Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use

Pick the cheapest geocoding API provider for your project. An impartial comparison of pricing for HERE, Google Maps Platform, Azure Maps, OpenCage, TomTom Maps, LocationIQ, and Nominatim. Author's note This article was originally published on Superface blog before the pivot to agentic tooling platform and is republished here with company's permission. I am no longer working with geocoding APIs and the content of this article may be outdated. Geocoding is the process of converting an address to geolocation coordinates (latitude and longitude). Reverse geocoding is the opposite: assigning a street address to the given coordinates. Examples of geocoding include: Obvious ones, like finding a location on a map or displaying an address of a selected location. Visualization of customer data. Working with coordinates stored in photos. Local search, such as displaying events or restaurants in the user’s proximity or within a city radius. How do you build this feature? The easiest way is ... Read full article.