Stadia Maps Geocoding & Search

Best for: Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call; AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt); Cost-sensitive teams - low, transparent entry price

Avoid if: You have strict compliance requirements

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  65 / 100
  Agent friendliness
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  100 / 100
  Pricing transparency
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  85 / 100
  Setup speed
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  55 / 100
  Docs quality
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  100 / 100
  Procurement ease
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  15 / 100
  Trust readiness

Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fields (pricing, compliance, capabilities, docs and developer-surface signals) - not from reviews or paid placement. Each axis is 0-100; an unknown signal scores 0 for that axis. Procurement ease is the inverse of buying friction (higher = easier to adopt).

Pricing model

Hybrid (base + usage) [2]stadiamaps.com/pricing/“Professional $250/month — 25,000,000 credits/month — Overage: +1.5¢ per 1,000 additional credits”stadiamaps.com/pricing/“Starter $20/month — 1,000,000 credits/month — Overage: +3¢ per 1,000 additional credits”

Published pricing

✓ Yes [3]stadiamaps.com/pricing/“Free $0/month, Starter $20/month, Standard $80/month, Professional $250/month”

Free tier

✓ Yes [4]stadiamaps.com/pricing/“Free Plan – Price: $0/month – Credits: 200,000/month – Overage: No additional usage allowed – commercial use not permitted”stadiamaps.com/pricing/“New accounts receive a complimentary 14-day Professional plan trial.”

Free tier details

Free plan at $0/month with 200,000 credits/month (recurring); includes Forward Geocoding and Place Details; does NOT include Autocomplete, Reverse, Structured, or Bulk Geocoding APIs; commercial use not permitted on free plan. [5]stadiamaps.com/pricing/“Free Plan – Price: $0/month – Credits: 200,000/month – Features: Standard basemaps, basic APIs only, commercial use not permitted”stadiamaps.com/news/introducing-stadia-maps-geocoding-search-v2/“Forward Geocoding and Place Details now available on the Free plan”

Self-serve signup

✓ Yes [6]stadiamaps.com/faqs/“Sign up for a free account, create a property in your dashboard, and your API key will be generated automatically.”

Requires sales call

✗ No

Enterprise plan

✓ Yes [7]stadiamaps.com/pricing/“Enterprise option available for mission-critical deployments with custom SLAs, flexible billing, on-premises hosting, and perpetual licensing options”

• Forward geocoding
• Reverse geocoding
• Address autocomplete
• Batch / bulk

Supported actions

forward_geocode, reverse_geocode, structured_geocode, autocomplete, bulk_geocode, place_details [8]docs.stadiamaps.com/geocoding-search-autocomplete/overview/“Forward Geocoding, Autocomplete Search, Structured Geocoding, Bulk Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, Place Details”docs.stadiamaps.com/geocoding-search-autocomplete/overview/“Bulk Geocoding – Geocode thousands of addresses quickly with a single API call”

Regions

global

Languages

multilingual via BCP47 lang parameter and Accept-Language header; enhanced non-English support including East Asian languages

Input types

free-form address text, structured address components, lat/lon coordinates, bulk address lists (up to 5000 queries), partial text for autocomplete, GID (globally unique identifier)

Output types

GeoJSON FeatureCollection (RFC 7946) [9]docs.stadiamaps.com/geocoding-search-autocomplete/api-response-format/“The API returns a GeoJSON FeatureCollection with three main components... features – List of GeoJSON features conforming to RFC 7946”

Webhooks

✗ No [10]stadiamaps.com/faqs/“No mention of webhooks appears anywhere in this FAQ document.”

Sandbox / test mode

✗ No [11]stadiamaps.com/faqs/“No sandbox or test environment is mentioned. The FAQ discusses trial accounts and development/testing purposes but makes no reference to a dedicated sandbox or test environment.”

SDK languages

TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, Swift, PHP [12]stadiamaps.com/products/geocoding-search/“Stadia Maps provides official SDKs for multiple platforms including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and PHP”

MCP server

✓ Yes [13]stadiamaps.com/faqs/“Official SDKs [MCP Server] — GitHub link to stadiamaps-mcp-server-ts”github.com/stadiamaps/stadiamaps-mcp-server-ts“A TypeScript MCP server for interacting with the Stadia Maps APIs”

SOC 2

– Unknown [14]stadiamaps.com/infrastructure/“No compliance certifications, SLA details, or security certifications are explicitly mentioned on the infrastructure page.”stadiamaps.com/legal/data-processing-addendum/“reference to 'security documentation, certifications, or completed industry-standard questionnaires made generally available to customers' — no specific SOC2 certification named”

