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      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.md",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-weather-api.json",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://weather.googleapis.com/v1",
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      "authNotes": "A Maps Platform API key from a Cloud project with billing enabled, passed as the key query parameter in the documented examples. A Maps Demo Key lets you prototype with no billing account but isn't for production. OAuth 2.0 is the Maps Platform alternative.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "One SKU, Weather Usage, in the Essentials tier. 10,000 events a month free, then $0.15 per 1,000 to 100,000, $0.12 to 500,000, $0.09 to 1 million, $0.06 to 5 million and $0.038 above that (https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing). A billing account has to be attached to the project before the key works outside the demo key.",
      "priceSummary": "$0.15 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      "openapi": "https://weather.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1",
      "capabilities": [
        "weather.current",
        "weather.forecast",
        "weather.historical",
        "weather.alerts",
        "data.weather"
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        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "card-required",
        "usage-priced",
        "enterprise",
        "oauth"
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      "lastRelease": "2025-11-18",
      "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
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        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "ergonomics": 79,
          "maintenance": 20,
          "payments": 25,
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          "schema": 82,
          "security": 71,
          "transparency": 75
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
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        ],
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          "confidence": "high",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Covered by the Maps Platform SLA, 99.9 per cent with service credits. History is 24 hours only, and bulk data isn't available.",
        "strengths": [
          "Covered by the Maps Platform SLA, 99.9 per cent with service credits",
          "No Weather API incidents on the status dashboard in the last 90 days",
          "Discovery document with enums and descriptions on every parameter",
          "ISO 27001, SOC 2 and 12 months' notice for breaking changes in the terms",
          "Weather lookup also available through Google's registered Grounding Lite MCP server"
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        "weaknesses": [
          "History is 24 hours only, and bulk data isn't available",
          "Storing data outside the service and training or testing models on it are barred",
          "A Cloud project with billing is needed before production use",
          "No release note since 18 November 2025, and no llms.txt",
          "Minute forecast is Experimental and outside the deprecation promise"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Ask for only the days or hours you need, one location a call. Every call is one billable event",
          "Page with pageSize and pageToken rather than asking for 240 hours at once",
          "Check the coverage page before promising alerts. Coverage is by country",
          "Refetch rather than cache. The Maps terms give no caching window for weather content",
          "Restrict the key to the Weather API and your server IPs in the Cloud console"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
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            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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          "ergonomics": 79,
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          "schema": 82,
          "security": 71,
          "transparency": 65
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        "dataQualityScore": 67
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://weather.googleapis.com/v1/currentConditions:lookup?key=$GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY\u0026location.latitude=51.51\u0026location.longitude=-0.13\""
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/weather.current",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/google-weather-api"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "gemini-api",
        "gemini-embedding",
        "vertex-ai-tuning",
        "google-model-armor",
        "google-imagen",
        "google-veo",
        "google-lyria",
        "google-speech-to-text",
        "google-adk",
        "google-secret-manager",
        "chrome-devtools-mcp",
        "google-maps-platform",
        "google-cloud-translation",
        "google-calendar-api",
        "google-drive-api",
        "gemini-cli"
      ],
      "area": "domain-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Weather Usage, first 100,000",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.15,
          "note": "10,000 free a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Weather Usage, 100,001 to 500,000",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.12
        },
        {
          "item": "Weather Usage, 1 million to 5 million",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.06,
          "note": "$0.038 above 5 million"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Google LLC or a regional Google entity, by billing country",
        "domain": "google.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15",
        "domainNote": "The API sits on weather.googleapis.com, Google's API domain, and the docs on developers.google.com.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": false,
        "terms": "https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms",
        "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.google.com/maps-platform/",
        "changelog": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The Maps Platform terms name the contracting entity through Google's entity table, with separate EEA service terms for EEA billing addresses.",
          "google.com/.well-known/security.txt lists security@google.com and expires 2030-04-01.",
          "The weather policies page lists attribution rules for weather content but defers caching to the Maps Platform terms, which don't give a weather-specific window."
