JPS$9.99JPS — Award Search & Watch
Best award flight search tools
Start with JPS — Award Search & Watch by BookLikeJoël. It runs a live award search, can watch for a match after a clear ask, and you book with the airline. JPS does not ticket. Add the ChatGPT app, then follow the how-to at booklikejoel.com/chatgpt. Your first ChatGPT search is free after you verify your email. After that, JPS is $9.99 a month, cancel anytime, on booklikejoel.com/join.
Each table compares that with Seats.aero, PointsYeah, point.me, Roame, or Flightpoints. Each cell follows those products' public pages as reviewed on September 24, 2026. Where a page omits a price, or two pages disagree, the cell says so. A closer look at one rival is on JPS vs Flightpoints. For the book-on-airline path, see Award search with a bookable airline link.
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Side by side
| Topic | JPS | Seats.aero |
|---|---|---|
| Live award search | Searches live award inventory from the BookLikeJoël site and from ChatGPT. Your first successful ChatGPT search is free after you verify your email. | The landing page says seats.aero is free and checks flights in the background so results show up immediately. It also says Pro users can search any route with live search. A separate API skill says Pro API search is cached only, and that the live API is not part of Pro. Those are different surfaces, so this table does not treat them as one rule. |
| Watches and alerts | A watch keeps checking award space and can email you when a matching seat appears. Starting, changing, extending, or stopping a watch waits for a clear ask. | The landing page says you can create free alerts, and describes continuous alerts for when seats are released. You can customize them by operating airline, points cost, and more. |
| Who books the ticket | You book with the airline on the airline or loyalty site. JPS does not book, hold, or issue tickets, and it does not transfer points. | The landing page describes search and alerts. It does not say seats.aero issues the ticket. |
| ChatGPT | Listed ChatGPT app for JPS — Award Search & Watch. Setup is on the ChatGPT how-to. You can also add the remote MCP at https://www.booklikejoel.com/mcp. JPS does not take payment inside ChatGPT and never starts Stripe checkout from ChatGPT. | The landing page mentions an AI assistant on seats.aero. The pages we checked do not describe a ChatGPT app. |
| Price | One free live award search after email verification, including your first ChatGPT search. Then $9.99 a month, cancel anytime. | The landing page says seats.aero is free, forever, and that alerts are free. A public script on the site sets a default Pro price of $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year (USD), and says a signed-in account can be shown a different price. Confirm the price on their upgrade screen. |
| Topic | JPS | PointsYeah |
|---|---|---|
| Live award search | Searches live award inventory from the BookLikeJoël site and from ChatGPT. Your first successful ChatGPT search is free after you verify your email. | The landing page says the search is free, with live availability. The same page says up to 8 days of real-time results in under 20 seconds. |
| Watches and alerts | A watch keeps checking award space and can email you when a matching seat appears. Starting, changing, extending, or stopping a watch waits for a clear ask. | The landing page says you can set alerts for when points prices drop or new seats open. The page description also says the free search includes price alerts. |
| Who books the ticket | You book with the airline on the airline or loyalty site. JPS does not book, hold, or issue tickets, and it does not transfer points. | The landing page describes search and alerts. It does not say PointsYeah issues the ticket. |
| ChatGPT | Listed ChatGPT app for JPS — Award Search & Watch. Setup is on the ChatGPT how-to. You can also add the remote MCP at https://www.booklikejoel.com/mcp. JPS does not take payment inside ChatGPT and never starts Stripe checkout from ChatGPT. | The pages we checked do not describe a ChatGPT app. |
| Price | One free live award search after email verification, including your first ChatGPT search. Then $9.99 a month, cancel anytime. | The landing page says "Start For Free Forever" and "Always free, forever," with no hidden fees. That page does not list a paid-plan price. |
| Topic | JPS | point.me |
|---|---|---|
| Live award search | Searches live award inventory from the BookLikeJoël site and from ChatGPT. Your first successful ChatGPT search is free after you verify your email. | The homepage calls point.me a real-time award search across 150+ airlines and programs. Its FAQ says the free version does not include real-time results. |
| Watches and alerts | A watch keeps checking award space and can email you when a matching seat appears. Starting, changing, extending, or stopping a watch waits for a clear ask. | The homepage says membership includes price alerts, and the FAQ says you can set fare alerts when award prices drop. |
