What Visual Crossing does

Visual Crossing Corporation is a privately held, Reston, Virginia-based weather data platform founded in 2003 that delivers global historical (back to 1970), real-time, and 15-day forecast weather data primarily through a RESTful Timeline Weather API. Its core technology blends outputs from multiple numerical weather prediction models — including NOAA (GFS, NAM, HRRR, AI-GFS), ECMWF (IFS, ENS, AIFS), DWD (ICON-EU, ICON-D2), Météo-France (AROME, ARPEGE), UK Met Office, and Canadian (GDPS, RDPS, HRDPS) — together with observational networks spanning more than 100,000 GHCN-D stations, satellite, radar, and ERA5/MERRA-2 reanalysis. A proprietary multi-station interpolation engine weights the three nearest weather stations by distance to improve accuracy in remote locations, and AI-based forecast models from upstream providers are incorporated alongside traditional NWP outputs.

The commercial product suite centers on the Timeline Weather API, a no-code Query Builder, an AI Code Generator, the Weather Risk Monitor, and pre-built integrations with Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and MicroStrategy. Specialized datasets and data dictionaries are exposed for solar irradiance, wind energy, agriculture, insurance, construction, logistics, and air quality. The company monetizes through a freemium tier (1,000 free records daily), usage-based pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.0001 per record, monthly and annual subscriptions, and an enterprise tier with SLAs and dedicated support for Fortune 500 clients.

Visual Crossing serves a dual customer base: developers and data scientists integrating weather intelligence into applications via API or BI connectors, and enterprise teams across verticals including renewable energy, utilities, retail and eCommerce, insurance, agriculture, construction, logistics, academia, and workforce planning. Named customers include Google, Amazon, Nike, Toyota, Honeywell, PwC, Chewy, Columbia Sportswear, Discount Tire, Los Angeles Dodgers, Gulf Oil, Pattern Energy, Manila Water, and FRISS. The company operates with a 1–10 person headcount, an additional commercial office in Hamburg, Germany, and a self-serve, API-first go-to-market motion supplemented by enterprise sales for large accounts.

Name

Visual Crossing

Legal name

Visual Crossing Corporation

Website

https://visualcrossing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Visual Crossing is a privately held, bootstrapped weather data platform founded in 2003 that delivers global historical, real-time, and forecast weather data via REST API, no-code Query Builder, and BI integrations to developers and enterprise teams across energy, retail, insurance, agriculture, logistics, and academia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Weather Data API Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Connector/Adapter Frameworks & Integration Runtimes (HDAEACAJ)

Keywords

• Weather data API
• Historical weather data
• Weather forecasting
• Weather analytics platform
• Enterprise weather data

Headquarters

HQ city

Reston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. API Usage-Based Pricing: Pay-as-you-go model where customers are charged per weather record consumed. One weather record equals one row of historical data or one complete forecast for a single location. Full 15-day forecast for one location counts as only a single record. Includes 1,000 free records daily.
2. Subscription Plans: Monthly and annual subscription plans with higher volume allowances for regular users, providing cost predictability for businesses with consistent weather data needs.
3. Enterprise Tier: Enterprise pricing with dedicated support, higher usage limits, and SLA guarantees for mission-critical applications serving Fortune 500 companies and global organizations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Visual Crossing operates an enterprise-grade weather data platform anchored by the Timeline Weather API, which delivers global historical weather data (back to 1970), real-time conditions, and 15-day forecasts from a single REST endpoint. The platform blends data from multiple government and private weather networks (NOAA, ECMWF, DWD, UK Met Office, Météo-France, Canadian models) along with satellite and radar sources, and exposes it through a REST API, a no-code Query Builder, an AI Code Generator, and direct integrations with Excel, Power BI, and MicroStrategy. Customers range from individual developers (with a free 1,000 records/day tier) to Fortune 500 enterprises served through enterprise subscriptions with SLAs and dedicated support.

