# Flightradar24

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/flightradar24/  
**Website:** https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 16

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.

## Kin Score — 47.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 47.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 67.9 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 57.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 46.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (16)

- **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

## MCP servers (1)

- **Flightradar24 MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Flightradar24 Agentic Access** — 16 operations

## Security (2)

- **Flightradar24 Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Flightradar24 Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Aviation, Flight Tracking, Real-Time, Aircraft, Airports, Airlines, ADS-B, Historical Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/flightradar24/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.