Didi Robotaxi vs XPENG Robotaxi in 2026

Didi Robotaxi

Didi Autonomous Driving, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, is a distinct Level-4 robotaxi-stack developer (not a ride-hailing aggregator), integrating its own stack into Didi's network in a captive structure paralleling the Waymo Driver. There is no consumer price: it is a robotaxi service, not sold to consumers.

It launched a fully-driverless robotaxi service in Guangzhou's demonstration zone in December 2025 and runs a GAC-Aion joint venture (Guangzhou Andi Technology) with an R2 production model. Several verified-vs-claimed cap-flags apply: the paid-versus-free status of the December 2025 Guangzhou service is not explicitly confirmed in sources and should not be asserted as paid commercial; the reported 3,000-plus vehicles, eleven cities, and 80-million-plus cumulative kilometers are company-reported test-fleet figures, not commercial-revenue numbers.

On verification posture, Didi Autonomous Driving is a private subsidiary of Didi Chuxing (which delisted from the NYSE in 2021), so its robotaxi metrics carry a weaker private-company, Chinese-market-disclosure verification posture than the NASDAQ-listed Pony.ai and WeRide. The registry records it at early, zone-limited driverless commercial maturity.

XPENG Robotaxi

XPENG's robotaxi line comprises three models (reported 5-, 6-, and 7-seater variants) announced at XPENG AI Day on November 5, 2025, powered by the same vision-centric VLA 2.0 model that drives XPENG's IRON humanoid and its ADAS systems. There is no consumer price: it is a pre-commercial robotaxi program, not a vehicle sold to consumers.

The verified-vs-claimed point is on maturity: trial operation is expected in 2026 (with mapping and navigation company Amap named as an early partner), so the program is pre-commercial and recorded at research maturity under DEPLOY's ladder, pending real-world trial operation. It continues the Chinese-robotaxi tier of the cluster (alongside Baidu Apollo, Pony AI, WeRide, Didi), distinguished by its vision-only / vision-centric approach and a shared VLA 2.0 brain across robotaxi, humanoid, and ADAS.