# WeatherAPI.com (slim)

> Weather API for current conditions, forecasts, history, marine data, alerts and air quality, queried by location.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weatherapi-com.md (~5,950 tokens) · this version ~1,380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weatherapi-com.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weatherapi-com
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-05

**B · 65.8/100 · rank #169 of 452 · #3 in Weather & climate data · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: 3 million calls for $7 a month, and 100,000 a month free with no card. Key only in the query string, and no security.txt.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: WeatherAPI.com (Zoomash Ltd) · category: Weather & climate data · legal entity: Zoomash Ltd · provenance 90/100 · data quality 49/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.weatherapi.com/v1` (HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: 100,000 calls a month, 3-day forecast, 1 day of history, no card, attribution required
- Forecast range: 3 days Free, 7 Starter, 14 Pro+ and above. Future endpoint 14 to 300 days ahead
- History: 1 day Free, 7 days Starter, 365 days Pro+, back to 2010-01-01 on Business
- Caching limits: Current 60 minutes, forecast 24 hours, history unlimited
- Uptime commitment: 95.5 per cent Free, 99 Starter and Pro+, 99.9 Business
- Prices: Starter plan $7 per month (plan); Pro+ plan $25 per month (plan); Business plan $65 per month (plan); Call on Starter, at the plan cap $0.0023 per 1,000 requests; Call on Business, at the plan cap $0.0065 per 1,000 requests

- Scores: Reliability 90, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 89, Agent ergonomics 80, Security & auth 37, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 45, Transparency & trust 70 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Status page at status.weatherapi.com on Better Stack, with api.weatherapi.com and the website as components (20). · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI 3.1.0 at weatherapi.com/openapi.json, version 1.0.2, 12 paths with a structured ErrorResponse on 400, 401 and 403 (25). · Agent ergonomics, `current_fields`, `day_fields` and `hour_fields` trim responses, and `aqi`, `alerts` and `days` keep them small. · Security & auth, The key goes only in the `key` query parameter, so it lands in URLs and logs (20 less 10). · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Five changelog entries dated July 2026, such as ECMWF IFS and AIFS blended into the forecast and wet-bulb temperature, 63 to 92 days before… · Transparency & trust, Closed service with terms under English law.
- Sources: 9, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: weather.current, weather.forecast, weather.historical, weather.alerts, weather.marine, data.weather
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/weatherapi-com.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/weatherapi-com.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weatherapi-com from a page on weatherapi.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Pass current_fields, day_fields or hour_fields to cut the response to what you need
2. Treat a 403 with error code 2007 as the monthly quota, not a bad key. There's no 429
3. Reuse the id from search.json (q=id:NNN) to avoid ambiguous city names
4. Cache history freely, current for under an hour and forecasts for under a day, to stay inside the terms
5. Use https://api.weatherapi.com/v1. The docs still show an http:// base URL

## Connect

```bash
curl "https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/forecast.json?key=$WEATHERAPI_KEY&q=51.51,-0.13&days=3&aqi=no&alerts=no"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/weatherapi-com

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