An AirHint alternative that watches your price instead of forecasting it
AirHint predicts whether the fare on a flight and date you have already chosen will go up or down. DiveFare answers a different question: you name the price you would pay, and we write when a ticket actually reaches it.
The two are not interchangeable, and one of them fits how you plan trips better than the other. Below is what each does. We are not affiliated with AirHint, and their own site is the authority on what their forecasts cover.
The two questions
| What matters | DiveFare | AirHint |
|---|---|---|
| Name your own price | yes — below it we write, above it we stay quiet | no, the answer is “buy now” or “wait” |
| Watch with no dates at all | yes — every one-way departure in the coming month | no, a flight and a day are the starting point |
| Trip length instead of a return date | yes — “two weeks”, we pick the combination | no |
| Round trip priced as one ticket | yes, your limit meets the full fare | the forecast is per flight |
| “Cheaper a few days either side” note | yes, as a separate message | no |
| Nonstop-only filter | yes, applied to alerts and to the notes | no |
| Fare forecast for a chosen flight | no — we report what is on sale | yes, that is the whole point |
| Where alerts arrive | email or browser push, per route |
The core difference: a trip, not a single flight
A forecast starts from a flight you have already chosen. It assumes the hard part is done, that you know the route, the day and roughly the flight, and the only open question is whether to buy today. That is a real question, and AirHint answers it.
Most trips do not start there. They start as “somewhere warm in February, around a thousand dollars, two weeks, and I would rather not connect”. There is no single flight to forecast yet. What helps at that stage is the opposite: describe the constraints, then be told the moment reality matches them. Nothing is predicted. The ticket either exists at your price or it does not.
What the alert can express
No dates, or a length instead of dates
Leave the dates empty and every one-way departure in the coming month is checked against your number. For a round trip you can skip the return date and say how long you are going for, anything from 2 to 21 days, and we go through the combinations. Without such a window the cheapest option is always a two-day hop nobody wants.
Round trip as one price
Your limit is compared against the full there-and-back fare. Two cheap one-way flights that never share a booking are not a deal.
Exact dates, plus a nudge if next door is cheaper
Fixed days are watched as given. A much cheaper nearby date arrives as a separate note, at most once every five days, and your alert is left alone.
“Nonstop only” is a filter, not a preference
Turn it on and connecting flights vanish from the alerts and from the notes. With a child or a heavy bag, a connection costs more than it saves.
Checked every 15 minutes
Fares on your routes are re-read four times an hour and a match leaves within about three minutes. A genuinely cheap ticket often lives an hour or two, which is why this number is the product.
You can still see whether today is expensive
Every route page shows live fares by month for three months ahead, a day-by-day trend, and where your chosen date sits against them: good price, below average, or above what the route usually costs. A fact about the spread, not a prediction.
No account, and it stays quiet
An email address is enough. Alerts live on one page where they can be edited, renewed or switched off, and every email unsubscribes in one click. At most one message per route per day, up to six options in it, one per date; a date you already heard about returns only after another 15% off.
Which one fits you
DiveFare — if you
- know your budget but not the exact day;
- are flexible about dates, or flexible within a window;
- want the whole round trip priced, not two halves;
- would rather be told once than check daily.
AirHint — if you
- have already chosen the flight and the date;
- only want to know whether to buy today or wait;
- are deciding between two specific flights.
Using both is reasonable: an alert to catch the fare, a forecast to decide on the last day.
Try it on your own route
Two cities and your price. Dates optional.
We re-read the route you pick every 15 minutes and write when a ticket reaches your price. Free, and one click stops it.