What S.R. 528 charges a car headed for Port Canaveral
A drive to Port Canaveral on S.R. 528 costs $0.28 to $4.24 one way with a transponder and $0.56 to $6.54 without one. The entry ramp sets how many plazas a car crosses: Interstate 4 buys three barriers, Orlando International Airport buys two, and State Road 520 buys one.
No agency publishes that total. Two rate tables cover the road, one from Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise and one from CFX, and two of the barriers on it belong to both at once. The sum a driver hands over exists only after somebody adds the two documents together.
Figures here are two axle rates from the tables both agencies put into effect on July 1, 2026, read in August 2026, for a car driving east toward the cruise terminals. Parking, shuttle fares and terminal numbers are settled elsewhere. Settled here is which barriers stand in the way and what each of them bills.
| Where the car joins S.R. 528 eastbound | Priced points crossed before the port exits | Two axle transponder rate, one way | Two axle Pay By Plate rate, one way | Transponder rate, round trip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate 4, at the western end of the Beachline | Beachline West Main Plaza, Beachline Main Plaza, Dallas Main Plaza | $4.24 | $6.54 | $8.48 |
| Boggy Creek Road, where Orlando International Airport traffic joins | Beachline Main Plaza, Dallas Main Plaza | $2.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 |
| State Road 520 at Cocoa | the State Road 520 ramps priced by Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise | $0.28 | $0.56 | $0.56 |
| U.S. Highway 1 north of Cocoa | none listed in either 2026 table | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
One road, one destination, four different bills.
Two agencies bill the Beachline and neither one bills all of it
S.R. 528 changes hands twice between Orlando and the coast. The Central Florida Expressway Authority operates the 23 miles that extend from Boggy Creek Road to State Road 520, in its own wording, while Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise operates the westernmost eight miles as the Beachline Expressway West between I-4 and Boggy Creek Road as well as the easternmost 15 miles between SR 520 and US-1.
Ownership is not trivia on this road. It is the reason no single rate card exists: each agency prices the asphalt it runs, publishes that price in its own document, and leaves the addition to whoever is driving.
Transponders cross the boundary even though the paperwork does not. SunPass belongs to Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise and E-PASS belongs to CFX, and both are accepted along the whole of S.R. 528, so the brand on the windshield changes nothing about the amount. Whether one sits there at all changes a great deal.
Length is a separate question with its own answer, worked through in how far Port Canaveral sits from each of the places people call Orlando. For a toll the useful measure is narrower than mileage: how many barriers a particular trip stands in front of, which the Beachline decides at the on ramp.
Two barriers on S.R. 528 are split down the middle between the agencies
Beachline West Main Plaza and Dallas Main Plaza each carry two prices from two issuers, and one document per barrier shows the whole of it. In its own table Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise prints Beachline West as a mainline plaza total of $2.24 with SunPass and $2.54 with TOLL-BY-PLATE, built from a Turnpike portion of $0.86 and $1.16 and a Central Florida Expressway portion of $1.38 and $1.38.
CFX prints that same $1.38 on its own schedule, labels it Beachline West Main Plaza, and stops there. Read the CFX table alone and the barrier costs $1.38. Read the Turnpike table alone and it costs $2.24. The larger figure is what leaves the account, and $0.86 plus $1.38 is the arithmetic that reconciles the two.
Dallas Main Plaza repeats the pattern in smaller money. The Central Florida Expressway Authority lists Dallas Main Plaza at $0.64 electronic and $1.28 pay by plate; Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise lists the FDOT portion of Dallas Plaza at $0.28 and $0.56; and the map inside the Turnpike document totals both at $0.92 with SunPass and $1.84 with TOLL-BY-PLATE. Adding $0.64 to $0.28 lands on the map figure exactly.
Half a price is not a price.
Every toll point the 2026 tables print on S.R. 528
Eight priced points stand between Interstate 4 and State Road 520 across the two documents. Three carry plaza names and five carry street names, and the split matters, because CFX prices a point rather than a route: a street named point bills the traffic that uses that interchange and nobody else.
