# Weatherbit, free trial, GET /v2.0/current/airquality: Air quality API

> Current air quality observations for major pollutants and AQI at global scale.

Weatherbit's air quality API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: US AQI, Particles, Gases.
We rank 94 plans by price. [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/weatherbit/free-trial-get-v2-0-current-airquality
- [Best air quality API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-air-quality-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.weatherbit.io/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.weatherbit.io/v2.0/current/airquality`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.weatherbit.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.weatherbit.io/api/airquality-current
- Sold by: Weatherbit (https://www.weatherbit.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- US AQI: ✓
- Particles: ✓
- Gases: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Current Weather API · Daily Forecast API (16 day) · Hourly Forecast API (240 hour) · Minutely Forecast API (60 minute) · Air Quality Forecast API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Current air quality observations for major pollutants and AQI at global scale.

## Data

- Keep data: Only with an active commercial license (paid API subscription): "A paid subscription must be maintained for the full duration of storage. If you unsubscribe, any data stored must be deleted."
- Use data: Free and Trial: "Commercial use of our Free/trial/hobbyist tier API" is not accepted and the data is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, with "a do-follow link to Weatherbit.io" as credit, Standard, Plus, Business and Enterprise carry a commercial license. Use of the API for any of the following "will lead to immediate restriction of API use": "Use of our Free tier API to target or trigger advertising", "Commercial use of our Free/trial/hobbyist tier API", "Use of our API for mission critical applications. This includes any service where failure will lead to personal injury, death, or environmental damage", "Using multiple accounts to circumnavigate rate limits", "Use of proxy/anonymous emails to sign up for multiple accounts", "Use of our API to promote illegal activities", "Directing users to sign up for non-commercial account(s) to use in a commercial application", "Reselling of Weatherbit data without an appropriate custom license".

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,500 requests a day
- Enough for: 1,500 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,500
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Median: 0.02 s

## The call

- You send: lat, lon
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2.0/current/airquality

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone, for non-commercial use alone

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

city name, state code, country code, latitude, longitude, time zone, US AQI, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, PM2.5, PM10, mold level, grass pollen level, tree pollen level, weed pollen level, predominant pollen type

## Weatherbit's plans (4)

- [Weatherbit, free trial, GET /v2.0/current/airquality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/free-trial-get-v2-0-current-airquality/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Weatherbit, $495 monthly, Business, GET /v2.0/current/airquality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/495-monthly-business-get-v2-0-current-airquality/llms.txt): $0.0083 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Weatherbit, $5,700 yearly, Business, GET /v2.0/current/airquality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/5700-yearly-business-get-v2-0-current-airquality/llms.txt): $0.0078 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Weatherbit, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v2.0/current/airquality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/contact-us-enterprise-get-v2-0-current-airquality/llms.txt): 50% complete

## Weatherbit's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v2.0/forecast/airquality`: [Weatherbit, free trial, GET /v2.0/forecast/airquality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/free-trial-get-v2-0-forecast-airquality/llms.txt)
- `GET /v2.0/current/airquality`: [Weatherbit, free trial, GET /v2.0/current/airquality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/free-trial-get-v2-0-current-airquality/llms.txt)

## Weatherbit's APIs (3)

- [Weatherbit: current weather API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/free-get-v2-0-current/llms.txt)
- [Weatherbit: air quality API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v2.0/current/airquality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/free-trial-get-v2-0-current-airquality/llms.txt)
- [Weatherbit: weather forecast API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherbit/free-get-v2-0-forecast-daily/llms.txt)

## Weatherbit: air quality API alternatives

- [OpenWeather, £30 monthly, Startup, GET /data/2.5/air_pollution/forecast](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/openweather/30-monthly-startup-get-data-2-5-air-pollution-forecast/llms.txt): $0.004 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $65 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherapi-com/65-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0065 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Botoi, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/botoi/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0066 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Seniverse, CNY 6,000 pack, Extra visits 100,000,000 (额外访问量), GET /v3/air/now.json](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/seniverse/cny-6000-pack-extra-visits-100000000-get-v3-air-now-json/llms.txt): $0.009 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## 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://help.weatherbit.io/faq/can-i-store-data-retrieved-from-the-api-locally
- https://help.weatherbit.io/faq/can-i-use-the-api-commercially
- https://www.weatherbit.io
- https://www.weatherbit.io/api/airquality-current
- https://www.weatherbit.io/pricing
- https://www.weatherbit.io/static/swagger.json
- https://www.weatherbit.io/terms