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API Ninjas pricing and alternatives: current weather API

API Ninjas's sitellms.txtBest current weather API in 2026: pricing compared

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57% complete: 4 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesWe rank 102 plans by price. OpenWeather's £370 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.00049.WeatherAPI.com, Weatherbit and Open-Meteo are the best current weather API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API Ninjas's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/weather API Ninjas's only call for this API
API: Current weather API one of API Ninjas's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 7 key fields we check. Temperature, Wind, Conditions, Humidity.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 3,000 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /v1/weather. You can also send zip, city, state and country. The call returns the weather at the place now.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

API Ninjas: current weather API alternatives

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

API Ninjas, $2,388 yearlyApple WeatherKit, $99 yearlyMeteosource, $199 monthlyWeatherXu, $90 monthlyOpen-Meteo, €1,099 yearly, API Professional, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather
$ per 1,000 places$0.02$0.017$0.017$0.018$0.021
Completeness57%86%86%86%100%
Billingyearlyyearlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$2,388$99$199$90€1,099
Enough for10,000,000 calls a month500,000 calls a month400,000 calls a day5,000,000 calls a month5,000,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyone who joins the Apple Developer Program, as an individual or an organizationanyoneanyoneanyone

Every current weather 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. api-ninjas.com
  2. api-ninjas.com/api/weather
  3. api-ninjas.com/error-codes
  4. api-ninjas.com/openapi.json
  5. api-ninjas.com/pricing
  6. api-ninjas.com/tos

Product details

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

  • Temperature
  • Precipitation, not in the answer
  • Wind
  • Conditions
  • Humidity
  • Pressure, 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: 283 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet current weather, wind speed and direction, humidity, and temperature data by city, ZIP code, or geolocation coordinates (latitude/longitude).
Data
Keep datafor as long as your paid Subscription Plan remains active: once it ends or is canceled, you must immediately cease all commercial use of the Services and Output, and you may not continue to display, use, or provide Output in your commercial applications, products, or to your clients. Data caching/storing allowed: Yes on Business, Professional and Enterprise, No on Developer and Free
Use dataIf you are using the Free Subscription Plan, you may use the Services and Output solely for personal, non-commercial purposes and for development, testing, or evaluation of your Customer Applications. You may NOT: Use the Services or Output in any commercial environment. Use the Services or Output in any commercial product, service, or application, whether internal or external Share, distribute, or make available any Output or content from the Services to any third party in any form [...] Commercial use of the Services or Output is permitted while your paid Subscription Plan remains active. [...] You are strictly prohibited from using any information or Output from the Services to develop, train, maintain, or operate any API, software, database, or service that competes with API Ninjas—regardless of whether it is available on our platform or elsewhere. This prohibition extends to repackaging, redistributing, or making the Output or data accessible in any way that would compete with or substitute for our Services. [...] You agree NOT to use the Services for any purpose that: [...] Resells, redistributes, or sublicenses API access without authorization Creates competing products or services using our APIs White-labels or rebrands Output as your own data source Uses the Free plan for commercial purposes Shares or transfers API Keys to unauthorized parties [...] Attribution required: Yes (Free plan)
Plan
Pay$0
You get3,000 requests a month
Enough for3,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second0.028
Batch1
Speed
Median0.17 s
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: zip, city, state, country
MethodGET
Path/v1/weather
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

temperature, feels-like temperature, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, humidity, cloud cover, wind speed, wind direction, sunrise, sunset, conditions, conditions code, conditions description, day or night, conditions icon, conditions icon SVG URL, conditions icon dark SVG URL, conditions icon PNG URL, conditions icon dark PNG URL, simultaneous conditions

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