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AXUS Travel App pricing: AXUS Travel cost per seat, plans and the annual penalty
AXUS Travel App is one of the two itinerary and proposal platforms most US travel advisors end up choosing between, and unlike a lot of travel technology it does publish a price. What it does not do is publish it anywhere you can link to. There is no /pricing page on axustravelapp.com; that URL returns a 404. The numbers live in an anchor section partway down the homepage, between the testimonials and the footer, which is why so many comparison articles about AXUS quote a price with no source or skip the number entirely.
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The short answer
AXUS Travel App costs $35 per seat per month with no contract commitment, or $329 per seat per year, which the vendor markets as a 21 percent saving and works out to $27.42 a seat a month. Both plans come with a 14 day free trial that does not ask for a card. DMCs and tour operators are quoted separately, as are consortia members and volume subscriptions. The figure AXUS does not put next to the yearly price is in its own terms of service: cancel an annual prepaid subscription inside the first six months and a 50 percent penalty applies, which on $329 is $164.50, nearly double the $91 a year the annual plan saves you. After six months the refund is prorated instead. AXUS also charges flat per seat, so a solo advisor pays less on AXUS than on Travefy, while at three seats and above Travefy Core costs less and the gap widens with every hire. AXUS Travel App is a division of Northstar Travel Media. TripAgent.ai is not an alternative to it: we write the day by day itinerary and price it, with no client app, no DMC network and no GDS import.
So this page starts with the figures read straight off the vendor's own site in September 2026, then does the part the pricing section leaves out. AXUS sells a monthly plan and a yearly plan and tells you the yearly one saves 21 percent. That is true. It does not tell you what happens if you leave, and the answer sits in the terms of service under Fees and Payments, where a 50 percent penalty applies to annual prepaid subscriptions cancelled inside six months. For a seasonal advisor or anyone trialling a platform switch, that clause is worth more than the discount.
The second half works the arithmetic against Travefy, because AXUS and Travefy charge on structurally different models and the cheaper one flips at a specific team size. Every price below is dated and sourced. Where AXUS does not publish a number, this page says so instead of inventing one.
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What the AXUS pricing section leaves out
The yearly plan carries a 50 percent exit penalty
The AXUS terms of service state that a 50 percent penalty applies to annual prepaid subscriptions cancelled within six months of purchase, and that cancellations after six months are refunded prorated for the remaining term. On a $329 seat that penalty is $164.50, against an annual saving of $91.
Annual only breaks even after month 10
$329 divided by the $35 monthly rate is 9.4 months. If you are seasonal, hiring on trial, or unsure the platform fits, monthly costs you $91 a seat a year for the right to walk away in any month with nothing owed.
Flat per seat pricing loses to Travefy at three seats
AXUS charges every seat the same $329 a year. Travefy Core charges $39 a month for the first seat and $20 for each additional one. The two lines cross at 2.6 seats, so from three advisors up Travefy Core is cheaper, and by twenty seats the gap is over $1,500 a year.
Three prices are quote only
DMC and tour operator team pricing, consortia pricing and volume subscriptions are all handled by email rather than published. If you are any of those three, the list price on the homepage is not your price and there is no way to estimate yours from the site.
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- Gives the AXUS monthly and yearly seat prices verified at the vendor site
- Surfaces the annual cancellation penalty that is not on the pricing section
- Works the break even point between monthly and yearly billing
- Shows the exact team size where Travefy Core becomes cheaper than AXUS
- Explains which AXUS prices are quote only and why
- Answers the questions advisors search before starting a trial
Honest comparison
AXUS Travel App pricing at a glance, September 2026
Read from the pricing section of axustravelapp.com and the AXUS general website terms and conditions in September 2026, US view. AXUS has no standalone pricing URL; /pricing returns 404 and the figures sit in an anchor section on the homepage. Prices change, so check the source before you sign.
| What you are checking | AXUS Travel App | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly plan | $35 USD per seat, charged monthly, stated as no contract commitments | Cancel in any month with nothing further owed |
| Yearly plan | $329 USD per seat, charged yearly, marketed as saving 21 percent | $27.42 a seat a month, $91 a year less than paying monthly |
| Annual cancellation | 50 percent penalty if cancelled within six months, prorated refund after six months | $164.50 forfeited on a $329 seat, against $91 saved |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card information required | Longer than Travefy, which runs a 10 day trial |
| DMC and tour operator pricing | Contact us, team based, quoted by email | Not estimable from the site |
| Consortia and volume | Special pricing for select consortia memberships and team subscriptions, by request | Ask your consortium before paying list |
| Custom branded app | Quoted separately, published to Google Play and the iOS App Store | A real cost line most advisors do not budget for |
| API access | Push and pull API offered to travel tech suppliers and developers, quoted separately | No published rate card |
| Billing behavior | Auto renews at the end of each cycle unless auto renewal is cancelled | Set a calendar reminder before renewal |
| Overage fees | Referenced in the terms, billed monthly in arrears, amount not published | Ask what triggers one before you commit |
| Owner | A division of Northstar Travel Media, LLC | Backed by a trade publisher, not an independent startup |
| Governing law | Illinois, venue Cook County | Relevant if you are negotiating a team contract |
How much does AXUS Travel App cost?
