ADS-B Exchange

Unfiltered flight tracking network with REST APIs for accessing real-time aircraft positions, military flights, and global ADS-B flight data without filtering. Operated by a crowdsourced global network of ADS-B and MLAT receivers providing ultra-low-latency aircraft tracking data for aviation research and applications.

ADS-B Exchange publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Geopolitical Filtering API, Geospatial Filtering API, Live Positional Data API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Aviation, Flight Tracking, ADS-B, Aircraft, and Real-Time.

The ADS-B Exchange catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

ADS-B Exchange’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.

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50.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 44/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

5 APIs

AviationFlight TrackingADS-BAircraftReal-TimeMilitaryMLAT

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Composite quality — 50.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 17.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

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RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 30

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

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Examples 30

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Developer

Developer

DataProducts

DataProducts

RapidAPI

RapidAPI

Source (apis.yml)

name: ADS-B Exchange
description: Unfiltered flight tracking network with REST APIs for accessing real-time aircraft positions, military flights,
  and global ADS-B flight data without filtering. Operated by a crowdsourced global network of ADS-B and MLAT receivers providing
  ultra-low-latency aircraft tracking data for aviation research and applications.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/adsbexchange.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Aviation
- Flight Tracking
- ADS-B
- Aircraft
- Real-Time
- Military
- MLAT
apis:
- aid: adsbexchange:adsbexchange-geopolitical-filtering-api
  name: ADS-B Exchange Geopolitical Filtering API
  description: 'Allows filtering live data based on geopolitical boundaries, such as states/provinces, countries, regions,
    or even continents.

    All endpoints support ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes and ISO 3166-2 subdivision (states/provinces) codes.

    <br /><br />

    World boundaries are based on <a href="https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/world-administrative-boundaries/map/"
    target="_blank">OpenDataSoft</a> dataset.

    <b>Attribution:</b><br />

    This API includes data from <a href="https://marineregions.org/" target="_blank">Marine Regions</a>, licensed under

    <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
    (CC BY 4.0)</a>.<br />

    <i>Flanders Marine Institute (2023). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 12. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.14284/632"
    target="_blank">10.14284/632</a></i>'
  humanURL: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/
  baseURL: https://gateway.adsbexchange.com/api/aircraft/v2
  tags:
  - Geopolitical Filtering
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/adsbexchange-geopolitical-filtering-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/version-2-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/sample-api-call/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: adsbexchange:adsbexchange-geospatial-filtering-api
  name: ADS-B Exchange Geospatial Filtering API
  description: 'Endpoints allow filtering live data based on geospatial boundaries, such as latitude, longitude, altitudes,
    or even custom GeoJSON shapes.

    Use these endpoints to get information about aircraft within a specific radius from a given point, within a polygon, or
    within a custom shape.

    <br /><br />

    <b>Note</b>: When using GeoJSON shape files, only Polygon and MultiPolygon shapes are supported. Any other shapes will
    be ignored.'
  humanURL: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/
  baseURL: https://gateway.adsbexchange.com/api/aircraft/v2
  tags:
  - Geospatial Filtering
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/adsbexchange-geospatial-filtering-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/version-2-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/sample-api-call/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: adsbexchange:adsbexchange-live-positional-data-api
  name: ADS-B Exchange Live Positional Data API
  description: 'Endpoints provide access to airborne or recently landed aircraft, as well as last known positions.

    Use these endpoints to get information about aircraft, such as location, flight, altitude, speed, and many more.

    <br /><br />

    Comprehensive filtering by various parameters is supported - such as ICAO hex code, registration, squawk, etc.

    See documentation to learn more about available endpoints and their parameters.

    <br /><br />

    For more information about properties returned, please navigate to <a href="https://www.adsbexchange.com/version-2-api-wip/"
    target="_blank">Version 2 API Fields</a> documentation.'
  humanURL: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/
  baseURL: https://gateway.adsbexchange.com/api/aircraft/v2
  tags:
  - Live Positional Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/adsbexchange-live-positional-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/version-2-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/sample-api-call/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: adsbexchange:adsbexchange-operations-api
  name: ADS-B Exchange Operations API
  description: Endpoints provide access to Takeoffs/Landings operational events.
  humanURL: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/
  baseURL: https://gateway.adsbexchange.com/api/aircraft/v2
  tags:
  - Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/adsbexchange-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/version-2-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/sample-api-call/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: adsbexchange:adsbexchange-traces-api
  name: ADS-B Exchange Traces API
  description: Endpoints provide access to historical trace files for an aircraft.
  humanURL: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/
  baseURL: https://gateway.adsbexchange.com/api/aircraft/v2
  tags:
  - Traces
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/adsbexchange-traces-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/version-2-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/sample-api-call/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adsbexchange/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/adsbexchange-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/adsbexchange-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/adsbexchange-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.adsbexchange.com
- type: Developer
  url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/community/developer-hub/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/version-2-api/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/
- type: DataProducts
  url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data-products/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.adsbexchange.com/legal/privacy-policy/
- type: RapidAPI
  url: https://rapidapi.com/adsbx/api/adsbexchange-com1
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  url: https://apievangelist.com
  email: info@apievangelist.com