How Much Does It Cost to Rent a Porsche, Read Off the Back Badge

A Porsche from us costs $295 to $1,695 a day, and the word on the back of the car decides where you land. The cheapest is a black 718 Boxster at $295. The most expensive are two 911 GT3 RS cars at $1,695. So when you ask how much does it cost to rent a Porsche, the real question is the badge. It's the word the valet in Newport Beach reads as you walk away.

The Porsche rental price for every car we run

We run 13 Porsches across six models. Here is every daily rate, cheapest first.

• 718 Boxster, black, $295
• Macan, black, $395
• 911 Carrera, blue 2018, $395
• Panamera, grey and black, $495 each
• 911 Carrera 4S, silver 2023, $595
• 911 Carrera, red 2022, $695
• 911 Carrera GTS and 911 Carrera 4 GTS, both grey 2025, $795 each
• 911 Turbo S, black, $1,195
• 911 GT3, grey, $1,295
• 911 GT3 RS, grey and black, $1,695 each

Nine of those 13 cars say 911 on the tail. From the curb they share one shape, the one people recognize before they read a single letter. So the car you step out of at a Beverly Hills valet stand reads as a 911 whether you paid $395 or $1,695. The difference shows up once the engine starts and the road opens.

Five Carreras and four prices

The 911 Carrera name alone runs from $395 to $795. That's a $400 spread under one name, the same gap that separates the GT3 from the GT3 RS. The blue 2018 Carrera makes 370 hp and hits 60 in 4.4 seconds. The red 2022 Carrera makes 379 hp and does it in 4.0. The silver Carrera 4S, a 2023, makes 443 hp and gets there in 3.4 seconds with all-wheel drive.

At the top sit the two 2025 GTS cars at $795. Both are hybrids, and both make 532 hp with a 0 to 60 of 2.9 seconds. The trick is a single electric turbocharger plus a 54 hp motor built into the gearbox, so there's no lag to wait through. One is the rear-drive Carrera GTS with a black interior. The other is the Carrera 4 GTS, the all-wheel-drive version, with a red interior you see the second the door swings open.

Behind the wheel, the jump from $395 to $795 buys a second and a half to 60 and 162 more horsepower. On the climb out of Malibu the blue car feels quick. The GTS feels like it's pulling the road toward you. Whether that second and a half is worth $400 a day is your call, and I don't think there's a wrong answer.

Why the GT3 RS costs more than the Turbo S

The 911 Turbo S is the quickest Porsche we run from a stop, and it isn't the most expensive. It sends 640 hp through all four wheels and reaches 60 in 2.6 seconds, at $1,195 a day. The 911 GT3 is $1,295 with 502 hp and a 3.2 second run to 60. The GT3 RS is $1,695 with 518 hp and 3.0 seconds.

So you pay $500 more for a car that's slower off the line. The reason is the engine. The GT3 and GT3 RS use a 4.0 liter naturally aspirated flat six, meaning no turbochargers at all. It revs to 9,000 rpm. That sound is what people rent it for. It builds to a metallic wail you feel at the base of your skull on the coast road past Laguna Beach.

The Turbo S plays it the other way. It stays polite below 3,500 rpm, quiet enough for a two hour freeway run, then the turbos spool and the car shoves forward. It also keeps four seats, while the GT3 and GT3 RS have two. Neither car goes on a track, because track use isn't permitted on any car in our fleet. The GT3's racing hardware gets used on public roads at legal speeds, and it still feels special there.

How much does it cost to rent a Porsche for a weekend or a week

One or two days are billed at the full daily rate. From day three a discount kicks in on its own, based on length, not on asking. Three to four days take 10% off, five to six days take 15%, and seven to 13 days take 20%. Past that it's 30% at 14 days, 40% at 21 days, and 50% at 28 days.

So a weekend in the black Turbo S is $2,390 for two days. Three days in a GT3 RS comes to $4,576.50 after the 10%. A full week in the blue Carrera is $2,212, which works out to $316 a day. That week puts the same 911 shape at the LAX curb on day one and outside a dinner in Irvine on day seven.

The rate doesn't include insurance, and we don't sell it. Your own policy has to extend to a rental car. We call your carrier on a recorded line to confirm that before you get the keys. Delivery is quoted by address, so that number depends on where you want the car waiting.

The deposit and the miles past 100

Every Porsche carries a security deposit, a hold on your card that isn't a charge. It's released after the car comes back the way it left. The deposit covers small things like a curbed wheel, and your insurance covers real damage, subject to your deductible. Eight of our 13 Porsches hold $1,000. The Turbo S, the GT3, both GT3 RS cars, and the Carrera 4S hold $2,000.

The Carrera 4S is the part nobody tells you about. Its rate is $595, which is $100 less than the red Carrera, but its deposit is twice as high. If the hold matters more to you than the day rate, pick the red car. It costs more per day and ties up half as much of your card.

Every rental includes 100 miles a day, pooled over the trip, so two days give you 200 miles. Past that you pay the car's own rate per mile. The Boxster and the Carrera 4S are $3 a mile. The Macan, both Panameras, the two Carreras, and both GTS cars are $4. The Turbo S, the GT3, and the black GT3 RS are $5. The grey GT3 RS is $6, the only Porsche we run at that rate.

A 300 mile weekend in the Turbo S goes 100 miles over, and at $5 that adds $500. If you know the trip runs long, say so at booking and we'll price the miles ahead of time. That beats watching the odometer the whole way home with the exhaust humming behind you.

The Porsches that aren't 911s

Three Porsches in our fleet skip the 911 shape entirely. The 718 Boxster is $295, a mid-engine two seater with 300 hp. Its roof folds in about nine seconds at up to 31 mph. You can drop it at a light and pull away with the sky open. It's the cheapest Porsche we run and the one I'd pick for a sunset run along the coast in Malibu.

The Macan is $395 and seats five, with 261 hp and all-wheel drive. The Panamera is $495 and seats four, with a 46 cubic foot hatch that takes luggage for everyone. Both are the Porsche you book when the people riding with you matter as much as the drive. Four adults step out of the Panamera at a Beverly Hills dinner and nobody spent the ride folded in half.

What the badge is really pricing

The price of a Porsche lives on its tail. Carrera, GTS, Turbo S, and GT3 RS each mean a different number. The gap between them is paid in sound and seconds, not in looks. Pick the badge for how you want the drive to feel, because from the curb every 911 we run reads the same.