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Google Maps Platform pricing and alternatives: air quality API, POST /v1/currentConditions:lookup

Google Maps Platform's sitellms.txtBest air quality API in 2026: pricing compared

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0% complete: none 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: Free Usage Cap one of Google Maps Platform's 9 plans
Call: POST /v1/currentConditions:lookup one of Google Maps Platform's 2 calls for this API
API: Air quality API one of Google Maps Platform's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • None of the 6 key fields we check: US AQI, European AQI, Particles, Gases and 2 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 requests a month. Calls keep working once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send location.latitude and location.longitude to POST /v1/currentConditions:lookup. You can also send extraComputations, uaqiColorPalette, customLocalAqis, universalAqi and languageCode. The call returns the air quality at the place now.
  • Who can get it: anyone who enables billing on a Google Cloud project. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Google Maps Platform: air quality API alternatives

The table starts with Google Maps Platform's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Google Maps Platform's.

Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 5,000,000+, POST /v1/currentConditions:lookupAPI Ninjas, $149 monthlySeniverse, CNY 1,499 pack, Visit pack 1,000,000 (访问量套餐), GET /v3/air/hourly.jsonWindy, €990 yearlyReefAPI, $1,200 yearly
$ per 1,000 places$0.25$0.149$0.224$0.31$0.333
Completeness0%33%33%33%50%
Billingpay as you gomonthlypay firstyearlyyearly
Paymonthly$149CNY 1,499€990$1,200
Enough foras many as you pay for1,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls300,000 calls a month300,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknown24 hoursunknownlive
Who can get itanyone who enables billing on a Google Cloud projectanyone 18 or overanyone with a Seniverse accountanyone not in direct competition with Windyanyone

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. cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms
  2. cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-terms
  3. developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing
  4. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/air-quality/current-conditions
  5. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/air-quality/policies
  6. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/air-quality/reference/rest/v1/currentConditions/lookup
  7. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/air-quality/usage-and-billing
  8. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/overview
  9. mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/

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, not in the answer
  • Gases, not in the answer
  • Pollen, not in the answer
  • UV index, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Air Quality API: Get hourly forecast
Overage
Units capsoft
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Current Conditions endpoint provides hourly air quality information in more than 100 countries, up to a 500 x 500 meters resolution. Includes over 70 local indexes and global air quality index and categories.
Data
Keep dataCurrent conditions values: one hour, after which Customer must delete the cached Google Maps Content
Use dataCustomer may only use the data retrieved from Air Quality API in (a) air quality based routing solutions developed by Customer, and (b) Customer environmental risk indices and correlational research. [...] Customer will not export, extract, or otherwise scrape Google Maps Content for use outside the Services. For example, Customer will not: (i) pre-fetch, index, store, reshare, or rehost Google Maps Content outside the services [...] Customer will not cache Google Maps Content except as expressly permitted under the Maps Service Specific Terms. Customer will not create content based on Google Maps Content. For example, Customer will not: [...] (vii) use Google Maps Content to improve machine learning and artificial intelligence models, including to train, test, validate or fine-tune the models. Customer will not use the Services to create a product or service with features that are substantially similar to or that re-create the features of another Google product or service. Customer’s product or service must contain substantial, independent value and features beyond the Google products or services. [...] Customer will display all attribution that (i) Google provides through the Services (including branding, logos, and copyright and trademark notices), or (ii) is specified in the Maps Service Specific Terms. Customer will not modify, obscure, or delete such attribution.
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000 requests a month
Enough for10,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second100
Batch1
The call
You sendlocation.latitude, location.longitude. Optional: extraComputations, uaqiColorPalette, customLocalAqis, universalAqi, languageCode
MethodPOST
Path/v1/currentConditions:lookup
About the plan
PlanFree Usage Cap
Who can get itanyone who enables billing on a Google Cloud project
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

time, region code, AQI index code, AQI index name, AQI, AQI display, AQI color, AQI category, dominant pollutant, pollutant code, pollutant name, pollutant full name, pollutant concentration, pollutant concentration units, pollutant sources, pollutant health effects, health advice for the general population, health advice for the elderly, health advice for people with lung disease, health advice for people with heart disease, health advice for athletes, health advice for pregnant women, health advice for children

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