{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "skyscanner", "name": "Skyscanner Travel APIs", "vendor": "Skyscanner Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/product/travel-api", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "summary": "Skyscanner's partner APIs for flight, hotel and car hire search, with live and indicative prices, hotel content and reviews, and deep links that send travellers to airlines and travel agents to book. Access is by application.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skyscanner.json", "license": "Proprietary service. The API terms are in the partner contract and are not public", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://partners.api.skyscanner.net", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Partner approval. A business applies at https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/contact/travel-api, Skyscanner reviews each application within two weeks, and an account manager issues the key after a commercial agreement and onboarding on impact.com. The key goes in the `x-api-key` header on every call. Rate limits are set per key. No scopes, self-serve rotation or OAuth were found in the docs.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "No usage fee. Skyscanner's partner help centre says the Travel APIs carry no per-booking, monthly or yearly fee and that partners earn a revenue share on bookings, tracked through Impact. The share is not published. There is no sandbox, trial or test key, and access starts only after an approved application and a commercial agreement (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the API reference or the partner pages (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.skyscanner.net/docs/intro", "capabilities": [ "travel.flights", "travel.stays", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "partner-only", "api-key", "metasearch", "flights", "hotels", "car-hire", "affiliate", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.6, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 655, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 25, "reliability": 35, "schema": 56, "security": 48, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Thirteen documented search APIs cover flights, hotels and car hire behind one `x-api-key` header, with default rate limits published per endpoint and no usage fee. Access needs an approved application, an audience above 100,000 monthly users and a commercial agreement, and the usage guidelines bar live-price calls made without a user action. Booking happens on supplier sites.", "bestFor": "An established travel site or app with a large audience that wants metasearch prices across flights, hotels and car hire and is content to send users to suppliers to book.", "strengths": [ "Thirteen APIs and 21 operations cover flights, hotels and car hire, with live and indicative prices, hotel content, reviews, geography and autosuggest", "Default rate limits are published per endpoint, per second, minute and hour, such as 100 flight search creates a minute and 500 polls", "Skyscanner states the Travel APIs carry no per-booking, monthly or yearly fee, and partners earn a revenue share on bookings", "The docs changelog is dated and current, with four entries between 14 July and 1 October 2026", "Public bug bounty on Bugcrowd and a security.txt on www.skyscanner.net that runs to November 2030" ], "weaknesses": [ "Keys are issued only after an application review and a commercial agreement, with a stated minimum of 100,000 monthly active users", "The usage guidelines say live pricing calls are made only on user-generated requests, and automated calls without a user action are not permitted", "No booking, change or cancel calls. Every result carries a deep link and the traveller books on the supplier's site", "No downloadable OpenAPI file, SDK or code samples were found, and `llms.txt` on the docs host returns 403", "No status page, SLA or public API terms were found. The API terms sit in the partner's contract on impact.com" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header on every call to `https://partners.api.skyscanner.net`. CORS is not supported, so call from a server", "Create a live search only when a user has given origin, destination and exact dates. Use the indicative price endpoints for open-ended questions", "Poll `/search/poll/{sessionToken}` until `status` is `RESULT_STATUS_COMPLETE`, and replace earlier results only when `action` is `RESULT_ACTION_REPLACED`", "Start a new session when a poll returns 400. Flight session tokens last about an hour and hotel sessions at most 15 minutes", "Pass each `deepLink` to the traveller unchanged, since altered encoding breaks Impact tracking, and never put personal data in `subid2`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 25, "reliability": 35, "schema": 56, "security": 48, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --request POST 'https://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/v3/flights/live/search/create' \\\n --header 'x-api-key: your-api-key' \\\n --data '{\"query\":{\"market\":\"UK\",\"locale\":\"en-GB\",\"currency\":\"GBP\",\"queryLegs\":[{\"originPlaceId\":{\"iata\":\"LHR\"},\"destinationPlaceId\":{\"iata\":\"SIN\"},\"date\":{\"year\":2024,\"month\":12,\"day\":22}}],\"adults\":1,\"cabinClass\":\"CABIN_CLASS_ECONOMY\"}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.flights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/skyscanner" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Skyscanner Limited", "domain": "skyscanner.net", "domainRegistered": "2002-07-03", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://www.skyscanner.net/media/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://developers.skyscanner.net/docs/change-log", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The privacy policy and terms of service name Skyscanner Limited, company number 04217916, registered in England and Wales.", "No `terms` URL is given. The partner help centre says the Skyscanner API Terms and Conditions are in the partner's contract on impact.com, and the only public terms are the website terms of service at https://www.skyscanner.net/media/terms-of-service.", "The privacy policy is Skyscanner's general one for its platforms and travellers. No separate privacy notice or DPA for API partners was found.", "The API answers at partners.api.skyscanner.net. Deep links pass through skyscanner.pxf.io, an Impact tracking domain.", "https://www.skyscanner.net/.well-known/security.txt lists security@skyscanner.net and the Bugcrowd programme and expires 2030-11-20. The same path returns 403 on developers.skyscanner.net and 404 on www.partners.skyscanner.net.", "No status page is linked from the developer docs or the partner site. Requests to status.skyscanner.net did not connect from our network.", "RDAP for skyscanner.net gives a registration date of 2002-07-03." