AwardFares Basic costs nothing and needs no card, but it is a cached preview of one programme at a time, with no live award search and no alerts.

AwardFares pricing: what do Gold and Diamond cost?

Gold is $9.99 a month or $99 a year and Diamond $19.99 a month or $199 a year, each with a 24-hour trial, as AwardFares lists them on its own blog (October 7, 2026).

Which AwardFares alternative searches every programme on a free plan?

MilesZone: its award search on the free plan covers every programme it reads, and Pro opens with a 7-day free trial.

Is there an AwardFares promo code?

None on AwardFares' pricing page (checked October 12, 2026). New customers get a 24-hour free trial, and the yearly plans cost less than twelve monthly payments.

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AwardFares vs MilesZone: free plan, trial and alerts compared

Checked on October 7, 2026 on AwardFares's own pages by the MilesZone team. Sources

If you are looking for an AwardFares alternative, this page decides one thing: how much you can see before you pay, and how long you get to try the paid part. AwardFares vs MilesZone comes down to the free plan and the trial. AwardFares Basic previews one programme at a time. The MilesZone award search covers every programme it reads at once, and Pro starts with a week-long trial.

At a glance

MilesZone puts every programme in one search on the free plan, over the next 60 days, with no daily cap.
Pro starts with a 7-day free trial, against AwardFares' 24 hours.
MilesZone alerts re-check the exact seat with the programme before emailing.

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Is AwardFares worth it?

AwardFares is worth it if you want fast-refreshing results and many alerts: Gold, $9.99 a month or $99 a year, brings 100 live searches a day, hourly refresh and 30 Live Alerts; Diamond refreshes every minute. It reads 17 programmes.

Basic is a preview rather than a free plan: cached results, one programme at a time, no live search and no alerts. The trial lasts 24 hours, which is short to judge a tool on your own routes.

MilesZone searches every programme it reads at once, each one's miles and cash fees side by side, free for departures in the next 60 days; Pro adds route alerts and 12 months of dates. Search a route to compare.

AwardFares vs MilesZone at a glance

Free plan: MilesZone: Every programme we read in one search, the next 60 days, no daily cap, no card.; AwardFares: Basic: a cached preview of one programme at a time, no live search and no alerts.
Trial: MilesZone: A 7-day free trial of Pro, with a card.; AwardFares: A 24-hour trial on the paid plans.
Alerts: MilesZone: Up to 25 routes on Pro, each seat re-checked with the programme before the email leaves.; AwardFares: None on Basic. Gold: 30 Live and 100 Flex Alerts. Diamond: 500 Live and unlimited Flex Alerts.
Paid plan: MilesZone: $17 a month or $127 a year; MilesZone Pro opens with a 7-day free trial, AwardFares with 24 hours.; AwardFares: Gold $9.99 a month or $99 a year; Diamond $19.99 a month or $199 a year, as listed on its own blog.
Programmes: MilesZone: All in every search: 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.; AwardFares: 17 programmes, searched 2 at a time on Gold and 5 at a time on Diamond.

AwardFares vs MilesZone, checked October 7, 2026
Topic	MilesZone	AwardFares
Free plan	Every programme we read in one search, the next 60 days, no daily cap, no card.	Basic: a cached preview of one programme at a time, no live search and no alerts.
Trial	A 7-day free trial of Pro, with a card.	A 24-hour trial on the paid plans.
Alerts	Up to 25 routes on Pro, each seat re-checked with the programme before the email leaves.	None on Basic. Gold: 30 Live and 100 Flex Alerts. Diamond: 500 Live and unlimited Flex Alerts.
Paid plan	$17 a month or $127 a year; MilesZone Pro opens with a 7-day free trial, AwardFares with 24 hours.	Gold $9.99 a month or $99 a year; Diamond $19.99 a month or $199 a year, as listed on its own blog.
Programmes	All in every search: 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.	17 programmes, searched 2 at a time on Gold and 5 at a time on Diamond.

AwardFares column checked on October 7, 2026. The MilesZone column follows our current plans.

Where MilesZone differs from AwardFares

Three gaps between AwardFares Basic, its 24-hour trial and MilesZone, read on awardfares.com and its blog on October 7, 2026.

Every programme at once on the free plan

AwardFares Basic shows a preview of stored availability, one programme at a time, with no live search and no alerts. Paying widens the view only so far: Gold searches 2 programmes at once and Diamond 5, out of 17.

