7 Best Hourly Car Services in NYC (2026)

TrueNorth VIP ranks first because it is the only company here that publishes a complete hourly rate card by vehicle class with taxes, tolls and fees already included. An Executive Sedan is $110 an hour, an Executive SUV $130, a Luxury SUV $150 and a Luxury Sedan $180, each with a 3-hour minimum. Gratuity is optional rather than built in, so the figure on the page is the figure you can put in a budget.

That transparency is worth more than the headline rate. A four-hour Executive Sedan booking with TrueNorth comes to $440. A company advertising the same $110 an hour but adding a mandatory 20% gratuity would already be at $528 before a single toll. When you are approving a car for a client day or an executive’s schedule, knowing the real number up front saves a round of back-and-forth.

Coverage is the other reason. TrueNorth serves all five boroughs plus Long Island, Westchester, New Jersey and Connecticut, so a day that starts in Manhattan and ends in Greenwich or Short Hills stays with one car and one chauffeur. Dispatch is available around the clock, and airport starts come with flight tracking.

Artisan Limo works from an office in NoMad and has the widest fleet in this ranking, from sedans and Escalade ESVs to Executive and Jet Sprinters, a 24-passenger mini coach and a 56-passenger motorcoach. For an hourly booking that has to scale from one executive to a full team, that range is the main reason to choose it.

It doesn’t publish an hourly rate card. The price is shown before you book with the required trip charges included and gratuity optional, while Sprinters and coaches are quoted in writing. Artisan also operates in seven U.S. markets, which helps when one assistant books New York, Chicago and Los Angeles under the same account.

Black Car NYC publishes an Executive Sedan hourly rate of $110 with a 3-hour minimum, so a basic as-directed booking starts at $330 before extras. The fleet runs from Mercedes E-Class sedans to S-Class and 7 Series first-class sedans, Escalade or Yukon SUVs for up to six, and a 14-passenger Sprinter.

Its policies are spelled out: a 15-minute wait on standard pickups, a full refund on cancellations made 24 hours ahead (48 hours for groups and events), and bookings that count only once confirmed in writing. It doesn’t state whether the hourly rate includes tolls and gratuity, so ask for an all-in total before you confirm.

Blacklane is a global booking platform rather than a local operator. It offers hourly hire from 2 to 24 hours with the price shown at booking, and the same app works in the 500-plus cities it lists. In New York, rides are carried out by local chauffeur partners, so the experience depends on who is dispatched. It suits travelers who want one account for trips in several countries more than riders who want a dedicated local team.

Dial 7 has operated since 1977 from TLC base B00887 and lists more than 600 vehicles, including minivans, minibuses, limousines and wheelchair-accessible vehicles. That mix covers requests the premium fleets can’t. Its published airport fares look low, but they exclude tolls, gratuity and airport and congestion fees and a rush-hour fee can apply, so for any booking compare totals rather than base fares.

Carmel has served New York since 1978 and books through an app with referral credits and a points program. It is familiar and quick to use. For hourly work, read the quote carefully: prices vary by time of day and by whether tolls are included.

EmpireCLS, headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey, states 40 years in chauffeured transportation and a network of more than 1,000 cities. Chauffeurs are scheduled to arrive 15 minutes before pickup. It doesn’t publish rates, so every hourly booking is priced through its reservation system.