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Weatherbit pricing and alternatives: air quality API, GET /v2.0/forecast/airquality

Weatherbit's sitellms.txtBest air quality API in 2026: pricing compared

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50% complete: 3 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 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 trial one of Weatherbit's 4 plans
Call: GET /v2.0/forecast/airquality one of Weatherbit's 2 calls for this API
API: Air quality API one of Weatherbit's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. US AQI, Particles, Gases.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,500 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /v2.0/forecast/airquality. You can also send hours. The call returns the air quality at the place now.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for non-commercial use alone. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Weatherbit: air quality API alternatives

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

Weatherbit, $5,700 yearly, Business, GET /v2.0/forecast/airqualityOpenWeather, £30 monthly, Startup, GET /data/2.5/air_pollution/forecastWeatherAPI.com, $65 monthlyBotoi, $199 monthlySeniverse, CNY 6,000 pack, Extra visits 100,000,000 (额外访问量), GET /v3/air/now.json
$ per 1,000 places$0.0078$0.004$0.0065$0.0066$0.009
Completeness50%33%50%67%33%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$5,700£30$65$199CNY 6,000
Enough for2,000,000 calls a day10,000,000 calls a month10,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a day100,000,000 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownlivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone 18 or oldercustomers 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. help.weatherbit.io/faq/can-i-store-data-retrieved-from-the-api-locally
  2. help.weatherbit.io/faq/can-i-use-the-api-commercially
  3. weatherbit.io
  4. weatherbit.io/api/airquality-forecast
  5. weatherbit.io/pricing
  6. weatherbit.io/static/swagger.json
  7. weatherbit.io/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • US AQI
  • 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 API · Daily Forecast API (16 day) · Hourly Forecast API (240 hour) · Minutely Forecast API (60 minute) · Current Air Quality API
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns hourly air quality forecasts over a 72-hour window for global locations.
Data
Keep dataOnly 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 dataFree 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 get1,500 requests a day
Enough for1,500 calls a day
Rate limit
Per day1,500
Batch1
Speed
Median0.04 s
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: hours
MethodGET
Path/v2.0/forecast/airquality
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone, for non-commercial use alone
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

city name, state code, country code, latitude, longitude, time zone, unix timestamp, local time, UTC time, US AQI, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, PM2.5, PM10

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