How we earn

€11.99 per month or €119 per year, VAT-inclusive (EU consumer-law display). Premium unlocks the AI Trip Concierge with live web search, the AI Replanner ("make this 20% cheaper", kid-friendly, slow-travel, lower-carbon), and unlimited saved trips. See the full feature breakdown on /premium.

Free tier still gets the full plan. The single-screen dashboard, source-cited estimates, three saved trips, and a few Concierge messages a month. Premium is for people who plan a lot of trips, want live-checked prices, or want the replanner to mutate their dashboard with one click.

Why a subscription, not commissions. Affiliate-revenue businesses end up biased toward whichever partner pays best. Subscription money lets us point you at the right tool — even when the right tool pays us nothing — and keep the dashboard honest about what costs are real.

No affiliate or partner commissions.When you click a Book button on a TravelM8 trip plan and end up on Booking.com, Skyscanner, GetYourGuide, World Nomads, Airalo, Welcome Pickups, iVisa, or Wise, that's a plain link — same URL anyone could send you. We don't collect a referral fee, and we have no commercial relationship with any of those companies. The recommendations are calibrated to fit the trip, not to optimize a payout.

No ads. No banner ads, no Google Ads, no sponsored rows hidden among real recommendations. The only commercial surface anywhere on TravelM8 is the Premium upgrade.

No selling user data.We don't sell or share your trip plans, email, browsing behaviour, or special-occasion dates with advertisers, brokers, or marketing networks. See /privacy for the full list of who touches your data.

No padded estimates. Every cost on the dashboard has a source citation with an as-of date. Estimates are calibrated against public-data averages, not designed to make you click anything. Methodology is on /estimates.

Once we have meaningful traffic, this page will be updated quarterly with: total subscription revenue, total operating spend (Vercel, Supabase, Anthropic, Resend, Stripe, domains), and the ratio between them. Transparency as a feature.