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Your lease has a mileage limit and no running total. Put your terms in below and you'll see three things: whether you're ahead or behind pace right now, how far you can drive each day from here, and what the bill looks like at turn-in if nothing changes.
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Fill in your lease start date and today's odometer reading and the answer appears here.
This is a snapshot. A lease is a moving target. LeasePace keeps this running on your phone, asks for your odometer when you finish a drive, and warns you while there's still time to change something.
Get LeasePace — freeAn estimate built from the numbers you typed, provided without warranty and for information only — not financial or legal advice. Your allowance, term and excess mileage rate are written into your contract, and what you actually owe is determined by your lessor at turn-in. Full disclaimers below.
How lease mileage overage is actually calculated
There are only three numbers involved, which is why it is so annoying that nothing counts them for you.
- Your allowance. A total for the whole lease — 30,000, 36,000, 45,000 miles. Some contracts state it per year instead, in which case multiply by the term.
- Your projected finish. Where the odometer lands on turn-in day if you keep driving the way you have been.
- Your excess mileage rate. A per-mile figure written into the contract. Every mile past the allowance is billed at it.
Projected finish minus allowance, times the rate. At a quarter a mile, finishing 3,200 miles over costs $800. The reason people get caught is not that the math is hard — it's that nobody does it until the car is being inspected, and by then every mile has already been driven.
Pace is the number that actually helps
Knowing you've driven 22,000 miles tells you nothing on its own. Knowing you've driven 22,000 miles at the point where the contract expected 25,700 tells you that you have 3,700 miles of slack. That's the calculation this page runs: what share of the term has elapsed, applied to the total allowance, compared against your real odometer.
The daily budget is the version you can act on. Miles left, divided by days left. If that number is 46 and you're averaging 28, take the scenic route. If it's the other way round, you've just found out with time to spare instead of at the counter.
What lenders actually publish about excess mileage
Here is something the dealer blogs and calculator farms won't tell you: almost no US captive finance company publishes its per-mile excess mileage rate. We went looking, and their own lease-end pages consistently say to check your agreement. Any site showing you a confident per-brand cents-per-mile table is repeating a number it cannot source.
What some of them do publish is more useful than a rate — the rules around it. And the rules differ sharply, which is the part worth knowing before you need it:
| Lender | What they state publicly |
|---|---|
| Rivian | One of the very few that publishes a rate: 30¢ per excess mile. Also states plainly that no excess mileage fee applies if you buy the vehicle at lease end. Source |
| BMW Financial Services | Runs a Mileage Adjustment Program — you can buy extra miles at a discounted rate right up until the day before you turn the car in. Rate and discount not published. Source |
| Toyota Financial Services | The opposite: buying additional miles is explicitly not offered — "we wish there was a way to purchase additional miles. Unfortunately, we're not currently offering that as an option." Source |
| Ford Credit | Points you to your Red Carpet Lease Agreement for the rate. Its loyalty waiver covers the disposition fee, not mileage. Source |
| GM Financial | Same shape: the disposition fee may be waived if you buy or lease another GM vehicle. Nothing published about mileage forgiveness. Source |
| Mercedes-Benz Financial | First Class Finish credits excess wear up to $500 and the turn-in fee up to $595 if you take another Mercedes. Wear, not miles. Source |
Two things fall out of that table. First, the widely repeated idea that you can always pre-buy miles is wrong — BMW will sell them to you, Toyota flatly will not, and most lenders say nothing either way. Second, the loyalty waiver everyone talks about is usually the disposition fee, not the mileage charge. Those are different bills, and confusing them is how people end up surprised.
Lender terms change and vary by contract, region and program. These entries were read directly from each lender's own public pages in August 2026 and are linked so you can check them yourself. Your own agreement governs.
Ways people actually deal with being over
- Change the driving. Only works if you find out early, which is the entire argument for tracking it.
- Buy the car. Excess mileage exists to compensate the lender for lost resale value. Buy the vehicle and it's generally moot — Rivian says so outright, and BMW lists a buyout among the remedies.
- Buy miles before turn-in, where the lender offers it. BMW does. Toyota doesn't. Ask early rather than at the counter.
- Transfer the lease to someone who wants the remaining term. The mileage situation transfers with it, which is why over-mileage leases are harder to hand off.
- Pay it. Sometimes this is genuinely the right answer, and knowing the figure a year out is what makes it a decision instead of a shock.
Questions people ask
How many miles a day can I drive on my lease?
Take the miles left in your allowance and divide by the days left in the term. 14,000 miles and 300 days is roughly 46.7 miles a day. Stay under that and you finish on or under the allowance.
What happens if I go over my lease mileage?
You're billed for the excess miles at the per-mile rate in your contract when you turn the car in. It's assessed at turn-in, not as you go, which is exactly why it catches people.
Does the charge go away if I buy the car?
Usually. The charge covers the resale value your extra miles cost the lender, so purchasing the vehicle generally removes it. Rivian states this explicitly. Confirm with your own lender before you count on it.
Is there a typical excess mileage rate?
Rates in the 15–30¢ range are commonly reported, but since almost no lender publishes theirs, we'd rather point you at your own contract than repeat a figure we can't source. Federal Regulation M requires the rate to be disclosed in your lease agreement — it's in there.
Do unused miles carry over or refund?
Generally no. Coming in under your allowance doesn't earn you anything back — which is worth knowing when you're choosing an allowance at signing rather than paying for miles you'll never drive.
Disclaimers
Estimates only · no warranty
This calculator is an informational estimate produced from figures you enter yourself. It is provided “as is” and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of accuracy, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Verntro Labs, LLC does not warrant that the results are accurate, complete or current.
Results depend entirely on the accuracy of what you type and on a straight-line assumption that your future driving resembles your driving so far. Real leases do not work that way. Actual charges are determined by your lessor at turn-in and may differ — sometimes substantially — from anything shown here.
Not professional advice
Nothing on this page is financial, legal, tax or accounting advice, and none of it is an offer, solicitation or recommendation regarding any lease, purchase or financing decision. Using this calculator creates no advisory, fiduciary or professional relationship of any kind. Consult a qualified professional before making a decision, and read your own lease agreement — your contract governs, not this page. Your mileage allowance, term and excess mileage rate are disclosed in it, as federal Regulation M requires.
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To the fullest extent permitted by law, Verntro Labs, LLC accepts no liability for any loss, cost, charge, fee or damage — direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or otherwise — arising from your use of, or reliance on, this calculator or any information on this page. You use it at your own risk and remain solely responsible for your own driving decisions and for any amounts your lessor assesses.
Third-party information
Statements about individual lenders were read from those companies’ own public web pages on the date noted above and are linked so you can verify them yourself. Lender programs, rates and policies change without notice and vary by contract, region, vehicle and promotion. We do not monitor these pages for changes and make no representation that the summaries remain current. Verify anything you intend to rely on directly with your lessor.
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