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Weigh my picks

Real award decisions aren't one search. They're a shortlist: two programs, a cash fallback, maybe different days. Compare your candidates, not ours.

Tap ⚖️ Weigh picks in the Results header (or the bottom tab bar on mobile), check any rows across your award and cash tables, and hit the button. The same physical flight (JL57, SFO→NRT) priced three ways:

The actual insight card, rendered live from example data. Greener effective cost = cheaper, relative to the picks shown.

The rows that decide it

Effective cost: the same number as the Comparison table's column: taxes plus the value of the points you'd spend. Alaska: $25.60 taxes + 37,500 miles at the 1.5¢ default ≈ $588. Flying Blue: $33.50 + 50,500 at 1.2¢ ≈ $640. Cash: $1,004. Points aren't free money: pretending a covered award "costs $25.60" would crown the wrong winner, so we don't.
Value: cents-per-mile you'd realize vs the cash fare: 2.61¢/pt on Alaska (above the 1.5¢ default), 1.92¢ on Flying Blue. Your own valuations, if you've set them, are used and labeled as yours.
Wallet: covered, coverable via a bank transfer, or short with the honest rescue price.

Server-computed, never invented

The card is computed from the search results the server itself stored. The app never trusts figures a browser sends back. When something can't be known (unreported taxes, no cash pick to compare against), the cell says so instead of guessing. And there's no crowned winner: the shading is arithmetic, relative to your picks; the judgment stays yours.

Want AwardWise to price a single flight both ways for you instead of hand-picking a shortlist? That's the sibling feature: Award vs cash.

Weigh your own picks →