| Toll point on S.R. 528, west to east | Agency that prints the rate | Two axle electronic rate | Two axle by plate rate | What the by plate column adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beachline West Main Plaza, Turnpike portion | Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise | $0.86 with SunPass | $1.16 by plate | $0.30 |
| Beachline West Main Plaza, CFX portion | Central Florida Expressway Authority | $1.38 electronic | $1.38 pay by plate | $0.00 |
| Beachline West Main Plaza, mainline total | Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise | $2.24 with SunPass | $2.54 by plate | $0.30 |
| Boggy Creek Road and McCoy Road | Central Florida Expressway Authority | $1.38 electronic | $2.76 pay by plate | $1.38 |
| Conway Road and Tradeport Drive | Central Florida Expressway Authority | $1.38 electronic | $2.76 pay by plate | $1.38 |
| Beachline Main Plaza | Central Florida Expressway Authority | $1.08 electronic | $2.16 pay by plate | $1.08 |
| Innovation Way | Central Florida Expressway Authority | $0.74 electronic | $1.48 pay by plate | $0.74 |
| Dallas Blvd. | Central Florida Expressway Authority | $0.64 electronic | $1.28 pay by plate | $0.64 |
| Dallas Main Plaza, CFX portion | Central Florida Expressway Authority | $0.64 electronic | $1.28 pay by plate | $0.64 |
| Dallas Main Plaza, FDOT portion | Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise | $0.28 with SunPass | $0.56 by plate | $0.28 |
| Dallas Main Plaza, both portions | Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise map total | $0.92 with SunPass | $1.84 by plate | $0.92 |
| State Road 520 ramps | Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise | $0.28 with SunPass | $0.56 by plate | $0.28 |
| Anything east of State Road 520 | neither agency lists a point | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
A car running the Beachline eastbound from Interstate 4 crosses the three mainline plazas and none of the street named points, unless it enters or leaves at Boggy Creek Road, Conway Road, Innovation Way or Dallas Blvd. Where an airport exit ramp falls inside that list is not something either agency states for a named route, so the $2.00 in the first table counts the two mainline plazas a through car cannot avoid and nothing more.
Driving without a transponder doubles seven of the eight S.R. 528 tolls
Seven of the eight priced points on S.R. 528 charge exactly twice as much by plate as electronically. Beachline Main Plaza moves from $1.08 to $2.16, Innovation Way from $0.74 to $1.48, Dallas Main Plaza from $0.92 to $1.84, and the State Road 520 ramps from $0.28 to $0.56. The multiplier is 2.00 at each of them.
Beachline West Main Plaza breaks the pattern, and it breaks it hard. That barrier costs $2.24 with SunPass and $2.54 by plate, a premium of $0.30 or 13 percent, because CFX charges $1.38 in both columns on its half and the Turnpike half is what moves, from $0.86 to $1.16. The plaza an Interstate 4 departure cannot dodge is also the plaza that barely punishes a bare windshield.
Winner by scenario, on the published columns alone. A car from Interstate 4 pays $6.54 by plate against $4.24 electronic, up 54 percent, so a transponder is worth $2.30 each way. Traffic joining at Boggy Creek Road pays $4.00 against $2.00, up 100 percent, so the shorter trip carries the harsher ratio. The State Road 520 entry pays $0.56 against $0.28, a gap of $0.28, at which point a transponder saves less than the time spent thinking about it.
The percentage runs opposite to the distance. Less road, worse ratio.
Nothing east of State Road 520 appears in either toll table
No toll point east of State Road 520 shows up in the 2026 rate tables of the Central Florida Expressway Authority or of Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise. The CFX section ends at S.R. 520, the Turnpike runs the easternmost 15 miles from there to U.S. Highway 1, and neither document prices a barrier on that stretch or beyond it.
That untolled run covers the part of the drive most travelers picture when they imagine paying to reach the port. Both cruise exits sit inside it, and the Canaveral Port Authority publishes Exit 54A for A Terminals, CT-5, CT-6, CT-8 and CT-10, and Exit 54B for B Terminals, CT-1 or CT-3. Neither ramp carries a price in either table. Which of the two a car takes is decided by the terminal, garage and exit each Port Canaveral cruise line uses, not by the toll system.
One arrival pattern therefore pays nothing at all. Canaveral Port Authority directions from Melbourne Orlando International Airport run north on U.S. Highway 1, past S.R. 520 in Cocoa, about four miles to S.R. 528 East, joining the expressway east of every priced point on it.
Dallas Main Plaza, at $0.92 with SunPass, is the last barrier an Orlando car passes. Everything after it is free road.
Where the S.R. 528 toll is a rounding error and where it is not
Round trips double each figure and change nothing else, because S.R. 528 prices a vehicle rather than its occupants. Interstate 4 to the port and back comes to $8.48 with a transponder and $13.08 by plate. Orlando International Airport and back is $4.00 and $8.00. Melbourne and back is $0.00 in either column.
Set against the rest of an embarkation day, those numbers are small and unevenly so. The Canaveral Port Authority charges $20.00 per day plus tax and counts arrival and departure days, so a seven night cruise bills eight days at $160.00 before tax, and the heaviest toll on the road, $13.08 for a return run from Interstate 4 without a transponder, is roughly 8 percent of that. From Melbourne the toll share of the drive is zero.
Rental cars are where the table stops answering the question. The TOLL-BY-PLATE payment option is not available for customers in rental cars, according to Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, and each company has a different payment arrangement, so the $4.00 in the by plate column is a state price rather than a rental invoice. What a renter pays is fixed by the rental agreement, a document neither toll table can see, and the wider cost of picking up a car for this leg is laid out in how a one way rental from Orlando International Airport to Port Canaveral is priced.
Winner by scenario, in three columns again. A driver in an owned car carrying SunPass or E-PASS pays the table price and stops there, so the table is the whole answer. A driver in an owned car with no transponder pays the by plate column, up to $6.54 each way, which is still a published number. A driver in a rental pays whatever the desk charges, the single case no toll table settles, and the operator fares compared in what each company on the Orlando airport run charges per traveler often work out cheaper than finding out.
