Davis Instruments WeatherLink

Cloud service for Davis weather stations, priced per device per month with a genuinely usable free tier

As of 1 September 2026, Davis Instruments WeatherLink has a free plan and paid plans start at $3.95/month. The software half of Davis weather hardware. Softwr lists it under Agriculture. Davis Instruments WeatherLink is made by Davis Instruments, available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Davis Instruments WeatherLink does

WeatherLink is Davis Instruments’ cloud platform for its Vantage Pro2, Vantage Vue and EnviroMonitor hardware. Station data uploads to weatherlink.com, where it is charted, exported, shared through public links and pushed to third-party services. The Mobilize layer adds agricultural views including crop and irrigation dashboards and integrated pest management degree-day models, which is what separates this from a consumer weather app. The pricing detail that decides purchases is that it is per device, not per account. Basic is free with 15-minute third-party upload intervals; Pro is 3.95 US dollars per device per month annually, or 3.35 on a three-year commitment, and lifts uploads to five minutes with six shareable links; Pro+ is 8.95 per device per month annually, or 7.65 over three years, for one-minute uploads and ten links. An orchard operator with twelve stations who wants minute-level data for frost protection is therefore looking at over a thousand dollars a year in software on top of the hardware, and Davis directs bulk buyers to sales rather than publishing a volume rate. Buyers are growers doing frost and spray-window decisions, researchers, and enthusiasts. Davis hardware is respected for accuracy and longevity, which is the real reason people are here. The trade-off is that a decade-old station keeps working while the software around it moves to a subscription, and the free tier’s 15-minute cadence is too slow for the frost and disease decisions that justify buying a professional station in the first place.

What people use it for

An orchard running frost protection that needs one-minute temperature data to decide when to start wind machines
A vineyard driving disease models from on-site rather than airport weather
A research station exporting long historical records from several instruments
A grower sharing a public station page with neighbours and a spray contractor

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Davis Instruments WeatherLink.

Pricing is per device, so a grower with a dozen stations pays a dozen subscriptions, and at Pro+ that is over 1,200 US dollars a year in software on top of hardware that already cost several thousand.
The free tier only uploads to third parties every 15 minutes, which is too coarse for frost protection and short-interval spray decisions, so the tier that exists is not the tier a commercial grower can use.
Davis directs bulk device management to a sales conversation rather than publishing a volume discount, so large networks cannot budget from the public rate card.
Three-year commitments are the only way to reach the lower per-device rate, which locks a grower into a platform for longer than a station deployment plan often survives.
The hardware is durable enough to outlive several software generations, and owners of older Vantage stations have repeatedly had to buy new data loggers or gateways to stay compatible with the current cloud, turning a maintenance-free instrument into a recurring purchase.

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Pricing

What Davis Instruments WeatherLink costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Basic

Free

Data viewing and export
Custom charting and network map
Mobile app access
Third-party uploads every 15 minutes
No shareable links

Pro

$3.95 /mo

Per device, billed annually
3.35 USD per device per month on a 3 year plan
6 shareable links
Third-party uploads every 5 minutes
30 day free trial

Pro+

$8.95 /mo

Per device, billed annually
7.65 USD per device per month on a 3 year plan
10 shareable links
Third-party uploads every 1 minute
Fastest data for frost and spray decisions

Capabilities

Features

Per-station cloud dashboards
Current conditions, bulletin tiles and historical charting per device
Custom charting
Up to three charts each with four y-axes for comparing variables
Data export
Download of historical records for analysis outside the platform
Shareable public links
Six links on Pro, ten on Pro+, for sharing a station view without an account
Third-party uploads
Push to external networks at 15, 5 or 1 minute intervals depending on tier
Mobilize agricultural views
Crop and irrigation dashboards layered on the raw station data
Integrated pest management models
Degree-day and disease models driven by on-site rather than regional weather
Network map
Public map of Davis stations for regional context

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Is WeatherLink free?

There is a permanently free Basic tier with charting and export, but third-party uploads run only every 15 minutes and there are no shareable links.

What does the paid tier actually add?

Faster upload intervals, five minutes on Pro and one minute on Pro+, plus shareable public links. The faster cadence is what matters for frost and spray timing.

Is pricing per account or per station?

Per device. Every station you own needs its own subscription.

Can I get the data out via an API?

Yes, Davis publishes a WeatherLink API, but practical use depends on your account tier and station model, so confirm before designing around it.

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