Travel Budget Planner

Plan a whole trip in one run — honest, whole-market accommodation prices plus the cheapest flights, in the currency you pick, and written straight into Notion if you like.

If you've ever planned a trip, you know the tab-juggling: flights in one tab, Airbnb in another, Booking.com in a third — then you redo it all for different dates. And that "average price" on the first screen of listings? It's a handful of places, not the real market.

We just wanted one honest answer to "what will this trip actually cost?" So Travel Budget Planner takes an origin, a destination, and your dates, and in one run gives you the typical nightly price for accommodation across the whole market — median and average over every listing, not a sample — plus the cheapest flights for those dates. It prices Airbnb by default; add Booking.com for a second opinion, plus buses, trains, or a Notion page if you like, and pick your currency.

Behind the scenes, Travel Budget Planner is an orchestrator — it runs other specialized Apify Actors for you in the background and merges their results into one trip. Accommodation comes from our Airbnb & Booking Price Index (a real market price — every listing's price distribution, not 20 averaged); flights from Skyscanner Scraper. Optional sources add Airbnb / Booking.com listings, FlixBus + FlixTrain, and Rome2Rio. Those background runs are billed to you too — see Costs.

🧪 Early access. This is new — give it a go and tell us what to add next (more transport, more cities, richer output), or if anything (price included) feels off. Your feedback shapes the roadmap → open an issue on the Issues tab. 🙏

Who it's for

• Digital nomads — compare the real cost of basing somewhere for a month, in one run.
• Anyone budgeting a trip — one honest number, not a guess from the first page of results.
• Travel & tour companies — fast, whole-market cost checks for client trips and itineraries.
• AI assistants & agents — one "price this trip" call from any AI tool (over MCP — see below).

Input

Four are required; the rest have sensible defaults.

• Origin — where you start (city or airport code, e.g. Berlin or BER).
• Destination — where you're going, as City, Country (e.g. Lisbon, Portugal).
• Check-in & check-out — your dates (today or later, up to 90 nights).
• Guests / Passengers — how many the stay / the transport is priced for (1–16, default 1).
• Currency — EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, or PLN (default EUR; no conversion).
• Which prices to fetch — default: Airbnb prices + flights (the cheapest start). Add Booking.com prices for a second opinion (slower & costlier — it runs a browser), buses + trains, Rome2Rio routes, or the "listings" options for a few clickable places.
• Notion (optional) — connect it to have the trip written to a page.

How to set it up

1. Create a free Apify account and open this Actor — no travel-site logins, no API keys.
2. Click Try for free / Start.
3. Enter your origin, destination, and dates (tweak guests, currency, or sources if you like) and click Start.
4. Open the Output tab — your trip overview, accommodation prices, and transport options appear in seconds.

(Optional) Connect Notion for a formatted itinerary page, and use the Schedule tab to re-price a trip over time.

Output

One tidy result per run:

• Accommodation prices — per platform, the market-wide median and average nightly price, how many listings that covers (the whole market), the rough price range, and one-click links to the live searches for your exact dates.
• Transport options — cheapest-first flights (and buses/trains if enabled), with operator, price, duration, stops, and a booking link where available.
• A trip overview — your trip at a glance, which sources worked, and the Notion status.
• A Notion page (if connected) — the same itinerary, formatted in your workspace. Each run creates a fresh page.

Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull it from the API.

Costs

A flat $0.10 per run — one trip, one answer — plus Apify's platform usage (compute) and the price-check Actors' own fees. In practice that's usually a few tens of cents all-in, most of it the Booking.com step (it runs a real browser to clear anti-bot protection); flights are cheap, and each extra source adds a little. A blocked source is simply skipped, and the rest of the plan still comes back.

We treat this as a one-time task for personal use — no subscriptions, no recurring costs: plan a trip, get your answer, done. If the price ever feels high, tell us on the Issues tab and we'll dig into cost-saving opportunities — we'd rather keep it lean than lose your trust.

Use it from your AI assistant (MCP)

Call Travel Budget Planner as a tool from any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, …) through Apify's MCP server — just ask "plan Berlin → Lisbon, July 1–4 for two." The only credential is your Apify API token (Console → Settings → Integrations → API tokens).

claude mcp add --transport http apify-travel-planner \
  "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=inovaflow/travel-planner" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"

Any MCP client works the same way (OAuth too). Travel Budget Planner can also write to your Notion through a Notion MCP connector — set it up once and every trip lands on a page.

Notes

Travel Budget Planner reads publicly visible prices and aggregates results from specialized Apify Actors — it logs into nothing on your behalf and books nothing. Accommodation figures cover the whole market (the lowest/highest are approximate ends of the price range, not specific listings); transport comes from third-party scrapers, and Rome2Rio prices are rough and may be in another currency. Please respect each site's Terms of Service.

Found a bug, or want another route type, city, or currency? Open an issue on the Issues tab — custom tweaks on request.