Skyscanner API
Skyscanner publishes 13 Travel APIs across flights, hotels, and car hire, JSON over REST. Access is partner-gated: applications are manually reviewed and limited to established businesses with large audiences. No maintained first-party SDKs; partners build their own clients.
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Skyscanner scores A on the API Report Card. Skyscanner publishes 13 Travel APIs across flights, hotels, and car hire, JSON over REST. Access is partner-gated: applications are manually reviewed and limited to established businesses with large audiences. No maintained first-party SDKs; partners build their own clients.
Skyscanner has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Skyscanner Limited is the Edinburgh, Scotland-headquartered global travel metasearch engine that aggregates flight, hotel and car-hire pricing from 1,200-1,300+ airlines, OTAs, hoteliers and travel suppliers and presents comparison results to consumers on the web and in mobile apps.
Vertical: Travel & Expense (more specifically: travel metasearch / price comparison / B2B travel API infrastructure). Consumer flight/hotel/car-hire price comparison on web (skyscanner.com plus 50+ country sub-domains) and mobile (iOS, Android).
High in metasearch; mid as a B2B API.
Flight inventory metadata: routes, fares, fare classes, baggage rules, layover details, carrier codes (1,200-1,300+ supply partners). Live and cached flight price data (millions of pricing sessions per day at peak).
Founded 2003 (23 years old as of 2026).
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.