Is ClassFlyer affiliated with AwardFares?

No. ClassFlyer is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by AwardFares.

Which one should I use?

If you collect miles in a program we do not search live, such as AAdvantage or MileagePlus, AwardFares covers far more ground and you should use it. If you redeem through SAS EuroBonus or its SkyTeam partners and want to know whether a redemption is actually worth the points, ClassFlyer is built for that. Plenty of people will want both.

Why do you search fewer loyalty programs?

Because each program needs its own live session and its own award rules to be answered correctly. We would rather be right about a few programs than shallow about many, so we add them one at a time.

Do you really show the cash price next to the award?

Yes. Every award result carries the cash fare for the same flight and the value per point, which is the number that tells you whether to spend points or money.

Is the availability live?

It is live at the moment we search. Anything shown from an earlier search is labelled with when we saw it. Award seats move constantly, so nothing here is a quote until the airline sells it to you.

ClassFlyer vs AwardFares

AwardFares is a good award search tool and for a lot of trips it is the right one, because it searches more loyalty programs at once than we do. ClassFlyer is a different shape of product: it goes deep on SAS EuroBonus and its SkyTeam partners, shows the cash fare beside the points price so you can see what a point is worth, and keeps working on the trip after you close the tab. Here is the whole comparison, including the parts where they are ahead.

The short version

Coverage is theirs. 16+ programs against the one we search live. If your miles sit somewhere we do not reach yet, that decides it.
Depth is ours. On the programs we do cover we search live, price the partner zone chart exactly, and remember every result we have ever seen.
Value is only ours. We are the one of the two that tells you what the same seat costs in money, and what that makes your points worth.

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Feature by feature

Their column reflects their public site as read on 20 August 2026.

ClassFlyer compared with AwardFares, feature by feature.
Feature	AwardFares	ClassFlyer
Finding award seats
Loyalty programs searched live	Yes. 16+ programs across 150+ airlines, all three alliances.	Partly. SAS EuroBonus, in depth, including its SkyTeam partner awards. More programs come one at a time.
Live availability from the airline	Yes. Live search, capped per day by plan.	Yes. Live search, rate governed so a route is never hammered.
Results from searches already run	Yes. Broad search over recent results.	Yes. Every search we run is kept, timestamped and searchable.
Calendar across many dates	Yes. Timeline view.	Yes. Date grid and route matrix, cheapest seat per day.
Search a country, continent or metro area	Yes. Country, continent, metro and award zone search.	Yes. Ask for a region in words and it resolves the airports.
Round trip and multi-leg	Yes. Journey builder for round trips and complex itineraries.	Partly. Round trips priced the way the airline prices them. Open jaw and multi-city are not built yet.
Seat maps	Yes. 5 to 200 lookups a month depending on plan.	No. Not built.
Watching for seats
Alerts when a seat opens	Yes. Live and flex alerts by email, 30 to 500 by plan.	Yes. Alerts by email, web push and Telegram.
A goal that keeps searching on its own	No. Alerts watch a route and dates you fix in advance.	Yes. Describe the trip once. It plans, searches, widens the search and reports back.
Tells you what changed, not just that something did	Partly. The alert names the seat that opened.	Yes. Every price and seat-count move is recorded, so you get the before and after.
Deciding whether to book
Cash price beside the points price	No. Award prices only.	Yes. The cash fare for the same flight, on the same screen.
What your points are actually worth	No. Not shown.	Yes. Cents per point on every result, so a bad redemption looks bad.
Deals ranked by value	Partly. Sorted by points.	Yes. Ranked by value against the cash fare, not by the points number alone.
Booking	Yes. Direct links into the airline site.	Yes. Direct links, plus a cart you can build, re-check and watch.
How it works for you
Ask in plain language	No. Forms and filters.	Yes. Type the trip the way you would say it out loud.
Explains what it did and why	No. Results, not reasoning.	Yes. It says what it searched, what it skipped and what it would try next.
Remembers your airports and preferences	Partly. Saved and active searches.	Yes. A profile it keeps up to date as you talk to it.
Destination inspiration	No. You bring the destination.	Yes. Browse by mood and budget when you only know roughly what you want.
Route and connection map	No. Not offered.	Yes. Who flies a pair, which hubs connect it, drawn on a globe.
Gets better at your routes over time	No. Every search starts from scratch.	Yes. It learns which routes and dates are worth searching, and stops wasting effort on the ones that are not.

Plans

List prices, both sides. Limits change, so check theirs before you buy.

AwardFares

Three tiers, as published on 20 August 2026.

Basic, free. Preview availability, no live search, no alerts.
Gold, $9.99 a month. 100 live searches a day, 30 live alerts, 2 programs at once.
Diamond, $19.99 a month. Unlimited live searches, 500 live alerts, 5 programs at once.

ClassFlyer

Two tiers. Sign in and the free one is genuinely usable.

Free. 30 live searches a day, 5 alerts, the full agent and the cash prices.
Premium, $24.99 / month. 180 live searches a day, 100 alerts, round-trip search and schedules. Or $249.90 / year.

So which one

Written for the reader, not for us.

Use AwardFares if

Breadth is the thing you need.

Your miles are in a program we do not search live yet.
You want one search to sweep every alliance at once.
Seat maps matter to you before you book.
You are building a complex multi-city itinerary by hand.

Use ClassFlyer if

You want the decision made well, not just the seats listed.

You redeem through SAS EuroBonus or its SkyTeam partners.
You want to know whether the points are worth more than the cash fare.
You would rather describe the trip than fill in a form.
You want it to keep searching, and tell you when something real changes.

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Questions people ask

Is ClassFlyer affiliated with AwardFares?: No. ClassFlyer is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by AwardFares.
Which one should I use?: If you collect miles in a program we do not search live, such as AAdvantage or MileagePlus, AwardFares covers far more ground and you should use it. If you redeem through SAS EuroBonus or its SkyTeam partners and want to know whether a redemption is actually worth the points, ClassFlyer is built for that. Plenty of people will want both.
Why do you search fewer loyalty programs?: Because each program needs its own live session and its own award rules to be answered correctly. We would rather be right about a few programs than shallow about many, so we add them one at a time.
Do you really show the cash price next to the award?: Yes. Every award result carries the cash fare for the same flight and the value per point, which is the number that tells you whether to spend points or money.
Is the availability live?: It is live at the moment we search. Anything shown from an earlier search is labelled with when we saw it. Award seats move constantly, so nothing here is a quote until the airline sells it to you.

AwardFares is a trademark of its owner. ClassFlyer is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by AwardFares. Their features, limits and prices above were taken from their public website on 20 August 2026 and may have changed since: check awardfares.com for what they offer today. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.