The short answer
Open-Meteo is billed free non-commercial / per-call commercial. It has a free tier: 10k calls/day, no key (non-commercial). The paid plans we list start at $29/mo (API Standard).
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free / Open-Access (non-commercial) | $0 | No API key or account; rate-limited to 600 calls/min, 5,000/hour, 10,000/day (~300k/month). No commercial use, no uptime guarantee. |
| API Standard | $29/mo | 1M API calls/month, API key + dedicated endpoint, commercial licence, 99.9% uptime target. Includes Forecast, Marine, Air Quality, Geocoding, Elevation, Flood APIs. |
| API Professional | $99/mo | 5M API calls/month; adds Historical Weather, Ensemble Forecast and Climate Change APIs on top of Standard. |
| API Enterprise | Custom (contact info@open-meteo.com) | 50M+ calls/month or custom volume/enterprise contracts; price not published on the pricing page. |
How Open-Meteo bills you
The pricing model is free non-commercial / per-call commercial. Open-source, key-free weather API beloved by developers; free for non-commercial use with no signup, paid reserved instances for production. Best suited to: free open-source weather api.
What to watch for on the bill
- Free tier rate limits (600/min, 5k/hr, 10k/day) frustrate some developers with bursty workloads
The pricing page we read
Source: https://open-meteo.com/en/pricing. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.
Compare Open-Meteo with alternatives
- OpenWeather vs Open-Meteo pricing
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Other weather apis: OpenWeather, Tomorrow.io, WeatherAPI.com, Visual Crossing, AccuWeather.
Looking at quality rather than price? See the Open-Meteo score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: Open-Meteo pricing.