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OpenWeather pricing and alternatives: weather forecast API

OpenWeather's sitellms.txtBest weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared

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100% complete: all 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesWe rank 165 plans by price. OpenWeather's £370 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.00049.Weatherbit, WeatherAPI.com and MET Norway are the best weather forecast API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of OpenWeather's 8 plans
Call: GET /data/2.5/forecast one of OpenWeather's 5 calls for this API
API: Weather forecast API one of OpenWeather's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 6 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, Sun.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000,000 requests a month.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /data/2.5/forecast. You can also send cnt, units and lang. The call returns the forecast for each place you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

OpenWeather: weather forecast API alternatives

The table starts with OpenWeather's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to OpenWeather's.

OpenWeather, £370 monthly, Professional, GET /data/2.5/forecastWeather Unlocked, $380 monthlyWeatherAPI.com, $75 yearlyWeatherbit, $5,700 yearly, Business, GET /v2.0/forecast/dailySeniverse, CNY 6,000 pack, Extra visits 100,000,000 (额外访问量), GET /v3/weather/daily.json
$ per 1,000 places$0.00049$0.00088$0.0021$0.0078$0.009
Completeness100%100%100%100%83%
Billingmonthlymonthlyyearlyyearlypay first
Pay£370$380$75$5,700CNY 6,000
Enough for1,000,000,000 calls a month432,000,000 calls a month3,000,000 calls a month2,000,000 calls a day100,000,000 calls
Freshnessunknownliveunknownlive12 hours
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyonecustomers with a monthly or yearly data subscription (包年包月)

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. openweathermap.org
  2. openweathermap.org/api
  3. openweathermap.org/faq
  4. openweathermap.org/forecast5
  5. openweathermap.org/full-price
  6. openweathermap.org/price

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
  • Sun
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Current weather data · Current air pollution data · Forecast air pollution data · Geocoding API
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitch5 day forecast is available at any location on the globe. It includes weather forecast data with 3-hour step.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataAll automated self-service plans are provided under the ODbL (Open Database License). Commercial use is allowed. [...] Provide visible attribution to OpenWeather [...] Share-alike applies only if you: Build a reusable dataset from OpenWeather data, Restructure, combine, or enrich it, Operate your own weather dataset or API based on stored OpenWeather data, Make that dataset or API available outside your organisation [...] If such a database is distributed externally, it must be offered under the same ODbL license.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000,000 requests a month
Enough for1,000,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: cnt, units, lang
MethodGET
Path/data/2.5/forecast
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, city ID, city name, country code, city population, UTC offset, sunrise, sunset, forecast time, temperature, feels-like temperature, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, sea-level pressure, ground-level pressure, humidity, cloud cover, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts, visibility, precipitation chance, rain, snowfall, day or night, conditions, conditions description, weather condition ID, weather icon

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