FASTag Annual Pass: Price, Rules and Whether It Pays Off for You

The FASTag Annual Pass is a prepaid toll plan for private cars, jeeps and vans. You pay once, and your FASTag crosses toll plazas on National Highways and National Expressways without a per-trip deduction, for one year or 200 crossings, whichever comes first. It started on 15 August 2025 at ₹3,000. NHAI revised the fee to ₹3,075 for the 2026–27 financial year, from 1 April 2026.

It's optional. If you don't buy it, your FASTag keeps working as before, with the toll deducted at each plaza. Whether it's worth buying depends almost entirely on how often you cross NH toll plazas, and this guide gives you a quick way to work that out.

The main rules, from the official FAQ published by NHAI's tolling company IHMCL:

The pass is activated only after the vehicle and tag are checked. Before you pay, make sure your FASTag meets these conditions:

This is the detail that decides how far 200 trips go, and it depends on the type of toll plaza.

So a daily return commute through one NH plaza uses two trips a day. At that rate, 200 trips last about 100 working days, well short of a year. The pass then reverts to a regular FASTag, and you can buy another.

If you already have a local or monthly pass for a plaza near home, you can still buy the Annual Pass. Crossings at a plaza where your other pass applies aren't counted against the 200.

The pass saves money only if the tolls you would otherwise pay in its lifetime add up to more than ₹3,075. The average price per crossing depends on how many of the 200 trips you actually use before the year ends.

The break-even rule is simple: divide ₹3,075 by the toll you usually pay per crossing. That's the number of crossings you need in a year for the pass to pay for itself. If your usual plaza charges ₹100 a crossing, you break even at about 31 crossings; anything beyond that is saving. Your FASTag statement shows what you paid at each plaza over the past months, which is the easiest way to get your real numbers.

Using a made-up toll of ₹100 per crossing to keep the arithmetic easy:

Your FASTag statement already holds the numbers you need. Use it instead of guessing:

The process runs entirely through NHAI's own channels:

Buy it only through Rajmargyatra or the NHAI website, the two channels the official FAQ names. Treat any other link, message or app offering the pass with suspicion.

The pass covers NH and NE plazas only. For state-run toll plazas and any other FASTag payments, such as parking where it's accepted, the tag still draws on its normal balance. If the balance runs out, the toll at those plazas can't be deducted from the tag. Keep a small balance on the tag, or set up auto top-up with your issuer. Our FASTag guide explains how tags are funded and how auto-replenish mandates work.

The questions people most often ask about the pass:

The Annual Pass is for private vehicles, so it doesn't help a commercial fleet. Fleets still pay per crossing, and the practical questions are about keeping many tags funded, reconciling toll deductions against trips, and spotting wrong or double deductions. The FASTag guide covers running tags across a fleet.