AXUS Travel App costs $35 per seat per month on the monthly plan, or $329 per seat per year on the yearly plan. The monthly plan is described on the AXUS site as having no contract commitments. The yearly plan is described as saving 21 percent over a monthly subscription, and that checks out: twelve months at $35 is $420, so $329 is a saving of $91, or 21.7 percent. Both plans include the same platform and both start with a 14 day free trial that does not require a card.
The word to hold onto is seat. AXUS prices per travel planner, flat, with no cheaper rate for the second or the tenth person. A four advisor agency on the yearly plan pays $1,316 a year. The same agency on monthly pays $1,680. There is no published tier that reduces the per seat rate as the team grows, although AXUS invites teams and consortia members to ask about volume subscription pricing by email.
| AXUS plan | Per seat | Effective per seat per month | A team of 6 per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $35 a month | $35.00 | $2,520 |
| Yearly | $329 a year | $27.42 | $1,974 |
| DMC and tour operators | Contact us, team based | Not published | Not published |
| Consortia and volume | Special pricing by request | Not published | Not published |
The $546 a year a six seat agency saves by paying annually is real money for a small shop. It is also the number that makes the next section matter, because the saving is smaller than the penalty for changing your mind.
Is the AXUS yearly plan worth it?
It depends entirely on whether you will still be using AXUS in seven months. The annual plan saves $91 per seat per year. The AXUS terms of service, under Fees and Payments, state that a 50 percent penalty applies to annual prepaid subscriptions if cancelled within six months of purchase, and that a subscription cancelled after six months is refunded prorated for the remaining term. Fifty percent of $329 is $164.50, which is 1.8 times the amount the annual plan saves.
Put the two together and the decision is straightforward. Pay annually if you are an established agency that has already run AXUS through a full booking season and knows it fits. Pay monthly if you are switching from another platform, hiring seats you might not keep, working a seasonal book, or still comparing AXUS against Travefy and Tern. The monthly plan costs $7.58 a seat a month more and buys you an exit with nothing owed.
There is a second break even worth knowing. $329 divided by $35 is 9.4, so the annual plan only starts beating monthly in month ten. An advisor who runs nine active months a year and pauses over the quiet season pays less on monthly even without ever cancelling.
| If you cancel in | Paid on annual | Refund position | Versus paying monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Month 3 | $329 | 50 percent penalty, $164.50 kept back | Monthly would have cost $105 |
| Month 6 | $329 | 50 percent penalty applies within six months | Monthly would have cost $210 |
| Month 8 | $329 | Prorated refund for the remaining term | Monthly would have cost $280 |
| Month 12 | $329 | Term completes, renews automatically | Monthly would have cost $420 |
One more billing detail from the same clause: the subscription renews automatically at the end of each cycle unless you cancel auto renewal through the account management page or by contacting support. Nothing unusual there, but on an annual term it means a missed reminder costs a full year rather than a month.
AXUS vs Travefy: which is cheaper?
Neither, and that is the useful answer. AXUS and Travefy charge on different shapes, so the cheaper platform depends on how many advisors you are paying for. AXUS is flat: $329 a seat a year, every seat the same. Travefy Core on annual billing is $39 a month for your first seat and, in Travefy's own words, every additional seat is just $20 per month. Travefy Premium is $59 for the first seat and $39 for each additional one, and adds business email hosting and a custom domain that AXUS does not offer at all.
Run both lines out and they cross between two and three seats. Solo advisors and two person shops pay less on AXUS. From three seats up Travefy Core is cheaper, and because Travefy prices each extra advisor at $20 while AXUS charges the full $27.42 for every one, the gap grows with every hire rather than staying flat.
| Seats | AXUS yearly | Travefy Core annual | Cheaper by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $329 | $468 | AXUS, by $139 |
| 2 | $658 | $708 | AXUS, by $50 |
| 3 | $987 | $948 | Travefy, by $39 |
| 5 | $1,645 | $1,428 | Travefy, by $217 |
| 10 | $3,290 | $2,628 | Travefy, by $662 |
| 20 | $6,580 | $5,028 | Travefy, by $1,552 |
Price is not the whole decision and this table should not be read as one. AXUS runs a collaborator network that lets you invite a DMC or overseas planner into the itinerary itself, imports PNRs from a GDS, and carries an accommodation and cruise schedule lookup. Advisors who sell complex custom trips through overseas partners routinely say that network is the reason they pay more. Travefy bundles a CRM, forms, invoicing and a website builder, which suits an advisor running the whole business from one tool. Decide on the workflow, then use the table to know what the workflow costs.
