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Flightradar24

Flightradar24 is the world's most popular real-time flight tracking platform, monitoring over 250,000 daily flights using data from a global network of ADS-B, MLAT, and radar receivers. The FR24 API provides developers with programmatic access to live aircraft positions, historical flight data, flight summaries, and reference data for airports and airlines. The credit-based subscription API uses Bearer token authentication and is available at https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api with three tiers — Explorer, Essential, and Advanced — covering hobby projects through high-volume commercial applications.

Flightradar24 publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Airlines API, Airports API, Flight Summary API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Aviation, Flight Tracking, Real-Time, Aircraft, and Airports.

The Flightradar24 catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Flightradar24’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, sandbox, pricing, FAQ, and 14 more developer resources.

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55.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 48/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessPaidSelf serve
16 APIs 1 MCP Servers
AviationFlight TrackingReal-TimeAircraftAirportsAirlinesADS-BHistorical Data

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Composite quality — 55.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 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 16

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

Live Flights Light

Returns a lightweight snapshot of real-time aircraft positions worldwide, including latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, heading, callsign, and aircraft registration. Optimised...

Live Flights Full

Returns complete real-time aircraft flight movement records including latitude, longitude, speed, altitude, and heading alongside enriched flight information such as origin and ...

Historical Flights Light

Provides historical aircraft positional data using Unix timestamp ranges. Returns lightweight position records (latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, heading, callsign, registra...

Historical Flights Full

Returns full historical aircraft flight movement records for a given time window, combining positional data with enriched flight metadata including origin, destination, callsign...

Flight Summaries

Returns synopses of individual flights including key event timings and locations such as actual takeoff and landing times, departure and arrival airports, and primary flight, ai...

Flight Tracks

Returns the full positional track of a specific flight identified by its FR24 flight ID. Provides a time-ordered sequence of latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, and heading re...

Airports

Returns detailed reference data for airports worldwide, including full airport name, IATA and ICAO codes, geographic coordinates, elevation, country, city, state, and timezone. ...

Airlines

Returns reference data for airlines including airline name, IATA code, and ICAO code. Supports lookup by identifier. Useful for resolving callsign prefixes and operator codes pr...

Flightradar24 Airlines API

Reference data for airlines

Flightradar24 Airports API

Reference data for airports worldwide

Flightradar24 Flight Summary API

Synopses of individual flights including event timings and key identifiers

Flightradar24 Flight Tracks API

Full positional track of a specific flight by FR24 flight ID

Flightradar24 Historic Events API

Historical flight event data (takeoff, landing, gate movements, airspace transitions)

Flightradar24 Historic Positions API

Historical aircraft position data (back to May 11, 2016)

Flightradar24 Live Positions API

Real-time aircraft position data

Flightradar24 Usage API

API account usage and credit consumption

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

fr24api-mcp

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

context Context

62 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Flightradar24 API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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

AirportFull

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FlightPositionLight

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FlightSummaryFull

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Airport Full

11 fields

EXAMPLE

Flight Summary Full

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Flight Tracks

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Live Positions Light

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Flightradar24 Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Flightradar24 Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Flightradar24 Agentic Access

16 operations

16 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 5

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 OpenAPI
OpenAPI
 JSONSchema
JSONSchema
 JSONSchema
JSONSchema
 JSONSchema
JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 MCPServer
MCPServer

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 SDKPython
SDKPython
 SDKJavaScript
SDKJavaScript

