{"head":{"title":"Maps API Pricing Compared: Google Maps and Mapbox | OceanLab","description":"Maps API prices per 1,000 map loads and geocodes from Google Maps Platform and Mapbox, with free calls and volume tiers, checked at the source.","canonical":"https://oceanlab.in/pricing/categories/maps"},"asOf":"2026-10-25","category":"maps","vendors":[{"id":"google-maps","name":"Google Maps Platform","product":"Google Maps Platform","categories":["maps"],"source":"https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"Google's global pay-as-you-go price list, USD, Essentials SKUs. Volume tiers count usage across all projects on one billing account each month.","plans":[],"meters":[{"id":"dynamic-maps","kind":"map-load","label":"Dynamic Maps (web map loads)","unit":"map load","per":1000,"included":0,"plan":null,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000,"price":0},{"upTo":100000,"price":7},{"upTo":500000,"price":5.6},{"upTo":1000000,"price":4.2},{"upTo":5000000,"price":2.1},{"upTo":null,"price":0.53}],"source":"https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing"},{"id":"geocoding","kind":"geocode","label":"Geocoding","unit":"request","per":1000,"included":0,"plan":null,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000,"price":0},{"upTo":100000,"price":5},{"upTo":500000,"price":4},{"upTo":1000000,"price":3},{"upTo":5000000,"price":1.5},{"upTo":null,"price":0.38}],"source":"https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing"},{"id":"autocomplete","kind":"other","label":"Places Autocomplete Requests","unit":"request","per":1000,"included":0,"plan":null,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000,"price":0},{"upTo":100000,"price":2.83},{"upTo":500000,"price":2.27},{"upTo":1000000,"price":1.7},{"upTo":5000000,"price":0.85},{"upTo":null,"price":0.21}],"source":"https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free monthly cap","detail":"Each Essentials SKU here gets 10,000 free events a month."},{"title":"Graduated tiers","detail":"Price per 1,000 drops in steps at 100K, 500K, 1M and 5M. Each tier's rate applies only to events inside it."},{"title":"Billing account","detail":"Tiers count usage across all projects on the same billing account for the month."}],"unverified":["Country-specific prices, which Google shows for some countries."]},{"id":"mapbox","name":"Mapbox","product":"Mapbox maps API","categories":["maps"],"source":"https://www.mapbox.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"Pay-as-you-go, USD. Mapbox GL JS web map loads and Temporary Geocoding API.","plans":[],"meters":[{"id":"map-loads-web","kind":"map-load","label":"Map loads for web (Mapbox GL JS)","unit":"map load","per":1000,"included":0,"plan":null,"tiers":[{"upTo":50000,"price":0},{"upTo":100000,"price":5},{"upTo":200000,"price":4},{"upTo":1000000,"price":3},{"upTo":5000000,"price":2.5}],"note":"Above 5,000,000 loads: contact sales for discount. Includes unlimited Vector and Raster Tiles API requests.","source":"https://www.mapbox.com/pricing"},{"id":"geocoding-temp","kind":"geocode","label":"Temporary Geocoding API","unit":"request","per":1000,"included":0,"plan":null,"tiers":[{"upTo":100000,"price":0},{"upTo":500000,"price":0.75},{"upTo":1000000,"price":0.6},{"upTo":5000000,"price":0.45}],"note":"Above 5,000,000 requests: contact sales for discount.","source":"https://www.mapbox.com/pricing"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free tier","detail":"First 50,000 web map loads and 100,000 temporary geocoding requests each month are free."},{"title":"What a load is","detail":"A map load counts each time Mapbox GL JS initializes, with unlimited tile requests included."},{"title":"Top tier","detail":"Above 5 million a month, prices are by contact with sales."}],"unverified":["Last tier (5M+) is unpriced; tiers stop at 5,000,000."]}],"vendorPages":["aws","azure","cloudflare","digitalocean","firebase","fly-io","google-cloud","mongodb-atlas","neon","netlify","planetscale","render","supabase","vercel","algolia","google-maps","mapbox","paddle","plaid","postmark","resend","sendgrid","stripe","twilio"],"leftOut":[],"siblings":[{"label":"CDN pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/cdn","detail":"Priced on 1 TB of CDN traffic and 10M requests a month."},{"label":"Cloud hosting pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/cloud-hosting","detail":"Priced on one 2 vCPU / 4 GB server running all month, with 200 GB of egress."},{"label":"Database pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/databases","detail":"Priced on the smallest paid always-on database with 20 GB of storage."},{"label":"Edge functions pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/edge-functions","detail":"Priced on 20M edge function requests a month."},{"label":"Object storage pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/object-storage","detail":"Priced on 500 GB stored, 1 TB downloaded and 1M writes a month."},{"label":"Serverless functions pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/serverless","detail":"Priced on 10M invocations and 1M GB-seconds a month."},{"label":"Product analytics pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/analytics","detail":"Priced on 5M events a month."},{"label":"Auth pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/auth","detail":"Priced on 20,000 monthly active users."},{"label":"Banking data API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/banking-data","detail":"Priced on 500 verified bank accounts a month."},{"label":"Email API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/email-api","detail":"Priced on 100,000 emails a month."},{"label":"Error monitoring pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/error-monitoring","detail":"Priced on 100,000 errors a month."},{"label":"KYC and identity verification pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/kyc-identity","detail":"Priced on 500 identity verifications a month."},{"label":"Observability pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/observability","detail":"Priced on 10 hosts and 200 GB of logs a month."},{"label":"Payments pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/payments","detail":"Priced on 1,000 card payments of $50 a month."},{"label":"Search API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/search-api","detail":"Priced on 100,000 searches a month."},{"label":"SMS API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/sms","detail":"Priced on 10,000 SMS to US numbers a month."}],"faqs":[{"question":"Which maps API vendor is cheapest?","answer":"For 100,000 web map loads and 50,000 geocodes a month, Mapbox comes out lowest at about $250.00 a month on list prices, and Google Maps Platform highest at about $830.00, checked 2026-10-25. A different workload can change the order, so enter your own numbers in the estimator."},{"question":"How is the estimate worked out?","answer":"Each vendor is priced on its cheapest plan that lists a rate for every line of the workload: the plan fee plus each usage line, after any free or included amount. A plan's monthly minimum counts as a floor. Volume tiers are applied in order. Taxes, discounts and committed-use deals are left out."},{"question":"How current are these prices?","answer":"Every rate was read off the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-25 and links to it. Prices change often: check the vendor's page before you commit, and tell us if a number here is out of date."}]}