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Xweather pricing and alternatives: air quality API

Xweather'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: Developer one of Xweather's 4 plans
Call: GET /airquality/{id} Xweather's only call for this API
API: Air quality API one of Xweather's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Xweather reads the air quality when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Particles, Gases.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 15,000 credits a month, enough for 3,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send id to GET /airquality/{id}. You can also send p, filter, fields, plimit, pskip, psort and lang. The call returns the air quality at the place now.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: with conditions.

Xweather: air quality API alternatives

The table starts with Xweather's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Xweather's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Xweather, €300 monthlyOpen-Meteo, €29 monthly, API Standard, GET /v1/air-quality, Air quality, fullSeniverse, CNY 2,000 monthly, Monthly (包月套餐), enterprise performance edition (企业性能版), GET /v3/air/now.jsonReefAPI, $15 monthlyOmkar Cloud, $148 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$1.688$0.098$0.598$1.50$1.973
Completeness33%100%33%50%33%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay€300€29CNY 2,000$15$148
Enough for200,000 calls a monthabout 333,333 calls a month500,000 calls a month10,000 calls a month75,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone outside the US and Canadaanyonecustomers with a monthly or yearly data subscription, the data fee is extraanyoneanyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties

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. xweather.com/docs/weather-api/endpoints/airquality
  2. xweather.com/docs/weather-api/getting-started/cost-headers
  3. xweather.com/docs/weather-api/getting-started/rate-limiting
  4. xweather.com/docs/weather-api/getting-started/responses
  5. xweather.com/legal
  6. xweather.com/pricing/weather-api-pay-as-you-go
  7. xweather.com/pricing/weather-api-subscription
  8. xweather.com/products/weather-api
  9. xweather.com/terms-of-use

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: 64 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe air quality endpoint provides current air quality information for locations globally.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use dataDeveloper trial: "Xweather's free developer trial is intended solely for testing Xweather's products and services and is not intended for commercial use."
Plan
Pay$0
You get15,000 credits a month
Enough for3,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
The call
You sendid. Optional: p, filter, fields, plimit, pskip, psort, lang
MethodGET
Path/airquality/{id}
About the plan
PlanDeveloper
Who can get itanyone outside the US and Canada (inside them, the first 15,000 accesses a month of Pay-as-you-go are free)
The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

station ID, city name, state code, country code, latitude, longitude, time zone, unix timestamp, date and time, AQI, AQI category, AQI color, AQI calculation method, dominant pollutant, air quality health index, air quality health index category, air quality health index color, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, PM1, PM2.5, PM10, pollutant name, pollutant concentration in parts per billion, pollutant concentration in micrograms per cubic meter, pollutant AQI, pollutant category, pollutant color, pollutant calculation method, data sources, station IDs

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