What Liligo.com does

Liligo.com is a Paris-based online travel metasearch engine founded in 2006 that aggregates and compares real-time offers across flights, hotels, car rentals, trains, and buses from hundreds of partner sources into a single consumer-facing comparison interface. The core technology scans airline, OTA, and low-cost-carrier pricing data simultaneously and ranks results impartially by price/duration ratio, with sponsored listings clearly labeled. The platform operates across at least nine country-localized domains covering France, Spain, Italy, the UK, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Hungary, and the USA, and is accessible via web and native iOS/Android applications.

The company's product portfolio centers on three comparison modules — flight search (the flagship product), hotel search covering 600,000+ properties from 100+ booking sites, and car rental search aggregating 900+ providers — supplemented by a price-alert email notification system and an IATA-Timatic-powered travel-restrictions map. All core functionality is delivered free to consumers without account registration, with users redirected to partner airline, OTA, or rental websites to complete bookings.

Liligo monetizes exclusively through affiliate referral commissions on redirected bookings and secondary sponsored-listings revenue; it does not sell tickets directly, charge users, or earn transaction fees. The company is privately held, employs 51–100 people, has raised a single disclosed funding round of $3.9M in 2008 (Alven, Orkos Capital), and serves primarily individual leisure and budget-conscious business travelers seeking transparent, all-inclusive price comparison.

Name

Liligo.com

Legal name

Liligo

Website

https://liligo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Liligo.com is a Paris-based travel metasearch engine founded in 2006 that compares flights, hotels, car rentals, trains, and buses from hundreds of partners for individual consumers across nine country markets, monetizing via affiliate referral commissions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Revenue model

1. Affiliate/Referral commissions: Liligo earns commissions when users click on travel offers and are redirected to partner websites to complete their bookings. The company does not sell tickets directly; it acts as an intermediary sending qualified traffic to airline and OTA partners.
2. Sponsored listings: Travel offers are sorted impartially by price/duration ratio, though sponsored offers are clearly identifiable on the results page.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

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Product overview

Liligo is a multi-modal travel search engine that compares flight, hotel, car rental, train, and bus offers from hundreds of partner sites in a single platform. The core product is the flight comparison tool, supplemented by hotel and car rental comparison modules, price alert notifications, and a travel restrictions map. All services are accessed through the unified web platform or mobile applications for iOS and Android. Liligo functions as a free-to-use aggregator and comparison service, redirecting users to partner websites to complete bookings without handling transactions directly.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• All-inclusive pricing ensures users see the same total price on Liligo as when redirected to partner sites, eliminating surprise fees at checkout.
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Airline partners (hundreds)coreTechnology or IntegrationLiligo aggregates flight offers from hundreds of airlines including major carriers, low-cost carriers, and regional airlines. Partners include airlines such as American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta, Frontier Airlines, Spirit Airlines, JetBlue, Air France, Turkish Airlines, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways, and many others.
• Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)coreTechnology or IntegrationTravel agencies and booking platforms whose offers are aggregated in Liligo's comparison results, enabling users to find deals from multiple sources beyond direct airline bookings.
• Car rental companies (900+)coreTechnology or IntegrationMajor car rental companies including Hertz, Avis, Budget, Sixt, Alamo, Dollar, Europcar, and hundreds of other local and international car rental providers whose offers are compared on the platform.
• Hotel booking sites (100+)coreTechnology or IntegrationOver 100 booking sites providing hotel inventory for comparison, covering 600,000+ hotels worldwide ranging from budget accommodations to luxury properties.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Kayak: Kayak is the closest direct peer — a meta-search engine that aggregates flights, hotels, and car rentals from hundreds of suppliers and earns revenue via referrals and advertising. Operated by Booking Holdings, it competes with Liligo for the same price-comparison user across global markets.
• Skyscanner: Skyscanner is a leading global travel meta-search engine covering flights, hotels, and car hire, owned by Trip.com Group. It directly mirrors Liligo's product-led, affiliate-driven model and competes for the same European and international consumer base.
• Momondo: Momondo is a meta-search comparator for flights, hotels, and cars with strong European presence and a similar value proposition of transparent price comparison. It overlaps directly with Liligo's core offering and target segment of price-sensitive European travelers.
• Trivago: Trivago is a hotel-focused meta-search engine that compares offers across many booking sites. While narrower than Liligo on flights, it competes directly on the hotel-comparison use case and on price-comparison positioning in European markets.
• Cheapflights (by Kayak): Cheapflights is a meta-search brand under the Kayak/Booking Holdings umbrella focused on flight and deal discovery. It targets the same budget-conscious international traveler as Liligo and operates in overlapping European geographies.

Broad incumbents

• Google Flights: Google Flights is the dominant search-engine-embedded flight comparator and effectively the default price reference for many users. It competes with Liligo for flight queries and, because of Google's distribution, sets the benchmark Liligo must beat in SEO.
• Tripadvisor: Tripadvisor combines travel content, reviews, and meta-search for hotels, flights, and experiences. It is a broader incumbent than Liligo but competes directly on the hotel-comparison journey and on capturing travel-research intent.
• Booking.com: Booking.com is a global OTA that also surfaces price comparisons across accommodations. As a supplier and a comparator in one, it is both a key data source for Liligo and a competitor for hotel booking intent.

Emerging players

• Hopper: Hopper is a mobile-first travel app combining price prediction, meta-search, and direct booking for flights and hotels. It overlaps with Liligo on flight comparison but differentiates via predictive pricing and an in-app booking flow, representing the more app-native competitor profile.
• WayAway: WayAway is an emerging flight meta-search engine with cashback incentives, targeting the same price-sensitive international traveler as Liligo. It represents the newer wave of comparison platforms competing for the same SEO and direct-to-consumer traffic.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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