Gas Stations Near Me: Find Cheap Gas Prices, Discounts and Cash Back

No article can tell you what the station down your road is charging — but three free tools can, and they take about ten seconds. What a page like this can do is tell you which tools are worth opening, how the discount programs actually work, and when driving to a cheaper station costs more than it saves.

For scale before you start: AAA’s national average for regular was $4.0776 a gallon on 14 August 2026.

How do you find the cheapest gas near you right now?

Open a live map, not a list. Pump prices change daily and vary by a dollar or more across a single metro area, so anything printed in an article is out of date before you read it.

• GasBuddy — the best-known price finder in the US, built on prices reported by drivers. Works in a browser as well as an app.
• AAA Gas Prices — the official-average source rather than a station finder. Its state averages page tells you whether your area is cheap or expensive before you go hunting.
• Google Maps and Waze — both show fuel prices on gas station listings, which is often faster than installing anything.

A note on what these cost you: price-finder apps want your location, and some want an account. If that matters to you, the browser versions and the map apps you already have installed do most of the job.

What is gas costing today?

$4.0776 for regular, nationally, and rising through the summer. These are AAA’s own figures, read on 14 August 2026.

Year on year that is about 29% higher. Where prices go from here is not something this guide will guess at — but it does change the value of every discount below, because a fixed cents-per-gallon saving is worth the same in dollars whether gas is $3 or $4.

How do gas cash-back apps actually pay you?

After the fill, into an account — not as a lower price at the pump. The model is the same across the category: claim an offer before you buy, pay with the card you already use, upload or link the receipt, and the money lands later.

Upside is the biggest of these. From its own site: the app is free, users have earned “$1B+ in cash back”, and it quotes “$255 average first-year earnings for frequent users”. You cash out to a bank account or take gift cards. Participating fuel brands it names include Shell, BP, Marathon, Sunoco and Murphy USA.

Two things worth knowing before you expect a number. Upside does not publish a fixed cents-per-gallon rate — offers vary by station, day and how often you use it, so the per-gallon figures you see quoted in comparison articles are not the company’s own. And the 8% figure on its site is for grocery and dining, not fuel, which several roundups quietly merge into one claim.

Are supermarket and warehouse fuel programs worth it?

Often yes, but the number that decides it is the gallon cap, not the headline discount. Supermarket fuel-points schemes are free to join and convert grocery spending into cents off a gallon; warehouse clubs sell fuel cheaply but require a paid membership.

• Supermarket points — chains including Kroger and its family of banners convert points earned on groceries into cents per gallon. Before you plan around one, look up two things in the program’s own terms: how many points make a discount, and how many gallons the discount applies to in a single fill. A big discount capped at a small number of gallons is a small discount.
• Warehouse clubs — Costco and Sam’s Club both sell fuel to members only at many locations. The membership fee is the thing to weigh: it is worth it if you also shop there, and it rarely pays for itself on fuel alone unless you drive a lot.
• Brand loyalty programs — every major chain runs one and they are free. They are worth joining for the station you already use rather than as a reason to change stations.

When is a cheaper station not worth the drive?

When the detour costs more than the saving, which happens sooner than people expect. The arithmetic is simple: work out what you save on the whole tank, then work out what the extra miles cost.

At $4.0776 a gallon and 25 mpg, fuel costs about 16.3 cents a mile. On a 14-gallon fill, here is how far you can drive — round trip — before the detour eats the saving:

Those are break-even distances, so anything beyond them loses money before you count your time. The practical version: a 10-cent saving justifies a detour of about four miles each way, and no more. This is also why stacking matters — a station that is cheap and has a cash-back offer and takes your points is worth crossing town for in a way that any one of those alone is not.

Why do some “gas prices today” pages show numbers that are far too low?

Because they are stale, and nothing on the page tells you so. This is the single most useful thing to know when searching for fuel prices.

On the day we wrote this, with AAA’s national average at $4.0776, we found pages presented as current “gas prices today” quoting $2.87 to $3.29 a gallon — between 19% and 30% below the real number. Those are plausible-looking prices from an earlier period, republished with today’s date on the template.

The tell is simple: if a page prints prices but no timestamp, or a timestamp that is just today’s date on generic copy, check it against AAA’s average before you plan a trip around it. A live map has no incentive to be out of date; an article does.

What this guide does not tell you

What you will actually pay, or where prices go next. Every figure here is dated 14 August 2026, and pump prices move daily. There is no forecast in this article and no prediction-market or analyst view on fuel prices.

It does not rank the apps by savings, because the claims we could verify come from the companies themselves and are not measured on a common basis. It does not print GasBuddy’s card savings figure or the warehouse clubs’ typical discounts, because those pages would not open for us and we do not republish numbers we have not seen at source. And it does not know your zip code — which is the whole reason the first section is a list of tools rather than a table of stations.

If you want the longer view of what pump prices have done and how much any of it is within anyone’s control, we looked at that separately in gas prices and the 2028 election .