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Weatherstack pricing and alternatives: weather forecast API

Weatherstack'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
$0.167per 1,000 placesHalf of the 165 plans we rank by price cost $0.072 per 1,000 places or less. This plan is cheaper than 34% of the 165 plans.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: Professional one of Weatherstack's 5 plans
Call: GET /forecast Weatherstack's only call for this API
API: Weather forecast API one of Weatherstack's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Weatherstack reads the latest forecast when you call the API.
  • All 6 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, Sun.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $49.99 a month for 300,000 requests. Calls keep working once your requests run out. Unused requests expire at the end of each month.
  • One call. You send query to GET /forecast. You can also send forecast_days, hourly, interval, units, language and callback. The call returns the forecast for each place you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Weatherstack: weather forecast API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planWeatherstack, $49.99 monthlyWeatherbit, $49 monthly, Standard, GET /v2.0/forecast/dailyOpen-Meteo, €29 monthly, API Standard, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast, fullSeniverse, CNY 99 yearlyMet Office, £437 monthly, Monthly subscription (72,000 calls per day), GET /point/hourly
$ per 1,000 places$0.167$0.065$0.127$0.148$0.27
Completeness100%100%100%67%83%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearlymonthly
Pay$49.99$49€29CNY 99£437
Enough for300,000 calls a month25,000 calls a dayabout 256,410 calls a month100,000 calls a year72,000 calls a day
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneindividual developers with a developer certification, one purchase each, not for commercial use, personal-title invoice onlybusinesses anywhere and UK consumers, an international consumer needs the Enterprise option

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. docs.apilayer.com/weatherstack/docs/api-documentation
  2. docs.apilayer.com/weatherstack/docs/quickstart-guide
  3. weatherstack.com
  4. weatherstack.com/billing-overages-documentation
  5. weatherstack.com/faq
  6. weatherstack.com/pricing
  7. 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
  • Sun
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.167
Percall
Billingmonthly
$ a month$49.99
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Current Weather · Historical Weather · Historical Time-Series · Marine Weather
Overage
$ per 1,000 places$0.666
Units capsoft
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchMake use of reliable weather forecast data for 7, 10 or 14 days into the future, updated in real-time and around the clock.
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$49.99
You get300,000 requests a month
Enough for300,000 calls a month
Expiresat the end of each month
The call
You sendquery. Optional: forecast_days, hourly, interval, units, language, callback
MethodGET
Path/forecast
About the plan
PlanProfessional
Who can get itanyone
The 52 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, date, date epoch, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, moon phase, moon illumination, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, average temperature, total snowfall, sun hours, hour, heat index, dew point, wind chill, wind gusts, chance of rain, chance of remaining dry, chance of wind, chance of overcast, chance of sunshine, chance of frost, chance of high temperature, chance of fog, chance of snow, chance of thunder

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