# Oikolab, pay as you go: Air quality API

> Use this endpoint to get air quality forecast data.

Oikolab's air quality API on its Pay As You Go plan. It costs $10.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check. 1 is in the plan's price: Particles. 1 costs extra: Gases.
Half 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](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/openweather/370-monthly-professional-get-data-2-5-air-pollution/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.00049.
[WeatherAPI.com](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherapi-com/7-monthly/llms.txt), [Open-Meteo](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/open-meteo/99-monthly-api-professional-get-v1-air-quality-air-quality/llms.txt) and [Weatherbit](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/495-monthly-business-get-v2-0-forecast-airquality/llms.txt) are the best air quality API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go
- [Best air quality API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-air-quality-api.txt)
- Get it: https://oikolab.com
- Request: `GET https://api.oikolab.com/airquality`
- API key: with the plan, on https://oikolab.com
- Its API docs: https://docs.oikolab.com/references/#airquality
- Sold by: Oikolab (https://oikolab.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Particles: ✓
- Gases: ✓ costs more

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Extra fields: PM10: +$10.00 · carbon monoxide: +$10.00 · nitrogen monoxide: +$10.00 · nitrogen dioxide: +$10.00 · sulphur dioxide: +$10.00 · ozone: +$10.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: /weather

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use this endpoint to get air quality forecast data.

## Data

- Keep data: no 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

- Pay: monthly
- You get: 1,500 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 100

## The call

- You send: lat, lon. Optional: param, location, location_id
- Method: GET
- Path: /airquality

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay As You Go
- Who can get it: anyone

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

PM2.5

## Oikolab's plans (3)

- [Oikolab, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Oikolab, $150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/oikolab/150-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Oikolab, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/oikolab/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete

## Oikolab's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /airquality`: [Oikolab, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Oikolab's APIs (2)

- [Oikolab: air quality API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Oikolab: weather forecast API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Oikolab: air quality API alternatives

- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, Cap - 100,000, POST /v1/forecast:lookup](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-cap-100000-post-v1-forecast-lookup/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Omkar Cloud, $16 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/omkar-cloud/16-monthly/llms.txt): $5.333 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Yandex Weather, ₽450,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/yandex-weather/450000-monthly/llms.txt): $5.373 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [meteoblue, €2,400 yearly, Premium Weather API, 40,000 calls a month, GET /packages/airquality-3h](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/meteoblue/2400-yearly-premium-weather-api-40000-calls-a-month-get-packages-airquality-3h/llms.txt): $5.627 per 1,000, 33% complete

## 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.

- https://docs.oikolab.com/authentication
- https://docs.oikolab.com/datasets
- https://docs.oikolab.com/parameters
- https://docs.oikolab.com/references
- https://docs.oikolab.com/terms
- https://oikolab.com