Alternatives
4 products in weather, tariff & utility data, compared on the same verified data. Free and lower-cost options first.
The closest alternatives to SolarAnywhere are UtilityAPI, Genability (Arcadia), Meteonorm. None of them is free. SolarAnywhere itself publishes USD 500.
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These are drawn from SolarAnywhere’s own published limits — not invented objections. Where we have no documented reason, we do not manufacture one.
| Product | Price | Model | Free tier | Integrations | Best suited for | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SolarAnywhere (the original) | USD 500 | Per unit of usage | Limited free allowance | 0 | — | — |
| UtilityAPI | USD 1.50 | Per unit of usage | free tier limited | 2 | residential, C&I, utility | — |
| Genability (Arcadia) | Not publicly disclosed | Quote only | — | none | residential, C&I, utility | vs SolarAnywhere |
| Meteonorm | Not publicly disclosed | Quote only | No | none | residential, C&I, utility | vs SolarAnywhere |
| Solcast | Not publicly disclosed | Quote only | free tier limited | 5 | residential, C&I, utility | vs SolarAnywhere |
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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 US electricity tariff database and rate-calculation engine that sits underneath other companies' solar savings numbers — now sold by Arcadia under the name Signal, with the Genability brand retired from all public marketing but still live in the API hostname.
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 SolarAnywhere in Weather, tariff & utility data. That is what the data shows today, not a claim that none exists.
SolarAnywhere publishes USD 500. Budget and those limits are the documented reasons a buyer looks elsewhere — we do not speculate beyond what the data shows.
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