Weather Data & Weather API Pricing & Plans
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Historical & Forecast Data Plans Price Comparison
| Free | Professional | Metered | Corporate | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Features | |||||
| 15-day Weather Forecast | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 50+ Years of History Data | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Events (Hail, Tornadoes, etc.) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sub-hourly Weather History | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Weather Data Download | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Weather API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Records/Month |
30,000
1,000 records/day
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10,000,000 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Weather API Limits | |||||
| Records/API Query | 1,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | Custom |
| Locations/API Query | 5 | 100 | 5 | 1000 | Custom |
| Maximum API Concurrency | 1 | 1 | Unlimited | 10 | Unlimited |
| Weather Maps Limits | |||||
| Access to Maps | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Monthly Request Limit | 10,000 | 10,000 | Metered | 1,000,000 | Custom |
| Query Builder Dataset Limits | |||||
| Records/dataset | 1,000 | 50,000 | 1,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Custom |
| Locations/dataset | 5 | 25 | 1,000 | 5,000 | Custom |
| Dataset scheduling | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Business Features | |||||
| Advanced Solar & Wind Energy | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Soil and Evapotranspiration | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Degree day calculations | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Climate Statistics | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Long-term statistical forecast | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Licensing & Support | |||||
| Direct Data Users | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Storable for shared internal use | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Storable for shared external use | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Corporate Invoicing | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Uptime | 99.5% | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.9% | >99.9% |
| Premium Support | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| No attribution required | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Metered Weather Data Cost Calculator
Use our cost calculator to find the Metered cost for your own weather data query.
Notes and comments
Result Limits
Records/day – Free plans include a limit on the number of Queries Records that can be retrieved in any 24 hour period. Note that A single 15-day forecast query counts as a single Query Result while each history record returned counts as a Query Result. For more information see, What exactly is a weather record?
Records/query – The Records/query limit indicates the maximum number of records that may be returned by a single query. If you need more records than is indicated for your plan, you will need to break your query into multiple, smaller queries that fit below your record limit. You can typically break up a large query by breaking the time range into smaller chunks or by breaking up your list of locations.
Locations/query – The Locations/query limit indicates the maximum number of locations that you may request in a single query. If you need weather data for additional locations, you can break your query into multiple each requesting a subset of your location list. Alternately, an upgraded plan will make querying more convenient and efficient by allowing one query to retrieve data for many locations using a single request and returning a unified dataset for all. For more information on running multiple locations in a single query, see Using the Timeline Weather API with multiple locations in the same request.
Maximum concurrency – The maximum number of the Weather API requests that can be processed at the same time. If you require higher concurrency, please consider our metered plan or our Enterprise plans which offer higher concurrency options.
Bulk Datasets
Locations/dataset – The number of locations allowed in a single bulk dataset. Bulk datasets can include multiple locations across multiple days or hours and are perfect for populating data lakes or databases.
Records/dataset – The maximum record size of the dataset for all locations. The record size of the result is the number of records per location multipled by the number of locations.
Dataset scheduling – Dataset scheduling provides the ability to have our system run your dataset query during the same hour of every day. This allows you to easily connect your spreadsheet, database or business application to a dataset.
Direct Data Users
Direct Data Users are users who are allowed to access either the Visual Crossing Weather API or the online query page to retrieve data from the API or query page. While all Visual Crossing Weather users are allowed to share the stored data or the derivative results of their analysis work, only Direct Data Users are permitted to download raw weather data records provided by the service.
If you have questions about what constitutes raw weather data in your use case, please describe your usage plans in an email to sales@visualcrossing.com , and we’ll be happy to advise.
Fair Use
To help maintain reliable, high-performance service for all users, Visual Crossing Weather applies a Fair Use Policy to manage unusually high or excessive usage. Please see Understanding the “fair use” system in Visual Crossing Weather and our Terms and Conditions for additional information.
Climate statistics, summaries and normals
Historical weather aggregation queries let the weather engine calculate a single result from many years of historical weather records. Instead of returning every individual observation, you can calculate monthly or annual averages, totals, minimums, maximums and other statistics across long periods of record. These queries are useful for creating climate normals, comparing years or seasons, identifying long-term trends, and analyzing how weather conditions have changed over time. For more information, see our documentation on creating annual and monthly climate summaries and normals.
Degree Days
Our degree day weather api provides calculation and climate normal data for growing degree days, heating degree days and cooling degree days.
Attribution
Attribution for all Visual Crossing Weather Data usage is required at the Pay-as-you-go and Pro license level. These users agree that any application or service which incorporates data obtained from the Visual Crossing Weather Data Server must prominently display the message “Weather Data Provided by Visual Crossing” in a legible manner near the data or any information derived from Visual Crossing weather data. This message should include a clickable link to https://www.visualcrossing.com/. For more information, and examples of suitable attribution, please see How to I properly cite or attribute the weather data in my project?.
Commercial Use
Commercial licensing provides for the use of Visual Crossing Weather Data by businesses for commercial purposes which includes the right to display data for public facing websites as well as internal corporate usage. Please contact us at sales@visualcrossing.com for clarification of licensing scenarios.