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OpenWeather pricing and alternatives: current weather API

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

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86% complete: 6 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 OpenWeather's 8 plans
Call: GET /data/2.5/weather one of OpenWeather's 2 calls for this API
API: Current weather API one of OpenWeather's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 6 of the 7 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, Pressure.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000,000 requests a month.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /data/2.5/weather. You can also send units and lang. The call returns the weather now at each place you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

OpenWeather: current weather API alternatives

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

OpenWeather, £370 monthlyWorld Weather Online, freeWeather Unlocked, $380 monthlyWeatherAPI.com, $75 yearlyBotoi, $199 monthlyWeatherbit, $5,700 yearly
$ per 1,000 places$0.00049$0.00$0.00088$0.0021$0.0066$0.0078
Completeness86%71%71%86%71%100%
Billingmonthlyfreemonthlyyearlymonthlyyearly
Pay£370$0$380$75$199$5,700
Enough for1,000,000,000 calls a monthnot published432,000,000 calls a month3,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a day2,000,000 calls a day
Freshnessunknownunknownliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone aged 16 or overanyoneanyoneanyone 18 or olderanyone

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. openweathermap.org
  2. openweathermap.org/api
  3. openweathermap.org/current
  4. openweathermap.org/faq
  5. openweathermap.org/full-price
  6. openweathermap.org/price

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
  • UV index, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 5 day / 3 hour forecast · Current air pollution data · Forecast air pollution data · Geocoding API
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAccess current weather data for any location on Earth! We collect and process weather data from different sources such as global and local weather models, satellites, radars and a vast network of weather stations.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataAll automated self-service plans are provided under the ODbL (Open Database License). Commercial use is allowed. [...] Provide visible attribution to OpenWeather [...] Share-alike applies only if you: Build a reusable dataset from OpenWeather data, Restructure, combine, or enrich it, Operate your own weather dataset or API based on stored OpenWeather data, Make that dataset or API available outside your organisation [...] If such a database is distributed externally, it must be offered under the same ODbL license.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000,000 requests a month
Enough for1,000,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: units, lang
MethodGET
Path/data/2.5/weather
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, city ID, city name, country code, UTC offset, sunrise, sunset, time of data calculation, temperature, feels-like temperature, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, sea-level pressure, ground-level pressure, humidity, visibility, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts, cloud cover, rain, snowfall, conditions, conditions description, weather condition ID, weather icon

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