Best Breakdown Cover 2025
Looking for the best breakdown cover available? HonestJohn.co.uk readers have shared their experiences to reveal 2025's best breakdown cover providers.
- Which is the UK's best breakdown cover provider?
- Find out how our readers rate the various options
- Is it time you switched to better breakdown cover?
Choosing breakdown cover can be tricky, especially when it's something you hope you never have to use. This encourages people to go with a cheaper option but can it prove wiser to spend more should your car's unreliability leave you stranded?
Having peace of mind from knowing your breakdown cover is top-notch is essential if you don't want to be left by the roadside — this is where we come in. Here you will find 2025's best UK breakdown cover providers based on our readers' feedback for the latest Honest John Satisfaction Index.
We've collated more than 6000 of your motoring breakdown experiences, including those where readers chose their own providers and those offered by third parties, typically insurers and banks, such as Nationwide including AA breakdown cover for its FlexPlus account customers.
If you need to prioritise keeping costs down you'll also want to check out our guide to inexpensive breakdown cover, which includes everything you need to look for when comparing providers.
Prices for breakdown cover usually vary depending on the age and type of car. All of the prices below are based on a 2018 Ford Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost, where applicable. If you're after the best breakdown cover, look no further.
1. GEM Motoring Assist
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 89.57%
Looking for the best car breakdown cover out there? According to our readers, it's provided by GEM Motoring Assist. GEM's policies only offer personal breakdown cover so there is assistance available in any of your vehicles, plus others you may have hired or borrowed. Cover is fully comprehensive and includes home assistance, roadside assistance, unlimited callouts, nationwide recovery and onward travel - but not European Cover. Costs vary for the number of people that are included on the policy, all of whom must live at the same address.
GEM Motoring Assist breakdown cover prices
| Number of People | Price |
| Single | £106* |
| Joint (two people) | £141* |
| Family (three people) | £186* |
| Family (four people) | £221* |
2. AutoAid Breakdown
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 84.61%
AutoAid Breakdown is part of a group of companies including AutoNational Rescue and Euro Rescue all owned by Right Choice Insurance Brokers, so we've combined their scores. These prices are based on covering a car through AutoNational Rescue. Personal cover starts from £63.64 per year.
AutoAid breakdown cover prices
| Recovery Type | Price |
| AutoNational Roadside Annual Membership | £29.33 |
| AutoNational Roadside & Recovery Annual Membership | £36.56 |
| AutoNational Total UK Annual Membership | £43.15 |
| AutoAid Personal Breakdown Cover | £63.64 |
| AutoNational Total UK & Europe Annual Membership | £114.97 |
3. Rescuemycar.com
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 84.19%
It's not a household name but Rescuemycar.com aims to offer members an alternative to the well-known brands in the breakdown and recovery industry. It claims to be one of UK’s largest networks of breakdown specialists, with more than 4000 independent breakdown recovery experts operating nationwide. Local cover starts at just £17.
Rescuemycar.com breakdown cover prices
| Recovery Type | Cost |
| Roadside Assistance with Local Recovery | £27.50 |
| as above with National Recovery | £21.18 |
| as above with At Home Assistance | £17.00 |
| as above with European Recovery^ | £61.65 |
^ based on annual cover
4. LV= Britannia Rescue
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 82.06%
Although its score's only fallen by 0.01% compared with last year, other breakdown cover providers' services have been scored much higher, dropping LV= Britannia Rescue from first to fourth place. Part of the LV= insurance group, LV= Britannia Rescue claims an impressive average of 93.65% of cars were able to be fixed at the roadside allowing customers to continue their journeys. Personal cover for you and your partners costs from an additional £26.
LV= Britannia Rescue breakdown cover prices
| Recovery Type | Cost |
| Roadside Assist | £33 |
| Roadside & Home Assist | £66 |
| UK Recovery | £73 |
| UK Recovery & Home Assist | £102 |
| UK & European Assist | £152 |
5. Green Flag
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 82.00%
Green Flag breakdown cover prices
| Recovery Type | Cost |
| Rescue - Roadside assistance | £39.20 |
| Rescue Plus - as above with cover at home | £40.70 |
| Recovery Plus - as above with national recovery and onward travel | £47.75 |
| Euro Plus - as above with European cover | £110.68 |
6. AA
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 81.66%
AA breakdown cover prices
| Recovery Type | Price |
| Roadside Assistance | £80.89* |
| Roadside Assistance plus At Home | £109.06* |
| Roadside Assistance plus At Home and National Recovery | £142.12* |
| Roadside Assistance plus At Home, National Recovery and Onward Travel | £173.71* |
| European Breakdown Cover — Zone 1 (annual) | £157.21* |
7. Start Rescue
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 81.42%
2023's top ranked breakdown provider is slipping down the order, but it's close between those in the mid-table positions - a 1% increase would see Start Rescue in fourth position, for instance. Start Rescue offers five levels of cover with prices starting from £20.87 for local roadside cover (depending on the age of your car), making it a popular choice for anyone looking to keep costs as low as possible. Personal cover starts at £62.08 per year.
Start Rescue breakdown cover prices
| Recovery Type | Price |
| 1 Star (Roadside Assistance and Local Recovery up to 10 miles) | £20.87* |
| 2 Star (Nationwide Recovery) | £33.96* |
| 3 Star (Nationwide Recovery and Home Assist) | £39.76* |
| 4 Star (European Roadside Assistance with no Home Assist) | £68.76* |
| 5 Star (European Roadside Assistance plus Home Assist and Vandalism/Illness/Injury cover) | £81.76* |
8. RAC
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 79.13%
One of the 'big two', the RAC rivals the AA as the biggest breakdown provider in the UK. It offers a choice of personal breakdown cover or vehicle breakdown cover and builds a price depending on the options you add in - with things like battery cover, tyre replacement and key replace available. Unlike others, the number of callouts is limited to five unless you pay for the most expensive Complete cover. Personal cover costs from £96.69.
RAC breakdown cover prices
| Recovery Type | Price |
| Basic — 24/7 Roadside Assistance and Recovery up to 10 miles | £72.49* |
| Extra — 24/7 Roadside Assistance and National Recovery | £110.99* |
| Complete — 24/7 Roadside Assistance, National Recovery and At Home | £143.99* |
| Complete plus European Rescue | £251.99* |
9. AXA
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 77.43%
AXA breakdown cover prices
| Recovery Type | Cost |
| Local | £26.25 |
| Nationwide | £31.00 |
| Nationwide and Homestart | £38.95 |
| European (annual) | £62.65 |
10. Motoreasy
Breakdown Cover Satisfaction Score 76.67%
Warranty and gap insurance specialists Motoreasy launched its breakdown cover service in 2017. Motoreasy offers four levels of breakdown cover provision, plus discounted repairs at its network of 10,000 garages. Existing Motoreasy warranty customers additionally benefit from having everything organised for them when they report a breakdown.
Motoreasy breakdown cover prices
| Recovery Type | Cost |
| Local Recovery | £59.99 |
| Nationwide Recovery | £79.99 |
| Nationwide Recovery and Home Assist | £89.99 |
| Europewide Recovery and Home Assist (annual) | £119.99 |