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner.json", "live": { "slug": "skyscanner", "probe": { "target": "https://partners.api.skyscanner.net", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:34.145223905Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 70, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 73, "p95ms24h": 100, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:34.145223905Z" } }, "answer": "Travelport TripServices APIs and Skyscanner Travel APIs score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 45.9 (E) and 45.6 (E). Skyscanner Travel APIs leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "travelport", "name": "Travelport TripServices APIs", "vendor": "Travelport", "vendorUrl": "https://www.travelport.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "summary": "Travelport TripServices is a set of REST JSON APIs on the Travelport global distribution system. It searches, prices, books, tickets, exchanges and cancels flights, books and cancels hotel stays, and authorises payment cards, for travel sellers under contract.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/travelport.json", "license": "Proprietary service under a Developer Contract and Travelport's API and SDK Terms of Use", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.travelport.net", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 with the password grant. A POST to `https://auth.travelport.net/oauth/token` (pre-production `https://auth.pp.travelport.net/oauth/token`) with `username`, `password`, `client_id` and `client_secret` returns a Bearer token valid for 24 hours. Every call also carries `XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP` or `TVP-PCC-CORE`, which sets the point of sale and the content the caller may reach. Trial credentials are requested on a form at my.travelport.com and arrive by email. Production credentials come after a contract through sales and certification, and are managed in the Credential Access Manager in MyTravelport, which creates, rotates and disables primary and managed identities. No scopes were found.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public price. The API and SDK Terms of Use say charges are set in each Developer Contract and invoiced monthly, and the docs send new customers to sales. A trial with no payment exists for building against realistic air shopping, requested through a form that asks for a name, work email and company. Production access is per contracted API after certification (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, the three OpenAPI files or the terms (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.travelport.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.travelport.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.travelport.com/_bundle/apis/flights/@11.36/index.yaml", "capabilities": [ "travel.flights", "travel.stays", "travel.booking", "travel.changes", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "sales-led", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "gds", "ndc", "trial" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.9, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 653, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 20, "reliability": 19, "schema": 84, "security": 47, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission.", "bestFor": "A travel agency, travel management company or travel platform that will sign a GDS contract and wants GDS, NDC and low-cost air content with full servicing plus hotels.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files for Flights (101 operations), Stays (22) and Pay (2), with an llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "One API family covers search, price, book, ticket, exchange, refund and void for flights, plus hotel search, booking and cancellation", "Trial credentials need no payment, and a separate pre-production host mirrors the production paths", "Dated Flights release notes, with four releases between 16 July and 12 August 2026", "Credential Access Manager rotates and disables identities, and managed identities give third parties their own credentials" ], "weaknesses": [ "The API and SDK Terms of Use forbid any automated process or tool, such as a bot, without written authorisation from Travelport", "No public price. Charges sit in a Developer Contract reached through sales, and production needs certification with 15 days' notice", "No status page, SLA or API rate limit was found. The only published limit is 50 token requests a second per IP", "Tokens come from the OAuth password grant with a username, password, client id and client secret, and no scopes were found", "No idempotency key, no SDK and no MCP server. Some failures arrive as HTTP 200 with an error object in the body" ], "agentNotes": [ "Request one token and cache it for 24 hours. Travelport declines certification for refreshing more often than every 23 hours without a stated reason", "Send `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` and `XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP` (or `TVP-PCC-CORE`) on every call. Production traffic without compression is refused", "Send `offersPerPage` on a journey-based search, or later calls can't reference its results. Cached searches last 12 minutes for GDS content and 34 for NDC", "Commit a workbench within 30 minutes or it expires, and read `Result/Error` in the body even on HTTP 200", "Get written authorisation for agent access before production. The terms bar automated tools and speculative or duplicate bookings" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 20, "reliability": 19, "schema": 84, "security": 47, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 57 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://auth.pp.travelport.net/oauth/token \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\" \\\n -d \"grant_type=password\u0026username=$TP_USERNAME\u0026password=$TP_PASSWORD\u0026client_id=$TP_CLIENT_ID\u0026client_secret=$TP_CLIENT_SECRET\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.flights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/travelport" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Travelport, LP", "domain": "travelport.