WeatherAPI.com vs Open-Meteo pricing
Both are in weather apis. WeatherAPI.com is billed per call / monthly tiers; Open-Meteo is billed free non-commercial / per-call commercial. Numbers below are copied from each vendor's pricing page.
WeatherAPI.comFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- 1M calls/mo (3-day forecast)
- Billed
- Per call / monthly tiers
- Best for
- Frictionless freemium 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
WeatherAPI.com plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100K calls/month, 3-day forecast, 1 day of history, core APIs. |
| Starter | $7/mo (or $75/yr) | 3M calls/month, 7-day forecast, past 7 days of history. |
| Pro+ | $25/mo (or $270/yr) | 5M calls/month, 300-day forecast, 365 days of history, bulk requests, Pollen API. |
| Business | $65/mo (or $702/yr) | 10M calls/month, 300-day forecast, history from Jan 1 2010, bulk requests + IP blocking. Marketed as Most Popular. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom call volume, 365-day forecast, full history, SLA and all advanced features. |
- Formal SLA is gated to the custom Enterprise tier only
- Past changes to the free tier frustrated low-volume hobbyist users who don't want to pay for millions of unused calls
- Pollen API and some advanced data require Pro+ or higher, not lower paid tiers
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