Google Flights scrapers compared

Platform accounting charge, applied per row stored in the dataset.

• Page Processed (page_processed)
• Setup (setup)
• Booking Options Processed (booking_option_processed)

One itinerary, price-calendar day or explore destination row. Error rows and empty results are always free. No run fee, no search fee, no proxy fee.

Single result in the default dataset.

• Additional data (additional-data)

Charged per flight option extracted from Google Flights.

• Run started (start)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Flight lookup (flight_search)

Each flight option delivered to the dataset.

• Search (search)
• Browser search (browser-search)
• Booking options (booking-options)
• Return flights (return-flights)
• Price graph day (price-graph-day)
• Explore destination (explore-destination)

One route quote with carrier, departure and return dates, cabin, total price, price per passenger, stops, duration, and the departure and arrival airports and times. Every row returned is charged; a run that returns no rows is free.

Single result in the default dataset.

• Per successful search (flight-search)
• Filter used (filter)
• Per-itinerary booking option (additional-detail)

One result row — itinerary, calendar date, destination or search summary. Error rows and empty results are always free. No run fee, no search fee, no proxy fee.

Charged once per successful Google Flights search.

• Flight itinerary returned (flight-result)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Itinerary Scraped (itinerary-scraped)

One route and departure date (or round trip, or multi-city trip): all flights Google shows, with price insights. Also charged in price-monitoring mode, whether or not the price changed.

• Calendar day (calendar-day)
• Return flights (return-flights)
• Booking options (booking-options)

One flight option delivered. Searches that fail or return nothing are never charged.

One search for a route and date, with every flight it returns included. There is no per-result charge, so a route with 143 flights costs the same as one with 8.

• Actor start (actor_start)
• Return flights per outbound (return_flights)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Setup (One-time Fee) (setup-fee)
• Page processed (page-processed)

One row delivered to the dataset: a flight itinerary (with price, airline, stops, duration, times and segments) in search mode, or one priced departure date in price calendar mode.

Each flight option (or return option) written to the dataset, with price, airlines, times, stops, layovers, amenities, CO2 and price insights.

• Booking options (booking-options)
• Price graph date (price-graph-date)

Charged per item scraped.

One flight itinerary (with its return flight on round trips).

• Price-calendar date (calendar-date)

One flight option: price, airline(s), stops, departure/arrival airports, times & dates, total duration and baggage.

• Price insight scraped (priceInsight)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Flight search page completed (page_processed)
• Direct booking link resolved (booking_option_processed)

One Google Flights itinerary row pushed to the dataset (price, segments, times, CO2, and related fields).

• Calendar date (calendar-date)

One route across the dates searched: the fare calendar, cheapest date and flight, cheapest nonstop, fastest option, airline prices, cheapest weekday, and Google's price level, 60-day price history and booking tip.

• Flight (flight)

A date is returned in your table.

• Round-trip date grid built (date-grid-built)

One row for a flight Google Flights lists for the searched route and departure date, with price, times, stops, layovers, legs and CO2. With Monitor on, only flights that are new or whose price moved since the last run. Rows that say there are no flights, no change, more flights than asked for, an input Google did not accept, a page that could not be read or that the run hit its limit are free.

• Run start (actor-start)

One flight is added to your results.

• Route and date searched (route-date-searched)

Charged per itinerary whose sellers are looked up.

• actor-start (actor-start)
• offer-scraped (offer-scraped)

One flight with a price and its details. Flights without a price, failed and empty searches are not charged.

Charged once per flight row (price, airlines, stops, legs). Price insight rows and error rows are never charged.

• Calendar date delivered (dia-calendario)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Market compared (market_compared)
• Through-fare check (through_fare_check)
• Booking options resolved (booking_options_resolved)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Market compared (market_compared)
• Through-fare check (through_fare_check)
• Booking options resolved (booking_options_resolved)

One priced search (route and dates): cheapest fare, Google's low/typical/high verdict, typical price range, 60-day price history, cheapest booking window. Each calendar date counts as one fare. Free: searches with no flights, searches Google refused, unchanged fares in monitor mode, the multi-city total row.

• Flight (flight)

Charged automatically for each item pushed to the default dataset.

• Route scanned (route-scanned)

One flight option saved to the dataset.

Single result in the default dataset.

One flight with price, legs, layovers and price insights

• Booking options (booking-options)
• Calendar date (calendar-date)
• Explore destination (explore-destination)

Charged once for each flight itinerary row delivered (outbound or return). Searches Google has no flights for cost nothing beyond the run start.

• Cheapest-date calendar day (cheapest-date)
• Actor start (actor-start)

Cost per flight saved to the dataset.

One dataset item written via the default (non-PPE) push path.

• Itinerary (flight-result)

One route + date searched

• Flight (flight)
• Return options (return-options)

One itinerary with a fare. Flights Google lists without a price, and routes that return nothing, are free.

• Run start (actor-start)

One flight, route summary (price insights) or price-calendar day delivered. Failed searches and routes without flights are not charged.

One charge for a unique route/date query that writes at least one validated flight option, including partial searches with usable results. Empty, failed and skipped searches are not charged.

One flight from the results: price, airlines, times, duration, stops, layovers, bags, CO2 emissions.

One flight option with its price, airlines, stops and times.

Single result in the default dataset.

Charged for each flight returned. Flights filtered out by max stops or without a price are not charged.

One delivered flight itinerary row, for the first 100 rows of each search. Later rows of that search are free.

Charged per flight route date search, returning complete itineraries, airlines, schedules, and price levels.