Product overview

Visual Crossing is an enterprise-grade weather data platform providing APIs and data services for developers, analysts, and enterprise teams. The core offering includes the Timeline Weather API, Query Builder, and AI Code Generator for data access and integration. Additional products include industry-specific datasets (solar, wind, agriculture, logistics), Weather Risk Monitor for operational risk management, and direct integrations with Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and MicroStrategy. The platform combines historical data (50+ years), real-time observations, and 15-day forecasts from multiple numerical and AI-based weather prediction models.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Timeline Weather API RESTful API providing global historical (back to 1970), real-time, and 15-day forecast weather data through a single endpoint. Supports CSV, JSON, Excel, and ODATA output formats with global coverage, used by developers and enterprise teams integrating weather data into applications, analytics, and operational systems.
• Weather Query Builder No-code web interface for building weather data queries, filtering results across multiple locations and date ranges, and exporting large datasets in CSV, JSON, or Excel formats without writing code. Designed for analysts, researchers, and business users who need weather data without API integration.
• Weather Maps API API product providing visual weather map data that can be integrated into customer applications, supporting map-based weather visualizations built on top of Visual Crossing's underlying weather data.
• Historical Forecast API API for querying historical weather forecast data — that is, forecasts that were issued in the past for specific past dates — enabling retroactive forecast accuracy analysis, insurance claim verification, and post-event studies.
• Stored Dataset API API for managing and accessing stored bulk weather datasets, allowing customers to pre-load large historical or forecast datasets into the platform and retrieve them efficiently for batch analytics and modeling workflows.
• Specialized Weather Datasets Industry-specific weather datasets tailored for solar energy (irradiance), wind energy, agriculture (soil, growing conditions), logistics, insurance, construction, and other verticals, designed for precision modeling and forecasting in domain use cases.
• Weather Risk Monitor Unified dashboard for monitoring global operations with hyperlocal weather risks across thousands of sites, supporting custom safety thresholds for wind, rain, and temperature along with automated risk alerts for operations and workforce safety teams.
• Next-Generation Weather Forecast Engine Upgraded weather forecasting engine released on February 23, 2026 as a major infrastructure improvement to the underlying forecast accuracy of Visual Crossing's weather data products.

Quantifiable outcome

• First 1,000 weather records free daily with no credit card required
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers24 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability3 records

Feature9 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Tomorrow.io: Direct competitor in the weather API and data platform space, offering hyperlocal forecasts, historical data, and enterprise solutions across aviation, construction, retail, and on-demand weather insights — directly overlapping Visual Crossing's product set and target buyers.
• OpenWeather: Global weather data API provider offering current, forecast, and historical weather data via REST API. Direct competitor serving developers and enterprises at similar price points and with comparable freemium/paid tier structure.
• Weatherbit: Weather API provider offering historical, forecast, and real-time data for energy, agriculture, and consumer applications. Competes head-to-head with Visual Crossing in the developer-first weather data API segment.
• AerisWeather: Weather data API and mapping platform serving developers and enterprises with global forecasts, historical data, and severe weather alerts. Direct comparable in product scope, developer tooling, and target verticals.
• Meteomatics: Swiss-based weather data provider offering high-resolution global forecasts and historical data via API, with strong focus on energy, aviation, and insurance. Direct peer targeting enterprise customers with similar specialized vertical use cases.

Broad incumbents

• IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite: IBM's enterprise weather and climate risk platform (acquired The Weather Company assets) offering broad weather data, AI-driven insights, and ESG/climate risk analytics. Broad incumbent with deeper enterprise relationships, larger salesforce, and bundled AI/analytics.
• DTN: Private-equity-owned provider of weather, climate, and agricultural intelligence serving agriculture, energy, transportation, and utilities. Broad incumbent with deep domain specialization in operational weather decisioning, larger salesforce, and more vertical depth than Visual Crossing.
• AccuWeather: Long-established weather data and forecasting company serving consumer media plus enterprise APIs (AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions). Broad incumbent with much greater brand recognition and media distribution, though more focused on consumer/forecasting than developer-first data APIs.

Emerging players

• Weather Source: OnPoint Weather product offers clean, normalized historical and forecast weather data for enterprise analytics and BI use cases. Niche player overlapping with Visual Crossing's data-as-a-service model, particularly for retail, CPG, and supply chain analytics.
• Starlight Weather (WeatherTrends360): Provides year-ahead weather forecasting and historical data for retail, supply chain, and consumer goods planning. Overlaps with Visual Crossing's retail and supply chain segments with a differentiated long-range forecast value proposition.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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