Alternatives
4 products in weather, tariff & utility data, compared on the same verified data. Free and lower-cost options first.
The closest alternatives to Genability (Arcadia) are SolarAnywhere, UtilityAPI, Meteonorm. None of them is free. Genability (Arcadia) itself does not publish a price.
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| Product | Price | Model | Free tier | Integrations | Best suited for | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genability (Arcadia) (the original) | Not publicly disclosed | Quote only | — | 0 | — | — |
| SolarAnywhere | USD 500 | Per unit of usage | free tier limited | none | residential, C&I, utility | vs Genability (Arcadia) |
| UtilityAPI | USD 1.50 | Per unit of usage | free tier limited | 2 | residential, C&I, utility | vs Genability (Arcadia) |
| Meteonorm | Not publicly disclosed | Quote only | No | none | residential, C&I, utility | vs Genability (Arcadia) |
| Solcast | Not publicly disclosed | Quote only | free tier limited | 5 | residential, C&I, utility | vs Genability (Arcadia) |
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Clean Power Research's satellite-derived solar resource dataset — historical back to 1998, real-time, and forecast — built on the Perez/SUNY Albany irradiance model, sold as web access and an API, with free PV power modelling (PVWatts and pvlib) bundled into every licence.
The customer-authorisation and utility-data-collection layer: it gets a US electricity customer's permission, connects to their utility account, and delivers their meter details, their actual bills and their 15-minute interval usage to whoever they authorised — over a fully documented public API with a fully published price list.
The Swiss climate database that generates a typical meteorological year for any point on earth — the TMY file that PVsyst, PV*SOL, Polysun and SAM all import — now rebuilt as a web application plus four REST APIs (Climate, Observation, Forecast, Horizon).
A global satellite-derived solar irradiance, weather and PV-power API — historic back to 2007, live to the last five minutes, and forecast to +14 days — delivered as data, not as an application.
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We did not find a free alternative to Genability (Arcadia) in Weather, tariff & utility data. That is what the data shows today, not a claim that none exists.
Genability (Arcadia) does not publish a price, so buyers often look for options they can evaluate without contacting sales first.
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