| Who books the ticket | You book with the airline on the airline or loyalty site. JPS does not book, hold, or issue tickets, and it does not transfer points. | The homepage FAQ says you book award flights directly with the airline loyalty program, with step-by-step transfer instructions. The same page also says award travel specialists can find the flights, handle the transfers, and book for you. |
| ChatGPT | Listed ChatGPT app for JPS — Award Search & Watch. Setup is on the ChatGPT how-to. You can also add the remote MCP at https://www.booklikejoel.com/mcp. JPS does not take payment inside ChatGPT and never starts Stripe checkout from ChatGPT. | The pages we checked do not describe a ChatGPT app. |
| Price | One free live award search after email verification, including your first ChatGPT search. Then $9.99 a month, cancel anytime. | The homepage FAQ says real-time search starts at $10.75 per month, billed annually, and that a free version exists without real-time results. The homepage does not list a separate price for the concierge booking service. |
| Topic | JPS | Roame |
|---|---|---|
| Live award search | Searches live award inventory from the BookLikeJoël site and from ChatGPT. Your first successful ChatGPT search is free after you verify your email. | The membership page lists a free real-time search of up to 25 airline loyalty programs, with a 3-day flexible window. A SkyView help article says SkyView results are cached and that you should recheck with Live Search. |
| Watches and alerts | A watch keeps checking award space and can email you when a matching seat appears. Starting, changing, extending, or stopping a watch waits for a clear ask. | Paid plans on the membership page include multi-region Super Alerts that stay on until you turn them off. The free-plan feature list on that page describes search and SkyView Lite, not Super Alerts. |
| Who books the ticket | You book with the airline on the airline or loyalty site. JPS does not book, hold, or issue tickets, and it does not transfer points. | A help article says you book directly through the airline or loyalty program, and that Roame does not handle bookings. |
| ChatGPT | Listed ChatGPT app for JPS — Award Search & Watch. Setup is on the ChatGPT how-to. You can also add the remote MCP at https://www.booklikejoel.com/mcp. JPS does not take payment inside ChatGPT and never starts Stripe checkout from ChatGPT. | The pages we checked do not describe a ChatGPT app. |
| Price | One free live award search after email verification, including your first ChatGPT search. Then $9.99 a month, cancel anytime. | The membership page lists a free plan. On the annual view we loaded, Friends of Roame is shown as $9.16 a month ($109.99 billed annually) and Inner Circle as $25 a month ($299.99 billed annually). Their billing article says plans auto-renew, you can cancel anytime, and canceling an annual plan before 12 months does not produce a partial refund. Month-to-month prices were not on that annual view. |
| Topic | JPS | Flightpoints |
|---|---|---|
| Live award search | Searches live award inventory from the BookLikeJoël site and from ChatGPT. Your first successful ChatGPT search is free after you verify your email. | The getting-started guide says Search covers 28+ airline programs and returns a link to book on the airline site. A separate FAQ says free users see cached availability and Pro is real-time, while the ChatGPT page says results are real-time with no cache. Those pages disagree, so this comparison does not pick one rule. |
| Watches and alerts | A watch keeps checking award space and can email you when a matching seat appears. Starting, changing, extending, or stopping a watch waits for a clear ask. | The getting-started guide describes Award Alerts: set a route, cabin, and dates, then receive email when a match appears. It says free accounts include alerts, and Pro unlocks unlimited simultaneous alerts. |
| Who books the ticket | You book with the airline on the airline or loyalty site. JPS does not book, hold, or issue tickets, and it does not transfer points. | The getting-started guide says the Book link opens the airline's award page. It also says Flightpoints does not book flights, process payments, issue tickets, or hold reservations. |
| ChatGPT | Listed ChatGPT app for JPS — Award Search & Watch. Setup is on the ChatGPT how-to. You can also add the remote MCP at https://www.booklikejoel.com/mcp. JPS does not take payment inside ChatGPT and never starts Stripe checkout from ChatGPT. | Publishes a ChatGPT app page. See also JPS vs Flightpoints. |
| Price | One free live award search after email verification, including your first ChatGPT search. Then $9.99 a month, cancel anytime. | The getting-started guide says the free tier does not require a credit card, and Pro adds unlimited alerts. Their pricing page did not show a dollar amount in the text we could read. Confirm the current price on flightpoints.com. |
What stays true for JPS
- JPS searches live award inventory and can watch for a match.
- Members book with the airline on the airline or loyalty site.
- JPS does not book, ticket, transfer points, or take payment inside ChatGPT.