Important Update to CheckWX API Free Tier – Effective June 1, 2026

Thank you for being part of the CheckWX community. We truly appreciate your support and continued usage of the service.

To ensure the long-term sustainability of the API, we need to make an important change. For the past five years, we have offered a completely free Starter Plan tier with 3,000 daily requests while covering all server and compute costs ourselves. Unfortunately, this model has become unsustainable.

Starting June 1, 2026 the Starter Plan tier with 3,000 daily requests will require a nominal fee of $1 per month.

Users who choose not to upgrade to the paid plan will automatically be moved to our new Trial Plan with 200 daily requests (still completely free!).

This small change will help us continue investing in reliability, performance, and new features while keeping the service running for everyone.

We've worked hard to keep pricing as low as possible, and we believe this adjustment represents excellent value for the vast majority of users. If the API is valuable to you, we kindly ask you to support it by upgrading to the new Starter Plan for just $1/month.

If you have any questions or need help transitioning, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re here to assist.

Thank you again for your understanding and ongoing support. We’re committed to providing a reliable weather API for years to come.

Best regards,
The CheckWX API Team