# AutoX RoboTaxi: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

AutoX was the 2nd company worldwide to run a public driverless robotaxi (Shenzhen 2021) but has wound down its China operations entirely; the founder pivoted to a US robocar startup, Tensor. Discontinued.

## Price

_No verified price on record._

There is no consumer price, and AutoX is discontinued. Its robotaxi was a ride service, not a vehicle sold to consumers, so DEPLOY records zero price points.

## Availability

_Status: discontinued_

AutoX's China robotaxi operations are discontinued: China operations divested, offices closed, and the brand discontinued; the founder pivoted the company into a Silicon Valley personal-robocar startup, Tensor.

## Status

AutoX (founded 2016 by Jianxiong Xiao, 'Professor X', a former Princeton assistant professor; Shenzhen and California; backed by Alibaba and Dongfeng Motor Group) was an early Chinese robotaxi leader and the second company in the world to run a public fully-driverless robotaxi service, in Shenzhen in 2021, holding driverless permits across six cities and opening a San Francisco operations center in 2022. It is the Chinese wound-down robotaxi anchor of DEPLOY's cluster, parallel to Cruise on the US side. It is recorded at commercial maturity to reflect that historical peak, with a discontinued lifecycle state: AutoX has wound down its China robotaxi operations entirely (China operations divested, offices closed, the brand discontinued), and the founder pivoted the company into a Silicon Valley personal-robocar startup called Tensor, with no active China presence, so it is not a currently-operating robotaxi service.

## Compare

| Model | Pricing | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Cruise AV](/price/cruise-av) | No consumer price | absence (US wound-down robotaxi) |
| [Baidu Apollo RT6](/price/apollo-rt6) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial at scale (China)) |
| [Pony AI Gen-7](/price/pony-gen7-robotaxi) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial (NASDAQ: PONY)) |
| [XPENG Robotaxi](/price/xpeng-robotaxi) | No consumer price | absence (Research (trials 2026)) |

## Common questions

### Can I ride an AutoX robotaxi?

No. AutoX has wound down its China robotaxi operations entirely (operations divested, offices closed, brand discontinued); the founder pivoted to a US robocar startup, Tensor. It is not a currently-operating service.

### Does AutoX have the largest robotaxi fleet in China?

No. The frequently cited 2021 claim of more than a thousand vehicles (the largest in China) is stale and self-reported and does not reflect 2026 reality: AutoX has wound down.

## How DEPLOY verified this

- [How DEPLOY tracks pricing](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-track-pricing)
- [How DEPLOY verifies deployment status](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-verify-deployment-status)

## Related reading

- [Deploy News: Robotaxis](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/robotaxi)
- [Deploy News: How DEPLOY verifies](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/how-deploy-verifies)

## On the registry

- [Model record](https://registry.deploy.report/models/autox-robotaxi.md)
- [Manufacturer](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/autox.md)

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