Cleartrip Trippy AI reviewed: how does it compare to Myra and Tara for domestic India flight search in 2026?
By Vihaan Patel (Vihaan Patel covers the intersection of travel and digital payments — Indian OTAs, airline-direct booking flows, UPI vs credit-card surcharges, RBI tokenisation rules and the booking-funnel mechanics that quietly cost (or save) you money.) · Published · 9 min read
Cleartrip's Trippy AI has been quietly iterating while everyone watches MakeMyTrip and ixigo's chatbot arms race. After spending a week with it on real domestic India searches, here is an honest take — where Trippy genuinely helps and where it still frustrates.
TL;DR — what is Trippy and is it any good?
Cleartrip's Trippy is an AI-assisted search and inspiration tool built into the Cleartrip app and website. It handles natural-language queries reasonably well for domestic Indian routes and has a genuinely useful Price Trends feature that shows fare history on popular routes. In a direct comparison to Myra and Tara, Trippy sits in the middle — more planning-oriented than Myra, more flight-focused than Tara's multimodal train-flight comparisons. For pure domestic India flight queries with flexible dates, it is a legitimate option. It is not faster or cheaper by default, but the planning tools give it a distinctive use case.
What Cleartrip Trippy actually does
Trippy lives inside Cleartrip's app and on the cleartrip.com homepage as a chat interface. Unlike a traditional search form where you fill in origin, destination and date boxes, Trippy accepts conversational input: 'I want to fly from Pune to Bangalore sometime in August, cheapest option' or 'Show me weekend flights from Delhi to Goa under ₹4,000'. The AI interprets this, runs a search against Cleartrip's live inventory (which is GDS-connected to Air India, IndiGo, Akasa, SpiceJet and others), and returns a filtered list.
Trippy also has an 'inspiration mode' — if you say something vague like 'where can I fly from Mumbai for under ₹3,000 in October', it returns destination suggestions with fares attached, not just a sorted list for one route. This is more useful than it sounds for travellers who have a budget but not a fixed destination in mind, and it is something neither Myra nor Tara handles as smoothly as of mid-2026.
The Price Trends feature — accessible separately within the Cleartrip flight search flow — shows a bar chart of how fares on a specific route have moved over the past 30–60 days. This is Cleartrip's version of what Google Flights calls 'price history', and it's one of the most practically useful planning tools in the Indian OTA space right now.
Testing Trippy: the searches that worked
I ran Trippy through a set of domestic India scenarios. The ones that worked well:
- Flexible-date domestic searches: 'Cheapest Delhi to Lucknow flight next week' returned a direct answer with specific IndiGo and Air India options, with the cheapest day highlighted. Fast and accurate.
- Budget-constrained queries: 'Bangalore to Hyderabad under ₹2,500 in July' correctly filtered to only fares in that range and returned a morning IndiGo and an afternoon Akasa option. Useful.
- Inspiration queries: 'Weekend getaway from Chennai, under ₹5,000 return, July' surfaced Goa, Bangalore, Coorg connectivity and Andaman options — not all of them obvious, and the Andaman suggestion included a note that fares spike in July so book early. That is exactly what a good travel assistant should say.
Where Trippy still frustrates
Not all searches went smoothly. A few pain points:
- International routes: Trippy is noticeably weaker on international queries. My 'Cheapest flight from Mumbai to Bangkok in September' query returned results but with less conversational context than Myra would give on the same query. The Price Trends feature also doesn't seem to cover international routes as consistently as domestic. Cleartrip's parent company Flipkart/Walmart has positioned it as a domestic-India-first product, and it shows.
- Multi-city itineraries: 'Delhi to Goa, then Goa to Bangalore, then Bangalore back to Delhi in December' — Trippy handled this awkwardly, defaulting to three separate one-way search prompts rather than building a true multi-city itinerary view. Myra handled this somewhat better.
- Contextual memory in session: Trippy sometimes lost the context of a previous query in the same session. If I refined a search ('actually, make that morning flights only'), it occasionally re-ran the search from scratch rather than applying the filter to the existing result set. This is the kind of conversational memory issue that AI travel assistants are still working through.
Cleartrip Price Trends: the sleeper feature
Let me spend a moment on Price Trends because it deserves more attention than it gets. Within Cleartrip's standard flight search, after you enter your route and date, you can toggle to a 'Fare Calendar' view that shows the cheapest available fare for each day in the month. That is standard across Indian OTAs. What Cleartrip adds is a 'Price Trend' chart for some popular routes that shows how the current fare compares to the historical distribution for that route in that month.