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-09-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.travelport.com/legal-policies/api-sdk-policies-terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.travelport.com/legal-policies/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://developer.travelport.com/docs/flights/general/flights-api-release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The API and SDK Terms of Use are incorporated into each Developer Contract, which names the contracting Travelport company and sets the charges. The contract itself is not public. Trial and pre-production access falls under the Terms of Service for Travelport test system access on the developer portal, governed by the law of Georgia, USA.", "The privacy link is the Travelport Privacy Notice for the GDS, last updated 3 January 2025, which covers traveller data processed in the Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan systems. It names Travelport, LP for the Data Privacy Framework, with offices in Langley, Berkshire and Atlanta, Georgia.", "The APIs answer on api.travelport.net and auth.travelport.net, a second domain named in Travelport's own docs. RDAP gives travelport.net a registration date of 2000-01-12 with Amazon Registrar, and travelport.com 2001-09-30 with CSC Corporate Domains.", "No status page is linked from the developer portal or the support page. status.travelport.com did not answer our request.", "www.travelport.com/.well-known/security.txt and the developer portal's both return 404. A Responsible Disclosure Policy dated June 2025 takes reports at responsibledisclosure@travelport.com and says there is no bug bounty.", "The portal's /changelog page is empty. Dated release notes are kept per API, and the Flights page was last modified on 16 September 2026." ], "score": 57 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.json", "live": { "slug": "travelport", "probe": { "target": "https://api.travelport.net", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:36.572244763Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 525, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 146, "p95ms24h": 879, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:36.572244763Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Skyscanner Limited", "b": "Travelport", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://partners.api.skyscanner.net", "b": "https://api.travelport.net", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service. The API terms are in the partner contract and are not public", "b": "Proprietary service under a Developer Contract and Travelport's API and SDK Terms of Use", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-08-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2025-01-03", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Travelport TripServices APIs and Skyscanner Travel APIs score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 45.9 (E) and 45.6 (E). Skyscanner Travel APIs leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Skyscanner Travel APIs or Travelport TripServices APIs?" }, { "answer": "Skyscanner Travel APIs needs an API key. Travelport TripServices APIs uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Skyscanner Travel APIs and Travelport TripServices APIs need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Skyscanner Travel APIs has a hosted endpoint at https://partners.api.skyscanner.net and Travelport TripServices APIs at https://api.travelport.net.", "question": "Can an agent call Skyscanner Travel APIs and Travelport TripServices APIs without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 35 against 19", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An established travel site or app with a large audience that wants metasearch prices across flights, hotels and car hire and is content to send users to suppliers to book.", "slug": "skyscanner", "watchFor": "Keys are issued only after an application review and a commercial agreement, with a stated minimum of 100,000 monthly active users" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 56" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A travel agency, travel management company or travel platform that will sign a GDS contract and wants GDS, NDC and low-cost air content with full servicing plus hotels.", "slug": "travelport", "watchFor": "The API and SDK Terms of Use forbid any automated process or tool, such as a bot, without written authorisation from Travelport" } ], "job": { "capability": "travel.flights", "name": "Travel flights" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-travelport.json", "title": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "ETG API (RateHawk) vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-travelport.json", "title": "ETG API (RateHawk) vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "FlightClaw vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-travelport.json", "title": "FlightClaw vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "Kiwi.com MCP Server vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Kiwi.com MCP Server vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "LetsFG vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-travelport.json", "title": "LetsFG vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-travelport" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 16, "edge": "skyscanner", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "skyscanner": 35, "travelport": 19, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 28, "edge": "travelport", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "skyscanner": 56, "travelport": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "travelport", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "skyscanner": 50, "travelport": 51, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "skyscanner", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "skyscanner": 48, "travelport": 47, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "skyscanner", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "skyscanner": 25, "travelport": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "skyscanner", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "skyscanner": 60, "travelport": 56, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "skyscanner": 52, "travelport": 52, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Travelport TripServices APIs and Skyscanner Travel APIs score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 45.9 (E) and 45.6 (E). Skyscanner Travel APIs leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do travel flights.", "verdicts": { "skyscanner": "Thirteen documented search APIs cover flights, hotels and car hire behind one `x-api-key` header, with default rate limits published per endpoint and no usage fee. Access needs an approved application, an audience above 100,000 monthly users and a commercial agreement, and the usage guidelines bar live-price calls made without a user action. Booking happens on supplier sites.", "travelport": "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-vs-travelport", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-vs-travelport.