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Says there’s a REST API?

Oops, that's what I get for not reading closely enough! In my defense, my eyes glazed over after the fourth Apple-product-OS version number ;) but yes, my bad on that

Looks like it's 500k calls per month per Apple Developer Program account, so essentially $99/yr. Not totally unreasonable pricing, although I wish I could buy it a la carte. It's a bit out of my price range for hobby projects. If I ever start developing apps for my family members (who mostly have iPhones at this point) though this will be a nice freebie to come with that. Ah well.

OpenWeather is better and has 1M calls per month for free.

https://openweathermap.org/price

Why is it better? I thought everyone agreed Dark Sky was the best one?

Those 1M calls per month do come with a pretty onerous 1 call/second limit.

That limits the number of use cases quite dramatically.

https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/get-started/

Here's the pricing for those that might need >500k/mo. It looks like it won't be available until after this hits beta, but it looks to be $50/mo extra for each 1m calls (plus the price of a membership).

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