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Open-Meteo pricing and alternatives: current weather API, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather

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100% complete: all 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 Open-Meteo's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/forecast, Current weather one of Open-Meteo's 2 calls for this API
API: Current weather API one of Open-Meteo's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Open-Meteo reads the weather when you call the API.
  • All 7 key fields we check. 4 are in the plan's price: Temperature, Precipitation, Conditions, Humidity. 3 cost extra: Wind, Pressure, UV index.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 300,000 requests a month.
  • One call. You call GET /v1/forecast. You send latitude, longitude and current (the variables you want). You can also send temperature_unit, wind_speed_unit, precipitation_unit, timezone and models. The call returns the weather now at each place you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for non-commercial use alone. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Open-Meteo: current weather API alternatives

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

Open-Meteo, €1,760 yearly, API Professional (10 million calls), GET /v1/forecast, Current weatherWeatherbit, $495 monthlyWeather Unlocked, $14 monthlySeniverse, CNY 600 packMeteosource, $199 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$0.017$0.0083$0.0093$0.015$0.017
Completeness100%100%71%57%86%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay€1,760$495$14CNY 600$199
Enough for10,000,000 calls a month2,000,000 calls a day50,000 calls a day6,000,000 calls400,000 calls a day
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyonecustomers with a monthly or yearly data subscription (包年包月)anyone

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. open-meteo.com/
  2. open-meteo.com/en/docs
  3. open-meteo.com/en/licence
  4. open-meteo.com/en/pricing
  5. open-meteo.com/en/terms

Product details

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

  • Temperature
  • Precipitation
  • Windcosts more
  • Conditions
  • Humidity
  • Pressurecosts more
  • UV indexcosts more
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Extra fieldssea-level pressure: +$0.00 · surface pressure: +$0.00 · wind speed: +$0.00 · wind direction: +$0.00 · wind gusts: +$0.00 · dew point: +$0.00 · visibility: +$0.00 · UV index: +$0.00
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet detailed JSON hourly weather forecasts for up to 7 or 16 days by specifying the geographical coordinates and desired weather variables in the API endpoint.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep dataWhile you are permitted to utilise and distribute the data, including for commercial purposes, attribution is a requirement under this licence.
Use dataFree API: "You may only use the free API services for non-commercial purposes. You accept to the CC-BY 4.0 licence" (terms), paid plans: "A subscription grants a commercial use licence" (pricing page).
Plan
Pay$0
You get300,000 requests a month
Enough for300,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day10,000
Per second1.39
Speed
Median0.00 s
The call
You sendlatitude, longitude, current (the variables you want). Optional: temperature_unit, wind_speed_unit, precipitation_unit, timezone, models
MethodGET
Path/v1/forecast
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, for non-commercial use alone
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, elevation, time zone, time zone abbreviation, UTC offset, generation time, units, time read, interval, temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, day or night, precipitation, rain, showers, snowfall, conditions, cloud cover

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