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ADS-B Exchange
Crowdsourced flight-tracking network built from thousands of independently hosted ADS-B receivers, serving the aviation community since 2016. The free public API has been retired; live and historical aircraft positions are now sold as the paid "Community API" (formerly API Lite) through RapidAPI at $10/month for 10,000 requests, alongside separate Enterprise streaming, gRPC, and S3 bulk-data products for higher-volume commercial use.
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<a href="https://greatapis.com/api/ads-b-exchange/"><img src="https://greatapis.com/badge/ads-b-exchange.svg" alt="Scored 67 on greatapis.com"></a>Auth quickstart
- Sign up with the provider to get an API key.
- Send it on every request as a header
Authorization: <key> - The exact header isn't documented — Authorization is a common default; confirm in the provider's docs.
Your key is stored only in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to the API — never to greatapis.
Developer reference
5 requests/second on the entry-level RapidAPI plan up to 200 queries/second on the top plan, per key -- per the plan-comparison data on rapidapi.com/adsbx/api/adsbexchange-com1/pricing (adsbexchange.com's own docs carry no rate-limit text)