{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "open-meteo", "name": "Open-Meteo", "vendor": "Open-Meteo", "vendorUrl": "https://open-meteo.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "data-providers", "summary": "Open-source weather API over 30+ national and global weather models, with forecasts, historical reanalysis back to 1940 and no key for non-commercial use.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/open-meteo", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/open-meteo.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/open-meteo.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/open-meteo.json", "repo": "https://github.com/open-meteo/open-meteo", "license": "AGPL-3.0 (code), CC BY 4.0 (data)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast", "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No key for non-commercial use. Commercial plans add `\u0026apikey=` on customer-api.open-meteo.com.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free for non-commercial use at 600 calls a minute, 5,000 an hour, 10,000 a day and 300,000 a month. Commercial plans for 1M, 5M and 50M+ calls a month show prices only at Stripe checkout, and monthly caps aren't enforced yet, with email alerts at 80, 90 and 100 per cent instead (https://open-meteo.com/en/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 6200, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://open-meteo.com/en/docs", "openapi": "https://github.com/open-meteo/open-meteo/blob/main/openapi/forecast.yml", "capabilities": [ "data.weather" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "no-key", "open-data", "open-source", "free-tier" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 394, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 50, "reliability": 50, "schema": 77, "security": 38, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "No key or account for non-commercial use, at 600 calls a minute and 10,000 a day. Commercial prices appear only at Stripe checkout.", "bestFor": "Prototypes, personal agents and non-commercial apps that need forecasts or historical weather with no signup.", "strengths": [ "No key or account for non-commercial use, at 600 calls a minute and 10,000 a day", "OpenAPI 3.1 files for nine APIs with an enum for every weather variable", "Five releases between 11 July and 10 September 2026, AGPL-3.0 code and CC BY 4.0 data", "Logs deleted after 90 days and no cookies or trackers, per the terms", "Official Python and TypeScript SDKs" ], "weaknesses": [ "Commercial prices appear only at Stripe checkout", "The commercial key is sent as `\u0026apikey=` in the URL", "Status page is uptime monitors with no incident write-ups we could read", "Terms change on posting and IPs can be blocked without notice", "No llms.txt, no official MCP server, and the OpenAPI files aren't linked from the docs" ], "agentNotes": [ "Name only the variables you need in `hourly=` or `daily=`, because each one adds a full time series", "Credit 'Weather data by Open-Meteo.com' wherever you show the data", "Use customer-api.open-meteo.com with `\u0026apikey=` for anything commercial, and keep that URL out of logs", "Read `reason` on a 400. It names the bad parameter", "Cache by coordinate and model run, since global models update about every six hours" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 50, "reliability": 50, "schema": 77, "security": 38, "transparency": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 73, "dataQualityScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=51.51\u0026longitude=-0.13\u0026hourly=temperature_2m,precipitation\u0026forecast_days=2\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/data.weather", "tool": "https://letme.dev/open-meteo" }, "alsoIn": [ "weather" ], "area": "web-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "OpenMeteo GmbH", "domain": "open-meteo.com", "domainRegistered": "2021-04-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://open-meteo.com/en/terms", "privacy": "https://open-meteo.com/en/terms#privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.open-meteo.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 73 }, "dataQuality": { "coverage": "Global at 1 to 15 km, 16-day forecasts, 30+ weather models", "coverageRating": 4, "freshness": "Global models about every 6 hours, regional models every 1 to 3", "freshnessClass": "hourly", "history": "Reanalysis from 1940", "historyYears": 86, "methodology": "https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/historical-weather-api", "sourcesDisclosed": true, "licence": "CC BY 4.0", "licenceClass": "open", "standing": "", "standingClass": "none", "reuse": "CC BY 4.0, so caching and redistribution are fine with credit. Commercial use of the API needs a paid plan.", "score": 80, "checks": null }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/open-meteo.json", "live": { "slug": "open-meteo", "probe": { "target": "https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:55:04.325502078Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 104, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 98.8, "uptime30d": 99.27, "p50ms24h": 113, "p95ms24h": 205, "samples24h": 249, "samples30d": 3420, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-27", "probes": 132, "ok": 131 }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "probes": 285, "ok": 283 }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 286, "ok": 284 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 273 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 245 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 269 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 270 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 267 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 30, "ok": 30 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.open-meteo.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:54.9026943Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "open-meteo/open-meteo", "version": "1.6.0", "released": "2026-09-10", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:09:47.247934315Z" } ], "githubStars": 6318, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://open-meteo.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:28.460254115Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "open-meteo.com", "registered": "2021-04-27", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/open-meteo.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:29.927007329Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://open-meteo.com/en/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:38.913325343Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d8e166b3f66d" }, { "url": "https://open-meteo.com/en/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:40.986477227Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c2aba52bfa00" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:55:04.325502078Z" } }, "answer": "Pirate Weather scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Open-Meteo's 63.