For a wider view of the category, including Tern at $49 a seat a month and TravelJoy, our breakdown of what travel agent software costs prices all five buckets side by side.
Does AXUS Travel App have a free trial?
Yes. AXUS offers a 14 day free trial and states three separate times on its site that no credit card information is required. That is a genuinely open trial, and it is four days longer than the 10 day trial Travefy runs. Nothing in the AXUS terms suggests the trial converts to a paid subscription automatically without a card on file.
Fourteen days is enough to test the thing that actually matters, which is not the feature list. Build one real itinerary end to end, the messiest one on your desk, and see how long it takes compared with your current process. Then publish it to the client app and look at it on a phone. Advisors who churn off itinerary platforms almost always churn because content entry took longer than the old way, not because a feature was missing.
What does AXUS Travel App include for the price?
The seat price covers the full platform rather than a stripped tier. AXUS lists a collaborator network for inviting DMCs and travel planners globally into the itinerary, an internal image library the site puts at over four million images, a custom reusable content library, a Google powered concierge for adding restaurants and points of interest, an integrated global accommodation search, port by port cruise schedule lookup, flight lookup with status, GDS PNR import, vendor and email confirmation parsing through AwardWallet, CRM and API integrations, an advisor web app, an itinerary calendar, a task manager, CSV analytics exports, and E Pages for digital guides and proposals.
Two things sit outside the seat price. A custom branded app in the Google Play and iOS stores is quoted separately, and so is push and pull API access for tech suppliers and developers. Both are contact us items with no published rate, and both are the kind of thing an agency discovers is a line item after it has already budgeted for seats.
The client side is a dedicated mobile app carrying the day by day plan, guides, documents, in app messaging with the advisor, and push notifications when a published itinerary changes. Travelers can view past trips and the advisor profile. The AXUS traveler app carries the advisor logo by default, and a fully custom branded app in the two app stores is a separate purchase.
Who owns AXUS Travel App?
AXUS Travel App is a division of Northstar Travel Media, LLC, stated in the copyright line on its own site and again in the first paragraph of its terms and conditions. Northstar Travel Group is the publisher behind Travel Weekly, Business Travel News and Travel42, which is also the destination content AXUS drops into itineraries with one click.
That ownership is worth knowing for two practical reasons. It makes the travel42 destination guide integration a first party arrangement rather than a licensing deal that could lapse. And it means AXUS is a business unit inside a trade publishing group rather than a venture backed startup chasing growth, which tends to show up as steadier pricing and slower feature releases. The AXUS terms are governed by Illinois law with venue in Cook County.
How much does AXUS cost for a tour operator or DMC?
AXUS does not publish it. The site carries a specific contact route for DMC and tour operator team based pricing, and the request form asks for your company name, whether you are business to client or business to business, your countries of operation, your consortia affiliations and how you heard about AXUS. Those questions are the shape of a quote that varies by volume and business model, so a published number would not have applied to you anyway.
If you are a DMC, the collaborator network is the reason to be on AXUS at all rather than a cheaper itinerary tool: advisors selling your product can pull you into their itinerary directly instead of rekeying your documents. That is a distribution argument, not a software argument, and it is worth raising in the quote conversation. Ask specifically what a seat costs at your headcount, whether the consortia rate applies to you, and what triggers the overage fees the terms mention but never define.
Where TripAgent.ai fits, and where it does not
TripAgent.ai is not an AXUS alternative and this page is not trying to talk you out of AXUS. AXUS is a client facing itinerary delivery platform for professional travel sellers: a branded traveler app, a DMC collaborator network, GDS PNR import, document storage, messaging. We do none of those things. There is no client app, no collaborator network, no GDS connection, no CRM, and we do not book anything.
What TripAgent.ai does is the step before all of that. You describe the trip and it writes a day by day itinerary with a costed budget, which you can then rework and move into whatever tool delivers it to your client. Advisors use it to get a credible first draft of a destination they do not sell every week, and to turn a vague client brief into something concrete enough to quote. It is a flat subscription from $19 a month with no seat minimum, and it sits alongside AXUS rather than replacing it.
If you are a corporate travel buyer rather than a leisure advisor, this is the wrong page. The vendors in that market are Navan, SAP Concur, TravelPerk and the global TMCs, and our corporate travel software pricing pillar covers what they charge.
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