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Skyscanner pricing
Skyscanner publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the travel tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Skyscanner pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free for travellers, referral fees from booking partners
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Skyscanner 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skyscanner | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Skyscanner stops being free
Skyscanner, Free
- Free to search and compare for travellers, no subscription or comparison fee charged
- Revenue comes from referral or affiliate fees paid by airlines, agents and hotel sites on completed bookings
- Skyscanner does not hold the payment or booking relationship for most results, the partner site does
- Direct booking option available for some flights, an exception to the standard referral model
No paid tier on record
Skyscanner lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Skyscanner 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.
Other
- Flight price comparison
- Flexible date and destination search
- Hotel and car hire comparison
- Price alerts
- Direct booking for select flights
- Multi-city and layover search
People bring Skyscanner in for a traveller wanting to compare flight prices across many airlines and agents quickly before deciding where to book, someone with flexible travel dates wanting to browse the cheapest dates or destinations without a fixed itinerary, a traveller wanting hotel or car hire price comparison across multiple sites in one search, someone who wants a price alert on a specific route to book when the fare drops, before committing. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Skyscanner are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Travel
Too few travel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skyscanner (this page) | Free | Free for travellers, referral fees from booking partners | - | |
| myCWT | On request | quote | - | vs Skyscanner |
| Didi | Free | Free app, pay per ride with dynamic pricing | - | vs Skyscanner |
| Expedia | Free | Free for travellers, commission and package margin | - | vs Skyscanner |
| Booking.com | Free | Free for travellers, commission charged to listed properties | - | vs Skyscanner |
| Sabre Red 360 | On request | quote | - | vs Skyscanner |
| Grab | Free | Free app, pay per ride and per order with dynamic pricing | - | vs Skyscanner |
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 Skyscanner badges page.
Before you pay for Skyscanner
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Skyscanner runs on ios, android, web, and is published by Skyscanner Limited (part of Trip.com Group) of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. The full record is on the Skyscanner review, and the rest of the category is under best travel tools.
Skyscanner pricing questions
- How much does Skyscanner cost?
- Skyscanner publishes a single tier, Skyscanner, at Free.
- Does Skyscanner have a free plan?
- Yes. The Skyscanner tier costs nothing and covers free to search and compare for travellers, no subscription or comparison fee charged, revenue comes from referral or affiliate fees paid by airlines, agents and hotel sites on completed bookings, skyscanner does not hold the payment or booking relationship for most results, the partner site does.
- Which travel tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 travel tools listed alongside Skyscanner have a free tier: Didi, Expedia, Booking.com, Grab, Careem.
- What am I actually paying for with Skyscanner?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a traveller wanting to compare flight prices across many airlines and agents quickly before deciding where to book, someone with flexible travel dates wanting to browse the cheapest dates or destinations without a fixed itinerary, a traveller wanting hotel or car hire price comparison across multiple sites in one search.
- Does Skyscanner charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Skyscanner 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 Skyscanner against before paying?
- The closest travel tools in this directory are myCWT, Didi, Expedia, Booking.com. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Skyscanner covering price, platforms and features.