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Ambee pricing and alternatives: air quality API, GET /v3/aq/latest

Ambee's sitellms.txtBest air quality API in 2026: pricing compared

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesWe rank 94 plans by price. OpenWeather's £370 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.00049.WeatherAPI.com, Open-Meteo and Weatherbit are the best air quality API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: 15-day free trial one of Ambee's 2 plans
Call: GET /v3/aq/latest one of Ambee's 2 calls for this API
API: Air quality API one of Ambee's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Ambee reads the air quality when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Particles, Gases.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a day.
  • One call. You send lat and lng to GET /v3/aq/latest. You can also send aqiStandard, locale and the Accept-Language header. The call returns the air quality at the place now.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs up on the API dashboard with a Google or business account. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Ambee: air quality API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planAmbee, free, 15-day free trial, GET /v3/aq/latestWeatherAPI.com, freeOpen-Meteo, free, GET /v1/air-quality, Air qualityBotoi, freeReefAPI, free
$ per 1,000 places$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%33%100%67%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for100 calls a day100,000 calls a month300,000 calls a month1,000 calls a day1,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who signs up on the API dashboard with a Google or business accountanyoneanyone, for non-commercial use aloneanyone 18 or olderanyone

Every air quality API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. docs.ambeedata.com/apis
  2. docs.ambeedata.com/apis/air-quality
  3. getambee.com
  4. getambee.com/blogs/best-weather-apis
  5. getambee.com/pricing
  6. getambee.com/terms-and-conditions

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • US AQI, not in the answer
  • European AQI, not in the answer
  • Particles
  • Gases
  • Pollen, not in the answer
  • UV index, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAccess real-time air quality data for over 150 countries with a specified resolution of 500 meters (0.3 miles).
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep dataUntil the terms end: "Upon termination of these Terms, you shall destroy and remove from all websites, applications, computers, hard drives, networks, and other storage media all copies of the Service and/or APIs".
Use dataA "non-commercial" license "solely for your personal or internal business purpose": "we grant you a non-assignable, non-exclusive, non-commercial, revocable, non-transferable, limited license to freely access and use the Platform and Services solely for your personal or internal business purpose (as the case may be) as authorized under and in accordance with these Terms. You do not have any permission to download, copy, install, or use the Service for any other purpose without our prior written consent." "You do not have the right to duplicate, distribute, creative derivative works of display, or commercially exploit our Intellectual Property, directly or indirectly, without our prior written permission." "The use of our APIs to you and any of the Services may be subject to further terms and conditions, as may be released by us from time to time".
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests a day
Enough for100 calls a day
Rate limit
Per day100
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lng. Optional: aqiStandard, locale, Accept-Language header
MethodGET
Path/v3/aq/latest
About the plan
Plan15-day free trial
Who can get itanyone who signs up on the API dashboard with a Google or business account
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, time zone, AQI, AQI pollutant, AQI pollutant concentration, AQI category, PM2.5, PM10, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, unix timestamp, UTC time, local time

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