HIPAA

✗ No [15]stadiamaps.com/privacy/privacy-policy/“No compliance certifications are mentioned in this privacy policy document.”stadiamaps.com/legal/data-processing-addendum/“No mention of HIPAA found in the Data Processing Addendum document”

GDPR

✓ Yes [16]stadiamaps.com/legal/data-processing-addendum/“The DPA explicitly incorporates the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, with Standard Contractual Clauses (Module Two or Three) applied to transfers outside the EEA.”docs.stadiamaps.com/eu-gdpr-endpoints/“We are confident that our privacy practices and procedures satisfy GDPR requirements by default”

ISO 27001

– Unknown [17]stadiamaps.com/legal/data-processing-addendum/“No ISO 27001 certification is explicitly referenced in the Data Processing Addendum.”

PCI DSS

– Unknown [18]stadiamaps.com/privacy/privacy-policy/“No compliance certifications are mentioned in this privacy policy document.”

Published SLA

✗ No [19]stadiamaps.com/infrastructure/“No specific uptime percentages or published SLA metrics found on the infrastructure page.”stadiamaps.com/pricing/“Enterprise option available for mission-critical deployments with custom SLAs, flexible billing, on-premises hosting, and perpetual licensing options”

Rate limits

Bulk geocoding requests may contain up to 5,000 queries per request. Credit exhaustion returns HTTP 429. Per-request credit costs: Forward/Reverse/Structured/Bulk Geocoding and Autocomplete v1 = 20 credits; Autocomplete v2 = 1 credit; Place Lookup = 20 credits/GID. Per-second rate limits not published. [20]docs.stadiamaps.com/limits/“Bulk geocoding requests may contain up to 5,000 queries.”docs.stadiamaps.com/limits/“We reserve the right to impose rate limits on customers who are abusive or disruptive of service. While we do not publish exact limits for local development, it should be usable without issue for most applications.”

Known restrictions

Cannot permanently store geocoding results without an active Standard, Professional, or Enterprise subscription, Server-side caching prohibited; only client-side caching following HTTP headers (max 7 days) allowed, Mobile app offline caching limited to 100MB per device only, No creation of derivative databases through systematic data extraction, No benchmarking services against competitors, Commercial use requires paid subscription (free tier for non-commercial only), No proxying or circumventing access controls, No data extraction to train competing ML/AI systems, Maps must display attribution: © Stadia Maps, Prohibited uses include traffic law enforcement applications and autonomous vehicle systems [21]stadiamaps.com/terms-of-service/“Users cannot permanently store results for future use (e.g., as a database column), in part or in whole, from the Stadia Maps Geocoding APIs without an active Standard, Professional, or Enterprise subscription.”stadiamaps.com/terms-of-service/“Limited offline caching is permitted—up to 100MB per device for mobile applications only. Server-side caching is prohibited; only client-side caching following HTTP headers (max 7 days) is allowed.”

• Docs
• API reference
• llms.txt
• Changelog
• Status page

Docs rendering: static · llms.txt present

API style

rest

Base URL

https://api.stadiamaps.com

Version

v2

Versioning

url

Stability

ga

Auth methods

api_key

Error format

vendor-specific (GeoJSON FeatureCollection envelope with geocoding.error string in v2, geocoding.errors array in v1)

SDKs

• TypeScript/JavaScript @stadiamaps/api · repo
• Python stadiamaps · repo
• Kotlin stadiamaps-api-kotlin · repo
• Swift stadiamaps-api-swift · repo
• PHP stadiamaps/api · repo

• Auth docs
• Quickstart
• MCP server

Launched

2016-01-01

GA

2025-04-08

Notable customers

HolidayCheck, Relive, Shadowmap, Stay22, ZeroDown, Furkot, Swiftly, On the Go Map

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• Melissa

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1. ↑Description: stadiamaps.com · stadiamaps.com
2. ↑Pricing model: stadiamaps.com · stadiamaps.com
3. ↑Published pricing: stadiamaps.com
4. ↑Free tier: stadiamaps.com · stadiamaps.com
5. ↑Free tier details: stadiamaps.com · stadiamaps.com
6. ↑Self-serve signup: stadiamaps.com
7. ↑Enterprise plan: stadiamaps.com
8. ↑Supported actions: docs.stadiamaps.com · docs.stadiamaps.com
9. ↑Output types: docs.stadiamaps.com
10. ↑Webhooks: stadiamaps.com
11. ↑Sandbox: stadiamaps.com
12. ↑SDK languages: stadiamaps.com
13. ↑MCP server: stadiamaps.com · github.com
14. ↑SOC 2: stadiamaps.com · stadiamaps.com
15. ↑HIPAA: stadiamaps.com · stadiamaps.com
16. ↑GDPR: stadiamaps.com · docs.stadiamaps.com
17. ↑ISO 27001: stadiamaps.com
18. ↑PCI DSS: stadiamaps.com
19. ↑Published SLA: stadiamaps.com · stadiamaps.com
20. ↑Rate limits: docs.stadiamaps.com · docs.stadiamaps.com
21. ↑Known restrictions: stadiamaps.com · stadiamaps.com

Every field change, who made it, and when - from our audited data pipeline and editors.

