How big is the HasData free tier compared to this one?

Bigger, and it is not close. HasData's free plan "renews 1,000 credits every month, enough for up to 66 flight requests", at 15 credits a route search. Our free BASIC plan is 10 requests a month. If your question is "how much can I try before paying", HasData wins that row outright. Read on 2026-10-06.

Which is cheaper per search once you are paying?

On the entry plan, ours, by a little. HasData says "paid plans start at $59 per month for 13,333 route searches", which is $4.43 per 1,000; our PRO is $10 for 2,500, $4.00 per 1,000. Their page also says the unit price "drops with volume from $4.43 to $1.25 per 1,000 searches", so at high volume the comparison flips. Round trips change the sum: their return flights take a second request. Read on 2026-10-06.

Do both ship an MCP server?

Yes. HasData runs hosted MCP servers at mcp.hasdata.com; the official MCP registry lists com.hasdata/google-flights and, since 2026-10-05, com.hasdata/google-flights-deals. Ours are flights.flightpowers.com/mcp and hotels.flightpowers.com/mcp, on your own RapidAPI key, also in the official registry. Our flight tools take a date range and a list of destinations in one call. Checked 2026-10-06.

What does HasData return that is listed on their page and not on ours?

Carbon estimates, a price history series, and a Deals search. Their FAQ reads "priceInsights returns the lowest fare, the typical price range for the route, whether prices are low or high right now, and a price history over time", so the band and the verdict are a tie and the history series is theirs. Their Deals endpoint "accepts a trip description and a departure airport, then lets Google suggest matching destinations and dates"; we have nothing like it. Read on 2026-10-06.

Comparison · competitor data retrieved 2026-10-06

FlightPowers vs HasData Google Flights API

FlightPowers is a HasData alternative for Google Flights: the same Google fares and price band, both legs of a round trip in one request where HasData needs a second departureToken call, and $10 for 2,500 searches against HasData's $59 for 13,333. Best for small round-trip workloads; HasData for a bigger free tier and price history.

HasData is an established scraping vendor that ships a Google Flights API and a hosted MCP server. Their free tier is several times the size of ours, and their entry plan costs a little more per search than ours. Both of those are their published numbers, and both are stated here because a comparison that only reports the flattering half is not one.

Looking for an alternative? FlightPowers is a Flights API over live Google Flights fares and a Hotels API over live Booking.com rates, with MCP servers for Claude and Cursor; PRO is $10 for 2,500 flight searches, and the guides have working code for each.

The one-paragraph version

They win the trial, we win the entry unit price

If you have not decided yet and you want to test properly before paying anyone, start on HasData: 1,000 free credits a month, which their page calls 66 flight searches, is a real evaluation and our 10 requests is not. If you already know the workload and you are pricing a production line item at the entry tier, run the arithmetic below, because their Startup plan works out dearer per search than our PRO. At their larger plans the unit price falls and that advantage goes away.

Pricing

Both sides, from the published pages

HasData figures read from their own pricing and Google Flights API pages on the stamped date. Ours render from the same file as /pricing, parsed from the live listing.

HasData

"A route search costs 15 credits; a Deals search costs 15 credits."
Free: 1,000 credits every month, no card, "enough for up to 66 flight requests".
Startup: $59 a month billed monthly for 200,000 credits, which they state as 13,333 route searches, $4.43 per 1,000.
Basic: $119 for 1,000,000 credits. Growth: $249 for 3,000,000 credits. Their page: the unit price "drops with volume from $4.43 to $1.25 per 1,000 searches".
Annual billing is "the price of ten" months; the cards on their pricing page show that annual figure ($49 for Startup) by default.
Hosted MCP servers at mcp.hasdata.com, including com.hasdata/google-flights in the official MCP registry.

Source: hasdata.com/apis/google-flights-api and their pricing page, read 2026-10-06. Credits per search is their number, not our estimate. If their page disagrees with this one today, believe their page.

FlightPowers (Google Flights Live API)

Plan	Price / mo	Requests	$ / 1k req	Overage	Rate limit
BASIC	Free	10 / mo	—	hard cap	—
PRO	$10	2,500 / mo	$4.00	$0.003 / req	150 / min
ULTRArecommended	$25	10,000 / mo	$2.50	$0.002 / req	250 / min
MEGA	$50	25,000 / mo	$2.00	$0.0015 / req	500 / min

Swipe the table sideways for overage and rate limits.

Every plan on this API includes all of its endpoints; flights and hotels are separate subscriptions. Read from the live listing on 2026-09-28; the listing is authoritative.

Per thousand requests: PRO is $4.00, MEGA is $2.00. Our free plan is 10 requests a month and is a hard cap, so request 11 is refused rather than billed.

Capabilities

Feature by feature, in prose

No tick marks. Each cell says what is documented, and by whom.