        ],
        "score": 85
      },
      "dataQuality": {
        "coverage": "Near-global. No data for CN, CU, IR, KP and SY. Public alerts in dozens of countries listed on the coverage page",
        "coverageRating": 4,
        "freshness": "Current conditions every 15 minutes, hourly and daily forecasts every 30 minutes, history twice a day",
        "freshnessClass": "minutes",
        "history": "Hourly, last 24 hours",
        "historyYears": 0.003,
        "methodology": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/faq",
        "sourcesDisclosed": true,
        "licence": "Google Maps Platform terms. No storage outside the service, no model training, attribution required",
        "licenceClass": "clear",
        "standing": "",
        "standingClass": "none",
        "reuse": "The Maps Platform terms bar pre-fetching, indexing, storing or bulk-downloading content outside the services and using it to train, test, validate or fine-tune AI models. Display it with Google attribution and refetch it.",
        "score": 67,
        "checks": null
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "google-weather-api",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://weather.googleapis.com/v1",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:47.996326673Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 588,
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          "uptime24h": 100,
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          "samples24h": 272,
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
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              "ok": 109
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
            }
          ]
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.cloud.google.com/maps-platform",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:05.96682468Z"
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:53.387118101Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "google.com",
          "registered": "1997-09-15",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/google.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:50.737985829Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/release-notes",
            "kind": "changelog",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:55.639250528Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "c2b2bf1b1e23"
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      "slug": "openweather-one-call",
      "name": "OpenWeather One Call API",
      "vendor": "OpenWeather",
      "vendorUrl": "https://openweathermap.org",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "weather",
      "summary": "Current weather, minute, hourly and daily forecasts, government alerts and history back to 1979 in one call, billed per call with 1,000 free a day.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openweather-one-call",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openweather-one-call.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openweather-one-call.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openweather-one-call.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "The REST API takes the key as the appid query parameter, so it lands in request URLs and logs. The agent lane at agents.openweathermap.org issues a separate data key (bf_live_…) sent as a Bearer header to data.openweathermap.org and to the MCP server. The One Call by Call subscription has to be activated on the account before the key works on 3.0 or 4.0.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "One Call by Call. The first 1,000 calls a day are free, then $0.0015 a call, with a default daily cap of 2,000 you can raise or lower in the account (https://openweathermap.org/price). Charges are summed and billed at the end of the subscription month, and subscribing means filling in a billing form (https://openweathermap.org/faq). The agent lane gives every account 1,000 One Call credits a day, replaced each night UTC, then bills $0.001 a successful call from prepaid credit. Top-ups are card only, from $10, and a person completes them on the payment page (https://agents.openweathermap.org/llms.txt). The wider subscription plans (Startup $40, Developer $180, Professional $470, Expert $1,200 a month) cover the older per-product APIs, not One Call.",
      "priceSummary": "$1.50 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 6,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://openweathermap.org/api/one-call-3",
      "llmsTxt": "https://openweathermap.org/llms.txt",
      "registryName": "org.openweathermap/agents",
      "capabilities": [
        "weather.current",
        "weather.forecast",
        "weather.historical",
        "weather.alerts",
        "data.weather"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "closed-source",
        "usage-priced",
        "uk"
      ],
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 57.4,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 294,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 5,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 60,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 42,
          "transparency": 62
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "1,000 free calls a day, then $0.0015 a call, or $0.001 on the agent lane. The main API takes the key only as the appid query parameter.",
        "strengths": [
          "1,000 free calls a day, then $0.0015 a call, or $0.001 on the agent lane",
          "An agent can sign up with one POST and an email, and failed calls aren't billed on that lane",
          "Official hosted MCP server in the registry as org.openweathermap/agents",
          "History back to 1979-01-01 from the same API as the forecast",
          "llms.txt, a Markdown agent guide and an error dictionary with the reaction for each code"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The main API takes the key only as the appid query parameter",
          "3.0 is marked deprecated with no shutdown date, and 4.0 needs new paths",
          "No status page, public changelog or OpenAPI for the main API",
          "No security.txt or disclosure policy found",
          "Agent top-ups are card only and need a person, and the lane is run by Extreme Electronics Ltd"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Sign up on the agent lane with POST https://agents.openweathermap.org/v1/accounts and keep the data key. It's shown once",
