# Meteosource Weather MCP vs Open-Meteo (slim)

> Open-Meteo scores 66.7 (B) to Meteosource Weather MCP's 50.9 (D) for weather data. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Open-Meteo scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Meteosource Weather MCP's 50.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do weather data.

- Meteosource Weather MCP: D 50.9, rank #1048 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meteosource-mcp.min.md
- Open-Meteo: B 66.7, rank #361 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/open-meteo.min.md
- Meteosource Weather MCP, good for Agents that answer weather questions, plan around severe weather or estimate solar and wind output.
- Open-Meteo, good for Prototypes, personal agents and non-commercial apps that need forecasts or historical weather with no signup. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 35; Schema & documentation, 77 against 72; Agent ergonomics, 85 against 75; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30; Maintenance & community, 90 against 70; Transparency & trust, 75 against 32. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Meteosource Weather MCP | Open-Meteo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 85 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 42 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 90 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 32 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Meteosource Weather MCP | Open-Meteo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Meteosource | Open-Meteo |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.meteosource.com/mcp` | `https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Licence | Proprietary service. The repository's MIT licence covers its docs and manifest | AGPL-3.0 (code), CC BY 4.0 (data) |
| Tools exposed | 7 | none |
| MCP registry | `com.meteosource/weather` | not listed |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 6.2k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |

Why the edge:
- Transparency & trust, Open-Meteo +43: Meteosource Weather MCP 32 (The repository is MIT (copyright 2026 Meteosource) but holds docs and the registry manifest rather than the server; terms and privacy URLs weren't found (10 of 30). The MCP page says keys aren't stored in full and caches are per key (10 of 30). No deprecation policy (0). Subprocessors not found (5 of 20). 10 + 10 + 0 + 5 = 25.); Open-Meteo 75 (Server code under AGPL-3.0 and data under CC BY 4.0 (30). The terms say logs, including IP addresses, are deleted after 90 days, paid accounts keep only aggregated usage after that, and the site sets no cookies or trackers. No DPA found (25 of 30). The terms change 'effective immediately upon posting', and we found no deprecation policy or dated notices (5 of 20). Stripe and Substack are named, the entity is OpenMeteo GmbH in Switzerland, and the pricing page now says servers are located in Europe and North America, though the hosting providers aren't named (15 of 20). Total 75.)
- Reliability, Open-Meteo +30: Meteosource Weather MCP 35 (status.meteosource.com wasn't reachable (0). No history (5). Daily call quotas per plan, and the README's plans-and-limits section (15). Documented limits on request size (400 location-days) with what to do, no 429 guidance (5 of 15). No SLA found (0). Version 0.1.2, not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 35.); Open-Meteo 65 (StatusCake uptime page at status.open-meteo.com, which loads its monitors in the browser and has no incident write-ups we could find (15 of 20). We couldn't read any incident history on 1 October or 2 November (5). Free limits published as 600 calls a minute, 5,000 an hour, 10,000 a day and 300,000 a month (15). Since 26 October 2026 the repository's rate-limiting guide (docs/api-rate-limiting.md) documents 429 for exhausted free quotas and for more than five queued requests per client, `Retry-After` with a random delay before retrying, `X-RateLimit-*` headers, 403 for an over-quota key, and backoff on 503. Every call is a read-only GET, so retries are safe (15). Paid plans carry a 99.9% uptime target on reserved servers, a target rather than an SLA with remedies (5 of 10). Generally available (10). Total 65.)
- Payments & pricing, Open-Meteo +20: Meteosource Weather MCP 30 (No machine payment protocol (0). Plan prices with daily call quotas, public (10). Free plan with 400 calls a day, no card (20). A person signs up in a browser for the key (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.); Open-Meteo 50 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan volumes are on the pricing page (1M, 5M and 50M+ calls a month) but the prices appear only at Stripe checkout (10 of 20). Free for non-commercial use with no account or card (20). An agent can call it with no signup at all (20).)
- Maintenance & community, Open-Meteo +20: Meteosource Weather MCP 70 (Repository commit and tag v0.1.2 on 26 October 2026 (30). Three tags in 90 days (20). Repository issues not read (0). Official registry entry com.meteosource/weather (15). Small repository with server.json; server source not public (5 of 10). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 5 = 70. Registry presence read from Anchor Terminal's own daily import of the official MCP registry (/api/v1/registry.json, 6 November 2026), not the registry's API.); Open-Meteo 90 (Release 1.7.0 on 2026-10-16 (30). Four releases in the last 90 days, 1.5.6 on 1 September, 1.5.7 on 4 September, 1.6.0 on 10 September and 1.7.0 on 16 October (20). 141 commits since 4 August from 20 authors plus Dependabot and Copilot, most by two maintainers. We couldn't read issue response times, because GitHub's pages were refused to us (15 of 25). Official SDK repositories for Python and TypeScript (15). CI test workflow and Dependabot on the main repository (10). Total 90.)
- Agent ergonomics, Open-Meteo +10: Meteosource Weather MCP 75 (Seven tools, about 20 KB (25). Date ranges and location limits on history (12 of 20). Documented error messages with fixes (15 of 20). No annotations on the tools (8 of 20, all reads). Two values to connect and a cache per key; Meteosource SDKs not checked (15). 25 + 12 + 15 + 8 + 15 = 75.); Open-Meteo 85 (You name the variables you want with `hourly=`, `daily=` or `current=`, and set `forecast_days`, `past_days` or a date range, so responses are as small as the question (22 of 25). Several coordinates and models in one call, no pagination needed (18 of 20). Errors come back as JSON with `error: true` and a readable `reason` (15 of 20). Read-only GETs with no side effects (15 of 20). Only latitude and longitude are required, and there are official SDKs for Python and TypeScript plus a FlatBuffers SDK repo (15).)
- Schema & documentation, Open-Meteo +5: Meteosource Weather MCP 72 (Seven tools read from tools/list with JSON Schema inputs (25). No llms.txt found; the README is Markdown on GitHub (5 of 10). Descriptions say what each returns and which plan it needs (15 of 20). Typed inputs, no enums (10 of 15). A README table of error messages and fixes (10 of 15). Tagged releases v0.1.0 to v0.1.2, no changelog file (7 of 15). 25 + 5 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 7 = 72.); Open-Meteo 77 (OpenAPI 3.1 files for nine APIs in the open-meteo repository, last updated 1 November 2026, with enums for every weather variable. Not linked from the docs pages (25). open-meteo.com/llms.txt returns 404, and the docs are an HTML page with a URL builder (0). Descriptions in the spec are one line per API, and the docs explain each variable and model but not when to pick one API over another (12 of 20). Typed parameters with enums and required latitude and longitude, though coordinates are strings so that lists fit (13 of 15). URL builder examples in the docs and a 400 response with `error` and `reason` in the spec (12 of 15). /v1 paths and a release-please CHANGELOG.md (15).)