The ride-hailing service WB Taxi is opening early access for users in Yerevan. In the first stage, special invitations will be sent to Wildberries employees and partners. Users will also be able to download the WB Taxi app from Google Play and App Store and submit a request to join the waitlist — over the coming weeks, WB Taxi will gradually expand access.
The company’s press service notes that feedback from the first customers will help the WB Taxi team improve the app’s stability and prepare the service for a broad-market launch.
WB Taxi offers users the “Standard,” “Comfort,” and “Multi” tariffs. The latter allows searching for a car across multiple categories simultaneously to speed up vehicle dispatch.
According to the company, WB Taxi offers drivers transparent partnership terms, a reduced aggregator commission for partners, regular payouts, and the opportunity to earn additional income upon meeting the service’s cooperation conditions.
“Armenia is already the fourth country where you can order a ride through WB Taxi. We will continue to develop the product to improve the user experience and expand WB Taxi’s geographic coverage,” notes Anatoly Smorgonsky, Director of the Technology Development Department for Taxi and Transportation Services at RWB.
The service also features a loyalty program: when paying for rides by card via the app, bonus points are accrued. These can later be applied toward card-paid rides. New users receive 1,500 welcome bonus points upon registration.
WB Taxi also operates in Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
In Armenia, the online taxi-hailing services Yandex Go, gg, and UVO are available. The Competition Protection Commission previously noted a growing concentration in the digital ride-hailing market and a decline in traditional taxi services, as reported by BM.ge. The UVO service is listed under this name on its official website.
According to Yandex Go data published by Public Radio of Armenia, in January–September 2025, the revenue of the service’s drivers and partner fleets from passenger rides, after deducting the platform’s commission, amounted to approximately 75 billion drams — nearly 20% more than in the same period a year earlier. This figure reflects the activity of one service’s partners and does not represent an estimate of the entire taxi market or the carriers’ net profit.
During the same period, nearly 82,000 drivers carried out rides through Yandex Go. According to the service and its partners, in September 2025, the average monthly income for a driver working eight hours a day, five days a week, was estimated at approximately 390,000 drams. The average hourly income over nine months grew by 6.7% year over year, as reported by Radar Armenia.
From September 1, 2024, a state duty on each ride was introduced in Armenia with phased rate increases. From January 1, 2026, the rate is 5% for cash payments and 4% for cashless payments. For rides ordered via electronic platforms, the collection and remittance of the duty is the responsibility of the platform operators — as stipulated in the Law “On State Duty,” published on ARLIS. According to Aram Mkhitaryan, head of Yandex Armenia, between September 2024 and June 2025, the company transferred more than 2.2 billion drams in state duties on behalf of drivers, as reported by Banks.am.
In November 2025, the Commission for the Protection of Competition and Consumer Rights and Yandex Go announced joint work on industry regulation issues. One of the implemented measures was a change to Yandex Go’s commission calculation during high demand: the service no longer charges commission on the portion of the ride cost that exceeds double the base price. As follows from the Banks.am report and the Yandex Pro clarification, this measure applies to the platform’s commission and does not cap the final ride fare for the passenger.
