For drivers · 5 min read · Updated October 2026

Long Commute? How Mileage Works on Lunar

A long commute makes the weekly check easy, and verified miles can count toward your pay. Here's how mileage works on Lunar, and the weekly minimum it clears easily.

If you commute any real distance, here's the short version for your Lunar earnings: mileage helps in two ways. It makes the weekly check easy, because a commute clears the minimum with room to spare, and verified miles can count toward your pay. The most a car carrying four stickers can earn is up to $500 a month, everything included. Here's exactly how it works.

The mechanics, precisely

• One weekly minimum: each weekly check needs at least 25 miles (40 km in Canada) driven since your last odometer reading.
• Pay is per sticker, and a car carries at most four, one per door.
• Verified miles can count toward your pay, and only approved mileage counts. Each sticker runs on its own 30-day clock and is paid monthly through Stripe, for up to $500 a month in total, which already includes everything (see the earnings page).
• Falling short has a cost: a week under the minimum counts as a missed week, which is one strike for that calendar month however many stickers you carry. Strikes reset on the 1st.

What 25 miles a week looks like

Spread over a week, 25 miles is about 3.5 miles a day. A 15-mile each-way commute clears it in a single day; a 10-mile each-way commute clears it in two. A work-from-home week of school runs and groceries can come up short, so watch a light week before your reading is due. The minimum is there to show the car is genuinely being driven; past it, verified miles can count toward your pay, within the up-to-$500 ceiling.

Verified is the operative word

The weekly check is how your driving counts: a person reviews your odometer reading, the distance since your last reading is worked out, and it has to meet the minimum — the same verification that feeds the businesses' dashboards. Two practical implications for commuters. First, submit it every week: a missed week is a strike. Second, no photo gymnastics needed — the count is your real odometer doing its real thing; commuting is the strategy.

What your miles do for the businesses on your doors

Approved mileage is one of the numbers the businesses on your doors see on their dashboards, alongside the estimated impressions worked out from it. Businesses pay a flat monthly price per car, so a longer commute doesn't change what a business pays.

Commuter-specific fine print

• Time off doesn't pause the check: the weekly minimum applies every week, and a week under it counts as a strike. Strikes reset on the 1st of each month.
• Highway commutes are fine — miles are miles. Zone matching still anchors campaigns to where you live and drive locally, and your commute's bookends do plenty of neighbourhood work.
• Don't drive extra to chase pay: the ceiling is up to $500 a month, and manufactured miles only cost you fuel and time. Drive the way you normally do.

The full commuter picture

A car carrying four stickers can earn up to $500 a month, and a daily commute makes the weekly check easy to meet. Against the commute's fixed costs — the gas and depreciation you were spending anyway — it's the rare case where the drive to work pays something back. See what your car qualifies for.