What Nomad List does

Nomads.com (formerly Nomad List) is a bootstrapped, solo-founder community and data platform for digital nomads and remote workers, founded in 2014 by Pieter Levels and based in Medellín, Colombia. The platform aggregates and continuously updates data on 195+ countries across 200+ metrics per city — including cost of living, internet speed, weather, safety, and community presence — and ranks destinations through a proprietary Nomad Score algorithm. Around 42,417 members use the platform to research destinations, track travel (Trips), monitor residency days (Residence Calendar), and find destinations matching climate (Climate Finder) or retirement (FIRE Calculator) preferences. An AI layer, NomadGPT, provides conversational destination recommendations on top of the dataset.

The product extends beyond data into community: members participate in a Telegram-based chat producing ~15,000 messages/month, attend ~226 in-person meetups per year across 100+ cities, and use Dating and Friend Finder modules to build social connections on the road. The broader ecosystem includes affiliate-driven Nomad Insurance and eSIM services, and cross-promotion from Levels' sister products (RemoteOK, PhotoAI, InteriorAI, Hotelist, Airline List, Hoodmaps).

Commercially, Nomads.com operates as a self-serve, product-led business. Membership is sold as a one-time lifetime payment — currently discounted to $9.99 (Full) and $19.99 (Lite) tiers — and supplemented by affiliate revenue from insurance, eSIM, merchandise, and sister-product referrals. The company has no institutional funding, no parent entity, and headcount in the 1–10 range, with Pieter Levels as the sole founder/operator. Third-party reporting places Pieter Levels' combined portfolio (Nomads.com, PhotoAI, RemoteOK) at $3–5M in annual revenue.

Name

Nomad List

Legal name

Nomads.com

Website

https://nomadlist.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Nomads.com (formerly Nomad List) is a bootstrapped, solo-founder platform that ranks 195+ countries across 200+ metrics and serves digital nomads and remote workers with destination data, community chat, meetups, and lifestyle tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Medellín

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Membership Subscriptions: One-time payment lifetime memberships (Lite and Full tiers) providing access to member-only city data, filters, chat, dating, and meetup features. Revenue model emphasizes recurring value from a single purchase.
2. Advertising (Insurance, eSIM): Promotes nomad insurance (starting at $2/day) and eSIM services through affiliate partnerships, generating referral revenue from the travel services ecosystem.
3. Affiliate/Referral (Merchandise, Other Products): Cross-promotion of Pieter Levels' other products (PhotoAI, InteriorAI, RemoteOK, Hotelist, etc.) and merchandise store generates affiliate referrals.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Nomads.com (formerly Nomad List) is a paid membership platform that helps digital nomads and remote workers discover, compare, and choose places to live and work around the world. Members access a city database scoring 195+ countries across 200+ metrics (cost of living, internet speed, safety, climate, community), an AI-powered research tool (NomadGPT), and a community layer spanning chat, dating, friend finding, meetups, and travel tracking.

Product overview

Nomads.com is a unified platform for digital nomads that combines destination research and ranking tools with community features. The core platform provides city data and filtering across 100+ criteria (cost, internet speed, safety, climate, etc.), supported by AI-powered search via NomadGPT. The community layer includes chat (Telegram-based), dating and friend-finding services, and in-person meetups across 100+ cities. Additional tools cover travel tracking (Trips), retirement planning (FIRE Calculator), visa tracking (Residence Calendar), and insurance/eSIM services. The platform operates on a freemium model with Lite ($9.99 one-time) and Full ($19.99 one-time) membership tiers, and has grown to 42,417+ members since its 2014 founding by Pieter Levels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nomads.com Membership Platform Paid lifetime-membership platform that gives digital nomads and remote workers access to a proprietary city database scoring 195+ countries across 200+ metrics, an AI-powered destination research tool, and an integrated community layer (chat, dating, friend finder, meetups, travel tracking, climate finder, FIRE calculator, residence calendar). Sold directly to individual consumers via Lite and Full one-time-payment membership tiers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 42,417 members and growing with 605 new members monthly
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• TelegramcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegrated Telegram-based chat for Nomads.com community communication. Members access exclusive Telegram groups with 15,000+ messages sent monthly.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Kayak: Travel metasearch and price comparison platform. Comparable in aggregating and ranking travel-related data, and explicitly referenced by TechCrunch as analogous to Nomads.com's aggregator model—but at vastly larger scale and broader travel scope.
• Airbnb: Global short-term rental marketplace that already serves much of the digital nomad audience. Comparable in helping nomads find accommodation abroad, but operates broadly across all traveler segments rather than specializing in the nomad lifestyle.

Emerging players

• WiFi Tribe: Community-driven coliving and coworking experiences for digital nomads in rotating destinations. Comparable nomad-focused community model with overlapping features (meetups, location curation, membership), but smaller scale and event-driven rather than data-driven.
• Hacker Paradise: Curated coliving retreats for tech-oriented nomads in rotating destinations. Overlaps in audience (remote-working professionals) and lifestyle positioning, though Hacker Paradise focuses on organized cohort experiences rather than data and discovery.
• Workfrom: Cafe and workspace discovery platform for remote workers, with community features and reviews. Comparable use case (finding work-friendly places) and overlapping filters (wifi speed, noise), but more localized and cafe-focused versus Nomads.com's city-level data.
• NomadX: Digital nomad services platform offering visa assistance, banking, and relocation tools. Comparable audience and digital nomad lifestyle focus with partial overlap in features like visa and residence tracking, but a narrower geographic scope.

Direct peers

• Remote Year: Organized travel programs that take groups of remote workers through multiple countries. Comparable audience and lifestyle focus, though Remote Year sells packaged itineraries whereas Nomads.com sells destination data and community.
• Outsite: Coliving network with curated accommodations for remote workers and digital nomads. Comparable target customer (location-independent professionals) and overlapping value proposition around combining work infrastructure with community.
• Coworker.com: Global coworking space marketplace serving remote workers and digital nomads. Comparable target audience and use case (finding work-friendly infrastructure abroad), with a similar freemium/subscription revenue model and global inventory approach.
• RemoteOK: Remote job board also operated by Pieter Levels. Same founder, same digital nomad audience, same bootstrapped operating style—directly comparable in audience and revenue model, with cross-promotion between the two properties.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/nomadlist
• Facebookfacebook.com/nomadlist

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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