We’re thrilled to announce that, as of September 9, 2025, AccuWeather’s self-serve APIs are officially live on Zuplo. You can explore the portal at developer.accuweather.com and sign up today for an API key.
AccuWeather has been the global leader in weather forecasting since 1962 and is the most recognized source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world. Their APIs power applications across industries — delivering hyper-local forecasts, minute-by-minute precipitation data, severe weather alerts, and historical climate information to over a billion users worldwide. This launch represents one of the most ambitious and polished deployments of the Zuplo Developer Portal, and the story behind it is worth telling.
Why AccuWeather needed a new platform
AccuWeather had been running their API program on Google Apigee for years, but the platform was holding them back in several critical ways.
Apigee’s monetization model was rigid, making it difficult to experiment with new pricing structures, quotas, and free trial tiers. The developer portal was dated — updates were cumbersome and conversion from free to paid tiers was underwhelming. And as any team that’s worked with Apigee knows, the XML-based policy configuration and Java callouts don’t fit modern developer workflows. Adding new APIs and services was far more complex than it needed to be.
Perhaps most critically, Apigee’s pricing model meant AccuWeather could only afford to put the gateway in front of a fraction of their API traffic, leaving the team to handle governance for the rest of it on their own.
AccuWeather needed a platform that was flexible enough to support their complex monetization needs, modern enough to attract and convert developers, and cost-effective enough to cover all their traffic — not just a minority of it.
Why they chose Zuplo
After evaluating alternatives, AccuWeather chose Zuplo for its combination of a modern developer portal, programmable extensibility, and multi-cloud deployment flexibility.
The new developer.accuweather.com is built on Zudoku, our open-source developer portal framework. It provides self-serve API key registration, interactive API documentation with a live playground, built-in authentication and payments, and code samples with quick-start guides. Developers can sign up, get a key, and make their first API call in minutes — no emails, no waiting.
Under the hood, Zuplo’s gateway gives AccuWeather native GitOps workflows, TypeScript-based programmable policies with the full npm ecosystem, and sub-20-second global deploys. Every pull request gets a preview environment for testing before it goes live. This is a world apart from Apigee’s multi-minute deploy propagation and multi-step environment provisioning.
“With the move to Zuplo,” says Chris Patti, Chief Data and Science Officer, “AccuWeather now unlocks a quicker, seamless developer experience — allowing us to roll out new features and expanded API offerings faster than ever before so the best weather-impacted decisions can be made.”
Deployed globally on Akamai
One of the most distinctive aspects of this deployment is where it runs. AccuWeather’s Zuplo gateway is deployed on Akamai Connected Cloud, fronted by Akamai’s CDN edge for caching, DDoS protection, and edge security. Akamai’s Global Traffic Manager routes traffic to the nearest healthy region, delivering weather data at the speed developers and end users expect.
“The combined strengths of Zuplo and Akamai enable us to deliver weather data with unmatched speed and reliability,” says Patti.
This partnership between Zuplo and Akamai — with AccuWeather as the flagship deployment — demonstrates that you can run a fully modern API gateway on any cloud, not just the hyperscalers. Whether you need managed edge across 300+ data centers, a dedicated single-tenant deployment on Akamai, AWS, Azure, or GCP, or a self-hosted Helm chart on your own Kubernetes cluster, Zuplo runs the same runtime everywhere.
What’s next for AccuWeather on Zuplo
With the migration complete and the new portal live, AccuWeather has a foundation they can build on without constraint. Better unit economics mean they now have a path to putting every API behind a single gateway — the API governance goal that was financially out of reach with their previous platform.
The team can experiment with new monetization models, roll out new API products faster, and take advantage of capabilities like Zuplo’s AI Gateway and MCP Gateway as demand for AI-powered weather integrations grows.
Read the full story
Delivering a smooth, zero-downtime migration from a legacy API management platform for a company of AccuWeather’s scale was no small feat. If you’re considering a similar move — whether from Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM, or another platform — the AccuWeather case study covers the full technical story, including the pain points, the migration process, and the results.
If you want to see what a modern API developer portal looks like in production, visit developer.accuweather.com. And if you want to build something similar for your own APIs, start a free Zuplo project — the developer portal ships with every project.