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How to use AwardMath
Planning is free and needs no account. An account only comes in when you want your balances and trips kept, or when you want an AI assistant to do the asking.
Using the planner
Type your balances the way you would say them out loud: “about 250K Amex, 80K Chase, and my wife has 120K Amex.” We turn that into a wallet card. Read the card and correct anything we misheard, because every number after that is built on it.
Then name the trip: where, roughly when, which cabin, how many people. Name the other trips you are holding points for too, since a plan that strands your December trip is not a good plan. You get up to three plans back. Each one shows which points move where, at what ratio, what the cash side costs, and the date we last checked every number.
Before you move any points, hit re-verify. It re-checks the numbers behind the plan and rewrites it if something has changed. Transfers between programs are final, which is the whole reason that step is there. Seat availability is the part we do not hold: confirm the seat with the airline before you transfer. We never ask for card or airline logins.
My Trips (Save & Sync)
An account here is a confirmed email address and nothing else. You give us your email, we send a link, and opening the link signs you in. No password is ever created, so there is none to forget or leak. What the account holds is your wallet and the trips you chose to save, so a plan you built on a laptop opens on your phone.
Open My Trips to sign in, edit your balances, or clear out a trip you no longer want.
Connect an AI assistant
Your Claude or ChatGPT can read your saved balances and run the same solver the site uses. You copy one link from My Trips into the assistant, and from then on you can ask for a plan in the chat and save the one you want back to My Trips.
Setup takes a couple of minutes and works the same on Claude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT.
Compare the award-search tools
AwardMath works out which of your balances pays for a seat. Finding the seat is a separate job, and these compare the tools that do it.
- point.me vs Seats.aeropoint.me will do the booking work for a fee. Seats.aero hands you the search and you do it yourself.
- Seats.aero vs PointsYeahPointsYeah has the stronger free tier and covers hotels. Seats.aero goes deeper on flights once you pay.
- Seats.aero vs RoameBoth find award space. What separates them is how you search it.
- Roame vs PointsYeahTwo free tiers worth trying before you pay for either. Roame is better for browsing, PointsYeah searches wider dates for free.
- ExpertFlyer vs Seats.aeroExpertFlyer watches a flight you already have in mind. Seats.aero looks across programs and dates.
- AwardHacker alternativesAwardHacker has shut down. The closest replacements, compared side by side.
All guides
Everything else we have published sits in the guides library: transfer partners, award charts, cancellation rules, timing, and worked routes with the numbers dated.
Contact
A number that is wrong or stale is the most useful message you can send us. Corrections, questions, and anything else go to the contact page.