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

FAQ
FAQ
 Support
Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: flightradar24
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Flightradar24
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · 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/flightradar24.png
tags:
- Aviation
- Flight Tracking
- Real-Time
- Aircraft
- Airports
- Airlines
- ADS-B
- Historical Data
description: Flightradar24 is the world's most popular real-time flight tracking platform, monitoring over 250,000 daily flights
  using data from a global network of ADS-B, MLAT, and radar receivers. The FR24 API provides developers with programmatic
  access to live aircraft positions, historical flight data, flight summaries, and reference data for airports and airlines.
  The credit-based subscription API uses Bearer token authentication and is available at https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  with three tiers — Explorer, Essential, and Advanced — covering hobby projects through high-volume commercial applications.
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: flightradar24:live-flights-light
  name: Live Flights Light
  description: Returns a lightweight snapshot of real-time aircraft positions worldwide, including latitude, longitude, altitude,
    speed, heading, callsign, and aircraft registration. Optimised for mapping use cases that require low-latency positional
    data without the full set of flight metadata. Supports filtering by geographic bounding box, callsign, registration, airline,
    airport pair, aircraft type, and altitude range.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Live
  - Real-Time
  - Aircraft Positions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:live-flights-full
  name: Live Flights Full
  description: Returns complete real-time aircraft flight movement records including latitude, longitude, speed, altitude,
    and heading alongside enriched flight information such as origin and destination airports, callsign, aircraft registration,
    aircraft type, operator, and flight number. Supports the same geographic and identifier-based filters as the Light endpoint
    and is suited for applications requiring full flight context alongside positional data.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Live
  - Real-Time
  - Aircraft Positions
  - Flight Details
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:historical-flights-light
  name: Historical Flights Light
  description: Provides historical aircraft positional data using Unix timestamp ranges. Returns lightweight position records
    (latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, heading, callsign, registration) for past flights. Historical data coverage extends
    back to May 11, 2016, with availability depending on the subscription plan. Useful for replay, audit, and analytics use
    cases.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Historical
  - Aircraft Positions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:historical-flights-full
  name: Historical Flights Full
  description: Returns full historical aircraft flight movement records for a given time window, combining positional data
    with enriched flight metadata including origin, destination, callsign, registration, aircraft type, and operator. Data
    is accessible back to May 11, 2016 depending on the subscription tier. Available on Essential and Advanced plans.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Historical
  - Aircraft Positions
  - Flight Details
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:flight-summaries
  name: Flight Summaries
  description: Returns synopses of individual flights including key event timings and locations such as actual takeoff and
    landing times, departure and arrival airports, and primary flight, aircraft, and operator identifiers. Available in both
    near-real-time and historical modes. Useful for operations dashboards, delay analytics, and flight history lookups. Queryable
    by date range, flight number, callsign, registration, or airport pair.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Summaries
  - Departures
  - Arrivals
  - Historical
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:flight-tracks
  name: Flight Tracks
  description: Returns the full positional track of a specific flight identified by its FR24 flight ID. Provides a time-ordered
    sequence of latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, and heading records spanning the entire flight from departure to arrival.
    Useful for route visualisation, fuel burn estimation, and incident investigation.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Tracks
  - Route
  - Historical
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:airports
  name: Airports
  description: Returns detailed reference data for airports worldwide, including full airport name, IATA and ICAO codes, geographic
    coordinates, elevation, country, city, state, and timezone. Supports lookup by IATA or ICAO code. Useful for enriching
    flight data with human-readable location information and for building airport directory features.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Airports
  - Reference Data
  - IATA
  - ICAO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:airlines
  name: Airlines
  description: Returns reference data for airlines including airline name, IATA code, and ICAO code. Supports lookup by identifier.
    Useful for resolving callsign prefixes and operator codes present in flight data into human-readable airline names for
    display and reporting purposes.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Airlines
  - Reference Data
  - IATA
  - ICAO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:flightradar24-airlines-api
  name: Flightradar24 Airlines API
  description: Reference data for airlines
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Airlines
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/flightradar24-airlines-api-openapi.yml
- aid: flightradar24:flightradar24-airports-api
  name: Flightradar24 Airports API
  description: Reference data for airports worldwide
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Airports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/flightradar24-airports-api-openapi.yml
- aid: flightradar24:flightradar24-flight-summary-api
  name: Flightradar24 Flight Summary API
  description: Synopses of individual flights including event timings and key identifiers
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flight Summary
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/flightradar24-flight-summary-api-openapi.yml
- aid: flightradar24:flightradar24-flight-tracks-api
  name: Flightradar24 Flight Tracks API
  description: Full positional track of a specific flight by FR24 flight ID
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flight Tracks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/flightradar24-flight-tracks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: flightradar24:flightradar24-historic-events-api
  name: Flightradar24 Historic Events API
  description: Historical flight event data (takeoff, landing, gate movements, airspace transitions)
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Historic Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/flightradar24-historic-events-api-openapi.yml
- aid: flightradar24:flightradar24-historic-positions-api
  name: Flightradar24 Historic Positions API
  description: Historical aircraft position data (back to May 11, 2016)
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Historic Positions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/flightradar24-historic-positions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: flightradar24:flightradar24-live-positions-api
  name: Flightradar24 Live Positions API
  description: Real-time aircraft position data
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Live Positions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/flightradar24-live-positions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: flightradar24:flightradar24-usage-api
  name: Flightradar24 Usage API
  description: API account usage and credit consumption
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Usage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/flightradar24-usage-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/flightradar24-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/flightradar24-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/flightradar24-authentication.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/getting-started
- type: Authentication
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/sandbox-environment
- type: Pricing
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/subscriptions-and-credits
- type: FAQ
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/faq
- type: UseCases
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/examples-and-use-cases
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/b2b/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.fr24.com/support/solutions/folders/3000022922
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Flightradar24
- type: SDKPython
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/sdk/python
- type: SDKJavaScript
  url: https://github.com/Flightradar24/fr24api-sdk-js
- type: MCPServer
  url: https://github.com/Flightradar24/fr24api-mcp
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/openapi/openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/json-schema/flight-position-light.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/json-schema/flight-summary-full.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/json-schema/airport-full.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/json-ld/context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com