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IQAir pricing and alternatives: current weather API

IQAir'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: Community one of IQAir's 3 plans
Call: GET /v2/nearest_city one of IQAir's 2 calls
API: Current weather API one of IQAir's 3 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 10,000 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /v2/nearest_city. The call returns the weather at the place now.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

IQAir: current weather API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places.

This planIQAir, freeWeatherAPI.com, freeWeatherbit, free, GET /v2.0/currentOpen-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Current weatherVisual Crossing, freeBright Sky, free
$ per 1,000 places$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness57%86%100%100%100%86%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for10,000 calls a month100,000 calls a month50 calls a day300,000 calls a month30,000 calls a monthnot published
Freshnessunknownliveliveliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone, for non-commercial use aloneanyone, for non-commercial use aloneanyoneanyone

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-docs.iqair.com/
  2. iqair.com/air-quality-monitors/api
  3. iqair.com/legal/terms-conditions

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
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReal-time weather data
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000 requests a month
Enough for10,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day500
Per second0.083
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lon
MethodGET
Path/v2/nearest_city
About the plan
PlanCommunity
Who can get itanyone
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

city name, state name, country name, latitude, longitude, UTC time, temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, conditions icon, heat index

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