What is the cheapest electric bike?
US$299 — Flyer Electric Bike for Kids, at varlascooter.com. That is the lowest price any of the shops we read is asking today for a complete electric bike you can actually put in a basket. We re-read every catalogue twice a day, so this name changes on its own.
The cheapest complete electric bikes in stock
What this page refuses to tell you
It will not tell you which one is best. That needs a tester, and we are not one — we read catalogues. Anyone ranking cheap machines by quality without riding them is guessing, and you can usually tell because the ranking never changes.
Prices and stock are read from the shops' own catalogues twice a day, so this page is as current as our last sweep and no more. A shop can sell its last board between our reading and your click — we tell you who had it, not who still has it this second. We take no payment to place a board on this page, and the order is price, nothing else.
What one costs across the whole market, not just the bottom: the full distribution.
Questions this raises
Is the cheapest electric bike worth buying?
We do not know, and we will not pretend to: answering it means riding the machine, and this site tests nothing. What we can tell you is what the market looks like around it. The median complete electric bike is US$1,599, so the cheapest sits well below the middle of the market — that gap is where you should ask questions about range, battery and support.
How many electric bikes cost less than $500?
55 complete machines, across 28 brands, with at least one shop declaring stock.
Does the cheapest one stay the cheapest?
No. It moves with every sweep — a sale ends, a shop sells out, a new model lands. That is the whole reason this page is generated from the database instead of written once and left to rot, which is what a list of "best cheap models from 2023" is.
Where does this price come from?
From the shop's own catalogue, read directly, twice a day. It is not a manufacturer's list price and it is not a price we were given. How this works.
Do you get paid for this order?
No. The order is price, lowest first, and nothing else decides it. We never take a payment to move a product up a list — it is written in the footer of every page here.