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Weatherstack pricing and alternatives: current weather API

Weatherstack'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 Weatherstack's 8 plans
Call: GET /current Weatherstack's only call for this API
API: Current weather API one of Weatherstack's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Weatherstack reads the weather when you call the API.
  • 6 of the 7 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, UV index.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests expire at the end of each month.
  • One call. You send query to GET /current. You can also send units, language and callback. The call returns the weather at the place now.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for non-commercial use alone. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Weatherstack: current weather API alternatives

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

Weatherstack, $1,019.88 yearlyOpen-Meteo, €29 monthly, API Standard, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, fullWeatherbit, $49 monthlyMetGIS, €4,560 yearlyVisual Crossing, pay as you go
$ per 1,000 places$0.085$0.059$0.065$0.086$0.10
Completeness86%100%100%71%100%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlyyearlypay as you go
Pay$1,019.88€29$49€4,560at a threshold
Enough for1,000,000 calls a monthabout 555,555 calls a month25,000 calls a day5,000,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone with a MetGIS account, consumers for private purposes only, with no integration into a website or applicationanyone

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. docs.apilayer.com/weatherstack/docs/api-documentation
  2. docs.apilayer.com/weatherstack/docs/quickstart-guide
  3. marketplace.apilayer.com/weatherstack-api
  4. weatherstack.com
  5. weatherstack.com/billing-overages-documentation
  6. weatherstack.com/faq
  7. weatherstack.com/pricing
  8. weatherstack.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
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet instant access to current weather data for millions of global locations, powered by rock-solid data sources and refreshed in real-time.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep dataOnly while the agreement lasts: You shall not "use, store, or access any weatherstack API Data & Services, or the weatherstack API after the termination of this Agreement".
Use dataFree plan: pricing page "Non-Commercial Use", Standard, Professional and Business: "Commercial Use". Terms: You may "receive, process, and display weatherstack API Data & Services to individual end-users of your application(s), provided such end users use weatherstack API Data & Services strictly for their own personal use" and "You do not permit Your end users to store, distribute, or otherwise exploit weatherstack API Data & Services for any other purposes", "You are permitted solely to use weatherstack API Data & Services for reference by Your end users" and "under no circumstances whatsoever may You transfer or permit the transfer of weatherstack API Data & Services outside of your application(s)". "You shall not:" "reproduce, copy, modify, distribute, market, display, transfer, sublicense, assign, prepare derivative work(s) or adaptation(s) based on, sell, exchange, barter or transfer, rent, lease, loan, time-share, resell, or in any other manner exploit weatherstack API Data & Services or the weatherstack API", "make access to weatherstack API Data & Services or the weatherstack API available to unauthorized parties, or otherwise post or distribute weatherstack API Data & Services in any public forum including, but not limited to, print, newsletters, radio, television, or internet", "use or permit others to use, market, distribute, or export weatherstack API Data & Services, or the weatherstack API", "use weatherstack API Data & Services or the weatherstack API in any manner or for any purpose that violates any law, regulation or right of any person" [...]. Attribution: "Your inclusion of a clickable hyperlink to the weatherstack API website at https://weatherstack.com would be highly appreciated".
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Expiresat the end of each month
Rate limit
Batch1
The call
You sendquery. Optional: units, language, callback
MethodGET
Path/current
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, for non-commercial use alone
The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

location name, country, region, latitude, longitude, time zone, local time, local time epoch, UTC offset, time read, temperature, conditions, conditions code, conditions icon, wind speed, wind direction, cardinal wind direction, pressure, precipitation, humidity, cloud cover, feels-like temperature, UV index, visibility

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