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Flight and hotel API alternatives, compared
FlightPowers is a travel data API: live Google Flights fares with Google's price band and a round trip in one request, plus live Booking.com hotel rates, from $10 for 2,500 flight searches. These pages compare it with SerpApi, SearchApi, HasData, FlightAPI.io, Skyscanner, Kiwi.com, Amadeus and Duffel, using each rival's own pages, read on the date shown.
Where the other product is better, the page says so. A comparison you can't trust on the rows we lose is not worth much on the rows we win.
At a glance
Getting in, the first bill, and a round trip
The three questions that decide most shortlists. Every rival cell is from that rival's own page, read on the date at the top; the pages below carry the quotes.
| How you get in | Smallest paid plan | Per 1,000 flight searches | Round trip with the return flight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FlightPowers | Subscribe on RapidAPI | $10 for 2,500 (hotels: $10 for 2,000) | $4.00 (ULTRA $2.50) | 1 request |
| SerpApi | Sign up | Cheapest plan $25 for 1,000 | $25.00 | 2 requests (departure_token) |
| SearchApi | Sign up | $40 for 10,000 | $4.00 | 2 requests (departure_token) |
| HasData | Sign up | $59 for 13,333 route searches | $4.43 | 2 requests (departureToken) |
| FlightAPI.io | Sign up | $49 for 30,000 credits, 2 credits a search | $3.27 | 1 request |
| Skyscanner | Application, reviewed within two weeks | No public price; partners earn commission | - | - |
| Kiwi.com Tequila | Invitation only since May 2024 | No public price | - | - |
| Amadeus Self-Service | Closed July 17, 2026 (Enterprise remains) | - | - | - |
| Duffel | Sign up (a booking API) | $3.00 per order; 1,500 searches per order free | $5.00 past the allowance ($0.005 a search) | Booking flow, not compared |
Per 1,000 is the smallest paid plan's price divided by the searches it includes. The round-trip column counts the requests needed to see both the outbound and the return flight. A range of dates in one call is a separate question: our REST API takes one date pair per request, our MCP servers take a date range and a list of destinations, and each page says what the rival offers.
Other Google Flights APIs
Same source data as ours, so the comparison is price, request shape and the extras each one sells.
SerpApi alternative for Google Flights
The move-a-workload guide: what changes in your code, one round trip instead of two calls, and when to stay on SerpApi.
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→vs SerpApi, row by row
Cost per search at every tier, the departure_token round trip, their MCP server, and the rows SerpApi wins: price history, multi-city, the legal shield.
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→vs SearchApi
Same $4 per 1,000 as our PRO, a $40 entry against $10, and a calendar endpoint that prices a date grid in one call, which our REST API does not have.
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→vs HasData
A Google Flights API and a hosted MCP server from a scraping vendor, 15 credits a search, a free tier of 66 searches a month against our 10.
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→vs FlightAPI.io
Fares from many sellers per itinerary at 2 credits a call, cheaper per search than our PRO at a $49 entry. Different data source, different job.
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→APIs you have to be let into
Skyscanner, Kiwi.com and Amadeus all put an application, an invitation or an enterprise contract in front of the data.
vs the Skyscanner API
An application, a two-week review and a commission model, against a key that works today. What their partners get that we cannot give.
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→vs Kiwi.com Tequila
New Tequila partnerships are invitation only since May 2024. Kiwi does run a free flight-search MCP server; this page says when to use it instead.
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→vs Amadeus Self-Service
Self-Service closed on July 17, 2026; the sandbox host has no DNS record. What we replace, the parameter mapping, and what we do not replace.
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→Booking APIs
They can issue a ticket and we cannot. The comparison is only useful if you do not need to.
Flight MCP servers
For flight search inside Claude, Cursor or another MCP client.
Other listings on RapidAPI
Same marketplace, same key, different products.
vs DataCrawler on RapidAPI
A 12-endpoint Google Flights listing with calendar grids and a 150-request free tier, against specialist unit prices.
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→vs Crawlio on RapidAPI
A two-stage round trip (pick the outbound, then fetch priced returns) against one paired-leg request.
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→vs ScrapeBadger
Pay-per-use credits that never expire against monthly plans. When an occasional batch job beats a subscription.
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→How these pages are made
Their pages, quoted and dated
We read each rival's live pricing and documentation pages on the stamped date and quote them rather than paraphrase. If a number here disagrees with their site today, believe their site.
Our own numbers come from the same file as /pricing, read from our live RapidAPI listings. The pages refreshed on 2026-10-06 also carry one real request through our API, with the time it ran. The wider field, including APIs cheaper per request than ours, is in the best flight data APIs in 2026 and the best hotel data APIs in 2026.
Or skip the comparison and run it
Live Google Flights fares and Booking.com rates on one RapidAPI key. Judge the data, not the copy.
Free tier: 10 requests/month. No card to try.
Docs: the Flights API, the Hotels API and the MCP servers.