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      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/met-office-datahub.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/met-office-datahub.min.md",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/MetOffice/weather_datahub_utilities",
      "license": "BSD-3-Clause (utilities)",
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        "http"
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      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "An apikey request header, issued per application after you register on the hub and subscribe a plan to the product. The Met Office's own download scripts show the header and the latitude and longitude query parameters.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "All prices in GBP, excluding VAT. Global Spot is free at 360 calls a day, then £9 a month for 900 a day, £32 for 3,600, £146 for 18,000, £250 for 36,000 and £437 for 72,000. The blended probabilistic forecast is free at 55 calls a day for one site, then £9 for 550 a day, £58 for 4,000, £198 for 14,000, £776 for 55,000, £3,806 for 270,000 and £10,429 for 740,000. Enterprise plans are invoiced (https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/pricing/site-specific). Daily limits reset at 00:00 UTC.",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
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        "level": "no",
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
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      "capabilities": [
        "weather.current",
        "weather.forecast",
        "weather.alerts",
        "data.weather"
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        "hosted",
        "official",
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        "freemium",
        "closed-source"
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 8,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 15,
          "payments": 30,
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          "schema": 32,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 63
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Statutory UK weather service, with a FAQ licence to copy, publish and adapt the data. No OpenAPI, llms.txt, SDK or MCP server.",
        "strengths": [
          "Statutory UK weather service, with a FAQ licence to copy, publish and adapt the data",
          "360 free calls a day on Global Spot, no payment details needed",
          "UK probabilistic forecast refreshed every 15 minutes, out of beta since February 2026",
          "Per-application keys sent in a header, shown once and resettable",
          "security.txt on metoffice.gov.uk with a HackerOne reporting route"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No OpenAPI, llms.txt, SDK or MCP server",
          "Only the 429 error is documented, and the path is still /v0",
          "No changelog, deprecation policy or status coverage for the site-specific API",
          "Full DataHub terms shown only at checkout behind a login",
          "Prices only in GBP, and a separate plan for each product"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Register an application and subscribe it to the Global Spot plan first. The key is tied to that order and shown once",
          "Send the key in the apikey header with Accept: application/json, and latitude and longitude as query parameters",
          "Add excludeParameterMetadata=true to drop the parameter descriptions from every response",
          "Pick the timestep by need. hourly covers 48 hours, three-hourly 168, daily 7 days, and each call counts against the daily limit",
          "Stop on a 429. The limit is daily and resets at 00:00 UTC"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 45.5
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          "maintenance": 15,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 48,
          "schema": 32,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 36
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90,
        "dataQualityScore": 74
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -H \"apikey: $METOFFICE_API_KEY\" -H \"Accept: application/json\" \"https://data.hub.api.metoffice.gov.uk/sitespecific/v0/point/hourly?latitude=51.51\u0026longitude=-0.13\u0026excludeParameterMetadata=true\u0026includeLocationName=true\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/weather.current",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/met-office-datahub"
      },
      "area": "domain-data",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Met Office, an executive agency of the UK government",
        "domain": "metoffice.gov.uk",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "domainNote": ".gov.uk has no public RDAP, and a government domain scores in full on age.",
        "official": true,
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/legal",
        "privacy": "https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/support/service-status",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-01",
        "notes": [
          "The DataHub-specific terms and conditions are presented when you confirm an order and the /terms path redirects to the login, so the licence summary here is from the hub's FAQ.",
          "metoffice.gov.uk/.well-known/security.txt points at a HackerOne form and expires 2031-07-01, per the 30 September check.",
          "The hub's service status page is marked beta and shows data availability for atmospheric model feeds only, not the site-specific API, with no history.",
          "The privacy policy (updated 2024-04-03) names the Met Office, Exeter, as controller on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.",
          "Support and enterprise pricing go through dpt@metoffice.gov.uk."
