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7Timer! pricing and alternatives: weather forecast API, GET /bin/api.pl, ASTRO

7Timer!'s sitellms.txtBest weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesHalf of the 165 plans we rank by price cost $0.072 per 1,000 places or less. This plan and 8 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 places of the 165 plans.Weatherbit, WeatherAPI.com and MET Norway are the best weather forecast API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free 7Timer!'s only plan
Call: GET /bin/api.pl, ASTRO one of 7Timer!'s 5 calls
API: Weather forecast API 7Timer!'s only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Precipitation, Conditions.
  • Nothing to pay. 7Timer! limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You call GET /bin/api.pl. You send lon, lat, output one of "xml" or "json". You set product to "astro". You can also send ac, lang, unit and tzshift. The call returns the forecast for the place.
  • Who can get it: anyone not using the data for a commercial purpose. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

7Timer!: weather forecast API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places.

This plan7Timer!, free, GET /bin/api.pl, ASTROWeatherbit, free, GET /v2.0/forecast/dailyWeatherAPI.com, freeMET Norway, free, GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compactVisual Crossing, freeWorld Weather Online, free
$ per 1,000 places$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%100%100%83%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published50 calls a day100,000 calls a month51,840,000 calls a month30,000 calls a monthnot published
Freshnessunknownliveunknown6 hoursunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone not using the data for a commercial purposeanyone, for non-commercial use aloneanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone aged 16 or over

Every weather forecast 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. 7timer.info
  2. 7timer.info/doc.php?lang=en

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Temperature, not in the answer
  • Precipitation
  • Wind, not in the answer
  • Conditions
  • Humidity, not in the answer
  • Sun, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAs the oldest product that 7Timer! has ever provided, ASTRO product is mainly intended for astronomical purpose. The forecast range is 3-day and has included several elements that concerns astronomers most – such as cloud cover, astronomical seeing and atmospheric transparency.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe weather data distributed in this site are entirely free – you can use or redistribute them as long as you are not using them for commercial purpose. Program developers are asked to notify me when using the data so I can track the server workload. [...] using these data is at your own risk.
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
The call
You sendlon, lat, product "astro", output one of "xml" or "json". Optional: ac, lang, unit, tzshift
MethodGET
Path/bin/api.pl
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone not using the data for a commercial purpose
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

cloud cover, lifted index, 2 m temperature, 2 m relative humidity, 10 m wind, precipitation type, astronomical seeing, atmospheric transparency

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