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Rate Pulse next to Aggregate Intelligence's car rental rate data API. What each covers, where the API is stronger, and who each suits.
Aggregate Intelligence sells travel pricing data, including car rental rates, delivered by API and data feeds. Rate Pulse is a free dashboard that shows advertised market rates, customer ratings and dates to watch at 38 listed airports. If you need raw rate data in your own systems, Aggregate Intelligence offers that and Rate Pulse doesn't.
From its homepage and car rental data page, checked on 7 Nov 2026:
| Rate Pulse | Aggregate Intelligence | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Yes free | Not published, contact sales |
| Format | A dashboard per airport | Data by API, S3, files or Snowflake |
| API or download | No | Yes |
| When data is collected | Daily, each morning NZ time | Yes on demand, through the day |
| Channels | rentalcars.com only, searched from NZ | Yes OTAs, metasearch and brand sites |
| Extras (insurance, child seats, fuel) | No | Yes |
| Filed or GDS rates | No | Yes |
| Hire lengths and dates | 3-day hires, next 14 days | Set by your searches |
| Customer ratings next to price | Yes with 7 sub-scores | Not stated |
| Holidays and events | Yes in the 14-day window, each with a source | Yes event data |
| Ready to read without a data team | Yes | Partly Shop Manager and Travis |
Aggregate Intelligence details from its public pages, checked 7 Nov 2026.
It's a data supply. You choose the locations, searches and channels, collect when you need to, and pull it into your own systems. It also captures the extras and the filed rates, which matter because the headline price is rarely the whole price.
Rate Pulse can't do any of that. It shows one booking site, 3-day hires and 14 days ahead, with no API or download.
It's a finished answer, free. You don't need a data team, a contract or a database. Open the airport page and you see the cheapest and typical daily rate per car category and pick-up day.
It also shows how customers rate every brand at the airport, with sub-scores like cleanliness and value for money. And it sets that against the holidays and events in the window.
Aggregate Intelligence suits operators, brokers and analysts with their own pricing systems or data warehouse, who want rate and ancillary data across channels on tap.
Rate Pulse suits operators who want to read the market at their airport each morning without building anything. It's also a quick check before you pay for a data feed: see whether the market at your airport moves enough to justify one.
Mostly it's a data supplier. Its car rental data is delivered by API, S3, files or Snowflake, with a Shop Manager tool for browsing and exporting. Rate Pulse is a finished dashboard with no API or download.
No. Rate Pulse uses the headline 3-day price shown in rentalcars.com search results, divided by 3. Aggregate Intelligence says it captures ancillary prices from the booking flow.
Its pages don't publish prices. It asks you to book a discovery call, contact sales or request a sample.
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