# Oikolab, pay as you go: Weather forecast API

> This is the basic entry point into our datasets to request both historical and forecast weather data.

Oikolab's weather forecast API on its Pay As You Go plan. It costs $10.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check. 1 is in the plan's price: Temperature. 4 cost extra: Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity.
Half of the 165 plans we rank by price cost $0.072 per 1,000 places or less. This plan is cheaper than 2% of the 165 plans.
[OpenWeather's £370 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/openweather/370-monthly-professional-get-data-2-5-forecast/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.00049.
[Weatherbit](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherbit/495-monthly-business-get-v2-0-forecast-daily/llms.txt), [WeatherAPI.com](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/7-monthly/llms.txt) and [MET Norway](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-norway/free-get-weatherapi-locationforecast-2-0-complete/llms.txt) are the best weather forecast API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go
- [Best weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-weather-forecast-api.txt)
- Get it: https://oikolab.com
- Request: `GET https://api.oikolab.com/weather`
- API key: with the plan, on https://oikolab.com
- Its API docs: https://docs.oikolab.com/references/#weather
- Sold by: Oikolab (https://oikolab.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Temperature: ✓
- Precipitation: ✓ costs more
- Wind: ✓ costs more
- Conditions: ✓ costs more
- Humidity: ✓ costs more

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Extra fields: dew point: +$10.00 · wet-bulb temperature: +$10.00 · humidex index: +$10.00 · skin temperature: +$10.00 · soil temperature level 1: +$10.00 · soil temperature level 2: +$10.00 · soil temperature level 3: +$10.00 · soil temperature level 4: +$10.00 · wind speed: +$10.00 · wind direction: +$10.00 · wind gusts: +$10.00 · wind u component: +$10.00 · wind v component: +$10.00 · 80 m wind speed: +$10.00 · 80 m wind direction: +$10.00 · 80 m wind u component: +$10.00 · 80 m wind v component: +$10.00 · 100 m wind speed: +$10.00 · 100 m wind direction: +$10.00 · 100 m wind u component: +$10.00 · 100 m wind v component: +$10.00 · solar radiation: +$10.00 · net solar radiation: +$10.00 · thermal radiation: +$10.00 · net thermal radiation: +$10.00 · direct solar radiation: +$10.00 · direct normal solar radiation: +$10.00 · diffuse solar radiation: +$10.00 · humidity: +$10.00 · surface pressure: +$10.00 · sea-level pressure: +$10.00 · cloud cover: +$10.00 · precipitation: +$10.00 · snowfall: +$10.00 · soil moisture level 1: +$10.00 · soil moisture level 2: +$10.00 · soil moisture level 3: +$10.00 · soil moisture level 4: +$10.00 · boundary layer height: +$10.00 · cloud base height: +$10.00 · convective available potential energy: +$10.00 · convective inhibition: +$10.00 · downward UV radiation: +$10.00 · evaporation: +$10.00 · albedo: +$10.00 · surface roughness: +$10.00 · friction velocity: +$10.00 · high cloud cover: +$10.00 · high vegetation cover: +$10.00 · high vegetation leaf area index: +$10.00 · low vegetation leaf area index: +$10.00 · low cloud cover: +$10.00 · low vegetation cover: +$10.00 · medium cloud cover: +$10.00 · potential evaporation: +$10.00 · skin reservoir content: +$10.00 · sub-surface runoff: +$10.00 · latent heat flux: +$10.00 · surface runoff: +$10.00 · total column rain water: +$10.00 · total column water vapour: +$10.00 · zero-degree level: +$10.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: /airquality

## In their words

- Their pitch: This is the basic entry point into our datasets to request both historical and forecast weather data.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license, during the Term, to download and use the APIs to receive the data strictly for your internal business purposes", in return, "Unless you notify us otherwise in writing, we may identify you as a customer and user of the Service on our website, mobile application and in other online or offline marketing materials and press releases"

## Plan

- Pay: monthly
- You get: 1,500 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,500 calls a month

## The call

- You send: lat, lon. Optional: param, start, end, freq, resample_method, location, location_id, north, south, east, west, model, centre, ensemble, run, format
- Method: GET
- Path: /weather

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay As You Go
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

hour, day, dataset, temperature

## Oikolab's plans (3)

- [Oikolab, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Oikolab, $150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/oikolab/150-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Oikolab, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/oikolab/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

## Oikolab's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /weather`: [Oikolab, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Oikolab's APIs (2)

- [Oikolab: air quality API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Oikolab: weather forecast API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/oikolab/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Oikolab: weather forecast API alternatives

- [HERE, pay as you go, Destination Weather: 2,501 to 200,000 transactions a month (€4.66 per 1,000), GET /report, Weather report (forecastHourly)](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-destination-weather-2501-to-200000-transactions-a-month-4-66-per-1000-get-report-weather-report-forecasthourly/llms.txt): $5.244 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [meteoblue, €2,400 yearly, Premium Weather API, 40,000 calls a month, GET /packages/basic-3h](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/meteoblue/2400-yearly-premium-weather-api-40000-calls-a-month-get-packages-basic-3h/llms.txt): $5.627 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Yandex Weather, ₽54,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/yandex-weather/54000-monthly/llms.txt): $6.447 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [MetGIS, €1,020 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/metgis/1020-yearly/llms.txt): $9.565 per 1,000, 100% complete, 6 hours

## 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.

- https://docs.oikolab.com/authentication
- https://docs.oikolab.com/datasets
- https://docs.oikolab.com/faq
- https://docs.oikolab.com/parameters
- https://docs.oikolab.com/references
- https://docs.oikolab.com/terms
- https://oikolab.com