	HasData	FlightPowers
Free tier	1,000 credits a month, no card. Their page calls that 66 flight searches. This row is theirs.	10 requests a month, hard cap, every endpoint and every field included. Smaller by design, and smaller than most of the field.
Price context	A priceInsights object with lowestPrice, typicalPriceRange, priceLevel ("low \| typical \| high right now") and a priceHistory array of timestamped points. Band, verdict and history. This row is theirs on the history column and a tie on the rest.	Google's own band plus a low, typical or high verdict on every result. No history array, so if you want a series you accumulate it. Price Insights →
MCP	Hosted servers at mcp.hasdata.com: Google Flights, and Google Flights Deals since 2026-10-05, both in the official MCP registry.	`https://flights.flightpowers.com/mcp` and `https://hotels.flightpowers.com/mcp` on your own RapidAPI key, both in the official registry. The flight tools take a date range and a destination list in one call; each date and destination counts as one search. MCP servers →
Round trips	Documented. Their FAQ: "For a round trip, use type=roundTrip and include returnDate. Return-leg options are retrieved separately using departureToken." So the return leg is a second call, and a second 15 credits.	One paired-leg request with a combined total and one booking link. Round-Trip API →
Per 1,000 round trips with the return flight	About $8.85 on Startup: $59 buys 13,333 route searches, and a round trip with its return flight is two of them.	$4.00 on PRO: one request.
Deals search	Google Flights Deals: a trip description and a departure airport, and Google suggests destinations and dates. 15 credits.	None. You name the route and the dates (or, on the MCP servers, a date range and a list of destinations).

HasData cells quote or summarise their own live pages, read 2026-10-06; FlightPowers cells are traceable to the live listing, the run below and the pages linked from each row.

A real run

Their example route, both legs in one answer

HasData's Google Flights page uses London Heathrow to New York JFK as its curl example. Same route, one call to our API.

request

curl -X POST https://api.flightpowers.com/v1/flights/roundtrip \
  -H "x-api-key: $FLIGHTPOWERS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "from_airport": "LHR",
    "to_airport": "JFK",
    "departure_date": "2026-11-17",
    "return_date": "2026-11-24",
    "currency": "USD",
    "limit": 10
  }'

Ten itineraries, each with both legs. The cheapest, on the right, is $500 on TAP through Lisbon, inside Google's usual range of $470 to $580, so “typical”. It is cheap for a reason: a 24-hour stop in Lisbon on the way out. The nonstop British Airways options in the same answer were $720. On HasData, seeing the return flight of any one of these is a second request.

response · cheapest of 10 rows · captured 19:54 UTC on 2026-10-06

{
  "price_range_in_relation_to_other_periods": "typical",
  "price_insights_low": 470,
  "price_insights_high": 580,
  "from_airport": "London (LHR)",
  "to_airport": "New York (JFK)",
  "departure_date": "2026-11-17",
  "return_date": "2026-11-24",
  "total_price": "$500",
  "total_price_as_number": 500,
  "total_stops": 2,
  "departure_flight_airline": "Tap Air Portugal",
  "departure_flight_duration": "35 hr 25 min",
  "departure_flight_stops": 1,
  "departure_stops_info": [
    { "stop_airport": "LIS", "stop_duration_seconds": 86700 }
  ],
  "return_flight_airline": "Tap Air Portugal",
  "return_flight_duration": "14 hr 30 min",
  "return_flight_stops": 1,
  "return_stops_info": [
    { "stop_airport": "LIS", "stop_duration_seconds": 16500 }
  ],
  "buy_link": "https://www.google.com/travel/flights?tfs=..."
}

The decision

Which should you pick

Choose HasData when

You want a proper unpaid evaluation before committing. Sixty-six searches is one, ten is not.
You need a price history series. They return one, we do not.
Carbon data is on your requirements list.
Your volume is high enough to reach their larger plans, where the unit price drops.
You want Google to suggest destinations and dates from a description (their Deals search).

Choose FlightPowers when

You are pricing an entry-tier production workload and the per-search cost decides it.
You want the return leg in the same response rather than a second call with a token.
Round trips are a real share of your searches and you want them priced as one itinerary.
You want flights and hotels from one vendor on one key.

Questions, answered plainly

How big is the HasData free tier compared to this one?: Bigger, and it is not close. HasData's free plan "renews 1,000 credits every month, enough for up to 66 flight requests", at 15 credits a route search. Our free BASIC plan is 10 requests a month. If your question is "how much can I try before paying", HasData wins that row outright. Read on 2026-10-06.
Which is cheaper per search once you are paying?: On the entry plan, ours, by a little. HasData says "paid plans start at $59 per month for 13,333 route searches", which is $4.43 per 1,000; our PRO is $10 for 2,500, $4.00 per 1,000. Their page also says the unit price "drops with volume from $4.43 to $1.25 per 1,000 searches", so at high volume the comparison flips. Round trips change the sum: their return flights take a second request. Read on 2026-10-06.
Do both ship an MCP server?: Yes. HasData runs hosted MCP servers at mcp.hasdata.com; the official MCP registry lists com.hasdata/google-flights and, since 2026-10-05, com.hasdata/google-flights-deals. Ours are flights.flightpowers.com/mcp and hotels.flightpowers.com/mcp, on your own RapidAPI key, also in the official registry. Our flight tools take a date range and a list of destinations in one call. Checked 2026-10-06.
What does HasData return that is listed on their page and not on ours?: Carbon estimates, a price history series, and a Deals search. Their FAQ reads "priceInsights returns the lowest fare, the typical price range for the route, whether prices are low or high right now, and a price history over time", so the band and the verdict are a tie and the history series is theirs. Their Deals endpoint "accepts a trip description and a departure airport, then lets Google suggest matching destinations and dates"; we have nothing like it. Read on 2026-10-06.

Other alternatives

Compared on the same terms

The product side of every page: Flights API, Hotels API and the MCP servers. All comparisons are on /compare.

Want to skip all of this and judge the data? A key is on the RapidAPI listing, free plan included.

Judge the data, not the comparison

Live Google Flights fares with Google's own price band and a low, typical or high verdict on every result.

Get a key on RapidAPI →See pricing

Free tier: 10 requests/month. No card to try.

Docs: the Flights API and the MCP servers.