Best AI assistant for travel and bookings
Which assistant should I text to book trips, tables and orders?
Updated · 36 assistants ranked
Booking things is where assistants promise the most and fail the most visibly. This report ranks every assistant we've tested on all three booking tests: flights, a restaurant table and a reorder from an email receipt.
Top picks
- 19.0HarkTop pick
Travel 9Online tasks 8Purchasing 10
- 28.7
Travel 8Online tasks 9Purchasing 9
- 38.3MuseBest free option
Travel 7Online tasks 8Purchasing 10
- 48.0
Travel 9Online tasks 7Purchasing 8
- 58.0
Travel 9Online tasks 8Purchasing 7
- 127.3DotsFastest that's still good
Travel 6Online tasks 9Purchasing 7Time to finish 6m 51s
Top pick: highest average here. Best free option: highest among assistants you can use for free. Fastest that's still good: quickest median time to finish among those averaging 7 or more.
Full ranking
| # | Assistant | Travel | Online tasks | Purchasing | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hark | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9.0 |
| 2 | Instinct | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8.7 |
| 3 | Muse | 7 | 8 | 10 | 8.3 |
| 4 | Neo | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8.0 |
| 5 | Caddy | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8.0 |
| 6 | Bantr | 8 | 8 | — | 8.0 |
| 7 | Pally | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7.7 |
| 8 | szn | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7.7 |
| 9 | Ollie | 7 | 9 | 7 | 7.7 |
| 10 | Tomo | 10 | 7 | 6 | 7.7 |
| 11 | Luke | 9 | 6 | — | 7.5 |
| 12 | Dots | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7.3 |
| 13 | Buoy | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7.0 |
| 14 | Today | 5 | 8 | 8 | 7.0 |
| 15 | The Shadow | 6 | — | 8 | 7.0 |
| 16 | Familiar | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6.7 |
| 17 | Gemini Spark | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6.7 |
| 18 | Tressa | 5 | — | 8 | 6.5 |
| 19 | Folk | 6 | 7 | — | 6.5 |
| 20 | Norton Family Assistant | 4 | — | 8 | 6.0 |
| 21 | Waldo | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5.7 |
| 22 | Asmi | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5.7 |
| 23 | Manus | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5.7 |
| 24 | Orbits | — | 7 | 4 | 5.5 |
| 25 | OpenClaw | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5.3 |
| 26 | Wajo / Fo | 5 | 2 | 8 | 5.0 |
| 27 | Ask Ranger | 4 | 4 | 7 | 5.0 |
| 28 | Orchid | 6 | — | 4 | 5.0 |
| 29 | Butler | 5 | — | 5 | 5.0 |
| 30 | AVA | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4.7 |
| 31 | Lucas | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4.7 |
| 32 | Persona | — | 5 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 33 | Tab | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4.3 |
| 34 | Del | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4.3 |
| 35 | Vellum | — | 4 | 4 | 4.0 |
| 36 | tinyNature | — | 4 | 4 | 4.0 |
How this report works
Assistants are ranked by their average across the three booking tests. Only assistants tested on at least two of them are included.
How to choose
- Make sure it shows you the total before it pays. All three booking tests require it, and an assistant that skips it fails the test.
- Look at Purchasing as well as Travel booking if you'll let it spend money on more than trips.
- Check where it works. Several booking assistants are US-only; availability is on each assistant's page.
What users say
The agent detected that Alaska had moved my flight 90 minutes earlier, a fact I'd completely missed, which qualified me for a full refund.
Open sourceOne day, Instinct canceled a DoorDash order that was seriously delayed, forcing me to forfeit $64. (I'd explicitly told it to cancel only if I could get a refund.)
Open sourceThe agent, which Meta launched on September 8, booked a Friday date night and made a packing schedule for my upcoming move. It also emailed a friend about a trip next month and made a planning document with places we want to visit.
Open sourceWhen I asked for a list of places to go for date night, it pulled up two options in my neighborhood that had been closed for years.
Open sourceFrequently asked questions
Which assistant is best for this?
Hark leads with an average of 9.0, ahead of Instinct and Muse.
Is there a good free option?
Hark is the highest-ranked assistant with a free plan, averaging 9.0.
How did you test these assistants?
Every assistant got the same published tests, word for word, scored from three checkpoints and the number of corrections it needed. Each test is on the Dimensions page.