Pro Weather vs Weathercloud: Per-Site vs Per-Device

Weathercloud is one of the best-known homes for a personal weather station: a shared network where each device gets a profile page in Weathercloud's layout, with a free tier that works the moment you connect. Pro Weather is a hosted service that turns the same station into a standalone public website on a domain you own.

They overlap at exactly one point: both charge a yearly amount to be your station's home on the internet. What that money buys is structurally different, and the two differences that decide the comparison are the billing unit (per device against per site) and what you end up owning (a profile on their platform against a website of your own).

What is the difference between Pro Weather and Weathercloud?

Weathercloud is a weather station network: your device joins a shared platform and gets a profile page in Weathercloud's design, at a weathercloud.net address, alongside every other member station. Pro Weather is a website service: your station gets its own site, with your branding, your domain, your layout choices and a permanent archive, and no platform chrome around it.

Neither one asks you to run a server, so the usual hosted-versus-self-hosted argument does not apply here. The real question is what you want a visitor to land on. A Weathercloud page says "here is my station on Weathercloud". A Pro Weather site says "here is my weather station's website". For checking your own readings, the difference is cosmetic. For a station that represents a village, a club, a school or a farm, it usually is not.

How do the prices compare?

At a single device they are close, and from the second device they diverge fast. Weathercloud lists its paid plans as a monthly price per device, billed annually: €3 for Plus, €5 for Pro, €15 for Premium (Weathercloud plans, retrieved 2 August 2026). Pro Weather is €5,99/month or €39/year, per site rather than per device.

Those numbers come from our 2026 weather website pricing comparison, where every price was checked against the vendor's own page. Side by side on the middle tier:

Worth saying plainly: if a dashboard for one device is all you need, Weathercloud Plus at €3/month (€36/year, with sixty months of history) undercuts Pro Weather's annual price slightly. The gap opens when you want unlimited history, when you add devices, or when you want the result to be a website at all.

Why does the billing unit matter more than the price?

Because stations multiply. The people most likely to pay for a weather platform (clubs, schools, farms, and hobbyists whose second station followed the first within a year) are exactly the people per-device billing punishes. On Weathercloud, device two doubles the bill. On Pro Weather, one subscription covers the site, and a site can carry several stations: a main array plus an air quality sensor, or two locations under one club banner.

With one device and no plans for more, this argument does not apply to you, and you should weigh the two on what they are rather than what they cost. With two or more, the billing unit is the whole comparison.

What do you actually own on each platform?

On Weathercloud, a profile: your data presented in their layout at their address, discoverable alongside the rest of the network. On Pro Weather, a website: your address, your design, and an archive that is yours to export.

• The address. A Weathercloud page lives on weathercloud.net, and none of its listed tiers includes a custom domain (checked 2 August 2026). A Pro Weather site runs on a free yours.pro-weather.com subdomain or a domain you own, with SSL issued and renewed automatically.
• The design. Weathercloud's layout is Weathercloud's. Pro Weather's customizer covers your logo, banner, colors, fonts, dark mode, header style and tab order, in any of nineteen display languages.
• The depth. A Pro Weather site carries the pieces a profile page is not built for: a permanent archive with 28 all-time records, NOAA-style climate reports, a wind rose, severe-weather warnings from the NWS and MeteoAlarm, air quality on eight regional standards, email and webhook alerts on more than forty conditions, and embeds for putting live readings on another site.
• The exit. Your Pro Weather history exports as CSV whenever you want it. On any shared platform, check what leaves with you before you build years of records there.

What does Weathercloud do better?

Three things, and they are real. First, the free tier: up to three devices with twelve months of history at no cost is a genuinely useful allowance, and Pro Weather offers nothing free beyond its 14-day trial. Second, the network itself: your station is part of a shared platform where other members and visitors can find it, which a standalone site does not give you by default. Third, per-device dashboards are exactly the right shape for someone who thinks in devices rather than in places: if what you want is a tidy page per gadget, that is literally what Weathercloud sells.

If you mainly check your own numbers and occasionally share a link, Weathercloud Basic costs nothing and does that well. Paying €39/year to replace a free page you were happy with would be a mistake.

Quick comparison

Where a row says "not part of this comparison's scope": Weathercloud's tier pages are the only source we verified, so we compare on what they list rather than guessing at the rest.

Can you use both at the same time?

Yes, and it is the setup we would actually recommend. Pro Weather's publishing engine uploads your readings to Weathercloud on your behalf (held to one upload per 10 minutes on free Weathercloud accounts, which is the rate they accept), alongside Weather Underground, CWOP, AWEKAS, Windy and a dozen other targets. Your Weathercloud presence keeps updating, your data keeps contributing to the network, and your own site is the address you put on the noticeboard.

That also makes trying Pro Weather free of consequences: nothing about your Weathercloud setup changes during the 14-day trial, and if you walk away, you are exactly where you started.

Which should you choose?

Choose Weathercloud if a well-organized dashboard on a shared network is what you want, if the free Basic tier covers your needs, or if being findable among other member stations matters more to you than owning the page.

Choose Pro Weather if the goal is a website: your domain, your branding, a permanent archive, warnings, alerts and reports, priced per site so a second station does not double the bill.

A note on sources and bias: Pro Weather is my own product, so read the verdicts with that in mind. The Weathercloud prices and plan limits were checked against Weathercloud's own plans page on 2 August 2026 for our pricing comparison, and the upload behaviour described comes from operating the Weathercloud integration inside Pro Weather's publishing engine. Where a Weathercloud detail is not sourced there, this post stays general rather than inventing specifics.

Common questions

Is Pro Weather cheaper than Weathercloud?

For one device, they are close: Weathercloud Plus is €36/year and Pro is €60/year per device, against €39/year for Pro Weather. From the second device onward Pro Weather is cheaper, because Weathercloud bills per device and Pro Weather bills per site. They are also different products: one is a dashboard on a shared network, the other is a website on your own domain.

Does Weathercloud give me my own domain?

Its plans page does not list a custom domain on any tier as of 2 August 2026; pages live at weathercloud.net addresses. If your own domain is the requirement, that narrows the field quickly: on Pro Weather, a custom domain with automatic SSL is included in the one plan.

Can Pro Weather upload my data to Weathercloud?

Yes. Weathercloud is one of the built-in publishing targets: enter your Weathercloud ID and key once, and your readings go out automatically at the rate Weathercloud accepts. One subscription can feed your own site and your network memberships at the same time.

How long does each service keep my history?

Weathercloud's retention depends on the tier: twelve months on the free Basic plan, sixty months on Plus, unlimited on Pro and Premium. Pro Weather keeps every reading forever on its single plan, which is what powers the long-term charts, the 28 all-time records and the almanac.

What hardware works with each?

Pro Weather connects Davis stations natively through the WeatherLink v2 API, takes a direct upload from Ecowitt and other Fine Offset gateways, and accepts practically everything else through a weewx, Meteobridge or CumulusMX relay; the supported hardware list sorts it by model. For Weathercloud, check their own compatibility documentation, which is the source we will not paraphrase from memory.

If pricing is the deciding factor, the full field (AWEKAS, Weatherstage, WeatherLink and self-hosting included) is laid out with verified numbers in the weather website pricing comparison. And if you want to see what a per-site subscription buys, start a trial: fourteen days, no credit card, and your Weathercloud setup keeps running untouched.