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "dataQuality": {
        "coverage": "Global point forecasts, over 5,000 Global Spot sites, 7,000 UK and 5,500 other probabilistic sites, from the 10 km global and 2 km UK models",
        "coverageRating": 4,
        "freshness": "Global Spot hourly. Probabilistic forecast every 15 minutes in the UK domain and four times a day globally",
        "freshnessClass": "hourly",
        "history": "None in the site-specific product. Land Observations gives recent UK station data",
        "historyYears": 0,
        "methodology": "https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/docs/f/category/site-specific/overview",
        "sourcesDisclosed": true,
        "licence": "Crown copyright, perpetual non-exclusive licence with credit per the FAQ, full terms at checkout",
        "licenceClass": "clear",
        "standing": "The UK's national meteorological service, the body that issues UK weather warnings",
        "standingClass": "statutory",
        "reuse": "The FAQ describes a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to copy, publish, distribute, adapt and exploit the products, with \"Powered by Met Office data\" shown. The full order terms may add conditions, so read them at checkout.",
        "score": 74,
        "checks": null
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/met-office-datahub.json",
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        "slug": "met-office-datahub",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://data.hub.api.metoffice.gov.uk/sitespecific/v0/point",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:06:14.109870495Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 32,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
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              "ok": 109
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
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              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 262,
              "ok": 262
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/support/service-status",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:14.847427951Z"
        },
        "githubStars": 27,
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          "url": "https://metoffice.gov.uk/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2031-07-01T00:00:00Z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:38.601847011Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/pricing/site-specific",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:20.664638752Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "2dd0683b1c56"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/legal/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:22.415982754Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "fd0f26f2a557"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/legal",
            "kind": "terms",
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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",
      "live": {
        "slug": "openweather-one-call",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:06:15.447184667Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 74,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 86,
          "p95ms24h": 121,
          "samples24h": 272,
          "samples30d": 890,
          "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": 262,
              "ok": 262
            }
          ]
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "org.openweathermap/agents",
            "version": "0.3.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-03T23:29:28.630222764Z"
          }
        ],
        "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": [
          {
            "url": "https://openweathermap.org/price",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:46:31.298624589Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "688045af7eab"
          },
          {
            "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"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:06:15.447184667Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "OpenWeather One Call API has a score of 57.4 (C) against Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific)'s 45.5 (E). Both do weather current. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 45 points."
  },
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  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-openweather-one-call",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-openweather-one-call.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-openweather-one-call.md",
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  "markdown": "OpenWeather One Call API has a score of 57.4 (C) against Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific)'s 45.5 (E). Both do weather current. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 45 points.\n\n- Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific): grade E, 45.5/100, rank #399 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/met-office-datahub.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/met-office-datahub.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 Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) for security \u0026 auth (+24).\n\nPick OpenWeather One Call API for schema \u0026 documentation (+36), agent ergonomics (+20), payments \u0026 pricing (+30), maintenance \u0026 community (+45).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) | OpenWeather One Call API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 48 | 45 | Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 68 | OpenWeather One Call API +36 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 53 | 73 | OpenWeather One Call API +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 42 | Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | OpenWeather One Call API +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 15 | 60 | OpenWeather One Call API +45 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 62 | Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.5 · E** | **57.4 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) | OpenWeather One Call API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Met Office | OpenWeather |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://data.hub.api.metoffice.gov.uk/sitespecific/v0/point` | `https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | BSD-3-Clause (utilities) | 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 | none | none |\n| Popularity | none | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific).** Statutory UK weather service, with a FAQ licence to copy, publish and adapt the data. No OpenAPI, llms.txt, SDK or MCP server.\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### Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific)\n\n1. Register an application and subscribe it to the Global Spot plan first. The key is tied to that order and shown once\n2. Send the key in the apikey header with Accept: application/json, and latitude and longitude as query parameters\n3. Add excludeParameterMetadata=true to drop the parameter descriptions from every response\n4. Pick the timestep by need. hourly covers 48 hours, three-hourly 168, daily 7 days, and each call counts against the daily limit\n5. Stop on a 429. The limit is daily and resets at 00:00 UTC\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 Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) or OpenWeather One Call API\n\n- [AccuWeather Core Weather API + MCP vs Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-met-office-datahub.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 OpenWeather One Call API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-openweather-one-call.md)\n- [Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) vs NOAA National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-nws-api.md)\n- [Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) vs Pirate Weather](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-pirate-weather.md)\n- [Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) vs Visual Crossing Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-visual-crossing.md)\n- [Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) vs WeatherAPI.com](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-weatherapi-com.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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