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Open-Meteo leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "pirate-weather", "name": "Pirate Weather", "vendor": "Pirate Weather", "vendorUrl": "https://pirateweather.net", "kind": "http-api", "category": "weather", "summary": "Open-source weather API with Dark Sky-compatible responses, forecasts, alerts and historical data from public weather models.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pirate-weather", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pirate-weather.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pirate-weather.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pirate-weather.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Pirate-Weather/pirateweather", "license": "Apache-2.0 (docs and spec), AGPL-3.0 (API code)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.pirateweather.net/forecast", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The key is a path segment, /forecast/{key}/{lat},{lon}, or an apikey request header with any placeholder in the path. The MCP server takes the same key as the apikey query parameter on its URL. Keys are issued through an Apiable portal at pirate-weather.apiable.io and can take up to 20 minutes to go live.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free at 10,000 calls a month. A $2 a month plan raises that to 20,000, and GitHub Sponsors takes one-off donations. Higher plans are sold through pirate-weather.apiable.io, which renders only with JavaScript, so we couldn't read them (https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/).", "priceSummary": "$2 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 907, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/API/", "openapi": "https://github.com/Pirate-Weather/pirateweather/blob/main/PW_OpenAPI.yaml", "capabilities": [ "weather.current", "weather.forecast", "weather.historical", "weather.alerts", "data.weather" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "open-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "openapi", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-23", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 307, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 75, "schema": 85, "security": 45, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Named model sources and a documented priority order for every field. No SLA, and the terms call it best effort.", "bestFor": "Agents and apps that want Dark Sky-shaped forecasts, model transparency and deep history on a small budget.", "strengths": [ "Named model sources and a documented priority order for every field", "OpenAPI 3.1 spec at version 2.10.2 and a dated changelog with a pull request per change", "Four releases between 9 July and 23 September 2026", "ERA5 history to January 1940 and URMA for the last 10 days in North America", "Response-sizing parameters that cut a forecast to the blocks and rows asked for" ], "weaknesses": [ "No SLA, and the terms call it best effort", "Key in the URL path by default, and only in the query string for the MCP server", "Plans above $2 a month sit behind a JavaScript-only portal, and signup needs a person", "No security.txt, SECURITY.md or MCP registry entry", "The privacy notice and terms are generator templates from 2024 and say nothing on data reuse" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in an apikey header and put a placeholder in the path so it stays out of logs", "Pass blocks= and hourly_indices= or daily_indices= to get only the rows you need. The default payload is large", "Ask for version=2 to get fields Dark Sky never had, such as smoke, fire index and the source list", "Point historical requests at timemachine.pirateweather.net with a UNIX timestamp after the coordinate", "Watch Ratelimit-Remaining. The cap is monthly, so a runaway loop can spend it in a day" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 65.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 75, "schema": 85, "security": 45, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 80, "dataQualityScore": 72 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H \"apikey: $PIRATE_WEATHER_API_KEY\" \"https://api.pirateweather.net/forecast/key/51.51,-0.13?units=si\u0026exclude=minutely\u0026version=2\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http pirate-weather \"https://mcp.pirateweather.net/mcp?apikey=$PIRATE_WEATHER_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "pirate-weather": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.pirateweather.net/mcp?apikey=${PIRATE_WEATHER_API_KEY}" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/weather.current", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pirate-weather" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Supporter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 2, "note": "20,000 calls a month" }, { "item": "Call on the Supporter plan, at the cap", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.1, "note": "$2 over 20,000 calls" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "PirateWeatherAPI (Ontario, Canada)", "domain": "pirateweather.net", "domainRegistered": "2021-03-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/Apiable/ApiableTerms/", "privacy": "https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/Apiable/ApiablePrivacy/", "statusPage": "https://pirateweather.xitoring.io/", "changelog": "https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated 2024-09-23) are generator-made, name the company only as PirateWeatherAPI in Ontario, Canada, and cap liability at $100 or what you paid.", "The terms of service add one rule of their own, don't circumvent the call limit with multiple accounts, and say the data shouldn't be used for life or property critical applications.", "Keys, plans and billing run through a third-party Apiable portal at pirate-weather.apiable.io.", "pirateweather.net/.well-known/security.txt returns 404." ], "score": 80 }, "dataQuality": { "coverage": "Global, strongest in North America where NBM and HRRR apply at about 3 km, with Canadian models in Canada and DWD MOSMIX stations elsewhere", "coverageRating": 4, "freshness": "RTMA-RU every 15 minutes, HRRR and NBM hourly, global models every 6 hours", "freshnessClass": "hourly", "history": "ERA5 reanalysis from January 1940, the project's archive of 1-hour forecasts from June 2024, and URMA analyses for the last 10 days in North America since 2.10.1", "historyYears": 86, "methodology": "https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/DataSources/", "sourcesDisclosed": true, "licence": "Apache-2.0 docs, AGPL-3.0 API code, terms silent on data reuse", "licenceClass": "unclear", "standing": "", "standingClass": "none", "reuse": "The terms say nothing about caching or redistributing responses and add only two rules, no circumventing the call limit with extra accounts and no life or property critical use. The models behind the data are public data from NOAA, ECMWF open data, ECCC and DWD.", "score": 72, "checks": null }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pirate-weather.json", "live": { "slug": "pirate-weather", "probe": { "target": "https://api.pirateweather.net/forecast", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:55:05.969465769Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 98, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 106, "p95ms24h": 165, "samples24h": 249, "samples30d": 2264, "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": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 30, "ok": 30 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://pirateweather.xitoring.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:51:09.048226683Z" }, "githubStars": 909, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://pirateweather.net/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:23.938264854Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "pirateweather.net", "registered": "2021-03-01", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/net/v1/domain/pirateweather.net", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:40.132666729Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:43:22.822382655Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/Apiable/ApiablePrivacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:43:18.720475977Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/Apiable/ApiableTerms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:43:20.852375329Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:55:05.969465769Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Open-Meteo", "b": "Pirate Weather", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast", "b": "https://api.pirateweather.net/forecast", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPL-3.0 (code), CC BY 4.0 (data)", "b": "Apache-2.0 (docs and spec), AGPL-3.0 (API code)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-10", "b": "2026-09-23", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "6.2k stars", "b": "907 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (2)", "b": "4/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Pirate Weather scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Open-Meteo's 63.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Open-Meteo leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Open-Meteo or Pirate Weather?" }, { "answer": "Open-Meteo needs no key. Pirate Weather needs an API key.", "question": "Do Open-Meteo and Pirate Weather need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Open-Meteo has a hosted endpoint at https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast and Pirate Weather at https://api.pirateweather.net/forecast.", "question": "Can an agent call Open-Meteo and Pirate Weather without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Open-Meteo is open source (AGPL-3.0 (code), CC BY 4.0 (data)). Pirate Weather is open source (Apache-2.0 (docs and spec), AGPL-3.0 (API code)).", "question": "Are Open-Meteo and Pirate Weather open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 77", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 80" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it" ], "goodFor": "Prototypes, personal agents and non-commercial apps that need forecasts or historical weather with no signup.", "slug": "open-meteo", "watchFor": "Commercial prices appear only at Stripe checkout" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 50", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 77", "Security \u0026 auth, 45 against 38" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents and apps that want Dark Sky-shaped forecasts, model transparency and deep history on a small budget.", "slug": "pirate-weather", "watchFor": "No SLA, and the terms call it best effort" } ], "job": { "capability": "data.weather", "name": "Weather data" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-pirate-weather.json", "title": "AccuWeather Core Weather API + MCP vs Pirate Weather", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-pirate-weather" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-pirate-weather.json", "title": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Pirate Weather", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-pirate-weather" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-pirate-weather.json", "title": "Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) vs Pirate Weather", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-pirate-weather" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meteoblue-vs-pirate-weather.json", "title": "meteoblue Weather API vs Pirate Weather", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meteoblue-vs-pirate-weather" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meteomatics-vs-pirate-weather.json", "title": "Meteomatics Weather API vs Pirate Weather", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meteomatics-vs-pirate-weather" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nws-api-vs-pirate-weather.json", "title": "NOAA National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov) vs Pirate Weather", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nws-api-vs-pirate-weather" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openweather-one-call-vs-pirate-weather.json", "title": "OpenWeather One Call API vs Pirate Weather", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openweather-one-call-vs-pirate-weather" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-tomorrow-io.json", "title": "Pirate Weather vs Tomorrow.io Weather API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-tomorrow-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-visual-crossing.json", "title": "Pirate Weather vs Visual Crossing Weather API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-visual-crossing" }, { "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/pirate-weather-vs-weatherapi-com.json", "title": "Pirate Weather vs WeatherAPI.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-weatherapi-com" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-weatherbit.json", "title": "Pirate Weather vs Weatherbit API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-weatherbit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-xweather.json", "title": "Pirate Weather 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-meteo-vs-weatherbit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-meteo-vs-xweather.json", "title": "Open-Meteo vs Xweather Weather API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-meteo-vs-xweather" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-stormglass.json", "title": "Pirate Weather vs Stormglass API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-stormglass" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 25, "edge": "pirate-weather", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "open-meteo": 50, "pirate-weather": 75, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "pirate-weather", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "open-meteo": 77, "pirate-weather": 85, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "open-meteo", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "open-meteo": 85, "pirate-weather": 77, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "pirate-weather", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "open-meteo": 38, "pirate-weather": 45, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "open-meteo", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "open-meteo": 50, "pirate-weather": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "open-meteo", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "open-meteo": 90, "pirate-weather": 80, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "open-meteo", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "open-meteo": 72, "pirate-weather": 68, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Pirate Weather scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Open-Meteo's 63.