1. 2026-06-15 Score Agent Friendliness: 45 → 65
2. 2026-06-15 Score Docs Quality: 35 → 55
3. 2026-06-14 API Reference URL: (none) → https://docs.stadiamaps.com/api-reference/
4. 2026-06-14 Robots Allows Agents: (none) → Yes
5. 2026-06-14 Has Structured Data: (none) → Yes
6. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt URL: https://stadiamaps.com/llms.txt → https://docs.stadiamaps.com/llms.txt
7. 2026-06-14 Capabilities: {} → {"batch":true,"forward":true,"reverse":true,"autocomplete":true}
8. 2026-06-14 Summary Md: (none) → Stadia Maps Geocoding and Search is a REST API offering forward, reverse, struc…
9. 2026-06-14 Score Docs Quality: 0 → 35
10. 2026-06-14 Score Agent Friendliness: 30 → 45
11. 2026-06-14 Status Page URL: (none) → https://status.stadiamaps.com
12. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt Present: (none) → Yes
13. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt URL: (none) → https://stadiamaps.com/llms.txt
14. 2026-06-14 Rendering: (none) → static
15. 2026-06-14 Changelog URL: (none) → https://stadiamaps.com/changelog
16. 2026-06-14 Docs URL: (none) → https://docs.stadiamaps.com
17. 2026-06-14 Score Agent Friendliness: (none) → 30
18. 2026-06-14 Scoring Methodology: (none) → Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fi…
19. 2026-06-14 Avoid If: (none) → You have strict compliance requirements
20. 2026-06-14 Best For: (none) → Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call, AI agents and auto…
21. 2026-06-14 Score Trust Readiness: (none) → 15
22. 2026-06-14 Score Procurement Friction: (none) → 100
23. 2026-06-14 Score Docs Quality: (none) → 0
24. 2026-06-14 Score Setup Speed: (none) → 85
25. 2026-06-14 Score Pricing Transparency: (none) → 100
26. 2026-06-14 SLA Published: set to No
27. 2026-06-14 Data Retention Policy URL: set to https://stadiamaps.com/privacy/privacy-policy/
28. 2026-06-14 Documented Rate Limits: set to Bulk geocoding requests may contain up to 5,000 queries per request. Credit exh…
29. 2026-06-14 Status: set to published
30. 2026-06-14 Known Restrictions: set to Cannot permanently store geocoding results without an active Standard, Professi…
31. 2026-06-14 Auth Methods: set to api_key
32. 2026-06-14 Auth Docs URL: set to https://docs.stadiamaps.com/authentication/
33. 2026-06-14 API Style: set to rest
34. 2026-06-14 Base URL: set to https://api.stadiamaps.com
35. 2026-06-14 API Version: set to v2
36. 2026-06-14 Versioning Scheme: set to url
37. 2026-06-14 Stability: set to ga
38. 2026-06-14 MCP URL: set to https://github.com/stadiamaps/stadiamaps-mcp-server-ts
39. 2026-06-14 Quickstart URL: set to https://docs.stadiamaps.com/geocoding-search-autocomplete/overview/
40. 2026-06-14 Error Format: set to vendor-specific (GeoJSON FeatureCollection envelope with geocoding.error string…
41. 2026-06-14 Requires Verification: set to No
42. 2026-06-14 Starting Price Usd: set to 20
43. 2026-06-14 Price Basis: set to month
44. 2026-06-14 Free Tier Limit: set to 200,000 credits/month (non-commercial use only)
45. 2026-06-14 Launched At: set to 2016-01-01
46. 2026-06-14 GA Date: set to 2025-04-08
47. 2026-06-14 Notable Customers: set to HolidayCheck, Relive, Shadowmap, Stay22, ZeroDown, Furkot, Swiftly, On the Go M…
48. 2026-06-14 Slug: set to stadia-maps
49. 2026-06-14 Source Confidence: set to high
50. 2026-06-14 Extractor: set to claude-subagent:sonnet

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