Why Elite Status Matters Less in 2026
A 2026 guide to the real value of airline and hotel elite status: where it still pays, where it has been diluted, and how paid alternatives…
Read article →Independent Miles Mosaic guide. No programme partnerships, no account linking, no scraped balances. Sources cited below; corrections welcomed.
AwardWallet reads your current balance and asks for your airline logins to do it. Miles Mosaic answers the question that decides your year, will your booked trips keep your elite status, and never asks for a single loyalty password.
If you are searching for an AwardWallet alternative, you are usually one of two people: the multi-programme traveller who refused AwardWallet over password sharing, or the AwardWallet user tired of the price increase and the airline blocking. This page is for both. It leads with the one thing no tracker does, the requalification forecast, and closes with the privacy and reliability story. If you want a straight feature-by-feature table instead, see the Miles Mosaic vs AwardWallet head-to-head comparison.
AwardWallet Plus raised its annual price from $30 to $49.99, applied to all subscribers. For that, you still get a balance reader, not a forecast of whether you will keep your status.
The big US airlines block AwardWallet's automatic access, and United cut it off entirely, joining American, Delta and Southwest. A tracker that the airlines lock out is a tracker that goes stale exactly when you need it.
AwardWallet stores your loyalty logins to scrape your accounts, and in 2015 roughly 250 of those accounts were compromised. The model that requires your password is the model that can leak it. Miles Mosaic never asks for one, so there is nothing to breach.
Every tracker tells you your balance today. None of them tell you whether the trips you have already booked will carry your AAdvantage Platinum, your Delta Platinum Medallion, your United Premier 1K, or your Marriott Titanium into next cycle.
That forecast is the whole reason Miles Mosaic exists. Enter or forward your trips and we project requalification across 31 programmes, 24 airline and 7 hotel, before the deadline. No password. No scraping. No airline can block math you do on your own trips.
| Capability | Miles Mosaic | AwardWallet | TripIt Pro | SkyCalc |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forecasts whether booked trips keep your status | Yes, across every programme | No | No | Partial: trip-timeline status, US airlines only |
| Requires a loyalty password | No, ever | Yes, stored to scrape | No, but OAuth inbox access | No |
| Blocked by US airlines | No, nothing to block | Yes, the big US airlines | N/A | No |
| Known credential breach | None | 2015, ~250 accounts | N/A | N/A |
| Hotel elite-night tracking | Yes: Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and more | Balances only | No | No |
| Transferable currencies | Yes, 8 in one view | Balances only | No | No |
| What-if trip simulation | Yes | No | No | Limited |
| Devaluation and expiry alerts | Yes, on Pro | Limited | No | No |
| Programmes covered | 31 (24 airline, 7 hotel) | 600 plus, balances | 4 airlines auto, rest manual | 6 US carriers |
| Annual price | $144, or $79 Founding (locked for life) | $49.99 | $49 | Free, limited |
AwardWallet wins on raw programme count. Miles Mosaic wins on the only question that decides whether you keep your status, and it does it without your password.
It reads your current balance. It does not tell you whether your booked trips will keep your status next cycle, and it is blocked by the big US airlines. We forecast requalification, and we never need a password.
You do not have to drop anything. Keep using whatever shows your balance. Miles Mosaic adds the one thing none of them do: the forecast of where your booked trips actually land you.
AwardWallet tracks more programmes. We track the ones elite chasers in the US actually requalify in, 31 in total including hotels and transferable currencies, and we forecast them instead of just listing a number.
Explorer is free forever: current status plus this quarter's projection, one airline and one hotel, no card, no password. Pro adds the full-year forecast, what-if simulation, and devaluation and expiry alerts.
Create a free Explorer account, add your trips, and find out whether you requalify, hold, or drop, with no password to hand over. See my forecast, free. No passwords shared. No data sold. Free to start.
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