OpenWeather vs Open-Meteo pricing
Both are in weather apis. OpenWeather is billed per call / freemium tiers; Open-Meteo is billed free non-commercial / per-call commercial. Numbers below are copied from each vendor's pricing page.
OpenWeatherFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- 1M calls/mo (classic) + 1k One Call calls/day
- Billed
- Per call / freemium tiers
- Best for
- Ubiquitous developer weather API
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Open-MeteoFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- 10k calls/day, no key (non-commercial)
- Billed
- Free non-commercial / per-call commercial
- Best for
- Free open-source weather API
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
OpenWeather plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 60 calls/min, ~1,000,000 calls/month; current weather, 5-day/3-hour forecast, basic endpoints |
| One Call API 3.0 (pay as you call) | 1,000 calls/day free, then ~0.0012 GBP (~$0.0015) per call | Current, minute (1h), hourly (48h), daily (8d), alerts, historical archive, summaries; per-call billing |
| Startup | ~$40/month | 600 calls/min, 10M calls/month; ~95% availability target, data update every ~2 hours |
| Developer | ~$180/month | 3,000 calls/min, 100M calls/month; 99.5% availability, hourly updates |
| Professional | ~$470/month | 30,000 calls/min, 1B calls/month; 99.5% availability, ~10-min updates |
| Enterprise | from $3,000/month | 100,000 calls/min, 3B calls/month; up to 99.9% availability, dedicated/custom terms |
- Meaningful uptime (99.5%+) and faster data refresh are gated behind higher paid tiers; Startup targets only ~95%
- Free tier rate limits (60 calls/min, 429 errors) are easy to hit for moderately popular apps
Source: https://openweathermap.org/price
Open-Meteo plans
| 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. |
- Free tier rate limits (600/min, 5k/hr, 10k/day) frustrate some developers with bursty workloads