Toll details that move the number on the Beachline
Six items sit outside the rate tables and change what a Port Canaveral driver actually pays.
- Rates quoted here are the two axle columns. Both documents carry separate columns for vehicles with more axles, which is where a car towing a trailer or a boat lands before it reaches Cape Canaveral.
- An invoice costs more than a plaza. The Toll Enforcement Invoice that Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise mails to the registered owner covers tolls incurred over a 30 day period and carries a $2.50 administrative fee, so a lone $2.00 airport run billed by plate arrives as $6.50 rather than $4.00.
- A plaza named in old directions may not exist. The former Airport Plaza on S.R. 528 stopped collecting on January 31, 2016 and was demolished, its tolls moving to Beachline West Main Plaza and to CFX ramps, in a Central Florida Expressway Authority release readable in August 2026 only as a search snippet.
- Both schedules took effect on July 1, 2026, and the Florida’s Turnpike file carries a document date of August 14, 2026, so a rate copied from a page read in the spring belongs to a superseded table.
- The addition happens in one place only. A toll calculator that Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise runs on its own site prices a route once both ends are named, and that is the nearest thing to a published total for the run to Cape Canaveral.
- Tolls split across a party and parking does not. Four travelers share the same $8.48 round trip from Interstate 4 that two would pay, while the day count behind a Port Canaveral parking bill keeps running at $20.00 per day plus tax whoever is in the car.
Where a Port Canaveral toll estimate goes wrong
Five mistakes repeat, and each has a published document behind it.
Quoting half a shared barrier comes first. CFX prints $1.38 for Beachline West Main Plaza and Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise prints $2.24 for the same concrete, so a budget built on the CFX line alone is short by $0.86 each way and $1.72 on the return.
Adding ramp prices to a through trip comes second. Boggy Creek Road and McCoy Road at $1.38 and Conway Road and Tradeport Drive at $1.38 are billed to traffic using those interchanges, so stacking both onto a straight eastbound run turns a $2.00 trip into $4.76 on paper and nothing on the road.
Treating the by plate column as the invoice comes third. That column stops at the toll. A Toll Enforcement Invoice from Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise adds $2.50 in administrative fee to whatever accumulated over 30 days, which on a single $4.00 by plate run is a 63 percent surcharge on top of a rate already doubled.
Budgeting a toll for the coastal end comes fourth. The 2026 tables price nothing east of State Road 520, so the 15 mile Turnpike section to U.S. Highway 1, the causeway beyond it and both port exits carry no published charge, whatever a car paid to get that far.
Handing a rental driver these figures comes fifth. The post paid option is ruled out for rental customers by Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, which says each company sets its own arrangement, so the number moves out of a state table and into a contract signed at the counter.
Dates and issuers behind these S.R. 528 toll figures
The figures in this guide were verified in August 2026 against the sources named in each section. Parking rates usually change in January, shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here, and none can pay to appear. Where a booking link earns Lot and Gate a commission it is marked as sponsored and flagged in this line, and as of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site.
Questions drivers ask about tolls between Orlando and Port Canaveral
Six recurring questions, answered with the same July 1, 2026 rate tables read in August 2026.
Between $0.28 and $4.24 one way with a transponder, depending on where the car joins S.R. 528. From Interstate 4 the total is $4.24 across three mainline plazas; from Boggy Creek Road near Orlando International Airport it is $2.00 across two. Neither agency publishes a route total.
No toll point east of State Road 520 appears in the 2026 tables of the Central Florida Expressway Authority or Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise. Exit 54A for Cruise Terminals 5, 6, 8 and 10 and Exit 54B for Cruise Terminals 1 and 3 carry no published charge in either document.
No, though the alternative costs more at seven of the eight priced points on S.R. 528, where Pay By Plate is exactly double. Beachline West Main Plaza is the exception, at $2.24 with SunPass against $2.54 by plate. E-PASS from CFX is accepted on the same road.
Three mainline plazas and five street named points. West to east the mainline barriers are Beachline West Main Plaza at $2.24, Beachline Main Plaza at $1.08 and Dallas Main Plaza at $0.92 with a transponder, alongside Boggy Creek Road, Conway Road, Innovation Way, Dallas Blvd. and State Road 520.
Because two agencies split two barriers. S.R. 528 west of Boggy Creek Road and east of State Road 520 belongs to Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, and CFX runs the 23 miles between. At Beachline West Main Plaza the Turnpike bills $0.86 and CFX bills $1.38, which is the $2.24 mainline total.
From Interstate 4 the Pay By Plate total is $6.54 one way against $4.24, and from Boggy Creek Road it is $4.00 against $2.00. A $2.50 administrative fee is added to each Toll Enforcement Invoice from Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, covering the tolls incurred over a 30 day period.
The toll is decided at the on ramp, not on the road
Two things settle what S.R. 528 costs, and the distance to Port Canaveral is neither of them. First comes the ramp, which fixes how many barriers stand in the way, between none and three. Second comes the transponder, which halves seven of the eight prices on the road and moves the eighth by $0.30. Drivers shop hard for the second and rarely think about the first, and the first is worth $3.96 more each way.