rio–Antirrio bridge, Nea Odos, the Central Greece Motorway and its A.Th.E. section, and Egnatia Odos, and that the holder is charged according to each company's price list without discounts. Olympia Odos, GEFYRA, and Nea Egnatia say the same in reverse: any other Greek motorway's transponder is accepted, each motorway applies its own commercial policy, and activation costs nothing. One practical limit: you cannot top up your account at another network's toll stations.
How prices are set
Each concession contract, ratified by law, fixes the vehicle categories and the base tolls and provides for annual indexation to consumer prices. The operators cite the clause when they announce the new year's prices: Nea Odos and Kentriki Odos refer to article 24.2.8 of their concession agreement on annual indexation, Nea Attiki Odos to article 18.4.1 of its own, and Olympia Odos, Moreas, and GEFYRA to the equivalent provisions. The 2026 tables took effect at 00:01 on 1 January 2026 on Aegean Motorway, Olympia Odos, Moreas, and the bridge.
Egnatia Odos changed hands on 31 December 2025. Until then its tolls were set by ministerial decision; since then the motorway and its vertical axes are operated by the concessionaire Nea Egnatia Odos, whose 2026 table lists Malgara at €1.15 for a car.
Two websites, one warning
Attiki Odos has an old domain, aodos.gr, that still serves the tariff in force before October 2024, with a car toll of €2.80, under a 2026 copyright line. The live 2026 tariff, €2.55 for a car and €1.25 for a motorcycle, is on naodos.gr, the site of the new concessionaire. Likewise the state company's site egnatia.eu still shows the 2024 Egnatia tariff; the current one is on neodos.gr. When a search result quotes a Greek toll, check which site it came from.
Frequently asked questions
Does Greece have a vignette or a distance-based toll?
No. You pay a fixed amount at each toll plaza you pass. Attiki Odos charges one flat fee per entry. Distance-based charging exists only for OLYMPIA PASS holders on Olympia Odos.
Can I use one transponder on every Greek motorway?
Yes. Under the operators' interoperability scheme any Greek transponder works in the electronic lanes of the other networks, charged at that network's list price without discounts. Top-ups only work on the issuing network.
How much is a passenger car on Attiki Odos in 2026?
€2.55 per entry, at every one of the 39 stations, regardless of distance. Motorcycles pay €1.25. The old aodos.gr site still shows €2.80, which is outdated.
Who sets Greek toll prices?
The concession contracts, ratified by law, fix the base tolls and index them annually to consumer prices. Operators publish the new year's tables around 1 January.
The eleven frontal toll plazas between Athens and Thessaloniki on the A1, with the 2026 price at each for motorcycles, cars, and trucks, the operators that run them, the €36.70 car total, and the lateral plazas you only meet if you leave the motorway.
What a visitor in a rental car needs to know about Greek tolls: pay-as-you-go with cash or card at every plaza, the €2.55 flat Attiki Odos fee from Athens airport, why electronic lanes reject cars without a transponder, what the operators say about non-payment, and the €15.90 Rio–Antirrio bridge.
How Greek operators classify vehicles for tolls: the four-category scheme with its 2.20-metre height rule, Attiki Odos's own six-row table, the nine categories on the Rio–Antirrio bridge, what trailers and campers pay, and the 2026 motorcycle price at every frontal plaza.