Amadeus Self-Service alternative: the price half, not the booking half
Amadeus shut its free Self-Service portal down on 17 July 2026. If you were using it for Flight Offers Search, Flight Price Analysis or Cheapest Dates, Piratefly answers the same kind of question — is this fare good, and when should I buy — over our own price history, with a free tier and no approval wait. If you were using it to book, nothing here replaces that.
What Piratefly does not do
No booking, no PNRs, no seat maps, no live availability, no GDS content. We do not sell tickets and we are not a reseller of Amadeus data. What we have is a long observation history of real fares on real routes, and a verdict built on it.
What maps across, endpoint by endpoint
| What you used Amadeus for | Piratefly |
|---|---|
| Flight Price Analysis — is this fare cheap for this route? | GET /v1/analisi returns a percentile against that route’s own observed history, plus a verdict. |
| Cheapest Dates / Flight Inspiration — when is this route cheap? | The same response ranks months by median fare and gives the booking window that came out cheapest. |
| Flight Offers Search — priced itineraries to show a user | Not covered. We return timing intelligence, never a bookable fare. |
| Flight Create Orders — actually issue the ticket | Not covered, and not planned. |
| Self-Service key: signup, quota, then a move to Enterprise | 30 requests/day per IP with no key at all; $9.99/month removes the cap, card or USDC, key issued immediately. |
One call, no key
Cities by name, not IATA codes. This is a real response from the live API:
curl "https://next.piratefly.com/v1/analisi?origine=Stockholm&destinazione=Rome"{
"origine": "Stockholm",
"destinazione": "Rome",
"valuta": "EUR",
"verdetto": {
"livello": "ottimo",
"percentile": 9,
"medianaCent": 5600,
"minimoCent": 2500,
"campione": 23
},
"mesiPerConvenienza": [
{ "mese": 8, "medianaCent": 5900, "campione": 33 },
{ "mese": 10, "medianaCent": 8900, "campione": 74 }
],
"anticipoConsigliato": { "daGiorni": 56, "aGiorni": 83, "medianaCent": 5800 },
"osservazioni": 169
}Reading the response
percentile is where today’s cheapest fare sits in that route’s own history (9 = cheaper than 91% of everything we have seen), campione is how many observations that verdict rests on, mesiPerConvenienza ranks months by median fare, and anticipoConsigliato is the booking window that has historically come out cheapest. Prices are cents, EUR.
Try it, then decide
The free tier needs no account: paste the URL above in a browser. When 30 calls a day stops being enough, the Pro plan is on the API page.
Why did Amadeus Self-Service shut down?
Amadeus retired the free self-service tier on 17 July 2026; remaining access runs through their enterprise agreements. Piratefly is not affiliated with Amadeus and does not resell their data.
Can I use Piratefly to search or book flights?
No. Piratefly returns booking-timing intelligence — how today’s cheapest observed fare compares to a route’s history, which months are cheap, how far ahead to book. It never returns a bookable itinerary, so it is a complement to a booking API, not a drop-in replacement for one.
What are the limits and the price?
30 requests/day per IP for free with no signup and no key. Pro is $9.99/month for no daily cap, paid by card on Stripe or in USDC on Solana, with the key handed back immediately — no approval queue.