Live planet · by Flightradar24 AB
Flightradar24
A live world map of aircraft in flight, built from a crowd-hosted network of ADS-B receivers plus other tracking sources, with airport, airline and aircraft pages.
Click any dot in the sky to see the plane, its route and its altitude, fed by more than 50,000 ground receivers run largely by enthusiasts.
LiveAPI (paid)License unclearFor your project
- Official API
- Official API · Paid Per plan, as listed on the pricing page: Explorer 10 requests/minute, 30,000 monthly credits, 20 items per response; Essential 30/min, 333,000 credits, 300 items; Advanced 200/min, 4,050,000 credits.
“API documentation https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs” flightradar24.com/llms.txt
- Key
- Needed
- Formats
- JSON
- Data download
- No bulk download found
- License
- site terms website and API data (terms page could not be read)
- Commercial use
- Commercial use unclear
- Credit
- Not stated
- Embedding
- Embedding unclear
- Using the website
- Free tier
Read on Flightradar24's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms · API docs. Check the license page before you ship.
For your agent
- Use the official REST API at fr24api.flightradar24.com with a Bearer token and the API version header; sandbox tokens only work on sandbox endpoints, and nothing is free.
- API needs a paid subscription and a Bearer token; respect the per-minute rate limit of your plan.
- Check the Terms and Conditions for permitted use cases and data storage rules before storing or redistributing data.
- Do not scrape the public website map.
llms.txt: www.flightradar24.com/llms.txt
Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/flightradar24/agent.md before using Flightradar24.
What you can build
- A 'what's flying over me' widget that queries live flight positions for a small bounding box (paid Explorer plan).
- A flight-history logger for a single airport using the flight summary endpoints.
- An alert bot that pings when a chosen aircraft registration takes off.
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