Meteostat
- Free allowance
- Basic plan on RapidAPI: 500 requests a month as a hard limit, 3 requests a second, and 10,240 MB a month of bandwidth, then USD 0.001 per MB.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailcard unknown, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate500 requests a month, hard limit; 3 requests a second
- Evidence
- documented34 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | Basic plan on RapidAPI: 500 requests a month as a hard limit, 3 requests a second, and 10,240 MB a month of bandwidth, then USD 0.001 per MB. unit requests; metered on request-count; Over the quota the API answers HTTP 429. The same station and point history is in the keyless bulk files (data-apis/meteostat). |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | request-rate 500 requests a month is about 16 a day over 30 days, so the monthly hard limit binds long before 3 a second or the bandwidth allowance. |
| Identity | email A RapidAPI account (username, email and password, or a GitHub or Google sign-up) and a subscription to the Basic plan. In the RapidAPI Hub's data the Basic plan has the pricing type FREE (one hard request limit, no overage price), and the Hub's subscribe dialog for a FREE plan reads "No need to add any payment method"; the Hub lists the API as a whole as FREEMIUM, Rapid's docs say a Freemium API needs a credit card even for its free plan, and Rapid's terms place a USD 0.50 hold on the card for freemium plans. Whether subscribing to the Basic plan asks for a card is unverified: behind a sign-up; the dialog text is from the Hub's code and no subscription was observed. |
| Egress | 10,240 MB a month of bandwidth on the Basic plan, then USD 0.001 per MB free allowance: 10,240 MB a month price per tb: unverified: per-MB price only |
| Retention | not applicable: the unit is a request |
| Interface | rest REST over HTTPS at meteostat.p.rapidapi.com with the X-RapidAPI-Key header or the rapidapi-key query parameter; JSON answers |
| Tooling | any HTTP client; the RapidAPI key goes in the X-RapidAPI-Key header |
| Composes with | A keyed point-history API for small lookups; anything larger reads the keyless bulk files instead. |
| Reliability | A call with no RapidAPI key answers HTTP 401. |
| Notes | Bulk path: none in the API; the keyless bulk files are data-apis/meteostat. |
| Evidence note | documented Quota, rate and bandwidth are read from the RapidAPI pricing page and the Meteostat API docs; a call with no key answered HTTP 401, so the Basic plan was not exercised. |
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Evidence 34
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | dev.meteostat.net/api | the free plan is 500 requests a month, hard limit |
| 2026-10-31 | dev.meteostat.net/api | the key comes from a RapidAPI account |
| 2026-10-31 | dev.meteostat.net/api | every call needs the RapidAPI key |
| 2026-10-31 | dev.meteostat.net/api | the key can also go in a query parameter |
| 2026-10-31 | dev.meteostat.net/api | over the quota the API answers 429 |
| 2026-10-31 | rapidapi.com/meteostat/api/meteostat/pricing | the Basic plan allows 500 requests a month |
| 2026-10-31 | rapidapi.com/meteostat/api/meteostat/pricing | the Basic plan's monthly count is a hard limit |
| 2026-10-31 | rapidapi.com/meteostat/api/meteostat/pricing | the Basic plan allows 3 requests a second |
| 2026-10-31 | rapidapi.com/meteostat/api/meteostat/pricing | the Basic plan includes 10,240 MB a month of bandwidth |
| 2026-10-31 | rapidapi.com/meteostat/api/meteostat/pricing | Rapid places a USD 0.50 card hold for freemium plans |
| 2026-10-31 | rapidapi.com/auth/sign-up | RapidAPI sign-up offers GitHub or Google |
| 2026-10-31 | rapidapi.com/auth/sign-up | the RapidAPI form asks for a username, an email and a password |
| 2026-10-31 | probe: https://meteostat.p.rapidapi.com/stations/meta | a call with no key answers HTTP 401 |
| 2026-10-31 | dev.meteostat.net/license | not published |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/meteostat/api/meteostat/pricing | the Hub's data for the BASIC plan of the Meteostat API gives the plan the pricing type FREE |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/meteostat/api/meteostat/pricing | the BASIC plan's request quota is 500 a month, hard, with an overage price of 0, and its rate limit is 3 a second |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/meteostat/api/meteostat/pricing | the Hub lists the Meteostat API as a whole under the pricing type FREEMIUM |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/hub/_next/static/chunks/2376-5c5c74e6a558884b.j | the Hub's subscribe dialog for a plan of type FREE reads: No need to add any payment method |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/hub/_next/static/chunks/2376-5c5c74e6a558884b.j | the Hub's subscribe dialog collects a payment method only when the plan type is not FREE and the action is not a team add |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/hub/_next/static/chunks/app/(platform)/%5Buser% | the Hub types a plan as Free when its pricing is FREE, or when its price is 0 and every limit is hard or unlimited |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/hub/_next/static/chunks/1744-376c7add42b87041.j | the Hub's pricing FAQ answer to why a freemium API needs a credit card ties the card to a plan with a quota and an overage fee |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/page/terms | Rapid places a USD 0.50 hold on the card for freemium plans, released after 7 days when no overage is incurred |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.rapidapi.com/docs/monetizing-your-api-on-rapidapicom | Rapid's docs say a Freemium API requires a credit card even for its free plan |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/7268823620500-Why-was | Rapid support ties the small hold to a free plan that has potential overage costs, called Freemium |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.rapidapi.com/docs/hub-listing-monetize-tab | a hard limit stops further calls in the period instead of charging an overage |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.rapidapi.com/docs/connecting-to-an-api | every subscription includes 10 GB of bandwidth per billing cycle, then USD 1 per additional 1 GB is charged to the consumer |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/auth/sign-up | the RapidAPI sign-up form offers GitHub and Google sign-up, or a username, an email and a password |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.rapidapi.com/docs/account-creation-and-settings | a RapidAPI account is validated by a six digit code sent to its email address |
| 2026-11-02 | dev.meteostat.net/api | the free plan is 500 requests a month, hard limit |
| 2026-11-02 | raviswdev.blogspot.com/2025/12/rapid-api-advantages-of-using | a third-party user reports subscribing to a hard-limited free plan on RapidAPI with no card asked |
| 2026-11-02 | raviswdev.blogspot.com/2025/12/rapid-api-advantages-of-using | the same third-party user reports that a Basic plan with a per-request overage price asked for card details |
| 2026-11-02 | weblyzer.com/app/user-guide.html | a third-party API provider on RapidAPI states that the hard-limited BASIC plan of its API needs no credit card |
| 2026-11-02 | www.datanest.network/pricing | a third-party provider with the same four-tier structure on RapidAPI states that its hard-limited Basic plan needs no credit card, while its paid tiers use soft limits |
| 2026-11-02 | rapidapi.com/meteostat/api/meteostat/pricing | the Basic plan is USD 0.00 a month with 500 requests a month as a hard limit, 3 requests a second and 10240MB a month of bandwidth, then USD 0.001 per 1MB |
Unknown values 1
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer