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Analysis, comparisons, and guides for developers building on free public APIs — grounded in our live monitoring data.
- Why the GitHub public-apis List Is Broken in 2026 (And What to Use Instead)
An audit of the 350k-star public-apis/public-apis repo against live HTTP checks: 6 APIs prominently listed are dead or paid, dozens more are flaky. The breadth-vs-freshness trade-off, with data.
analysis · - Free Public API Directories Compared: Which One to Use in 2026
An honest comparison of public-apis on GitHub, publicapis.io, and FreeAPI.watch. Different tools for different jobs.
analysis · - Building a Weather App in 2026? Here's the Free API Stack I'd Use
Open-Meteo for forecasts, Nominatim for location lookup, Open-Meteo Air Quality for pollution data. Code snippets and gotchas included.
weather · - 15 Free APIs Perfect for Hackathon Projects
Tested, no-key-required where possible, working in 2026. Pick from this list and start coding in minutes.
guide · - Free News APIs Tested: Speed, Coverage, and Reliability
NewsData, Hacker News, Guardian, Spaceflight News — real measurements of which free news API is actually usable.
news · - The Truth About Free API Tiers: Why 'Free' Often Isn't
A taxonomy of free tiers: truly free (no key), free-with-friction (key required), and the bait-and-switch pattern.
analysis · - Free Geocoding APIs Without an API Key in 2026
Nominatim, plus the surprising fallback options when OSM rate-limits you. Real numbers.
geocoding · - How I Built a Live Monitor for 77 Free APIs (Build-in-Public)
Astro static + Cloudflare Workers + D1 + GitHub Actions. Total cost: $0/month. Here's the architecture and the bugs I hit.
meta · - Twitter API Alternatives After the 2023 Free-Tier Killing
Reddit JSON, Hacker News, news aggregators — here's what indie devs actually use for social and news data in 2026.
news · - Free Crypto Price APIs Compared: CoinGecko, CoinPaprika, and the Open Mempool
Three free crypto data APIs, three different philosophies. Here's what each is best at.
cryptocurrency · - Best Free Weather APIs in 2026: A Data-Driven Comparison
We monitor 15 free weather APIs hourly. Here's which ones are actually reliable, fast, and free-without-friction in 2026.
weather · - The 2026 Free API Graveyard: 6 APIs That Died and What to Use Instead
Twitter, Reddit (official), Dark Sky, Yahoo Finance, MetaWeather, and Weather Underground all killed free access. Here's the timeline and the replacements that actually work.
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