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Open-Meteo leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do weather data.", "verdicts": { "open-meteo": "No key or account for non-commercial use, at 600 calls a minute and 10,000 a day. Commercial prices appear only at Stripe checkout.", "pirate-weather": "Named model sources and a documented priority order for every field. No SLA, and the terms call it best effort." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-meteo-vs-pirate-weather", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-meteo-vs-pirate-weather.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-meteo-vs-pirate-weather.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-meteo-vs-pirate-weather.min.md" }, "markdown": "Pirate Weather scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Open-Meteo's 63.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Open-Meteo leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do weather data.\n\n- Open-Meteo: grade B, 63.4/100, rank #394 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/open-meteo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/open-meteo.json\n- Pirate Weather: grade B, 65.9/100, rank #307 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pirate-weather.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pirate-weather.json\n- Best data provider APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/data-providers/index.md\n- All 31 data comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/data-providers/index.md\n- Best weather and climate data APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/weather/index.md\n- All 120 weather comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/weather/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Open-Meteo (B)\n\nGood for: Prototypes, personal agents and non-commercial apps that need forecasts or historical weather with no signup.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 77\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 80\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: Commercial prices appear only at Stripe checkout\n\n### Pirate Weather (B)\n\nGood for: Agents and apps that want Dark Sky-shaped forecasts, model transparency and deep history on a small budget.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 50\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 77\n- Security \u0026 auth, 45 against 38\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No SLA, and the terms call it best effort\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Open-Meteo | Pirate Weather | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 75 | Pirate Weather +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 85 | Pirate Weather +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 77 | Open-Meteo +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 45 | Pirate Weather +7 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 30 | Open-Meteo +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 80 | Open-Meteo +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 68 | Open-Meteo +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.4 · B** | **65.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Open-Meteo | Pirate Weather |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Open-Meteo | Pirate Weather |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast` | `https://api.pirateweather.net/forecast` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 (code), CC BY 4.0 (data) | Apache-2.0 (docs and spec), AGPL-3.0 (API code) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-23 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 6.2k stars | 907 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Open-Meteo.** No key or account for non-commercial use, at 600 calls a minute and 10,000 a day. Commercial prices appear only at Stripe checkout.\n\n**Pirate Weather.** Named model sources and a documented priority order for every field. No SLA, and the terms call it best effort.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Open-Meteo\n\n1. Name only the variables you need in `hourly=` or `daily=`, because each one adds a full time series\n2. Credit 'Weather data by Open-Meteo.com' wherever you show the data\n3. Use customer-api.open-meteo.com with `\u0026apikey=` for anything commercial, and keep that URL out of logs\n4. Read `reason` on a 400. It names the bad parameter\n5. Cache by coordinate and model run, since global models update about every six hours\n\n### Pirate Weather\n\n1. Send the key in an apikey header and put a placeholder in the path so it stays out of logs\n2. Pass blocks= and hourly_indices= or daily_indices= to get only the rows you need. The default payload is large\n3. Ask for version=2 to get fields Dark Sky never had, such as smoke, fire index and the source list\n4. Point historical requests at timemachine.pirateweather.net with a UNIX timestamp after the coordinate\n5. Watch Ratelimit-Remaining. The cap is monthly, so a runaway loop can spend it in a day\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Open-Meteo or Pirate Weather?\n\nPirate Weather scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Open-Meteo's 63.4 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Open-Meteo leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Open-Meteo and Pirate Weather need an API key?\n\nOpen-Meteo needs no key. Pirate Weather needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Open-Meteo and Pirate Weather without installing anything?\n\nYes. Open-Meteo has a hosted endpoint at https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast and Pirate Weather at https://api.pirateweather.net/forecast.\n\n### Are Open-Meteo and Pirate Weather open source?\n\nYes. Open-Meteo is open source (AGPL-3.0 (code), CC BY 4.0 (data)). Pirate Weather is open source (Apache-2.0 (docs and spec), AGPL-3.0 (API code)).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-meteo-vs-pirate-weather.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-meteo-vs-pirate-weather.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"open-meteo\", \"b\": \"pirate-weather\"}`. 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