Open-Meteo alternative
Open-Meteo is a free weather API that aggregates official sources, including Bureau of Meteorology for Australian observations. It is open source, free for non-commercial use, and well documented.
What Open-Meteo does well
- Free for non-commercial use.
- Global coverage from official sources.
- Clean schema, no auth required.
Where ausdata.io fits better
- We use Open-Meteo as our weather upstream, so the underlying data is identical.
- One bearer token across weather and every other Australian data source.
- Commercial use is covered under our paid tiers without separate licensing.
How to choose
- Pick Open-Meteo if
- You only need weather, your app is non-commercial, and you prefer no auth.
- Pick ausdata.io if
- You want weather plus macro plus prudential data behind one key.
- Pricing
- Open-Meteo: free non-commercial. ausdata.io: bundled in every paid tier.
Other alternatives
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