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MetGIS pricing and alternatives: current weather API

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

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71% complete: 5 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: Developer key one of MetGIS's 27 plans
Call: GET /forecast MetGIS's only call
API: Current weather API one of MetGIS's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. MetGIS reads the weather when you call the API.
  • 5 of the 7 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 requests. Unused requests expire after 30 days.
  • One call. You call GET /forecast. You send lat, lon and v. You can also send alt and lang. The call returns the weather at the place now.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

MetGIS: current weather API alternatives

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

MetGIS, €4,560 yearlyOpen-Meteo, €29 monthly, API Standard, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, fullWeatherbit, $49 monthlyWeatherstack, $1,019.88 yearlyVisual Crossing, pay as you go
$ per 1,000 places$0.086$0.059$0.065$0.085$0.10
Completeness71%100%100%86%100%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlyyearlypay as you go
Pay€4,560€29$49$1,019.88at a threshold
Enough for5,000,000 calls a monthabout 555,555 calls a month25,000 calls a day1,000,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a MetGIS account, consumers for private purposes only, with no integration into a website or applicationanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone

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 2026-10-31.

  1. github.com/MetGIS/metgis-api-documentation-public
  2. metgis.com/en/developer-key
  3. metgis.com/en/gtc/
  4. metgis.com/en/point-api
  5. metgis.com/en/price-overview
  6. raw.githubusercontent.com/MetGIS/metgis-api-documentation-public/main/data_metgis_point_API_reference/variable_list.md
  7. raw.githubusercontent.com/MetGIS/metgis-api-documentation-public/main/metgis_point_API_reference.md

Product details

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

  • Temperature
  • Precipitation
  • 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 fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe current weather data is obtained from surrounding observations and numerical weather prediction model data for the time at which the request is happening.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep dataPoint API price list, "Caching of weather data at the customer": "no" on Starter and Smart, "possibly by arrangement" on Premium, "by arrangement" on Enterprise, GTC: "Caching of the weather data is only allowed in certain API data packages, and then only with express permission from MetGIS" (§ 9(12)), "The weather products may only be archived to the extent that they are used solely for the private and internal purposes of the party archiving [...] The archive must not be accessible to third parties." (§ 12(5)), the right of use is "limited in terms of time to the term of the contract" (§ 12(2))
Use dataGTC § 12(2): "MetGIS shall grant the customer the non-exclusive right to use the weather products and the content contained in these, with this right being unlimited in terms of territory and limited in terms of time to the term of the contract, and, depending on the scope of services agreed by contract, to integrate these into their website or internal or external information systems, apps, or similar items", "The access data transmitted for the purposes of using the products ordered is intended for personal and/or internal company use only" and the customer "shall not use and/or disclose the subject matter of the contract other than in accordance with the details provided by them prior to entering into the contract" (§ 9(8), (9)), "Any further use shall require prior written consent from MetGIS." (§ 9(10)), in return, "If the MetGIS weather data is displayed on publicly accessible websites and in publicly accessible apps, the customer undertakes to add the notice “powered by MetGIS” or “data by MetGIS,” with the MetGIS company logo displayed and linked to the MetGIS website" unless agreed otherwise (§ 9(11)), "Consumers [...] may use the weather products for private purposes only. Integration of the weather forecasts and analyses into the consumer’s website or similar application is not permitted." (§ 12(3)), Point API price list, "Type of use": "No resale" on Starter, Smart and Premium, "by arrangement" on Enterprise
Plan
Pay€0
You get1,000 requests
Enough for1,000 calls
Expires30 days
Rate limit
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lon, v. Optional: alt, lang
MethodGET
Path/forecast
About the plan
PlanDeveloper key
Who can get itanyone with a MetGIS account, for development and testing only, not for commercial use
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, elevation, package description, calculation time (local), calculation time (UTC), conditions icon, moon phase, moonrise, moonset, rain intensity, snow intensity, precipitation intensity, sunrise, sunset, temperature, cloud cover, short conditions, wind direction, wind speed, wind strength, feels-like temperature, humidity

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