Solcast

Name: Solcast
Author: Solcast

by Solcast · Australia (originating entity is an Australian Pty Ltd; no street address published on the pages fetched)

Weather, tariff & utility data · Data / API

Entry price: Not publicly disclosed
Charged: Quote only
Try before buying: Limited free tier
Runs on: Web
Built for: Residential · C&I · Utility-scale
Named integrations: 5
Last verified: 28 September 2026

What is Solcast?

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.

It does not publish a price; we checked the vendor’s own site on 28 September 2026. We recorded 17 verified capabilities.

Verified 28 September 2026 against the vendor’s own pages.

The two questions vendors rarely answer

Free or paid?

Limited free allowance

Not publicly disclosed

Dependencies & lock-in

None recorded

We did not establish a hard third-party dependency. That is not the same as confirming there is none.

Our editorial assessment — not a user review

Who it is for — and who it is not for

It is for whoever is *building* the thing an installer uses: a design tool, a monitoring platform, a trading desk, a grid operator, a resource analyst automating yield studies. It is not a tool a solar installer sits in front of. There is no drawing canvas, no proposal, no customer-facing output. If you are comparing Solcast against a design tool, you have made a category error.

Editorial assessment from the research recordSourcesolcast.comVerified25 September 2026

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed

Solcast does not publish a price. Pricing is quote-only.

We searched the vendor’s own site on 28 September 2026 and found no figure. That is one of 51 products in this dataset that publish nothing.

Limited free allowance

Sourcesolcast.comVerified28 September 2026first-hand

Prices are shown exactly as the vendor writes them and are never converted between currencies — a converted figure would be a number we invented. How we verify pricing

Feature detail

18 normalised data points across 7 capability areas. Every row carries its evidence state; hover any chip for what that state means.

Legend Verified Vendor claim Not offered Not found Could not read

Solar design & simulation 4 verified

Solar design & simulation capabilities for Solcast
Capability	Value	Evidence
Yield simulation
Bankable / IE-accepted simulation report ⓘ	Advanced	Verified
Loss and uncertainty modelling (P50/P90) ⓘ	Advanced	Verified
Named weather / irradiance data source ⓘ	none	Verified
Sub-hourly / 8760 output ⓘ	—	Verified

CRM & lead management 1 verified

CRM & lead management capabilities for Solcast
Capability	Value	Evidence
Reporting
Sales reporting and forecasting ⓘ	Not offered	Verified

Monitoring & operations 1 verified

Monitoring & operations capabilities for Solcast
Capability	Value	Evidence
Operations
Portfolio / fleet view ⓘ	Advanced	Verified

Integrations & extensibility 1 verified

Integrations & extensibility capabilities for Solcast
Capability	Value	Evidence
Named integrations
Named, documented integrations ⓘ	5	Verified

Platform & deployment 2 verified

Platform & deployment capabilities for Solcast
Capability	Value	Evidence
Deployment
Delivery model	data-api	Verified
Web application	—	Verified

Pricing & commercial terms 3 verified

Pricing & commercial terms capabilities for Solcast
Capability	Value	Evidence
Pricing transparency
Price published ⓘ	Not published	Verified
Pricing model	quote-only	Verified
Trial
Free tier	free-tier-limited	Verified

Market fit & availability 5 verified

Market fit & availability capabilities for Solcast
Capability	Value	Evidence
Availability
Geographic availability	global	Verified
Lifecycle
Product status	active	Verified
Segment
C&I ⓘ	—	Verified
Residential ⓘ	—	Verified
Utility-scale ⓘ	—	Verified

1 further data points are not applicable to this product and are hidden here. They are excluded from any score rather than counted as zero — a residential tool is not deficient at ground-mount layout, it is out of scope.

AI capabilities

No AI claim on the vendor’s own pages

We found no explicit AI or machine-learning claim. Words like “smart”, “one-click automatic” and “magic” are automation claims and are deliberately not counted as AI — coding them as AI would fabricate a capability the vendor never asserted.

Integrations

5 named, documented integrations.

DNV Solar Resource Compass
DNV SolarFarmer
SAM
TMY3
PVsyst

A logo wall is not an integration list. Only named, documented products are counted.

Collected from users — none yet

Verified user reviews

No verified user reviews yet

We publish only reviews we collect and verify ourselves. No review of Solcast has cleared identity verification and moderation yet, so there is no score — and there will be none until eight verified reviews exist.

Third-party ratings from G2, Capterra and TrustRadius are never mixed into our score or our structured data; where we cite them they are attributed and dated. How our review system works · Write a review

Third-party review presence recorded during research: —. Cited in prose only, never in our markup.

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