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ReefAPI pricing and alternatives: current weather API

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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: Free one of ReefAPI's 11 plans
Call: POST /weather-intel/v1/environment_current ReefAPI's only call for this API
API: Current weather API one of ReefAPI's 44 APIs

About this item

  • Live. ReefAPI 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 credits, enough for about 333 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to POST /weather-intel/v1/environment_current. You can also send units, include and radius_km. The call returns the weather at the place now.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ReefAPI: current weather API alternatives

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

ReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyWeatherstack, $9.99 monthlySeniverse, CNY 2,000 monthlyXweather, pay as you goMetGIS, €240 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$1.00$0.20$0.598$0.60$0.90
Completeness71%86%57%100%71%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlypay as you gomonthly
Pay$1,200$9.99CNY 2,000monthly€240
Enough for100,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month500,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for300,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyonecustomers with a monthly or yearly data subscription, the data fee is extraanyone in the US and Canadaanyone with a MetGIS account, consumers for private purposes only, with no integration into a website or application

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. reefapi.com
  2. reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
  3. reefapi.com/docs
  4. reefapi.com/docs/weather-intel
  5. reefapi.com/docs/weather-intel.md
  6. reefapi.com/pricing
  7. reefapi.com/refunds
  8. reefapi.com/terms

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 forfrom the same budget: 3,551 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchpremium combined snapshot: current weather + AQ + active alerts + nearby hazards + risk_summary{level,reasons,confidence} for a coordinate
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are solely responsible for how you use the data you retrieve and for ensuring your use complies with all applicable laws, third-party terms, and the rights of others (including data-protection, intellectual-property, and anti-spam laws) in your jurisdiction and your users'. You will not use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, send spam, or build a competing bulk-redistribution product. [...] Don't attempt to circumvent authentication, rate limits, or credit metering, don't probe, scan, or stress the Service except your own account within posted limits. [...] Where a source requires attribution, we surface it in the response meta, honor it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough forabout 333 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: units, include, radius_km
MethodPOST
Path/weather-intel/v1/environment_current
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 88 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, country, units, time, temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind gust, wind direction, pressure, cloud cover, fog, dew point, clear-sky UV index, precipitation, precipitation window hours, condition code, condition, condition intensity, showers, thunder, day or night, PM2.5, PM10, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, pollutant unit, pollutant measured at, pollutant reading age, pollutant station, pollutant station ID, pollutant station distance, pollutant provider, US AQI, US AQI category, US AQI dominant pollutant, US AQI per pollutant, US AQI scale, EU AQI, EU AQI category, EU AQI dominant pollutant, EU AQI per pollutant, EU AQI scale, nearest station distance, stale readings skipped, insufficient data, alert ID, alert event, alert color, alert hazard, alert severity, alert urgency, alert certainty, alert status, alert message type, alert area, alert region ID, alert onset, alert effective, alert expires, alert sent, alert title, alert country, alert matched via, alert coverage, alert coverage note, hazard events, hazard count, hazard window days, hazard radius, hazard window truncated, risk level, risk score, risk reasons, risk confidence, source name, source URL, source license, source updated at, fetched at, staleness minutes, stale, source confidence, attribution, disclaimer

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