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meteoblue pricing and alternatives: air quality API, GET /packages/airquality-3h

meteoblue'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: Free API one of meteoblue's 5 plans
Call: GET /packages/airquality-3h one of meteoblue's 3 calls for this API
API: Air quality API one of meteoblue's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Particles, Gases.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000,000 credits, enough for 1,250 calls. Unused credits expire after 1 year.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /packages/airquality-3h. You can also send forecastDays, historyDays, station, name, domain, raw, tz, timeformat and format. The call returns the air quality at the place now.
  • Who can get it: anyone who registers as a meteoblue user. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

meteoblue: air quality API alternatives

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

meteoblue, €2,400 yearly, Premium Weather API, 40,000 calls a month, GET /packages/airquality-3hAzure Maps, pay as you go, <500K, GET /weather/airQuality/current/jsonGoogle Maps Platform, pay as you go, Cap - 100,000, POST /v1/forecast:lookupOmkar Cloud, $16 monthlyYandex Weather, ₽450,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$5.627$4.50$5.00$5.333$5.373
Completeness33%33%0%33%33%
Billingyearlypay as you gopay as you gomonthlymonthly
Pay€2,400monthlymonthly$16₽450,000
Enough for40,000 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for3,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyone with an Azure subscriptionanyone who enables billing on a Google Cloud projectanyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted partiesnew customers only, by a contract on the offer, the offer is addressed to legal entities and fully capable individuals who are Residents (Russian citizens or foreign nationals with a Russian residence permit, legal entities created under Russian law and their branches abroad)

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. business.meteoblue.com/pricing
  2. business.meteoblue.com/products/weather-apis/free-weather-api
  3. content.meteoblue.com/en/about-us/legal/terms-conditions
  4. content.meteoblue.com/en/business-solutions/weather-apis
  5. docs.meteoblue.com/en/weather-apis/packages-api/forecast-data

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
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 259 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Air Quality package provides forecasts of atmospheric pollutant concentrations.
Data
Keep data10.03. REPRODUCTION: METEOBLUE DATA, PRODUCTS or SERVICES may not be stored, reproduced, printed or sent without prior consent of METEOBLUE, except for NON-COMMERCIAL UTILISATION.
Use data5.05. COMMERCIAL LICENSE is a specific set of SERVICE TERMS agreed between CUSTOMER and METEOBLUE. METEOBLUE offers specific contractual terms for business based on their needs. Terms differing from the general terms must be agreed in written. [...] 10.04. RE-ENGINEERING: it is expressly not permitted to use METEOBLUE DATA, PRODUCTS or SERVICES to re-engineer, copy or derive service components, unless permitted in writing by METEOBLUE. [...] 9.05. CREDENTIALS: If METEOBLUE SERVICES are referenced on any WEBSITE a clearly visible reference to METEOBLUE has to be displayed close to the METEOBLUE DATA. [...] 10.07. CUSTOMERS agree to not use any of the services for any illegal, non-ethical, racist, defamatory or abusive purposes, and will not engage in any such activity on our website.
Plan
Pay€0
You get10,000,000 credits
Enough for1,250 calls
Expires1 year
Rate limit
Per second8.33
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: forecastDays, historyDays, station, name, domain, raw, tz, timeformat, format
MethodGET
Path/packages/airquality-3h
About the plan
PlanFree API
Who can get itanyone who registers as a meteoblue user
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

time, nitrogen dioxide, PM10, air quality index, PM2.5, dust concentration, grass pollen, ozone, carbon monoxide, olive pollen, birch pollen, aerosol optical depth at 550 nm, sulphur dioxide, sandstorm alert, latitude, longitude, elevation, time zone, UTC offset, model run time, model run update time, generation time

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