Priority Pass Cost: Membership Prices, Fees & Plans

Priority Pass is a membership that gets you into airport lounges around the world. You pay a yearly fee for the plan, and on the lower plans you also pay for each lounge visit. The right plan depends almost entirely on how many times a year you expect to use a lounge.

Prices below are the three plans bought directly from Priority Pass, as reported by NerdWallet and checked on Oct 13, 2026. Many travel credit cards include Priority Pass as a benefit, so check your cards before you pay for a plan yourself.

• Standard is the cheapest plan at $99/yr. You then pay a fee for every visit.
• Standard Plus costs $329/yr and includes a set number of free visits each year. Visits after that carry the per-visit fee.
• Prestige costs $469/yr and covers unlimited visits for the member. Guests still pay.

The annual fee is the number most people compare, but the per-visit charge changes the real cost of the two lower plans.

Priority Pass plans are billed as a yearly fee. The monthly figures below are the equivalents reported by Upgraded Points, which is a way of thinking about the cost rather than a monthly billing option.

Standard works out to $8.25/mo, Standard Plus to $27.42/mo, and Prestige to $39.08/mo. Treat these as comparisons only. The plan itself is priced as an annual fee.

A member visit on the Standard plan is $35 each, and a guest visit on any plan is $35 each. These charges can add up fast on a family trip. A traveler with a partner and two children could spend more on guest visits in a single airport stop than the Standard plan costs for the whole year.

The decision comes down to how often you fly and who travels with you.

• Fly a few times a year and travel alone: Standard keeps the yearly cost low, and you pay only when you use a lounge.
• Fly often enough that visit fees would exceed the price difference: compare Standard Plus against Standard by counting your expected visits.
• Fly very often: Prestige removes the member visit fee. Count your visits across the year to see whether the higher annual price pays off.
• Travel with guests: remember that guests pay the visit fee on every plan, so the plan you choose only changes your own cost.

Do the arithmetic with your own numbers. Multiply your expected lounge visits by the visit fee, add the annual fee, and compare across plans.

You may not need to buy a plan at all. Some premium travel credit cards include Priority Pass membership as a card benefit, and the terms differ by card, including the number of visits and the guest rules. If you already hold such a card, activate the benefit before paying for a plan.

Lounge access is also offered through airline memberships and some credit cards that use their own lounge networks. Those are separate from Priority Pass, so check which network a given lounge belongs to.

• Whether a card you already own includes Priority Pass.
• Which lounges are in the airports you actually use. Coverage varies by airport.
• The guest rules at each lounge, including how many guests are allowed.
• Renewal terms, so a plan does not renew at a price you did not expect.

Prices can change, and the official Priority Pass site shows the current rates for your country. The figures here are in US dollars.