KAYAK competitors and alternatives
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 10 companies most like KAYAK: Sabre, Cloudbeds, Expedia Group, Expedia Group, Emerging Travel Group, Tripadvisor, Amadeus, Super.com, Airbnb and Navan.
- KAYAK itself has 47 open roles on Alion.
- Of them, Airbnb is hiring the most, with 167 open roles.
- Airbnb has raised the most venture funding on record: $2.1B.
- Open roles at Cloudbeds fell the most: from 54 on Oct 12, 2026 to 43 now.
KAYAK and its competitors compared
Open roles are the postings Alion lists today; their change is shown only for career sites that state posting dates. Funding is the venture money on record. A dash means Alion holds no figure.
| Company | Open roles | Change | Raised | Last round | Employees | Headquarters | Main technologies | Hiring in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
KAYAK
This company
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47 | – | – | – | 501-1000 | Stamford, United States | CI/CD, Java, SQL | United States, Lithuania, Germany +2 more |
Sabre
In common: Travel Technology · Python, Java, SQL · headquarters in United States |
83 | – | – | – | 1001-5000 | Southlake, United States | AI Agents, GCP, Java | India, Poland, United States +8 more |
Cloudbeds
In common: Travel Technology · Python, Java, SQL · headquarters in United States |
43 | -20%since Oct 12, 2026 | – | – | 501-1000 | San Diego, United States | Machine Learning, AWS, Kubernetes | United States, Mexico, Canada +20 more |
Expedia Group
In common: Travel Technology · Python, Java, SQL · headquarters in United States |
110 | – | – | – | 5000+ | Seattle, United States | Machine Learning, Python, Java | United States, United Kingdom, India +5 more |
Expedia Group
In common: Travel Technology · Python, Java, SQL · headquarters in United States |
128 | – | – | – | 5000+ | Seattle, United States | Machine Learning, Python, Java | United States, United Kingdom, Spain +6 more |
Emerging Travel Group
In common: Travel Technology · Python, Java, SQL · headquarters in United States |
26 | – | – | – | 1001-5000 | Wilmington, United States | SQL, Python, Kubernetes | Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria +4 more |
Tripadvisor
In common: Travel Technology · Python, Java, SQL · headquarters in United States |
11 | – | – | – | 1001-5000 | Needham, United States | SQL, Python, AI Agents | United Kingdom, Iceland, Ireland |
Amadeus
In common: Travel Technology · Python, Java, SQL |
146 | – | – | – | 5000+ | Madrid, Spain | CI/CD, Azure, Python | Colombia, France, Philippines +18 more |
Super.com
In common: Travel Technology · Python, SQL, PostgreSQL · headquarters in United States |
13 | – | – | – | 201-500 | San Francisco, United States | Snowflake, SQL, Python | Canada |
Airbnb
In common: Travel Technology · Python, Java, SQL · headquarters in United States |
167 | – | $2.1B | Series D $1.5B2014 | 5000+ | San Francisco, United States | SQL, Python, LLM | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil +17 more |
Navan
In common: Travel Technology · Python, Java, SQL · headquarters in United States |
114 | – | $1B | Venture round $275M2021 | 1001-5000 | Palo Alto, United States | Java, AWS, TypeScript | United States, United Kingdom, Germany +3 more |
How the list is made
The list comes from Alion's similar-companies engine, the same one AI agents query through the Alion MCP server. A company ranks higher when it shares more of KAYAK's industry segments and is less spread over others, when its job postings name the same technologies, when it is headquartered in the same country and when its size is close. The list is rebuilt every week.
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