{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "google-weather-api", "name": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform)", "vendor": "Google", "vendorUrl": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather", "kind": "http-api", "category": "weather", "summary": "Google Maps Platform's API for weather data.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-weather-api.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://weather.googleapis.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "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": "$0.15 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/overview", "openapi": "https://weather.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1", "capabilities": [ "weather.current", "weather.forecast", "weather.historical", "weather.alerts", "data.weather" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "card-required", "usage-priced", "enterprise", "oauth" ], "lastRelease": "2025-11-18", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 226, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 25, "reliability": 85, "schema": 82, "security": 71, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "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.", "bestFor": "Best when the answer has to match what users see in Google products, for current conditions and 10-day forecasts with alerts.", "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" ], "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": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 25, "reliability": 85, "schema": 82, "security": 71, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 78, "dataQualityScore": 67 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://weather.googleapis.com/v1/currentConditions:lookup?key=$GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY\u0026location.latitude=51.51\u0026location.longitude=-0.13\"" }, "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", "google-ads-api", "google-forms", "google-sheets-api", "gmail-api" ], "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": 78 }, "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": "2026-10-08T21:12:11.50054521Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 588, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 604, "p95ms24h": 675, "samples24h": 271, "samples30d": 1955, "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": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 239, "ok": 239 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cloud.google.com/maps-platform", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:38.310611899Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:39.75078566Z" }, "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", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:47.402932734Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:07:27.346735553Z", "fingerprint": "7ff6e3099f38" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:11.50054521Z" } }, "answer": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against The Weather Company Data APIs's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. The Weather Company Data APIs leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "weather-company", "name": "The Weather Company Data APIs", "vendor": "The Weather Company, LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://www.weathercompany.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "weather", "summary": "The Weather Company Data APIs return current conditions, forecasts to 15 days, historical data, government alerts, imagery and aviation weather from the company behind weather.com. Access is by API key at `api.weather.com`, sold in packages to businesses.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weather-company", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weather-company.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weather-company.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/weather-company.json", "license": "Proprietary service. Use is under a content licensing agreement with The Weather Company, which is not published", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.weather.com", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "An API key is required and is sent as the `apiKey` query parameter on every request. No header option is documented. Keys are not self-serve. A person requests a 30-day trial by form or contacts sales, the company provisions the key, and the key is read in the API customer portal after an invitation. Each key is entitled to the endpoints in the customer's package, and an endpoint outside it returns 401.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Standard package $500 a month on an annual plan for 1 million API calls. Enterprise plans and add-on packages are by quote, and overage is charged as the contract defines. A free 30-day trial allows 50,000 calls a day at 100 a minute, is requested by form and is limited to enterprise customers, so an agent cannot start without a person and sales approval (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$500 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer documentation, the API references or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.weather.com/docs/home", "capabilities": [ "weather.current", "weather.forecast", "weather.historical", "weather.alerts", "weather.marine", "data.weather" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "enterprise", "sales-led", "closed-source", "status-page", "api-key", "aviation", "air-quality" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.6, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 565, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 36, "payments": 20, "reliability": 73, "schema": 67, "security": 48, "transparency": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A wide weather data API with 168 API references built from OpenAPI documents, global 4 km current conditions, hourly history from June 2015 and a status page with component history. Keys come only through a sales-reviewed trial or contract, travel only in the URL, and the terms that govern the API are not published.", "bestFor": "A business that wants one contract for global forecasts, 4 km current conditions, alerts, imagery, aviation and deep history, and that can go through sales.", "strengths": [ "168 API reference sections on developer.weather.com are generated from OpenAPI documents, with enums, patterns, required fields, example responses and 13 response codes per operation.", "The Standard package covers current conditions, daily and hourly forecasts to 15 days, alerts from six national agencies, imagery, marine tiles, tides and air quality.", "History on Demand returns hourly gridded history at about 4 km from June 2015, in JSON, CSV or Parquet, with paging, field selection and a compact mode.", "The status page lists 16 components. Its feed shows nine incidents between 10 July and 8 October 2026, all rated minor or none.", "The Standard package price is public, $500 a month on an annual plan for 1 million calls, and the trial allows 50,000 calls a day for 30 days." ], "weaknesses": [ "No self-serve signup. The trial is requested through a form, is limited to enterprise customers, and the Buy now button opens a contact form.", "The API key is accepted only as the `apiKey` query parameter, so it appears in every request URL. No header option is documented.", "The website terms of use say they do not apply to the data APIs and point to separate terms, which we did not find published.", "Exceeding a rate limit returns 401, the same status as a missing key. No 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance is documented.", "No llms.txt, no downloadable OpenAPI file, no official SDK and no MCP server were found. Only one dated changelog entry appeared in 42 API references sampled." ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `units`, `language` and `format=json` with a location on every v3 call, plus `Accept-Encoding: gzip`, which the usage guide marks as required.", "Keep the key out of logs and client-side code, because it travels in the query string as `apiKey`.", "Treat a 401 as either a bad key, an endpoint outside the key's package or an exceeded limit, and treat a 204 as no data for the query.", "Each forecast duration (`3day` to `15day`) is a separate entitlement. Request only durations the contract covers.", "Use `/v3/aggcommon` to combine up to 10 products in one request. Each product and each location still counts as one call." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 36, "payments": 20, "reliability": 73, "schema": 67, "security": 48, "transparency": 20 }, "provenanceScore": 77 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --compressed \"https://api.weather.com/v3/wx/forecast/daily/3day?geocode=33.74,-84.39\u0026units=e\u0026language=en-US\u0026format=json\u0026apiKey=$TWC_API_KEY\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/weather.current", "tool": "https://letme.dev/weather-company" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard package, annual plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 500, "note": "1 million API calls a month" }, { "item": "Call on Standard, at the plan cap", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.5, "note": "$500 over 1 million calls" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "The Weather Company, LLC", "domain": "weather.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-08-09", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://weather.com/privacy/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://theweathercompanyapis.statuspage.io", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The privacy policy, effective 30 April 2026, names The Weather Company, LLC, 1001 Summit Boulevard NE, Brookhaven, GA 30319. Its section on data collection outside consumer products covers developer.weather.com enquiries and business customers.", "No terms document is given. The website terms of use (updated 16 April 2026) say they do not apply to the business data APIs, and the separate terms they refer to were not found on the pricing, trial or documentation pages.", "The API answers at api.weather.com and the documentation at developer.weather.com. The company site is www.weathercompany.com (registered 1998-03-24).", "weather.com/.well-known/security.txt gives a security contact and expires on 31 December 2026. www.weathercompany.com and developer.weather.com return 404 for the same path.", "RDAP for weather.com gives a registration date of 1994-08-09 and CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. as registrar.", "There is no central changelog. Each API reference has its own changelog section, most of them empty." ], "score": 77 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weather-company.json", "live": { "slug": "weather-company", "probe": { "target": "https://api.weather.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:25.691314952Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 19, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 23, "p95ms24h": 64, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://theweathercompanyapis.statuspage.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:30.225974996Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:25.691314952Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Google", "b": "The Weather Company, LLC", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://weather.googleapis.com/v1", "b": "https://api.weather.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service. Use is under a content licensing agreement with The Weather Company, which is not published", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2025-11-18", "b": "2026-09-14", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-26", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against The Weather Company Data APIs's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. The Weather Company Data APIs leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Google Weather API (Maps Platform) or The Weather Company Data APIs?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Google Weather API (Maps Platform) and The Weather Company Data APIs need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Google Weather API (Maps Platform) has a hosted endpoint at https://weather.googleapis.com/v1 and The Weather Company Data APIs at https://api.weather.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Google Weather API (Maps Platform) and The Weather Company Data APIs without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 85 against 73", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 67", "Agent ergonomics, 79 against 54", "Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 48", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 49" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Best when the answer has to match what users see in Google products, for current conditions and 10-day forecasts with alerts.", "slug": "google-weather-api", "watchFor": "History is 24 hours only, and bulk data isn't available" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 36 against 20" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A business that wants one contract for global forecasts, 4 km current conditions, alerts, imagery, aviation and deep history, and that can go through sales.", "slug": "weather-company", "watchFor": "No self-serve signup. The trial is requested through a form, is limited to enterprise customers, and the Buy now button opens a contact form." } ], "job": { "capability": "weather.current", "name": "Weather current" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-google-weather-api.json", "title": "AccuWeather Core Weather API + MCP vs Google Weather API (Maps Platform)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-google-weather-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-weather-company.json", "title": "AccuWeather Core Weather API + MCP vs The Weather Company Data APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-weather-company" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-met-office-datahub.json", "title": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific)", "url": 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The Weather Company Data APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meteoblue-vs-weather-company" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meteomatics-vs-weather-company.json", "title": "Meteomatics Weather API vs The Weather Company Data APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meteomatics-vs-weather-company" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nws-api-vs-weather-company.json", "title": "NOAA National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov) vs The Weather Company Data APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nws-api-vs-weather-company" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openweather-one-call-vs-weather-company.json", "title": "OpenWeather One Call API vs The Weather Company Data APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openweather-one-call-vs-weather-company" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-weather-company.json", "title": "Pirate Weather vs The Weather Company Data APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-weather-company" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomorrow-io-vs-weather-company.json", "title": "Tomorrow.io Weather API vs The Weather Company Data APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomorrow-io-vs-weather-company" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/visual-crossing-vs-weather-company.json", "title": "Visual Crossing Weather API vs The Weather Company Data APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/visual-crossing-vs-weather-company" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather-company-vs-weatherapi-com.json", "title": "The Weather Company Data APIs vs WeatherAPI.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather-company-vs-weatherapi-com" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather-company-vs-weatherbit.json", "title": "The Weather Company Data APIs vs Weatherbit API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather-company-vs-weatherbit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather-company-vs-xweather.json", "title": "The Weather Company Data APIs vs Xweather Weather API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather-company-vs-xweather" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 12, "edge": "google-weather-api", "google-weather-api": 85, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weather-company": 73, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "google-weather-api", "google-weather-api": 82, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weather-company": 67, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "google-weather-api", "google-weather-api": 79, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weather-company": 54, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 23, "edge": "google-weather-api", "google-weather-api": 71, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", 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The Weather Company Data APIs leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do weather current.", "verdicts": { "google-weather-api": "Covered by the Maps Platform SLA, 99.9 per cent with service credits. History is 24 hours only, and bulk data isn't available.", "weather-company": "A wide weather data API with 168 API references built from OpenAPI documents, global 4 km current conditions, hourly history from June 2015 and a status page with component history. Keys come only through a sales-reviewed trial or contract, travel only in the URL, and the terms that govern the API are not published." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-weather-company", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-weather-company.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-weather-company.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-weather-company.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against The Weather Company Data APIs's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. The Weather Company Data APIs leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do weather current.\n\n- Google Weather API (Maps Platform): grade B, 66.8/100, rank #226 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-weather-api.json\n- The Weather Company Data APIs: grade D, 52.6/100, rank #565 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weather-company.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/weather-company.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Google Weather API (Maps Platform) (B)\n\nGood for: Best when the answer has to match what users see in Google products, for current conditions and 10-day forecasts with alerts.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 73\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 67\n- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 54\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 48\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 49\n\nWatch for: History is 24 hours only, and bulk data isn't available\n\n### The Weather Company Data APIs (D)\n\nGood for: A business that wants one contract for global forecasts, 4 km current conditions, alerts, imagery, aviation and deep history, and that can go through sales.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 36 against 20\n\nWatch for: No self-serve signup. The trial is requested through a form, is limited to enterprise customers, and the Buy now button opens a contact form.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) | The Weather Company Data APIs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 73 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 67 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 54 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +25 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 48 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +23 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 20 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 20 | 36 | The Weather Company Data APIs +16 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 49 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +23 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.8 · B** | **52.6 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) | The Weather Company Data APIs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google | The Weather Company, LLC |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://weather.googleapis.com/v1` | `https://api.weather.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service. Use is under a content licensing agreement with The Weather Company, which is not published |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2025-11-18 | 2026-09-14 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-26 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\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**The Weather Company Data APIs.** A wide weather data API with 168 API references built from OpenAPI documents, global 4 km current conditions, hourly history from June 2015 and a status page with component history. Keys come only through a sales-reviewed trial or contract, travel only in the URL, and the terms that govern the API are not published.\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### The Weather Company Data APIs\n\n1. Send `units`, `language` and `format=json` with a location on every v3 call, plus `Accept-Encoding: gzip`, which the usage guide marks as required.\n2. Keep the key out of logs and client-side code, because it travels in the query string as `apiKey`.\n3. Treat a 401 as either a bad key, an endpoint outside the key's package or an exceeded limit, and treat a 204 as no data for the query.\n4. Each forecast duration (`3day` to `15day`) is a separate entitlement. Request only durations the contract covers.\n5. Use `/v3/aggcommon` to combine up to 10 products in one request. Each product and each location still counts as one call.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Google Weather API (Maps Platform) or The Weather Company Data APIs?\n\nGoogle Weather API (Maps Platform) scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against The Weather Company Data APIs's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. The Weather Company Data APIs leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Google Weather API (Maps Platform) and The Weather Company Data APIs need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Google Weather API (Maps Platform) and The Weather Company Data APIs without installing anything?\n\nYes. Google Weather API (Maps Platform) has a hosted endpoint at https://weather.googleapis.com/v1 and The Weather Company Data APIs at https://api.weather.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-weather-company.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-weather-company.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"google-weather-api\", \"b\": \"weather-company\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare google-weather-api weather-company`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-weather-api.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/weather-company.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Google Weather API (Maps Platform) or The Weather Company Data APIs\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 The Weather Company Data APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-weather-company.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 meteoblue Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-meteoblue.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Meteomatics Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-meteomatics.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 OpenWeather One Call API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-openweather-one-call.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 Tomorrow.io Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-tomorrow-io.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- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Weatherbit API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-weatherbit.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Xweather Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-xweather.md)\n- [Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) vs The Weather Company Data APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-weather-company.md)\n- [meteoblue Weather API vs The Weather Company Data APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meteoblue-vs-weather-company.md)\n- [Meteomatics Weather API vs The Weather Company Data APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meteomatics-vs-weather-company.md)\n- [NOAA National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov) vs The Weather Company Data APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nws-api-vs-weather-company.md)\n- [OpenWeather One Call API vs The Weather Company Data APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openweather-one-call-vs-weather-company.md)\n- [Pirate Weather vs The Weather Company Data APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-weather-company.md)\n- [Tomorrow.io Weather API vs The Weather Company Data APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomorrow-io-vs-weather-company.md)\n- [Visual Crossing Weather API vs The Weather Company Data APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/visual-crossing-vs-weather-company.md)\n- [The Weather Company Data APIs vs WeatherAPI.com](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather-company-vs-weatherapi-com.md)\n- [The Weather Company Data APIs vs Weatherbit API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather-company-vs-weatherbit.md)\n- [The Weather Company Data APIs vs Xweather Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather-company-vs-xweather.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-08", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs The Weather Company Data APIs", "url": "" } ], "description": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against The Weather Company Data APIs's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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