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Oikolab pricing and alternatives: air quality API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$10.00per 1,000 placesHalf of the 94 plans we rank by price cost $0.051 per 1,000 places or less. This plan is the most expensive 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: Pay As You Go one of Oikolab's 3 plans
Call: GET /airquality Oikolab's only call for this API
API: Air quality API one of Oikolab's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. 1 is in the plan's price: Particles. 1 costs extra: Gases.
  • Nothing to buy first. You get 1,500 credits a month, enough for 1,500 calls.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /airquality. You can also send param, location and location_id. The call returns the air quality now at each place you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Oikolab: air quality API alternatives

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

This planOikolab, pay as you goGoogle Maps Platform, pay as you go, Cap - 100,000, POST /v1/forecast:lookupOmkar Cloud, $16 monthlyYandex Weather, ₽450,000 monthlymeteoblue, €2,400 yearly, Premium Weather API, 40,000 calls a month, GET /packages/airquality-3h
$ per 1,000 places$10.00$5.00$5.333$5.373$5.627
Completeness33%0%33%33%33%
Billingpay as you gopay as you gomonthlymonthlyyearly
Paymonthlymonthly$16₽450,000€2,400
Enough for1,500 calls a monthas many as you pay for3,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month40,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyone 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)anyone

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.oikolab.com/authentication
  2. docs.oikolab.com/datasets
  3. docs.oikolab.com/parameters
  4. docs.oikolab.com/references
  5. docs.oikolab.com/terms
  6. oikolab.com

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
  • Gasescosts more
  • Pollen, not in the answer
  • UV index, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 places$10.00
Percall
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Extra fieldsPM10: +$10.00 · carbon monoxide: +$10.00 · nitrogen monoxide: +$10.00 · nitrogen dioxide: +$10.00 · sulphur dioxide: +$10.00 · ozone: +$10.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: /weather
In their words
Their pitchUse this endpoint to get air quality forecast data.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license, during the Term, to download and use the APIs to receive the data strictly for your internal business purposes", in return, "Unless you notify us otherwise in writing, we may identify you as a customer and user of the Service on our website, mobile application and in other online or offline marketing materials and press releases"
Plan
Paymonthly
You get1,500 credits a month
Enough for1,500 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch100
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: param, location, location_id
MethodGET
Path/airquality
About the plan
PlanPay As You Go
Who can get itanyone
The only field the plan's answer can hold

PM2.5

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