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Weatherbit pricing and alternatives: current weather API

Weatherbit'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 Weatherbit's 9 plans
Call: GET /v2.0/current Weatherbit's only call for this API
API: Current weather API one of Weatherbit's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Weatherbit 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 50 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /v2.0/current. You can also send include, units and lang. 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.

Weatherbit: current weather API alternatives

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

Weatherbit, $5,700 yearlyWeatherAPI.com, $65 monthlySeniverse, CNY 6,000 packWeather Unlocked, $14 monthlyMeteosource, $139 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$0.0078$0.0065$0.009$0.0093$0.0093
Completeness100%86%57%71%57%
Billingyearlymonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$5,700$65CNY 6,000$14$139
Enough for2,000,000 calls a day10,000,000 calls a month100,000,000 calls50,000 calls a day500,000 calls a day
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyonecustomers with a monthly or yearly data subscription (包年包月)anyoneanyone

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. help.weatherbit.io/faq/can-i-store-data-retrieved-from-the-api-locally
  2. help.weatherbit.io/faq/can-i-use-the-api-commercially
  3. weatherbit.io
  4. weatherbit.io/api/weather-current
  5. weatherbit.io/pricing
  6. weatherbit.io/static/swagger.json
  7. weatherbit.io/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: Daily Forecast API (16 day)
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThis API returns current conditions from sub-hourly reporting stations and atmospheric analyses. Each request returns the nearest and most recent data point.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep dataOnly with an active commercial license (paid API subscription): "A paid subscription must be maintained for the full duration of storage. If you unsubscribe, any data stored must be deleted."
Use dataFree and Trial: "Commercial use of our Free/trial/hobbyist tier API" is not accepted and the data is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, with "a do-follow link to Weatherbit.io" as credit, Standard, Plus, Business and Enterprise carry a commercial license. Use of the API for any of the following "will lead to immediate restriction of API use": "Use of our Free tier API to target or trigger advertising", "Commercial use of our Free/trial/hobbyist tier API", "Use of our API for mission critical applications. This includes any service where failure will lead to personal injury, death, or environmental damage", "Using multiple accounts to circumnavigate rate limits", "Use of proxy/anonymous emails to sign up for multiple accounts", "Use of our API to promote illegal activities", "Directing users to sign up for non-commercial account(s) to use in a commercial application", "Reselling of Weatherbit data without an appropriate custom license".
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 requests a day
Enough for50 calls a day
Rate limit
Per day50
Per second1
Speed
Median0.04 s
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: include, units, lang
MethodGET
Path/v2.0/current
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, for non-commercial use alone
The 38 fields the plan's answer can hold

observation count, city name, state code, country code, latitude, longitude, time zone, data sources, visibility, humidity, dew point, wind direction, cardinal wind direction, cardinal wind direction text, wind speed, wind gusts, temperature, feels-like temperature, cloud cover, conditions, conditions code, conditions icon, time read, unix timestamp, sunrise, sunset, sea-level pressure, station pressure, US AQI, UV index, solar radiation, global horizontal irradiance, direct normal irradiance, diffuse horizontal irradiance, solar elevation angle, day or night, precipitation, snowfall

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