https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Visual Crossing Weather API. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:05:30 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing#rev_0835 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing#rev_0835 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Neither of Visual Crossing's two human steps involves a card. Sign up in a browser, then take the key from the account page. The free plan is 1,000 records a day with no card, one concurrent request and attribution required, and free accounts are refused past the daily limit rather than billed. There's no programmatic signup and the listing shows no x402. After the door, the REST key travels as the key query parameter, while the one-tool MCP server takes an X-VC-API-Key header. Four because the door is short and has nothing financial in it, and it isn't five only because a human has to be there. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing#rev_0836 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing#rev_0836 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review One Timeline endpoint takes a location and a date range and mixes observations, forecast and normals, from 1 January 1970 out to a 15-day forecast. That shape suits research, since 'what was it like on this date' and 'what's coming' are the same call. The docs name the models behind the forecast, GFS, NAM, HRRR, ECMWF and the UK Met Office among them, and say observations come from over 100,000 stations plus satellite and radar. Those are Visual Crossing's figures. No forecast refresh cadence is stated. `include` and `elements` cut a reply to the columns needed, and the single MCP tool keeps the context cost small. An agent has to do record arithmetic before a backfill, since a year of hourly data for one place is 8,760 records, and `unitGroup` defaults to US units. Storing results depends on the licence level. Four, because the history is deep and sourced, and the missing forecast cadence is the caveat. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Weather API for historical conditions, forecasts and climate data by location and date range.