Agoda vs Trip.com.
Rival companies, measured side by side.

Measured, September 25 to October 1, 2026

What our price data shows

Across our 14 price snapshots of September 25 to October 1, 2026, Google Hotels listed Agoda as a seller at 3,434 of the 5,830 hotels we priced and Trip.com at 2,409. Both were listed at 1,684 hotels, and at 469 of them their lowest prices were the same to the dollar.

Before tax or after

At the 954 hotels listing both where taxes and fees added 10% or more to the going rate (the price most sites agreed on), Agoda's price sat nearer the before-tax going rate at 204 of them and Trip.com's at 130. Where one of the two prices looked before tax and the other after (182 hotels), the before-tax one looked lower at every one. Part or all of such a gap can be tax that is added at checkout, so those hotels are left out of the counts below.

On the same tax footing

Counting only the 1,212 hotels where both prices were on the same footing (both after tax, both before tax, or no tax showing in the going rates: under 2%, often because no site reported taxes separately), their prices were within $2 a night of each other at 47% of them (568 hotels).

So, on the same footing, Agoda was cheaper about twice as often as Trip.com (433 hotels to 198). When Agoda was the cheaper one, it was typically 11% below Trip.com; when Trip.com was, 9% below Agoda.

By region, and chain or independent

What the lower price came with: At the 433 hotels where Agoda was more than 2% cheaper, its listing offered free cancellation at 27% and named a room type at 56%; Trip.com's offered free cancellation at 51% and named a room type at 15%. At the 198 hotels where Trip.com was more than 2% cheaper, its listing offered free cancellation at 41% and named a room type at 21%; Agoda's offered free cancellation at 36% and named a room type at 47%. Check the room and the cancellation terms before you take the lower one.

The study's own count, on before-tax prices across all 15 snapshots (6,254 hotel prices in 348 cities): some site was 5% or more below the going rate at 4,512 of them, and the lowest price was Agoda's at 264 of them and Trip.com's at 59.

How we measured: in each snapshot we recorded every booking site's price that Google Hotels showed a US searcher, in US dollars, for a two-night stay checking in between October 30 and November 5, 2026, at 5,830 hotels in 348 cities. For each hotel we took each site's lowest price, all-in with taxes and fees where the site reported them, otherwise its listed rate. Our data keeps one price per listing without saying whether it includes tax, so we infer it: where the hotel's after-tax going rate was 10% or more above its before-tax going rate, a price nearer the after-tax one counts as after tax and a price nearer the before-tax one as before tax; where the after-tax going rate was under 2% above the before-tax one (often because no site reported taxes separately), any two prices count as the same footing; hotels in between are left out. Within $2 means the two differed by $2 a night or less; more than 2% cheaper means one was below 98% of the other. The study's regions put Dubai, Doha, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Cape Town and Marrakech with Asia-Pacific. A price we saw is one moment, not a completed booking. Method and the CSVs: our hotel price study.

Comparing them for your stay

1. Check both for the same room and dates. In our data they were within $2 a night at only 47% of the hotels compared on the same footing.
2. Compare the total after tax. A before-tax price next to an after-tax one looks lower even when it is not.
3. Weigh the room against the cancellation terms. Where Agoda was cheaper, its listing named the room more often than Trip.com's but offered free cancellation less often; see whether free cancellation is worth it.
4. Add a third site and the hotel's own. Smaller sites often had the lowest price in our study.

More from the same price data: Trip.com vs Expedia, Trip.com vs Booking.com, Agoda vs Booking.com and Agoda vs Expedia. For each site on its own: is Agoda legit? and is Trip.com legit?