Query current and historical GSA mileage reimbursement rates by travel date. Automobile, airplane, motorcycle, government-vehicle-available, and moving rates from official GSA sources.
Data sourced from public U.S. Government per diem and allowance tables. Not affiliated with the U.S. Government or GSA.
GSA publishes privately owned vehicle mileage reimbursement rates for official federal travel. The rates are available on GSA.gov as current and archived web tables, but there is no documented public mileage-rates API. Allowances API turns those tables into a simple JSON endpoint with effective-date lookups, so your application can retrieve the rate that applied on the actual travel date.
Automobile, airplane, motorcycle, government-furnished automobile, and the moving/relocation rate.
Archived rates back to 2017, including mid-year changes like July 2022.
Pass any calendar date and get the rate that was in effect on that day.
Include the official GSA source URL in API responses for rate verification and audit trails.
Fetch the POV mileage rate for a vehicle type and travel date with a simple REST request.
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \"https://api.allowancesapi.com/v1/gsa/mileage?type=automobile&date=2026-07-14&verification_url=true"{ "effective_date": "2026-01-01", "verification_url": "https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-a-trip/transportation-airfare-rates-pov-rates/privately-owned-vehicle-pov-mileage-reimbursement", "results": [ { "mileage_type": "automobile", "effective_date": "2026-01-01", "rate_per_mile": 0.725 } ]}
Omit type to get all vehicle types at once, and omit
date for today's rates. Add
verification_url=true to receive a link back to the
official GSA source for auditing.
Rates in effect today, served live from the API.
| Mode of transportation | Effective date | Rate per mile |
|---|---|---|
|
Automobile (POV)
If use of a privately owned automobile is authorized or if no government-furnished automobile is available
|
January 1, 2026 | $0.725 |
|
Airplane
Privately owned aircraft
|
January 1, 2026 | $1.780 |
|
Motorcycle
Privately owned motorcycle
|
January 1, 2026 | $0.705 |
|
Government-furnished automobile
If a government-furnished automobile is authorized and available
|
January 1, 2026 | $0.205 |
|
Moving purposes
Standard mileage rate for moving / relocation
|
January 1, 2026 | $0.205 |
Every published POV mileage rate change, exactly as returned by the API when you
query with a past date.
| Effective date | Automobile (POV) | Airplane | Motorcycle | Government-furnished automobile | Moving purposes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1, 2026 | $0.725 | $1.780 | $0.705 | $0.205 | $0.205 |
| January 1, 2025 | $0.700 | $1.750 | $0.680 | $0.210 | — |
| January 1, 2024 | $0.670 | $1.760 | $0.650 | $0.210 | — |
| January 1, 2023 | $0.655 | $1.740 | $0.635 | $0.220 | — |
| July 1, 2022 | $0.625 | $1.810 | $0.605 | $0.220 | — |
| January 1, 2022 | $0.585 | $1.515 | $0.565 | $0.180 | — |
| January 1, 2021 | $0.560 | $1.260 | $0.540 | $0.160 | — |
| January 1, 2020 | $0.575 | $1.270 | $0.545 | $0.170 | — |
| January 1, 2019 | $0.580 | $1.260 | $0.550 | $0.200 | — |
| January 1, 2018 | $0.545 | $1.210 | $0.515 | $0.180 | — |
| January 1, 2017 | $0.535 | $1.150 | $0.505 | $0.170 | — |
Unlike per diem, GSA does not offer an official API for POV mileage reimbursement rates — they are published on gsa.gov as HTML tables that change at least once a year, sometimes mid-year. Systems that hard-code the rate silently miscalculate reimbursements after every change. Allowances API monitors the official page, keeps the full archive, and answers the only question your code actually asks: what was the rate per mile for this vehicle type on this date?
Reimburse POV miles at the correct official rate for the travel date, not the rate at the time of processing.
Support travel cost documentation and historical rate verification with auditable source links.
Feed the current cents-per-mile figures into NetSuite, Deltek, SAP, or internal tools automatically each January.
Answers to common developer and compliance questions.
GSA publishes POV mileage reimbursement rates as a web page, not as an API. Allowances API republishes those rates — current and archived — as a normalized JSON API with effective-date lookups.
The current POV automobile rate is $0.725 per mile, effective January 1, 2026. Separate rates apply to airplanes, motorcycles, and government-furnished automobiles; see the table above.
Yes. The API covers the GSA archive back to 2017, including mid-year changes
such as the July 2022 increase. Pass any date and the API returns
the rate that was in effect on that day — useful for late expense claims,
invoice validation, and audits.
The POV automobile rate matches the IRS standard business mileage rate. The airplane, motorcycle, government-furnished automobile, and moving rates are set by GSA and differ from IRS figures.
No. Allowances API is not affiliated with GSA or any U.S. Government agency. Data is sourced from official public rate tables, and every response can include a verification link back to the official source.
Start querying current and historical POV mileage reimbursement rates with the same normalized API that serves GSA, DTMO, and DSSR per diem data.
Data sourced from official public per diem and allowances tables. Not affiliated with any government agency.