How much it costs Jeff Bezos to keep his $500,000,000 superyacht afloat each year is difficult for a non-billionaire to comprehend
Published on Apr 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Apr 16, 2026 at 5:04 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Mason Jones
Jeff Bezos owns two superyachts – Koru and Abeona – worth between $575 million and $600 million in total.
The price tag is certainly a headline-making amount of cash, but what’s truly shocking is the money he has to spend on yearly maintenance.
Maintaining Abeona alone costs as much as buying a fleet of supercars every year.
But keeping Koru running is the equivalent of buying a penthouse in New York every year.
Koru is not actually the largest yacht in the world
As surprising as it may be, Koru isn’t even the world’s largest yacht, and it isn’t even the world’s largest sailing yacht.
Those two titles belong to Azzam and A (pictured below) respectively.
The second one isn’t a typo, by the way.
The largest sailing yacht in the world is simply called [Sailing yacht] A – clever.
Measuring 144 meters (469 feet), A is around 15 meters longer than Koru.
But, interestingly, it was actually a tiny bit less expensive to build.
This yacht costs Jeff Bezos the same as buying a supercar daily
There’s an unwritten rule that says that the annual operating expenses of superyachts generally equal roughly 10 percent of the purchase price.
Koru, launched by OceanCo in 2021, cost around $500 million to build, and that projection seems right on the money.
The complicated three-masted design and systems require constant specialized upkeep, and you’re looking at seven figures for that as well.
Insurance premiums for a $500 million boat are estimated to be between $2 million and $5 million.
Then there are mooring fees, of course, and Koru isn’t the type of vessel you can dock at a mom-and-pop port in a small Mediterranean sea village.
All in all, we’re looking (well, Bezos is) at around $50 million per year, equivalent to around $140,000 per day.
You can buy some supercars for that… every day.
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After beginning his automotive writing career at DriveTribe, Alessandro has been with Supercar Blondie since the launch of the website in 2022. In fact, he penned the very first article published on supercarblondie.com. He’s covered subjects from cars to aircraft, watches, and luxury yachts - and even crypto. He can largely be found heading up the site’s new-supercar and SBX coverage and being the first to bring our readers the news that they’re hungry for.
