Pro Weather vs Weatherstage: Free Tier vs Forever Archive
By Lennart Steen · Hands-on guides from the people building the platform
Weatherstage and Pro Weather are the same kind of product, which makes this the most direct comparison on this blog. Both are hosted services that turn a personal weather station into a public web page, with no server to run and no software to install. No relay debates, no self-hosting math: two hosted services, side by side.
The two facts that separate them are easy to state. Weatherstage has a genuinely free tier, which Pro Weather does not. Pro Weather keeps your history forever, which Weatherstage's listed tiers do not. Which of those matters more to you decides most of this comparison before the feature lists come out.
What is the difference between Pro Weather and Weatherstage?
Both are hosted weather website services, so the difference is not the category but the shape of the offer. Weatherstage leads with a free tier and a $10/month Pro tier (Weatherstage, retrieved 2 August 2026). Pro Weather sells one plan, €5,99/month or €39/year per site, and puts everything in it: the domain, the archive, the alerts, the publishing.
The listed billing bases differ too: Weatherstage's pricing is stated per account, Pro Weather's per site, with one site able to carry several stations. Beyond the published tier facts, this post will not guess at Weatherstage's internals; where a detail is not on their page, we say so.
Is Weatherstage really free?
Yes, and that deserves to be said without hedging: the free tier hosts a dashboard on your own subdomain at $0, updating every ten minutes, per their site as checked for our pricing comparison on 2 August 2026. If a branded page on a shared domain is enough, it is a real option that costs nothing, and Pro Weather has no answer to it. Our trial is fourteen days; theirs is forever.
The limits are the ones the tier list states: the custom domain and the five-minute updates sit on the paid tier, and no history retention is listed for the free one. A free page that shows now and keeps nothing is a live widget, not a station record. Whether that matters depends on why you put the station up.
How do the paid tiers compare on price?
Weatherstage Pro is $10/month, about $120/year, plus a domain. Pro Weather is €5,99/month, or €39/year on annual billing, plus a domain, and the domain cost is the same for anyone (roughly €10-15/year at a registrar, on any platform). Over three years, using the verified table from the pricing comparison: about $360 plus a domain for Weatherstage Pro, against roughly €207-222 including one for Pro Weather.
The currencies differ, so precision is false here, but the gap is not close on annual billing: €39 buys the year that $120 buys. What you should actually compare at that spread is what each subscription contains, which is the next two sections.
What happens to your history on each?
This is the deepest divide between the two products. Weatherstage Pro lists one month of history. Pro Weather keeps every reading forever, on its only plan.
A month of history answers "what was last week like". It cannot answer the questions that make a station worth running for years: the wettest day this station has recorded, the warmest June, how this winter ranks. Those need an archive, and on Pro Weather the archive is the point: 28 all-time records, monthly and annual NOAA-style climate reports, long-term charts, and an almanac that keeps growing from the day you connect.
Existing history counts too. If your station's past lives in weewx, CumulusMX or a spreadsheet, the importers bring it in, so a decade of readings does not start from zero on a new platform.
What else is in the Pro Weather subscription?
The one plan carries the whole feature set; the notable pieces beyond the archive:
- Your own domain with automatic SSL, or a free subdomain, set up in the dashboard.
- Alerts on 42 conditions, delivered by email or signed webhook, including rate-of-change storm signals like a 3 hPa pressure fall in 3 hours (how alerts work).
- Publishing to 16 targets: Weather Underground, CWOP, AWEKAS, Windy, Weathercloud, WOW, Windguru and more, plus MQTT, InfluxDB and custom HTTP for your own systems.
- Air quality on eight regional standards, from the US EPA index to the European EAQI.
- Nineteen display languages, severe-weather warnings from the NWS and MeteoAlarm, a wind rose, astronomy, and embeds for showing live conditions on another site.
