Your cravings,
delivered in 15.
Bolt is quick-commerce done the honest way. We run our own single-city dark-store micro-hub — real inventory, real riders, real sub-15-minute drops. No dropship delays. No delivery times we can't keep.
- ~12 min
- Avg. drop time
- 1,500+
- Curated SKUs
- 1 hub
- Fully owned, per city
Order on the way
From your local hub
In this basket
Cold Brew
$4.50
Sea-Salt Chips
$3.25
Sparkling Water
$2.00
Ice Cream Pint
$6.75
Rider is 4 blocks away — arriving faster than a corner-shop run.
Why Bolt exists
Quick-commerce broke a promise. We're fixing it.
Too many apps say “instant” while shipping from a stranger's warehouse days away. That's not fast — it's dropshipping in disguise. Bolt runs a real dark-store micro-hub so “15 minutes” is a fact, not a marketing line.
The dropship trap
- Multi-day shipping from suppliers you don't control
- “Fast” delivery on commodity products at razor-thin margins
- ETAs that quietly slip from minutes to days
The Bolt way
- One owned dark-store hub, stocked and staffed for speed
- A tight catalog of what people actually crave right now
- ETAs we keep because we only serve where we're fast
Our own dark-store hub
No third-party suppliers, no dropship middlemen. Every order is picked from inventory we hold and control in a hub built for speed.
Genuine sub-15-min delivery
We only serve the radius our hub can actually reach fast, so the ETA you see is the ETA you get — around 12 minutes on average.
A catalog built for cravings
1,500 things people truly order on impulse — snacks, drinks, ice cream, late-night essentials — stocked brilliantly instead of endlessly.
Live rider tracking
Watch your order leave the hub and follow the rider to your door in real time. No vague windows, no ghost drivers.
Flat, honest fees
One upfront delivery fee. No surge pricing, no surprise service charges bolted on at checkout.
Made for late nights
The hub runs when cravings hit hardest. Bolt is built around the 9pm-to-2am rush, not just the lunch crowd.
How it works
Three taps from craving to doorstep.
Tap what you crave
Open Bolt, add snacks and essentials to your basket, and check out in seconds. Clear prices, one flat delivery fee.
We pick from our hub
Your order pings the local dark-store hub instantly. A picker grabs it off our own shelves — no supplier, no waiting on a warehouse.
A rider drops it in 15
A nearby Bolt rider is routed straight to your door. Track every minute until it lands — usually around the 12-minute mark.
How we compare
Fast where it counts.
Gopuff, Getir, Blinkit, Amazon and DoorDash all leave the same gap open: genuinely fast, honest, impulse-first delivery. Bolt is built for exactly that.
| Bolt | Gopuff | Getir / Blinkit | Amazon / DoorDash | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typical delivery time | ~12 min | 30–60 min | 15–40 min | Hours to days |
| Owns its inventory | yes | partial | yes | no (marketplace) |
| Focus | Impulse & late-night | Broad convenience | Groceries | Everything |
| Honest coverage | Only where we're fast | Overextended | City-wide | Global logistics |
| Delivery fees | Flat & upfront | Variable + service | Variable | Prime / per order |
Comparison reflects Bolt's single-city dark-store model versus common competitor approaches. Illustrative, for positioning purposes.
Orders per month today
and climbing
Projected monthly orders
by Year 3
Average order value
small-basket impulse
City at a time
fast before we scale
Early word
Testers can't go back to “30–40 minutes.”
“I ordered ice cream at midnight expecting the usual 40-minute lie. It was at my door in 11. Bolt just… tells the truth about time.”
Dana R.
Early tester · Riverside
“The catalog is small on purpose and I love it. It's exactly the stuff I'd run to the corner shop for — minus the walk in the rain.”
Marco V.
Early tester · Old Town
“Flat fee, live tracking, and it actually shows up fast. It feels like quick-commerce the way it was always supposed to work.”
Priya S.
Early tester · Midtown
Quotes are illustrative placeholders from a fictional early-tester program.
Simple pricing
No surge. No surprises.
Order whenever you like, or go Bolt+ for free delivery. Exact per-order pricing is set per city and shown before you check out.
Pay as you go
Order whenever the craving hits.
- Full 1,500+ item catalog
- Sub-15-minute delivery
- Live rider tracking
- Flat, upfront delivery fee per order
Bolt+ membership
For people who Bolt more than they walk.
- Free delivery on every order
- Priority rider routing
- Early access to new hub cities
- Members-only late-night drops
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Those apps expanded across dozens of cities and, in many places, lean on third-party stores or long routes. Bolt does the opposite: we run one owned dark-store micro-hub per city, stocked with the ~1,500 things people actually order at 11pm. Fewer cities, faster drops, honest ETAs.
No — and that's the whole point. Dropshipping means multi-day shipping from suppliers you don't control, which is incompatible with a 15-minute promise. Bolt holds real inventory in a hub we operate, so a rider is picking your order seconds after you tap.
Our target is a sub-15-minute drop, with a citywide average around 12 minutes during hub hours. Because we only serve the radius our hub can genuinely reach, we don't quote times we can't keep.
A tight, curated catalog built for impulse and convenience: snacks, drinks, ice cream, late-night essentials, basic pharmacy, and phone accessories. We'd rather stock 1,500 things brilliantly than 50,000 things we can't deliver fast.
Order-by-order with a flat, upfront delivery fee — no surge, no mystery service charges. Bolt+ members get free delivery and priority routing. You'll see exact pricing when Bolt opens in your city.
We launch one city at a time so every hub is genuinely fast before we move on. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment a Bolt hub lights up near you.
Be first when Bolt lights up your city.
Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment our hub opens near you — plus early access to Bolt+ before anyone else.
No spam, ever. Just one email when Bolt reaches your area.