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Windy pricing and alternatives: weather forecast API

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

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67% complete: 4 of the 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: Testing one of Windy's 2 plans
Call: POST /api/point-forecast/v2 Windy's only call for this API
API: Weather forecast API one of Windy's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Humidity.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 15,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You call POST /api/point-forecast/v2 with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the forecast for the place.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Windy: weather forecast API alternatives

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

Windy, €990 yearlySeniverse, CNY 999 pack, Visit pack 500,000 (访问量套餐), GET /v3/weather/daily.jsonMet Office, £250 monthly, Monthly subscription (36,000 calls per day), GET /point/three-hourlyReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyXweather, €300 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$0.31$0.299$0.309$0.333$0.338
Completeness83%83%83%83%100%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlyyearlymonthly
Pay€990CNY 999£250$1,200€300
Enough for300,000 calls a month500,000 calls36,000 calls a day300,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknown12 hourslivelivelive
Who can get itanyone not in direct competition with Windyanyone with a Seniverse accountbusinesses anywhere and UK consumers, an international consumer needs the Enterprise optionanyoneanyone outside the US and Canada

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. account.windy.com/agreements/windy-api-map-and-point-forecast-terms-of-use
  2. account.windy.com/agreements/windy-terms-of-use
  3. api.windy.com/point-forecast/docs
  4. api.windy.com/point-forecast/pricing

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, not in the answer
  • Humidity
  • 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 pitchGet raw weather forecast data for specific coordinates
Data
Keep dataIn particular, the User may not: [...] store, extract, modify, distribute, use the weather data or other content of the Services, create any weather works or databases derived therefrom, or use other means than the weather forecasting functions of the Services permitted by this Agreement,
Use dataTrial Version: "The Trial Version is intended for development purposes only and the User is not allowed to use it for production, i.e. to integrate it into the User Application." [...] "The User may integrate the Services into their User Application only on the condition that such User Application creates a significant added value for its users and maintains good faith and fair dealing." [...] "The User is not allowed to create User Applications that would aim to replicate the Services or other services of the Provider." [...] "Any individuals or entities that are or aim to be direct competition to the Provider with respect to the Services or other services of the Provider may not become Users and are prohibited from using the Services." [...] "The User is not authorized to provide access to the Services to any third party. Redistribution of any part of the API or the included data to any third party is forbidden." [...] "The User must always state the source of the weather data in the User Applications. The publication of the following text “Contains data from the Windy database” [...] is deemed to be the indication of the source of the weather data." [...] "The use of the Restricted Models (ECMWF), where available, is limited only to the Private Application and Users are not authorized to pass the Services on to any third party, or use them to generate Value Added Services."
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for15,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day500
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lon, model one of "arome", "aromeAntilles", "aromeFrance", "aromeReunion", "icon", "iconD2", "iconEu", "gfs", "namConus", "namHawaii", "namAlaska", "hrrrConus", "hrrrAlaska", "canHrdps", "gfsWave", "iconWave", "iconEuWave", "canRdwpsWave" or "cmems", parameters "temp", "dewpoint", "precip", "convPrecip", "snowPrecip", "wind", "windGust", "cape", "ptype", "lclouds", "mclouds", "hclouds", "rh", "gh", "pressure", "cbase", "visibility", "weatherWarnings", "waves", "wavesPower", "windWaves", "swell1", "swell2", "currents", "currentsTide". Optional: levels
MethodPOST
Path/api/point-forecast/v2
About the plan
PlanTesting
Who can get itanyone not in direct competition with Windy, for development only and not for production: it returns randomly shuffled and slightly modified data
The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

forecast time, units, temperature, dew point, precipitation, snowfall, convective precipitation, wind u component, wind v component, wind gusts, CAPE, precipitation type, low cloud cover, medium cloud cover, high cloud cover, humidity, geopotential height, pressure, wave height, wave period, wave direction, wind wave height, wind wave period, wind wave direction, swell 1 height, swell 1 period, swell 1 direction, swell 2 height, swell 2 period, swell 2 direction

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