To be fair to the other side: this is not a list of things Weatherstage lacks. It is a list of what €39/year includes here; Weatherstage's site is the source for what $120/year includes there, and their tier list is all we verified.
What does Weatherstage do better?
The free tier, and it is not a small thing. A hosted page on your own subdomain at $0, updating every ten minutes, is an offer Pro Weather simply does not make, and for a station owner who wants a shareable live page at no cost it is the better answer. Free also makes it the lower-friction first step: nothing to cancel if you lose interest.
Its Pro tier's five-minute updates match the roughly five-minute refresh a Pro Weather site runs on, so update cadence separates the paid tiers of these two products less than the history and feature columns do.
Quick comparison
| Factor | Weatherstage | Pro Weather |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes: subdomain, 10-minute updates | No, 14-day trial only |
| Paid price | $10/month (per account) | €5,99/month or €39/year (per site) |
| Custom domain | On the Pro tier | Included, with automatic SSL |
| Update rate (paid) | 5 minutes | About 5 minutes |
| History | 1 month listed on Pro | Forever |
| Records and climate reports | Not listed; see their site | 28 all-time records, NOAA-style reports |
| Alerts | Not listed; see their site | Email and webhooks, 42 conditions |
| Publishing to networks | Not listed; see their site | 16 targets built in |
| Languages | Not listed; see their site | 19 |
| History import | Not listed; see their site | weewx, CumulusMX, any CSV |
Which should you choose?
Choose Weatherstage if free is the requirement. A hosted page on a subdomain at $0 is a real product, and if a live dashboard with modest history needs is all you want, paying anyone would be the wrong move.
Choose Pro Weather if the station is meant to accumulate: a permanent archive with records and climate reports, a domain, alerts, and republishing, at €39/year against $120. The archive argument compounds, because every month on a one-month retention is a month your site forgets.
And since uploading is not exclusive, you do not have to decide on paper: most stations can feed several destinations at once, so a 14-day Pro Weather trial can run next to a free Weatherstage page and the comparison happens on your own live data.
A note on sources and bias: Pro Weather is my own product, so read the verdicts with that in mind. The Weatherstage tier facts (the free tier, the $10/month Pro tier, the update rates, the custom domain and the one month of history) were checked against weatherstage.com on 2 August 2026 for our pricing comparison. Everything else about Weatherstage is deliberately left general, because their site is the source and guessing is not comparing.
Common questions
Does Pro Weather have a free plan?
No. There is a 14-day trial with no credit card, and one paid plan at €5,99/month or €39/year that includes everything: domain, permanent history, alerts, publishing. If a free hosted page is the requirement, Weatherstage's free tier or a community network like Weather Underground is the honest recommendation; the Weather Underground alternatives guide maps that field.
How long does each service keep my data?
Weatherstage's listed Pro tier keeps one month; no retention is listed for its free tier. Pro Weather keeps every reading forever, exports the archive as CSV, and imports your existing history from weewx, CumulusMX or any CSV file so past years carry over.
Can I use my own domain on either free option?
No. Weatherstage's free tier runs on a subdomain, with the custom domain on its $10/month Pro tier. Pro Weather has no free tier at all; on its paid plan a custom domain with automatic SSL is included, and a free yours.pro-weather.com subdomain works from the trial onward.
What weather stations work with Pro Weather?
Davis stations connect natively through a WeatherLink v2 API key; Ecowitt, Froggit, Ambient Weather and the rest of the Fine Offset family push directly with a pasted upload URL; and nearly everything else relays through weewx, Meteobridge or CumulusMX. The supported hardware page lists it model by model. For Weatherstage's hardware support, their documentation is the place to check.
Can I try Pro Weather without touching my current setup?
Yes. A direct-upload station adds Pro Weather as one more destination alongside its existing ones, and a Davis account is read through a free, read-only API key, so nothing existing changes. Run the trial for a fortnight, compare the sites side by side, and keep whichever earns the spot.