One MilesZone award search covers every programme it reads, free with an account, over the next 60 days with no daily cap. On a New York to Paris search, Flying Blue and every other programme that sells the route sit in one list, each with its miles and cash fees, and Atmos Rewards joins in on the routes it sells. You compare the total cost without switching programmes.

MilesZone results for New York (JFK) to Paris (CDG) in business class: the same trip priced by Atmos Rewards, Flying Blue and LifeMiles in miles plus cash fees — One route, every programme we read, miles and fees on the same row. From the New York to Paris page.

A 7-day trial, not 24 hours

AwardFares gives new customers a 24-hour trial of its paid plans, and its own blog says a card is needed. A day is short for award travel, where seats appear and vanish over days.

MilesZone Pro gives you a 7-day free trial against AwardFares' single day. A week leaves time to set alerts on the routes you care about, read what they send, and re-check a seat live before you transfer points.

Alerts re-checked before they email

AwardFares has no alerts on Basic. Gold holds 30 Live Alerts and 100 Flex Alerts, Diamond 500 Live Alerts and unlimited Flex Alerts.

Before a MilesZone alert on a route like New York to Paris emails, the seat is checked once more with Flying Blue or whichever programme sells it, and a seat that has gone sends nothing. Each alert covers a whole date window and keeps running after it emails, at most four emails a day. MilesZone Pro holds up to 25 of them, monthly or yearly.

Illustration: a MilesZone alert re-checks the seat with the programme before the email is sent — Before an alert leaves, the seat is asked for again.

MilesZone table for New York (JFK) to Paris (CDG): days with space, lowest and typical miles, and the cash on top for each programme

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.

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AwardFares free vs paid: plans and prices

Free: Cached preview, one programme at a time
Paid: $9.99/mo or $99/yr (Gold)
Alerts: None free; 30 Live on Gold

AwardFares pricing has two paid plans: Gold at $9.99 a month or $99 a year, and Diamond at $19.99 a month or $199 a year, as AwardFares lists them on its own blog (checked October 7, 2026). Both start with a 24-hour trial. Gold adds 100 live searches a day and hourly refresh; Diamond adds unlimited live searches and refresh every minute.

Unlike AwardFares Basic, the MilesZone award search is free with an account on every programme for departures in the next 60 days, no card needed. Pro, at $17 a month or $127 a year, has the same features monthly or yearly and begins with a 7-day free trial, then brings alerts on up to 25 routes, 12 months of dates and a live re-check before you transfer points.

AwardFares or MilesZone: which should you pick?

Pick MilesZone if

You want to see every programme's price for a route before you pay anything.
You want a week to try alerts and the live re-check, not a day.
You book on Air France-KLM Flying Blue, Atmos Rewards, EL AL Matmid, LifeMiles, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, Thai Royal Orchid Plus, British Airways Club, United MileagePlus, Delta SkyMiles or Qantas Frequent Flyer.

Pick AwardFares if you want 17 programmes, live search refreshed every minute on Diamond, and tools like a journey planner and seat maps.

AwardFares vs MilesZone: questions

Is AwardFares free?: AwardFares Basic costs nothing and needs no card, but it is a cached preview of one programme at a time, with no live award search and no alerts.
AwardFares pricing: what do Gold and Diamond cost?: Gold is $9.99 a month or $99 a year and Diamond $19.99 a month or $199 a year, each with a 24-hour trial, as AwardFares lists them on its own blog (October 7, 2026).
Is AwardFares worth it?: Its paid plans add live search across 17 programmes. If you want to compare every programme for a route before paying, and a week to try alerts, MilesZone fits better.
Which AwardFares alternative searches every programme on a free plan?: MilesZone: its award search on the free plan covers every programme it reads, and Pro opens with a 7-day free trial.
Is there an AwardFares promo code?: None on AwardFares' pricing page (checked October 12, 2026). New customers get a 24-hour free trial, and the yearly plans cost less than twelve monthly payments.

The short version

In short, AwardFares is a paid tool with a narrow free plan and a one-day trial. MilesZone is the AwardFares alternative for seeing every programme's price before you pay, and for alerts you can act on because the seat was re-checked first.

AwardFares ties refresh speed to the plan; for the MilesZone side, see how often we read each programme.

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Try a search on New York (JFK) to Paris (CDG).