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-vs-travelport.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-vs-travelport.min.md" }, "markdown": "Travelport TripServices APIs and Skyscanner Travel APIs score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 45.9 (E) and 45.6 (E). Skyscanner Travel APIs leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do travel flights.\n\n- Skyscanner Travel APIs: grade E, 45.6/100, rank #655 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skyscanner.json\n- Travelport TripServices APIs: grade E, 45.9/100, rank #653 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/travelport.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Skyscanner Travel APIs (E)\n\nGood for: An established travel site or app with a large audience that wants metasearch prices across flights, hotels and car hire and is content to send users to suppliers to book.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 35 against 19\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n\nWatch for: Keys are issued only after an application review and a commercial agreement, with a stated minimum of 100,000 monthly active users\n\n### Travelport TripServices APIs (E)\n\nGood for: A travel agency, travel management company or travel platform that will sign a GDS contract and wants GDS, NDC and low-cost air content with full servicing plus hotels.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 56\n\nWatch for: The API and SDK Terms of Use forbid any automated process or tool, such as a bot, without written authorisation from Travelport\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Skyscanner Travel APIs | Travelport TripServices APIs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 19 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +16 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 84 | Travelport TripServices APIs +28 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 51 | Travelport TripServices APIs +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 47 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 20 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 56 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 52 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.6 · E** | **45.9 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Skyscanner Travel APIs | Travelport TripServices APIs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Skyscanner Limited | Travelport |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://partners.api.skyscanner.net` | `https://api.travelport.net` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Free | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service. The API terms are in the partner contract and are not public | Proprietary service under a Developer Contract and Travelport's API and SDK Terms of Use |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-08-12 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-01-03 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Skyscanner Travel APIs.** Thirteen documented search APIs cover flights, hotels and car hire behind one `x-api-key` header, with default rate limits published per endpoint and no usage fee. Access needs an approved application, an audience above 100,000 monthly users and a commercial agreement, and the usage guidelines bar live-price calls made without a user action. Booking happens on supplier sites.\n\n**Travelport TripServices APIs.** Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Skyscanner Travel APIs\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header on every call to `https://partners.api.skyscanner.net`. CORS is not supported, so call from a server\n2. Create a live search only when a user has given origin, destination and exact dates. Use the indicative price endpoints for open-ended questions\n3. Poll `/search/poll/{sessionToken}` until `status` is `RESULT_STATUS_COMPLETE`, and replace earlier results only when `action` is `RESULT_ACTION_REPLACED`\n4. Start a new session when a poll returns 400. Flight session tokens last about an hour and hotel sessions at most 15 minutes\n5. Pass each `deepLink` to the traveller unchanged, since altered encoding breaks Impact tracking, and never put personal data in `subid2`\n\n### Travelport TripServices APIs\n\n1. Request one token and cache it for 24 hours. Travelport declines certification for refreshing more often than every 23 hours without a stated reason\n2. Send `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` and `XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP` (or `TVP-PCC-CORE`) on every call. Production traffic without compression is refused\n3. Send `offersPerPage` on a journey-based search, or later calls can't reference its results. Cached searches last 12 minutes for GDS content and 34 for NDC\n4. Commit a workbench within 30 minutes or it expires, and read `Result/Error` in the body even on HTTP 200\n5. Get written authorisation for agent access before production. The terms bar automated tools and speculative or duplicate bookings\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Skyscanner Travel APIs or Travelport TripServices APIs?\n\nTravelport TripServices APIs and Skyscanner Travel APIs score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 45.9 (E) and 45.6 (E). Skyscanner Travel APIs leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Skyscanner Travel APIs and Travelport TripServices APIs need an API key?\n\nSkyscanner Travel APIs needs an API key. Travelport TripServices APIs uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Skyscanner Travel APIs and Travelport TripServices APIs without installing anything?\n\nYes. Skyscanner Travel APIs has a hosted endpoint at https://partners.api.skyscanner.net and Travelport TripServices APIs at https://api.travelport.net.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-vs-travelport.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-vs-travelport.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"skyscanner\", \"b\": \"travelport\"}`. 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