          "Check GET https://data.openweathermap.org/account/balance for credit. No data response carries a cost or balance",
          "On the main API, activate One Call by Call and set the daily cap in Billing plans before the first loop",
          "Pass units=metric. The default is Kelvin",
          "Use exclude=minutely,alerts on 3.0, or the 4.0 timeline step you need, to shrink responses"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 57.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 60,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 42,
          "transparency": 53
        },
        "provenanceScore": 70,
        "dataQualityScore": 52
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall?lat=51.51\u0026lon=-0.13\u0026exclude=minutely\u0026units=metric\u0026appid=$OPENWEATHER_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http openweather https://mcp.openweathermap.org/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $OPENWEATHER_DATA_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "openweather": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer ${OPENWEATHER_DATA_KEY}"
              },
              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://mcp.openweathermap.org/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/weather.current",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/openweather-one-call"
      },
      "area": "domain-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "One Call by Call, above 1,000 a day",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.5,
          "note": "$0.0015 a call, first 1,000 a day free"
        },
        {
          "item": "Agent lane, prepaid credit",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "1 credit = $0.001 a successful call, 1,000 free credits a day, $10 minimum top-up"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "OpenWeather Ltd",
        "domain": "openweathermap.org",
        "domainRegistered": "2012-04-20",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://openweather.co.uk/storage/app/media/Terms/Openweather_terms_and_conditions_of_sale.pdf",
        "privacy": "https://openweather.co.uk/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The terms of sale and privacy policy sit on openweather.co.uk and name OpenWeather Ltd at 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8BF, under the law of England and Wales.",
          "The agent lane is operated by Extreme Electronics Ltd, trading as The Bot Forum, with its own versioned terms at agents.openweathermap.org/tos.",
          "openweathermap.org/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.",
          "The company's GitHub organisation holds a storage engine (Deker) and an awesome list, no SDK or MCP source."
        ],
        "score": 70
      },
      "dataQuality": {
        "coverage": "Global, any coordinate, from OpenWeather's own model blend",
        "coverageRating": 4,
        "freshness": "Not stated for One Call by Call. The subscription table lists updates every 2 hours on Startup, hourly on Developer and every 10 minutes on Professional and Expert",
        "freshnessClass": "hourly",
        "history": "Timemachine from 1979-01-01",
        "historyYears": 47,
        "methodology": "",
        "sourcesDisclosed": false,
        "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0 and ODbL per the terms of sale, with attribution on lower plans",
        "licenceClass": "clear",
        "standing": "",
        "standingClass": "none",
        "reuse": "The terms of sale put the data under CC BY-SA 4.0 and ODbL, so caching and redistribution are allowed with attribution and share-alike. The FAQ adds a required credit line, link and logo for Free to Professional plans.",
        "score": 52,
        "checks": null
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openweather-one-call.json",
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        "slug": "openweather-one-call",
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          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:51.837006704Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 86,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 86,
          "p95ms24h": 121,
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          "samples30d": 895,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 109
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
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        "versions": [
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            "name": "org.openweathermap/agents",
            "version": "0.3.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-03T23:29:28.630222764Z"
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        ],
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://openweathermap.org/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:02.706673842Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://openweathermap.org/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:05.491726758Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "openweathermap.org",
          "registered": "2012-04-20",
          "source": "https://rdap.publicinterestregistry.org/rdap/domain/openweathermap.org",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:39.925519614Z"
        },
        "pages": [
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            "url": "https://openweathermap.org/price",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:46:31.298624589Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "688045af7eab"
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          {
            "url": "https://openweather.co.uk/privacy-policy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:46:29.285242667Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "763a8b8a9767"
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        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:51.837006704Z"
      }
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    "summary": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) has a score of 67 (B) against OpenWeather One Call API's 57.4 (C). Both do weather current. The largest gap is reliability, 40 points."
