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OpenWeather pricing and alternatives: air quality API, GET /data/2.5/air_pollution/forecast

OpenWeather'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 (/data/2.5/air_pollution) 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 one of OpenWeather's 7 plans
Call: GET /data/2.5/air_pollution/forecast one of OpenWeather's 2 calls for this API
API: Air quality API one of OpenWeather'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 1,000,000 requests a month.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /data/2.5/air_pollution/forecast. The call returns the air quality now at each place you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

OpenWeather: air quality API alternatives

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

OpenWeather, £370 monthly, Professional, GET /data/2.5/air_pollution/forecastWeatherAPI.com, $75 yearlyBotoi, $199 monthlyWeatherbit, $5,700 yearly, Business, GET /v2.0/forecast/airqualitySeniverse, CNY 6,000 pack, Extra visits 100,000,000 (额外访问量), GET /v3/air/now.json
$ per 1,000 places$0.00049$0.0021$0.0066$0.0078$0.009
Completeness33%33%67%50%33%
Billingmonthlyyearlymonthlyyearlypay first
Pay£370$75$199$5,700CNY 6,000
Enough for1,000,000,000 calls a month3,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a day2,000,000 calls a day100,000,000 calls
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone 18 or olderanyonecustomers with a monthly or yearly data subscription (包年包月)

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. openweathermap.org
  2. openweathermap.org/api
  3. openweathermap.org/api/air-pollution
  4. openweathermap.org/faq
  5. openweathermap.org/full-price
  6. openweathermap.org/price

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: Current weather data · 5 day / 3 hour forecast · Current air pollution data · Geocoding API
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAir pollution forecast is available for 4 days with hourly granularity.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataAll automated self-service plans are provided under the ODbL (Open Database License). Commercial use is allowed. [...] Provide visible attribution to OpenWeather [...] Share-alike applies only if you: Build a reusable dataset from OpenWeather data, Restructure, combine, or enrich it, Operate your own weather dataset or API based on stored OpenWeather data, Make that dataset or API available outside your organisation [...] If such a database is distributed externally, it must be offered under the same ODbL license.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000,000 requests a month
Enough for1,000,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
The call
You sendlat, lon
MethodGET
Path/data/2.5/air_pollution/forecast
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, date and time, air quality index, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulphur dioxide, ammonia, PM2.5, PM10

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