Weather & Environment · pricing
OpenWeatherMap pricing
OpenWeatherMap publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the weather & environment tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
OpenWeatherMap plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where OpenWeatherMap stops being free
Free, Free
- 60 calls/min
- 1,000,000 calls/month
- current weather, 3-hr/5-day forecast, air pollution, 15 map layers, geocoding
No paid tier on record
OpenWeatherMap lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full OpenWeatherMap feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Weather API
- Current conditions
- Forecasts
- Historical data
- Weather maps
Integrations
- REST API
- JSON format
- Widgets
Platform
- Api support
- Web support
People bring OpenWeatherMap in for embedding current weather and short-term forecasts into third-party apps/websites, pulling historical and statistical weather data for research, displaying weather map overlays (precipitation, clouds, etc.) via the weather maps api, monitoring air pollution levels via the air pollution api, geocoding locations for weather lookups. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to OpenWeatherMap are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Weather & Environment
Too few weather & environment tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenWeatherMap (this page) | Free | - | - | |
| Atmotube | $179/one-time | one-time | - | vs OpenWeatherMap |
| AirVisual | Free | freemium | - | vs OpenWeatherMap |
| AccuWeather | Free, then $1.99/month | - | - | vs OpenWeatherMap |
| Awair | $149/one-time | one-time | - | vs OpenWeatherMap |
| Ambient Weather Network | Free | free | - | vs OpenWeatherMap |
| Airveda | 7999/one-time | one-time | - | vs OpenWeatherMap |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the OpenWeatherMap badges page.
Before you pay for OpenWeatherMap
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
OpenWeatherMap runs on web, and is published by OpenWeather Ltd of London, United Kingdom. The full record is on the OpenWeatherMap review, and the rest of the category is under best weather & environment tools.
OpenWeatherMap pricing questions
- How much does OpenWeatherMap cost?
- OpenWeatherMap publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
- Does OpenWeatherMap have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 60 calls/min, 1,000,000 calls/month, current weather, 3-hr/5-day forecast, air pollution, 15 map layers, geocoding.
- Which weather & environment tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 weather & environment tools listed alongside OpenWeatherMap have a free tier: AirVisual, AccuWeather, Ambient Weather Network, Aeris Weather, Apple Weather (Dark Sky).
- What am I actually paying for with OpenWeatherMap?
- The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for embedding current weather and short-term forecasts into third-party apps/websites, pulling historical and statistical weather data for research, displaying weather map overlays (precipitation, clouds, etc.) via the weather maps api.
- Does OpenWeatherMap charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these OpenWeatherMap prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare OpenWeatherMap against before paying?
- The closest weather & environment tools in this directory are Atmotube, AirVisual, AccuWeather, Awair. Each has a side-by-side comparison with OpenWeatherMap covering price, platforms and features.