ADS-B Exchange

Free and paid

ADS-B Exchange printed two access shapes on 24 Oct 2026, and only one of them has a dollar amount. The developer hub says the Community API, formerly API Lite, is built for non-commercial use, and the price block says What you get for $10/mo, with 10,000 requests and real-time positions at 500ms updates. A modal says the Personal Use Aircraft Data API is purchased through RapidAPI. The data-products page says the enterprise products are ongoing subscription services with minimum annual commitments. It prints no dollar figure, no seat price, and no SPDX field. Historical backfills for up to 10 years are for subscription customers only. The homepage’s 50M, 1.6M, 100M, and 25k lines are counts, not fees. Quote $10/mo for the community API. Do not invent an enterprise dollar the data-products page left off.

The homepage says ADS-B Exchange connects the world’s largest independent ADS-B receiver network and displays aircraft broadcasts as received. Past 30 days is printed as 50M flights tracked, 1.6M site visitors, 100M aircraft viewed, and 25k active receivers. A nearby line says Over 25K active receivers, and another says Powered by over 25,000 receivers. Positions on the homepage are described as updated every 500 milliseconds. The footer is Copyright © 2026. ADS-B Exchange. All Rights Reserved. The about page says the project was founded in 2016 and that it strives to show aircraft movement without filtering out specific flights or aircraft types, including civil and military traffic.

• Community API is $10/mo. 10,000 requests, 500ms updates, non-commercial use, formerly API Lite, purchased through RapidAPI.
• Enterprise has no dollar on the page. Subscriptions with minimum annual commitments. Backfills up to 10 years for subscribers. No one-time extracts.
• 500ms and 250ms both appear. The homepage says 500 milliseconds. The data-products page also says 250 milliseconds, and the table offers 5s, 500ms, or 250ms.

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   Quote $10/mo only for the Community API. Leave the enterprise products without a dollar.

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   Keep 500 milliseconds and 250 milliseconds on the sentences that printed them.

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   Do not copy a private registration out of the globe. A broadcast position is not a passenger name.

• The community API price is about to be copied onto the enterprise products. On 24 Oct 2026 the developer hub printed What you get for $10/mo, 10,000 requests, 500ms updates, for non-commercial use, purchased through RapidAPI. The data-products page says ongoing subscription services with minimum annual commitments and prints no dollar. Quote $10/mo only for the community API.
• The homepage refresh rate is about to replace the product table. The homepage says positions update every 500 milliseconds. The data-products narrative says live positions every 250 milliseconds, and the table offers 5s, 500ms, or 250ms. Live operations on that table are every 500ms. Those are different lines.
• A registration on the globe is about to be copied into a note. The globe listed airline callsigns and other registrations. A registration can point at a private aircraft. This listing does not repeat those registrations. A broadcast position is not a passenger name, and no SPDX field was printed.

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