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Windy pricing and alternatives: air quality API

Windy'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 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: Testing one of Windy's 2 plans
Call: POST /api/point-forecast/v2 Windy's only call for this API
API: Air quality API one of Windy'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. Particles, Gases.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 15,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You call POST /api/point-forecast/v2 with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the air quality at the place now.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Windy: air quality API alternatives

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

Windy, €990 yearlyGoogle Maps Platform, pay as you go, 5,000,000+, POST /v1/forecast:lookupSeniverse, CNY 999 pack, Visit pack 500,000 (访问量套餐), GET /v3/air/hourly.jsonReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyAPI Ninjas, $468 yearly
$ per 1,000 places$0.31$0.25$0.299$0.333$0.39
Completeness33%0%33%50%33%
Billingyearlypay as you gopay firstyearlyyearly
Pay€990monthlyCNY 999$1,200$468
Enough for300,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for500,000 calls300,000 calls a month100,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknown24 hoursliveunknown
Who can get itanyone not in direct competition with Windyanyone who enables billing on a Google Cloud projectanyone with a Seniverse accountanyoneanyone 18 or over

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. account.windy.com/agreements/windy-api-map-and-point-forecast-terms-of-use
  2. account.windy.com/agreements/windy-terms-of-use
  3. api.windy.com/point-forecast/docs
  4. api.windy.com/point-forecast/pricing

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 fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchcams - global air quality model
Data
Keep dataIn particular, the User may not: [...] store, extract, modify, distribute, use the weather data or other content of the Services, create any weather works or databases derived therefrom, or use other means than the weather forecasting functions of the Services permitted by this Agreement,
Use dataTrial Version: "The Trial Version is intended for development purposes only and the User is not allowed to use it for production, i.e. to integrate it into the User Application." [...] "The User may integrate the Services into their User Application only on the condition that such User Application creates a significant added value for its users and maintains good faith and fair dealing." [...] "The User is not allowed to create User Applications that would aim to replicate the Services or other services of the Provider." [...] "Any individuals or entities that are or aim to be direct competition to the Provider with respect to the Services or other services of the Provider may not become Users and are prohibited from using the Services." [...] "The User is not authorized to provide access to the Services to any third party. Redistribution of any part of the API or the included data to any third party is forbidden." [...] "The User must always state the source of the weather data in the User Applications. The publication of the following text “Contains data from the Windy database” [...] is deemed to be the indication of the source of the weather data." [...] "The use of the Restricted Models (ECMWF), where available, is limited only to the Private Application and Users are not authorized to pass the Services on to any third party, or use them to generate Value Added Services."
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for15,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day500
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lon, model one of "cams" or "camsEu", parameters "aqi", "so2sm", "dustsm", "cosc", "go3", "no2", "pm10", "pm2p5", "pollenAlder", "pollenBirch", "pollenGrass", "pollenMugwort", "pollenOlive", "pollenRagweed". Optional: levels
MethodPOST
Path/api/point-forecast/v2
About the plan
PlanTesting
Who can get itanyone not in direct competition with Windy, for development only and not for production: it returns randomly shuffled and slightly modified data
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

forecast time, units, carbon monoxide, dust, sulfur dioxide

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