Is Roadtrippers worth it? Roadtrippers pricing, Premium cost and what each plan buys

How much does Roadtrippers cost?

Roadtrippers has three paid memberships in 2026. Basic is $35.99 a year or $11.99 a month. Pro is $49.99 a year or $16.99 a month. Premium is $59.99 a year or $19.99 a month. All three figures were read off the membership page on roadtrippers.com in September 2026 in the US view, and all annual memberships renew automatically on the date you signed up until you turn renewal off.

The tiers are separated by two numbers and a feature list. Basic holds 3 saved trips with 20 stops each and adds custom map styles and trip export. Pro holds 5 trips with 50 stops each and adds trip collaboration and turn by turn navigation. Premium holds unlimited trips with 150 stops each and is the only tier with RV GPS routing, overnight RV parking, member deals, live traffic and offline maps.

Paying monthly is the expensive way to hold a membership for a year, since $11.99 a month is $143.88 against $35.99 annually. It is the cheap way to hold one for a single trip. A two week road trip planned inside one calendar month costs $11.99 on Basic or $19.99 on Premium if you cancel before the next charge, and Roadtrippers states you keep access through the end of the billing period after canceling.

There is no separate "Roadtrippers Plus" tier on the membership page in 2026. Searches for it usually mean the Premium tier or the older single paid plan, and the three names in use today are Basic, Pro and Premium.

Is Roadtrippers free?

Partly. There is still a free membership at $0, and it includes the curated road trip guides, the Extraordinary Places layer and the 5 million point of interest database that every plan shares. What it no longer includes is room to plan a trip: the free tier holds one saved trip with three stops. That is enough to look at a map between your house and a national park, and not enough to plan the week around it.

This is why "Roadtrippers no longer free" is a common search. It was never fully free for long routes, but the old free allowance was large enough that a casual driver never hit it. The current allowance is designed to be hit on the first real trip, which turns the free tier into a demo of the map rather than a plan you could actually drive.

If you want to plan without paying anything, the honest answer is that Roadtrippers is no longer the tool for that, and the comparison on the Roadtrippers vs Wanderlog page covers which of the two has the more usable free version and why that is the wrong reason to pick either.

Roadtrippers Basic vs Premium: what is the difference?

Basic is a car traveler tier and Premium is an RV tier, and the middle Pro tier exists for people who want navigation and shared editing without the RV features. Read down the membership table and the split is clean. Basic gives you the planning canvas with 20 stops per trip, custom map styles and trip export. Pro adds trip collaboration, so a partner can edit the same route, and in app navigation so you can drive from it.

Everything from RV GPS downward is Premium only: routing that steers a rig around low clearances and propane restricted roads, free overnight RV parking at what Roadtrippers lists as 16,000 plus locations, campground browsing and booking across 50,000 plus campgrounds, member deals, live traffic and offline maps. Roadtrippers notes that the RV routing warnings are available in the US only.

So the question is not Basic or Premium so much as car or RV. A driver in a sedan buying Premium is paying $24 a year for map overlays and offline maps they may never open. An RV owner buying Basic gets none of the hazard routing that was the reason to pay, and the low bridge problem does not care what you saved.

The one feature that cuts across tiers is Roadtrippers Autopilot, the newer recommendation layer that suggests stops matched to your interests. Roadtrippers describes it as a Premium feature, so if the appeal was having the app propose the stops rather than searching for them, that is another argument that pushes you to the top tier.

Is Roadtrippers worth it?

For an RV owner who travels more than twice a year, yes, and Premium is the tier. RV specific routing, campground booking and overnight parking are the three things a generic map cannot do, and $59.99 a year is less than one night at most private campgrounds. The offline maps earn their keep the first time the route runs through a dead zone.

For a car traveler who takes one road trip a year, the annual plans are hard to justify against a monthly Basic membership at $11.99 that you cancel after the trip, or against planning the route in a free map app and using Roadtrippers only for its stop ideas. The stop database is the genuinely different thing Roadtrippers has: roadside oddities, small state parks and diners that Google Maps does not surface unless you already know the name.

For anyone who came to Roadtrippers hoping it would plan the trip, the answer is no at any price, and this is the part reviews skip. Roadtrippers puts stops on a road in order. It does not tell you what a day costs, whether three stops and a hike fit before check in, where the budget lands by day four, or what to do in the town you sleep in. Those decisions are still yours, and they are the hours most people were hoping to buy back.

Does Roadtrippers have a free trial?

Yes, with conditions that matter. Roadtrippers offers a 7 day free trial of its paid features, but only on annual plans, and only once per person. Monthly memberships have no trial and are billed the moment you sign up. The trial requires a payment method, and Roadtrippers states that at the end of the 7 days your card is charged automatically for the annual plan you selected.

Two rules are easy to miss. First, if you have ever used a Roadtrippers trial before, you are charged immediately on any new membership, annual or monthly. Second, if you cancel during the trial, your access to membership features ends right away rather than at the end of the 7 days, so a trial is not a free week you can cancel on day one and keep using.

Cancellation has to happen at least 24 hours before the trial or subscription term ends. If you subscribed inside the iOS app, the trial and the charge are handled by Apple and cancellation lives in your Apple subscription settings, not on roadtrippers.com.

Can you get a refund on Roadtrippers?

Inside a short window, once. Roadtrippers states that all membership payments are non-refundable under its Terms of Use, then carves out two grace periods for annual plans. A new annual member can request a refund within 3 days of the purchase. A member whose annual plan just renewed can request one within 7 days of the renewal charge. Monthly memberships are not eligible for refunds at all.

The policy adds that any refund is a one time courtesy, and that if you restart a membership later no further refunds will be given. Requests outside those windows are declined, though Roadtrippers says it will help turn off auto renewal so the next charge does not happen.

Memberships bought in the iOS app are a separate case. Apple processed the payment, Roadtrippers cannot refund it, and the request goes through Apple at Apple's discretion. The same applies to Google Play purchases. If you want the option of that 3 day refund window, subscribe on the website rather than in the app.

The practical protection is a calendar entry rather than the policy. Put a reminder on day 5 of a trial and another eleven months after any annual charge you let through, exactly as you would with TripIt Pro, which has the same auto renewing annual structure and a stricter no refund rule.

What Roadtrippers does not do, and what that costs you

Nothing in any Roadtrippers tier prices the trip. There is no budget field, no cost against a stop, no daily total. It will not tell you that the scenic route adds a night of lodging, that the three museums you pinned close at four, or that the second week is running $600 over the first. It orders stops on a road and, on Premium, keeps a rig off roads it should not be on. That is a real job and it does it well.

The planning half is where TripAgent.ai works, and the boundary is worth stating plainly: it does not replace Roadtrippers on the road. It has no RV hazard routing, no campground listings and no offline maps. It works before the drive, writing the day by day plan for the whole trip, sequencing each day with travel times, pricing every activity, meal and local transfer, totaling the days, and rewriting any single day when you ask it to. Plenty of people would sensibly run both, drafting and pricing the days here and then loading the stops into Roadtrippers to drive.

If the trip in question is on the road, the road trip planner page shows what a priced driving itinerary looks like. If you were weighing Roadtrippers against the other big planning app, Roadtrippers vs Wanderlog compares both prices and both free tiers, and the Wanderlog alternative page covers the same gap from the other side.