Joby vs Archer vs Wisk — Three US Air Taxi Programmes
Three of the most-funded US eVTOL air-taxi programmes side by side: piloted vs autonomous, FAA Stage 4 vs Stage 3, public vs Boeing-backed.
Curated head-to-head matchups across the leading eVTOL programmes. Every comparison rebuilds itself from live operator data, so the rankings update the moment a spec changes, and programmes that have ceased development are flagged rather than quietly dropped.
Three of the most-funded US eVTOL air-taxi programmes side by side: piloted vs autonomous, FAA Stage 4 vs Stage 3, public vs Boeing-backed.
Three of Asia's most-developed eVTOL programmes compared: EHang's autonomous EH216-S already flying paying tourists in China, SkyDrive's Toyota-backed SD-05, and AutoFlight's CAAC-cleared Prosperity I architecture.
The three eVTOL programmes pushing range far beyond the urban-hop default: Beta's battery-electric ALIA-250, AMSL's hydrogen-electric Vertiia, and Manta's hybrid-electric ANN2.
Two of these three are racing to certify. The third was liquidated in 2025. Here is how the comparison actually stands now.
Two autonomous-versus-piloted multirotors that took opposite paths. One flies commercially today; the other was sold out of insolvency.