For a route like Mumbai–Goa in December, where fare volatility is extreme, this chart gives you actual context: is the ₹6,500 I'm seeing today high, low, or about average for a December booking made in June? That's an answerable question if you have the data, and Cleartrip seems to have it for at least a subset of high-volume routes. I don't know the exact coverage or how far back the data goes — Cleartrip doesn't publish those methodology details publicly — but in practice, on the routes I tested, it was a useful sanity check.
For comparison, ixigo's Tara has a similar feature with slightly more route coverage in my testing. Myra does not have a comparable historical trend chart as of mid-2026. If 'is now a good time to book?' is your main question, Cleartrip or ixigo edge out MMT on this specific feature.
Fees, convenience charges and payment options
Cleartrip has a standard convenience fee structure similar to other Indian OTAs. UPI payments typically attract the lowest or zero convenience fees; credit card and debit card bookings attract a fee that varies by card network and booking value. Check the fee breakdown at checkout before confirming — the total can differ by ₹200–₹600 depending on payment method.
Cleartrip is part of Flipkart's travel vertical, and Super Coins (Flipkart's loyalty currency) can sometimes be redeemed on Cleartrip bookings. If you are a regular Flipkart user, this is worth checking — it is a form of discount that does not appear in a straightforward fare comparison.
One RBI-relevant point: for international bookings through Cleartrip, the markup on the forex conversion (if you are paying in INR for a foreign-denominated ticket) is built into the displayed price. Always compare with the airline's direct site if the international fare looks higher than expected — sometimes the direct booking in the origin currency is cheaper.
Bottom line: when to use Cleartrip Trippy
Use Cleartrip Trippy for domestic India flexible-date searches and inspiration queries where you are not locked into a specific route — its inspiration mode and Price Trends are genuinely differentiated. Avoid it as your primary tool for complex international itineraries or multi-city trips where Myra performs better. For an unbiased cross-OTA fare check, start on FlightGPT before committing to any OTA's checkout flow. Related reading: our Myra vs Tara comparison, and the Mumbai to New York cheapest routing guide.
Frequently asked questions
Is Cleartrip Trippy available on desktop or only on mobile?
Trippy is accessible both in the Cleartrip mobile app (iOS and Android) and on the cleartrip.com website. The mobile app version tends to have the most complete feature set — the Price Trends chart and inspiration mode work best there. The web version is functional but some AI features may be more limited depending on when Cleartrip rolled out updates.
Does Cleartrip have cheaper fares than MakeMyTrip or ixigo?
On most routes, base fares across Indian OTAs are within a small margin of each other because they draw from the same GDS inventory pools. The real differences are convenience fees (which vary by payment method), loyalty program discounts, and active coupon promotions. Cleartrip's Super Coins integration with Flipkart occasionally makes it cheaper for Flipkart loyalists. For an unbiased comparison, use a metasearch tool before picking which OTA to book through.
What is Cleartrip's cancellation policy for flights booked through the platform?
Cleartrip's cancellation charges stack on top of the airline's own cancellation fee. The total cancellation cost depends on the fare type purchased (refundable vs non-refundable) and how far from departure you cancel. Non-refundable base fares (common on IndiGo and Air India Express cheapest buckets) typically recover only airport taxes on cancellation. Always check the fare conditions screen during booking — Cleartrip shows a breakdown. DGCA's passenger rights rules also apply for involuntary cancellations by the airline.
Does Cleartrip's Price Trends feature tell you when to book?
It gives you historical context on fare distribution for a route, which helps you judge whether the current fare is high, average or low by that route's standards. It doesn't predict future fare moves — no tool does that reliably. Think of it as a 'is this fare unusual?' check rather than a 'should I wait?' oracle. On volatile routes like Mumbai–Goa in peak season, a fare that looks high in October historical context often gets higher by December.
Is Cleartrip safe for international flight bookings?
Yes, Cleartrip is a legitimate, IATA-accredited OTA. It is part of Flipkart's ecosystem and handles hundreds of thousands of bookings monthly. For international bookings, the same caveats apply as with any OTA: keep your booking confirmation email, check the cancellation and change fee conditions specific to your fare, and be aware that the airline (not Cleartrip) controls flight changes, delays and refund timelines. If the airline cancels your flight, your refund comes from the airline and may route back through Cleartrip with some processing delay.
Can Cleartrip Trippy handle flight + hotel packages?
Cleartrip does offer flight + hotel packages in its standard booking flow, and Trippy can surface some package suggestions within the inspiration mode. However, the AI-assisted package experience is less polished than the flight-only queries as of mid-2026. For dedicated package search, Cleartrip's standard (non-AI) package search interface is more reliable than using Trippy for that specific use case.