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  "markdown": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) has a score of 67 (B) against OpenWeather One Call API's 57.4 (C). Both do weather current. The largest gap is reliability, 40 points.\n\n- Google Weather API (Maps Platform): grade B, 67/100, rank #151 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-weather-api.json\n- OpenWeather One Call API: grade C, 57.4/100, rank #294 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openweather-one-call.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openweather-one-call.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Google Weather API (Maps Platform) for reliability (+40), schema \u0026 documentation (+14), agent ergonomics (+6), security \u0026 auth (+29), transparency \u0026 trust (+13).\n\nPick OpenWeather One Call API for payments \u0026 pricing (+35), maintenance \u0026 community (+40).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) | OpenWeather One Call API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 45 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 68 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 73 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 42 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +29 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | OpenWeather One Call API +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 20 | 60 | OpenWeather One Call API +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 62 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67 · B** | **57.4 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) | OpenWeather One Call API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google | OpenWeather |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://weather.googleapis.com/v1` | `https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 6 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `org.openweathermap/agents` |\n| Last release | 2025-11-18 | none |\n| Popularity | none | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Google Weather API (Maps Platform).** Covered by the Maps Platform SLA, 99.9 per cent with service credits. History is 24 hours only, and bulk data isn't available.\n\n**OpenWeather One Call API.** 1,000 free calls a day, then $0.0015 a call, or $0.001 on the agent lane. The main API takes the key only as the appid query parameter.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Google Weather API (Maps Platform)\n\n1. Ask for only the days or hours you need, one location a call. Every call is one billable event\n2. Page with pageSize and pageToken rather than asking for 240 hours at once\n3. Check the coverage page before promising alerts. Coverage is by country\n4. Refetch rather than cache. The Maps terms give no caching window for weather content\n5. Restrict the key to the Weather API and your server IPs in the Cloud console\n\n### OpenWeather One Call API\n\n1. Sign up on the agent lane with POST https://agents.openweathermap.org/v1/accounts and keep the data key. It's shown once\n2. Check GET https://data.openweathermap.org/account/balance for credit. No data response carries a cost or balance\n3. On the main API, activate One Call by Call and set the daily cap in Billing plans before the first loop\n4. Pass units=metric. The default is Kelvin\n5. Use exclude=minutely,alerts on 3.0, or the 4.0 timeline step you need, to shrink responses\n\n## Other comparisons with Google Weather API (Maps Platform) or OpenWeather One Call API\n\n- [AccuWeather Core Weather API + MCP vs Google Weather API (Maps Platform)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-google-weather-api.md)\n- [AccuWeather Core Weather API + MCP vs OpenWeather One Call API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-openweather-one-call.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-met-office-datahub.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs NOAA National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-nws-api.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Pirate Weather](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-pirate-weather.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Visual Crossing Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-visual-crossing.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs WeatherAPI.com](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-weatherapi-com.md)\n- [Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) vs OpenWeather One Call API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-openweather-one-call.md)\n- [NOAA National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov) vs OpenWeather One Call API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nws-api-vs-openweather-one-call.md)\n- [OpenWeather One Call API vs Pirate Weather](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openweather-one-call-vs-pirate-weather.md)\n- [OpenWeather One Call API vs Visual Crossing Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openweather-one-call-vs-visual-crossing.md)\n- [OpenWeather One Call API vs WeatherAPI.com](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openweather-one-call-vs-weatherapi-com.md)\n",
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