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Visual Crossing pricing and alternatives: current weather API

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

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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 Visual Crossing's 4 plans
Call: GET /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/{location} Visual Crossing's only call for this API
API: Current weather API one of Visual Crossing's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Visual Crossing reads the weather when you call the API.
  • All 7 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, Pressure, UV index.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 30,000 results a month, enough for 30,000 calls.
  • One call. You send location to GET /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/{location}. You set include to "current". The call returns the weather now at each place you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Visual Crossing: current weather API alternatives

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

Visual Crossing, pay as you goOpen-Meteo, €29 monthly, API Standard, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, fullWeatherbit, $49 monthlyWeatherstack, $99.99 monthlyMetGIS, €456 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$0.10$0.059$0.065$0.10$0.103
Completeness100%100%100%86%71%
Billingpay as you gomonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Payat a threshold€29$49$99.99€456
Enough foras many as you pay forabout 555,555 calls a month25,000 calls a day1,000,000 calls a month5,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone 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. visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/timeline-weather-api/
  2. visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/what-is-the-querycost-parameter
  3. visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-data/understanding-and-optimizing-the-visual-crossing-weather-pay-as-you-go-plan
  4. visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/what-can-i-do-with-the-visual-crossing-weather-free-plan
  5. visualcrossing.com/weather-api
  6. visualcrossing.com/weather-data-pricing/
  7. visualcrossing.com/weather-service-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
  • UV index
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Timeline Weather API date range queries
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchCurrent conditions – Real-time observations from global weather stations and models.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"10. DATA STORAGE. The data produced by the Service Components may be stored in any database or other storage and retrieval system." "13. RESALE OR COMPETING WEATHER DATA SERVICES. You may not use the Service Components or the data they produce to create, operate, or offer a weather data API, bulk weather dataset, weather data marketplace, or similar service that competes with Visual Crossing." "11. DATA SHARING. [...] Raw Weather Data may never be shared or distributed publicly for download and may only be shown to the general public for viewing purposes where the data is not readily exportable, downloadable, or available through bulk export, API access, structured download, automated retrieval, or similar retrieval functionality." Attribution: "Attribution for all Visual Crossing Weather Data usage is required at the Pay-as-you-go and Pro license level." (pricing page).
Plan
Pay$0
You get30,000 results a month
Enough for30,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day1,000
Concurrent1
Batch5
Speed
Median0.07 s
The call
You sendlocation, include "current". Optional: elements, unitGroup, lang, options, iconSet, timezone, maxDistance, maxStations, elevationDifference, locationNames, forecastDataset
MethodGET
Path/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/{location}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, resolved address, address, time zone, UTC offset, query cost, elevation, time read, time read epoch, temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, dew point, precipitation, radar precipitation, precipitation type, snow, snow depth, sea-level pressure, cloud cover, visibility, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts, solar radiation, solar energy, UV index, conditions, icon, moon phase, record type

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