Desk research against primary sources. Figures are traced to the issuing UAE authority and linked on the page.
The per-gate structure is what catches people out, because it means the cost of a single commute is not a fixed number but a function of your specific route — crossing Al Maktoum Bridge and then Business Bay Crossing on the same drive charges AED 6 twice, not once, so two people with different routes across the same city can pay very different daily totals despite both just ‘commuting.’
Active commuters crossing 4–8 gates in rush hour see that add up to AED 24–48 a day specifically because rush-hour routes tend to stack gates rather than avoid them, which is worth knowing if you are choosing a home or office location partly on cost — a route that looks similar in distance can cross a different number of gates depending on which bridges or roads it actually uses. Keeping the tag topped up above the AED 50 minimum avoids it failing silently at a gate.