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Meteosource pricing and alternatives: air quality API

Meteosource'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
$0.048per 1,000 placesHalf of the 94 plans we rank by price cost $0.051 per 1,000 places or less. This plan is cheaper than 50% of the 94 plans.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: Standard one of Meteosource's 5 plans
Call: GET /air_quality Meteosource's only call for this API
API: Air quality API one of Meteosource'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.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $29 a month for 20,000 requests a day. Calls keep working once your requests run out. Unused requests expire after 1 day.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /air_quality. You can also send timezone. The call returns the air quality at the place now.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Meteosource: air quality API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places.

This planMeteosource, $29 monthlyBotoi, $9 monthlyForeca, €4,939 yearly, Cirrus, GET /api/v1/air-quality/forecast/hourly/{location}Open-Meteo, €1,760 yearly, API Professional (10 million calls), GET /v1/air-quality, Air quality, fullWorld Weather Online, $1 monthly, Pro, POST /premium/v1/weather.ashx
$ per 1,000 places$0.048$0.03$0.046$0.05$0.067
Completeness33%67%33%100%33%
Billingmonthlymonthlyyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay$29$9€4,939€1,760$1
Enough for20,000 calls a day10,000 calls a day10,000,000 calls a monthabout 3,333,333 calls a month500 results a day
Freshnessunknownliveunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or olderanyoneanyoneanyone aged 16 or over

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. meteosource.com
  2. meteosource.com/air-quality-api
  3. meteosource.com/api/v1/standard/openapi.json
  4. meteosource.com/faq
  5. meteosource.com/pricing
  6. meteosource.com/terms-of-service

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$0.048
Percall
Billingmonthly
$ a month$29
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Get weather data
Overage
$ per 1,000 places$1.00
Units capsoft
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAir quality API provides current and forecast air pollution data and air quality index for any location in the world.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataCustomer terms: "The Customer is permitted solely to use Meteosource API for reference by Your end users. Except as expressly provided herein, under no circumstances whatsoever may You transfer or permit the transfer of Meteosource API outside of your application(s)." "You shall not make access to the Meteosource API available to unauthorized parties." FAQ: "you can use our products and data for non-commercial or commercial purposes as long as visible credit is given to Meteosource as a weather data provider in a prominent part of your application. The Free/Trial subscriptions are only available for non-commercial use." Free plan: "Mention & backlink".
Plan
Pay$29
You get20,000 requests a day
Enough for20,000 calls a day
Expires1 day
Rate limit
Per day20,000
Per second11.67
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: timezone
MethodGET
Path/air_quality
About the plan
PlanStandard
Who can get itanyone
The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, elevation, time zone, units, forecast time, air quality index, aerosol 550, carbon monoxide, dust 550nm, dust mixing ratio, nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, surface ozone, total ozone, PM10, PM2.5, sulfur dioxide

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