AwardHacker Has Shut Down: What to Use Instead

No. AwardHacker has shut down and now displays only a closure notice.

The notice says: "AwardHacker Has Been Shut Down. AwardHacker is no longer available due to significant changes in the award flight landscape. Many airlines have shifted to dynamic pricing, and award availability has become increasingly limited."

The site does not publish its shutdown date. AwardHack, a different company with a confusingly similar name, covers the most ground as a replacement and explicitly calls itself "The ultimate tool AwardHacker users have been looking for."

AwardMath calculates which of your balances can pay for an award and what that funding choice costs you.

AwardMath does not show live availability. Use an award-search tool to find space, then use AwardMath to work out how to fund it.

AwardHacker says dynamic pricing and increasingly limited award availability broke the assumptions behind its award-chart lookup.

A chart lookup works when a program publishes a predictable price for a route, region, or distance band. Dynamic pricing lets the airline vary that price by flight, date, demand, or other factors. A static lookup can then show a theoretical price without telling you what the airline will charge for the seat you found.

AwardHacker's notice also points to limited availability. Even an accurate chart price is not useful when no bookable seat exists at that level. Modern replacements therefore split into two jobs: search tools find available awards, while pricing and funding tools compare how you might book them.

Use AwardHack for the broadest replacement, Seats.aero for a known route, Roame for flexible browsing, and PointsYeah for free flight and hotel searches.

AwardHack spans award pricing, transfer bonuses, card strategy, balances, and benefit tracking. It describes itself as "The Operating System for Your Rewards" and makes the core pricing case plainly: "Same seat. Radically different price." It covers more of the overall rewards workflow than the availability tools, and it handles card and benefit tracking that AwardMath does not.

Seats.aero is strongest when you already know the route and want a dense, filterable availability table. It searches across 20+ mileage programs. That direct availability search is something AwardMath does not provide.

Roame is better for browsing by region or across flexible dates. Its vendor page says it searches up to 25 airline loyalty programs as far as 365 days ahead. SkyView, a mobile app, hotel search, and the free Roame Wallet make it broader than Seats.aero for exploratory browsing and account tracking. AwardMath does none of those jobs.

PointsYeah is the clearest free starting point if you want both flight and hotel award searches. Its free tier searches up to four days at once and includes four flight alerts and four hotel alerts. The number of airline programs it searches was not published on the pages we could read.

AwardHack does not replace a confirmed availability search based on the vendor pages we checked. Those pages did not explain whether its Pricer finds bookable seats or only compares program prices. Confirm the seat with an availability tool before moving points.

No. AwardHack is a different company, not a renamed version of AwardHacker.

AwardHacker was an award-chart lookup and is now closed. AwardHack positions itself as a rewards portfolio platform covering award pricing, transfer bonuses, cards, balances, benefits, and application recommendations. It tracks accounts manually, stating: "No Plaid. No giving apps access to your bank accounts. Fully manual by design."

AwardHack openly courts former AwardHacker users, but that marketing does not establish a corporate connection. Its pages also state that it may earn commission from credit card and financial-product applications. AwardMath has no affiliate links.

Use AwardHack to compare program pricing, then use AwardMath when the question becomes which of your balances can actually fund the award.

AwardHack is the closest replacement for AwardHacker's comparison job because it prices the same seat across programs. Its pages do not explain how the underlying award prices are sourced or dated. They also do not establish whether the Pricer ranks options against your personal balances or simply prices the route by program.

AwardMath starts from your transferable balances and maps the funding paths. As of August 19, 2026, its live graph contained 119 transfer pairs across American Express Membership Rewards, Bilt, Capital One, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Points, and Wells Fargo Rewards. Of those pairs, 90 were corroborated, two were verified on an issuer's own page, and 27 remained unverified. It also held 453 dated award-price observations.

AwardMath's route pricing is partial. If it lacks a usable observation, it says so and offers a watch rather than inventing a number. It is free, has no paid tier, and asks for an optional contribution only after a plan lands.

Always confirm the seat before transferring points. Transfers are generally irreversible, and neither a chart price nor funding calculation proves that an airline can book the award.

The tools solve different parts of the old AwardHacker problem, so the right choice depends on whether you need pricing, availability, or flexible browsing.

AwardHack's free tier includes limited Pricer searches. Pro costs $79.99 per year billed annually and includes unlimited Pricer searches, card strategy, benefit and points tracking, and around 50 tools. Its page says: "AwardHack Pro includes both, plus 50 more tools, for $79.99/yr." A monthly plan is offered, but the monthly price was not published on the pages we could read.

Seats.aero offers a shortened results window for free. PRO costs $9.99 per month and adds a full year of results, live search, SMS and push alerts, and more. The exact free search window and annual pricing were not published on the vendor pages we checked.

Roame Community is free and includes real-time search, three-day flexible search, SkyView Lite with a seven-day window for departures within 60 days, and Roame Wallet. Friends of Roame costs $109.99 per year, shown as $9.16/month, 30% off a struck-through $155.88. Inner Circle costs $299.99 per year, shown as $25.00/month, 69% off a struck-through $959.88. The page was set to annual billing, so month-to-month prices and whether those discounts are permanent were not verified.

PointsYeah Free searches up to four days at once and includes four flight alerts and four hotel alerts. Premium expands searches to two departure airports, two arrival airports, and eight days, with more alerts and custom points values. Its Premium price was not published on the public pages we could read.

Every competitor status, price, and feature here was checked on the vendor's own page on August 19, 2026.

Prices are re-checked monthly because subscription rates, billing terms, and promotional discounts change often. Features are re-checked quarterly. AwardMath's transfer-pair counts, evidence tiers, and dated price observations were counted from its live graph on August 19, 2026.

Check the vendor's checkout page before paying. Check the airline directly before transferring points or treating an award price as bookable.