Award Travel Finder vs MilesZone: free tier, alerts and programmes compared
Checked on October 7, 2026 on Award Travel Finder's own pages by the MilesZone team. Sources
If you are looking for an Award Travel Finder alternative, this page decides one thing: which award search lets you look at the seats you want without rationing your searches. Award Travel Finder vs MilesZone comes down to access and to what an alert checks. Award Travel Finder's free tier gives three economy searches a day. MilesZone opens every cabin over the next two months with no cap, and its alerts re-check the seat before they email you.
- MilesZone gives 60 days of free search in every cabin, business and first included, with no daily cap.
- Alerts re-check the exact seat with the programme before the email leaves.
- Star Alliance seats through United MileagePlus, LifeMiles and Thai Royal Orchid Plus, and SkyTeam through Flying Blue.
Is Award Travel Finder worth it?
Award Travel Finder Premium is worth it if you mostly track a handful of routes on its 10 airlines: unlimited route alerts checked every 6 hours, every cabin, up to 355 days ahead, plus an MCP server and an API for developers.
The free tier is narrow: 3 economy searches a day and 1 route alert, with business and first kept for Premium.
MilesZone shows every cabin with each programme's miles and cash fees side by side, free for departures in the next 60 days; Pro adds route alerts that re-check the seat and 12 months of dates. Search a route to compare.
Award Travel Finder vs MilesZone at a glance
- Free search
- MilesZone: Every cabin for the next 60 days with an account, no daily cap, no card.
- Award Travel Finder: 3 economy award searches a day with a free account; business and first are not on the free tier.
- Alert checks
- MilesZone: The seat is re-checked with the programme before the email leaves.
- Award Travel Finder: Each monitored route is checked every 6 hours.
- Alerts included
- MilesZone: Pro only: up to 25 routes, monthly or yearly.
- Award Travel Finder: 1 route alert free; unlimited on Premium.
- Paid plan
- MilesZone: $17 a month or $127 a year; like Award Travel Finder, Pro starts with a 7-day free trial.
- Award Travel Finder: Premium €9.12 a month or €6.08 a month billed yearly, shown in euros to a European visitor; 7-day trial with a card.
- Programmes
- MilesZone: EL AL Matmid, Atmos Rewards (oneworld), Air France-KLM Flying Blue (SkyTeam), LifeMiles (Star Alliance), Virgin Atlantic Flying Club (Virgin Atlantic's own direct flights), Thai Royal Orchid Plus (Star Alliance, no mainland US airports), British Airways Club (routes to and from London), United MileagePlus (Star Alliance, from United's US hubs), Delta SkyMiles and Qantas Frequent Flyer. What each one reads is on coverage.
- Award Travel Finder: 10 airlines on its homepage, led by British Airways, Qatar Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific.
- AI agents
- MilesZone: No MCP server or API.
- Award Travel Finder: An MCP server, a metered REST API and a Chrome extension.
Award Travel Finder column checked on October 7, 2026. The MilesZone column follows our current plans.
Where MilesZone differs from Award Travel Finder
Three differences from Award Travel Finder's free tier, alert page and airline list, as shown to a European visitor on October 7, 2026.
Every cabin, no daily cap
Award Travel Finder's free tier allows 3 economy award searches a day, and only one without an account. Business and first need Premium.
MilesZone shows every cabin over the next 60 days of a route, free with an account, with no daily cap and no card. On a London route, British Airways Club prices Avios seats on British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, and you can look at business on every date in one calendar.
Alerts that re-check the seat before they email
Award Travel Finder checks each monitored route every 6 hours and emails you what it found.
A MilesZone alert on a London to Boston business seat asks British Airways Club, or whichever programme found it, whether the seat is still there before it emails, and sends nothing if it has gone. MilesZone Pro holds alerts on up to 25 routes; each keeps running after it emails, sends at most four emails a day, and repeats a date only when it gets cheaper or a week later.
Star Alliance through United, LifeMiles and Thai; SkyTeam through Flying Blue
Award Travel Finder's homepage list is led by oneworld airlines: British Airways, Qatar Airways, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, Iberia and Qantas. United is the only Star Alliance airline on that list, and Air France-KLM Flying Blue is not on it.
MilesZone reads United MileagePlus, LifeMiles and Thai Royal Orchid Plus for Star Alliance seats, and Flying Blue for SkyTeam. When several programmes price the same seat, you see each one's miles and cash fees side by side.
Every programme we read, on one page.
Search a route and see each programme's miles with the cash on top, for every date in the window.
Award Travel Finder free vs paid: plans and prices
- Free
- 3 economy searches a day
- Paid
- €9.12/mo or €6.08/mo yearly
- Alerts
- 1 free; unlimited on Premium
Award Travel Finder Premium costs €9.12 a month, or €6.08 a month billed yearly, as shown on its pricing page to a visitor in Europe on October 7, 2026; the price may differ by country. It starts with a 7-day trial that needs a card. Premium adds unlimited route alerts and 150 API calls a month.
Where Award Travel Finder keeps business and first for Premium, the MilesZone award search shows every cabin free with an account for the next 60 days, no card needed. Pro is $17 a month or $127 a year, monthly and yearly alike in features, starting with a 7-day free trial; it unlocks alerts on up to 25 routes, a 12-month horizon and a live re-check of a seat before you transfer points.
Award Travel Finder promo code and discounts
Award Travel Finder's pricing page shows no promo code (checked October 12, 2026). Its discount is the yearly plan, which the page puts at €36.45 a year less than paying monthly, about a third off for a visitor in Europe; prices may differ by country.
MilesZone needs no code: award search is free for departures in the next 60 days, and Pro, at $17 a month or $127 a year, starts with a 7-day free trial.
Award Travel Finder or MilesZone: which should you pick?
- You want to see business and first on every date before you pay for anything.
- You want an alert that re-checks the seat with the programme before it reaches you.
- You book on British Airways Club, EL AL Matmid, Atmos Rewards, Air France-KLM Flying Blue, LifeMiles, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, Thai Royal Orchid Plus, United MileagePlus, Delta SkyMiles or Qantas Frequent Flyer.
Pick Award Travel Finder if you plan through an AI agent or need dates up to 355 days ahead: it has an MCP server, an API and a Chrome extension.
Award Travel Finder vs MilesZone: questions
- Is Award Travel Finder free?
- It has a free tier with 3 economy award searches a day and 1 route alert, no card needed. Business and first, and unlimited alerts, need Premium.
- How much is Award Travel Finder Premium?
- €9.12 a month or €6.08 a month billed yearly for a visitor in Europe on October 7, 2026, with a 7-day trial; prices may vary by country.
- Does Award Travel Finder have an MCP server?
- Yes. Award Travel Finder offers an MCP server for AI assistants and a metered REST API. MilesZone has no MCP server or API.
- Which Award Travel Finder alternative searches business and first for free?
- MilesZone: its award search covers every cabin, free with an account, with no daily cap, and Pro alerts re-check the seat before they email.
- Is there an Award Travel Finder promo code?
- None on its pricing page (checked October 12, 2026). The yearly plan is the discount it offers, about a third below monthly billing for a visitor in Europe.
The short version
In short, Award Travel Finder is built for AI agents and long horizons, and its free tier is narrow. MilesZone is the Award Travel Finder alternative for searching every cabin without counting, and for alerts you can act on because the seat was re-checked first.
Award Travel Finder lists 10 airlines; which programmes MilesZone reads, and when, is on how often we read each programme.
Try a search on London (LHR) to Boston (BOS).
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