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FlightAware pricing
FlightAware publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
FlightAware plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Subscription | $9.99/month | 4 | +$9.99/month, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers flight tracking, basic info, mobile app, email alerts.
Subscription
$9.99/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Ad-free
- Premium tracking
- Weather maps
- Aircraft info
Where FlightAware stops being free
Free, Free
- Flight tracking
- Basic info
- Mobile app
- Email alerts
Subscription, $9.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Ad-free
- Premium tracking
- Weather maps
- Aircraft info
What the product covers
The full FlightAware feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Real-time tracking
- Flight status
- Airport info
- Delay tracking
- Weather data
Integrations
- APIs
- Third-party apps
- Airlines
- Airports
- Weather services
Security
- Data encryption
- Privacy protection
- Secure APIs
Collaboration
- Email alerts
- Notifications
- Sharing
- Export data
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
People bring FlightAware in for tracking a business aviation fleet by tail number with taxi and ground alerts, blocking or selectively sharing an aircraft's flight legs for privacy, pulling live and historical flight positions and tracks into an application over a rest api, predicting arrival times with foresight for airline and airport operations. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to FlightAware are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Aviation & Aerospace
Too few aviation & aerospace tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FlightAware (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Boeing Aviator | Free | subscription | - | vs FlightAware |
| ARINC Direct | $500/month | - | - | vs FlightAware |
| AGI STK | Free | subscription | - | vs FlightAware |
| CAE Flight Training | Free | usage-based | - | vs FlightAware |
| ARINC Flight Operations Services | $50000/year | subscription | - | vs FlightAware |
| AMOS | $50000/year | subscription | - | vs FlightAware |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the FlightAware badges page.
Before you pay for FlightAware
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $9.99/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
FlightAware runs on web, ios, android, and is published by FlightAware of Houston, TX. The full record is on the FlightAware review, and the rest of the category is under best aviation & aerospace tools.
FlightAware pricing questions
- How much does FlightAware cost?
- FlightAware publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $9.99/month for Subscription. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does FlightAware have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers flight tracking, basic info, mobile app. Paying starts at $9.99/month for Subscription.
- What is the difference between Free and Subscription on FlightAware?
- Subscription costs $9.99/month against Free, and adds ad-free, premium tracking, weather maps, aircraft info.
- Which aviation & aerospace tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 aviation & aerospace tools listed alongside FlightAware have a free tier: Boeing Aviator, AGI STK.
- What am I actually paying for with FlightAware?
- The record lists 20 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, collaboration, platform. In practice it is brought in for tracking a business aviation fleet by tail number with taxi and ground alerts, blocking or selectively sharing an aircraft's flight legs for privacy, pulling live and historical flight positions and tracks into an application over a rest api.
- Does FlightAware charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these FlightAware prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare FlightAware against before paying?
- The closest aviation & aerospace tools in this directory are Boeing Aviator, ARINC Direct, AGI STK, CAE Flight Training. Each has a side-by-side comparison with FlightAware covering price, platforms and features.