Pricing trends for Maps/Geolocation: 7 tracked pricing changes across 20 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Maps/Geolocation Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

20
Vendors
1%
of All Tracked Changes
3
At-Risk Vendors
restructured 3 reduced 2 increased 1 rebranded 1

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

restructured geocodify.com discovered 2026-09-01 · effective date unknown low
The free tier now has 30,000 calls/month. Source ↗
reduced positionstack discovered 2026-09-01 · effective date unknown high
The free tier now offers 100 requests per month, down from 25,000. Source ↗
restructured Mapbox discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The free tier for Navigation SDK now has limits on monthly active users and trips. There are two options: one with metered trips and one with unlimited trips, both with associated costs beyond the free tier. Source ↗
reduced Foursquare effective 2026-06-01 medium
Foursquare cut the free Places API allowance on Pro endpoints from 10,000 to 500 calls a month, effective 2026-06-01. Its docs: "Beginning June 1, 2026, the following Places API & V2 Pro endpoint rates go into effect for all users: 0 - 500 calls – $0.00 CPM ... You will now receive 500 free Pro calls." Source ↗
increased Stadia Maps discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
Free tier increased to 200K credits/month (was 2,500 views/month) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Stadia Maps's rating.
rebranded Stamen Maps discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
Tile hosting transferred to Stadia Maps in 2023 We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Stamen Maps's rating.
restructured Google Maps Platform effective 2025-03-01 low
On 2025-03-01 Google Maps Platform replaced its $200 monthly recurring credit with a free monthly usage cap for each Core Services SKU, set by category (Essentials, Pro or Enterprise); Dynamic Maps, an Essentials SKU, gets 10,000 free loads a month. Source ↗

We hold 4 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

At-Risk Vendors

All 3 of the 20 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

Stable Picks

All 8 of the 20 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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