Bulgaria vignette 2026: prices & rules

For cars, vans and other vehicles up to 3.5 t, choose between the one-day, weekend, weekly, monthly, three-month and annual products; M1 motorhomes are in the e-vignette system whatever their maximum mass. The one-day e-vignette runs for 24 hours from the start time you choose, and the weekend product from Friday 12:00 to Sunday 23:59. The weekly, monthly, three-month and annual products end at 23:59 on the day before the same date one week, one month, three months or one year later. You can buy any product up to 30 days before it starts, so check the plate, the country of registration and the start date before you pay.

€46.50 compensatory fee for cars; €153.39 (BGN 300) administrative fine if it stays unpaid.

Fixed cameras and camera cars of the National Toll Administration read licence plates around the clock and check them against the BGTOLL database. The Ministry of Interior also checks, and the Customs Agency checks payment when a vehicle leaves Bulgaria through a border crossing. Foreign-registered vehicles are not exempt.

At a border crossing, the vehicle may leave the country only after the compensatory fee has been paid.

Bulgaria has no grace period for entering a tolled road first and buying afterwards. What it has instead, since 2019, is the compensatory charge (компенсаторна такса): a voluntary payment that closes the case without an administrative offence report and without the higher penalty. For a car up to 3.5 t it is €46.50 instead of the €153.39 (BGN 300) fine.

Where and how you can pay it decides whether the option is open to you at all:

One detail catches drivers out at the roadside. A driver who refuses the compensatory charge and receives a violation report still cannot simply drive on: to continue the journey, a car must pay the price of a weekend vignette — currently €6.60 — on the spot, by card.

Two aggravating cases are worth knowing. Driving without a vignette while the registration plate is unreadable or covered in any way raises the fine to €255.65 (BGN 500). And enforcement does not end when you leave: alongside the National Toll Administration and the Ministry of Interior, the Customs Agency checks vignette payment when a vehicle exits Bulgaria through a border crossing point.

Finally, check the date of any price table you find. The euro conversion on 1 January 2026 left the tariffs unchanged, a one-day product followed on 3 February 2026, and a decree amending the tariff, published in the State Gazette on 31 July 2026, set the prices on this page from 1 August 2026 and changed the compensatory fee for cars to €46.50. Tables in lev or with pre-August euro amounts are out of date, including some older pages on the operator's own site; the purchase portal at web.bgtoll.bg shows the price you will pay.

Unlike most other vignette countries, Bulgaria’s e-vignette covers far more than motorways.

Roads requiring the e-vignette

The e-vignette is required on every republican road in Annex 2 to Council of Ministers Decision No 959 of 31 December 2018, the list BGTOLL cites for the scope of the charge (State Gazette No 3/2019):

Free roads — no e-vignette needed

For vehicles up to 3.5 t, the following need no e-vignette:

In practice, almost every journey between Bulgarian towns uses a republican road, so the e-vignette is practically unavoidable.

Online, app, terminal or sales desk — fully digital.

You enter your licence plate, country of registration, vehicle category and start date. Every product can start straight away or on a date you choose up to 30 days ahead; the one-day product also asks for a start time. Prices are the same through every official channel.

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