Compare weather APIs

How WeatherAPI.com compares with other popular weather APIs on price, forecast length, history, next-hour rain and radar. Each comparison uses the other provider's own published plans, with the date we checked and links to the source, and says plainly where the other provider is the better choice.

At a glance

WeatherAPI.comOpenWeatherMapTomorrow.ioVisual CrossingWeatherbitAccuWeather
Free plan 100,000 calls a month, 3-day forecast, no card needed 1,000,000 calls a month (60 a minute), 5-day forecast in 3-hour steps; attribution required 500 calls a day (25 an hour), 5-day forecast; non-commercial use only 1,000 records a day (records are days of data, not requests); commercial use allowed 50 calls a day, 7-day forecast; non-commercial use only 500 calls a day (Core); their FAQ describes it as a 14-day trial
Paid plans from $7 a month for 3 million calls (Starter); $25 for 5 million (Pro+); $65 for 10 million (Business); High Volume up to 500 million Startup $40 a month for 10 million calls; One Call API: 1,000 calls a day free, then $0.0015 a call Not published: paid API plans are quoted by sales Metered: $0.0001 a record after 1,000 free a day; Professional and Corporate plans priced on their website Standard (25,000 calls a day), Plus (250,000) and Business (2 million); prices on their pricing page Core Starter $2 a month for 15,000 calls (personal, non-commercial use); Core Standard $25 for 225,000 calls
Forecast length Up to 14 days hourly; long-range outlook up to 300 days (Pro+ and above) 5 days (3-hourly) on Free; 16 days daily from Startup; 4 days hourly and 30 days daily from Developer ($180); One Call: 48 hours hourly 5 days on Free; 14 days on paid plans 15 days with hourly data; long-range statistical forecast 16 days daily and 240 hours hourly from Standard; 7 days on Free Daily: 5 days (Starter, Standard), 10 (Prime, $250), 15 (Elite, $500); hourly: 12 to 120 hours
Next-hour rain, minute by minute Starter and above: radar-based in the US and much of Europe, model-based elsewhere Next 60 minutes in the One Call API (paid per call) 1-minute steps for the next 6 hours Sub-hourly data option (beta); no radar-based next-hour rain listed 60 minutes in 1-minute steps where radar covers, from Standard MinuteCast, 120 minutes: a separate package from $25 a month for 10,000 calls
Radar map tiles Pro+ and above: US and much of Europe, past 2 hours and 1-hour nowcast Radar layer in Weather Maps 3.0, an add-on from $250 a month; basic map layers on every plan Weather map tiles, past 7 days to 14 days ahead (radar not named); tile requests count as calls Weather maps on every plan (10,000 map requests a month on Free); radar not listed as a plan feature Map tiles with precipitation (radar) and satellite layers, from Plus Radar and satellite imagery on Prime ($250) and above
Historical weather Back to 1 January 2010 on Business; past 365 days on Pro+ Back to 1979 in the One Call API (paid per call); History API on Professional ($470) and Expert; bulk history $10 per location 24 hours on Free, 7 days on paid plans; archive from 2000 on request, priced separately 50+ years on every plan None on Standard; 5 years on Plus; 30 years on Business Past 24 hours of conditions; climate history on Enterprise contracts

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