TomTom Geocoding API

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

• ████░░░░░░
  40 / 100
  Agent friendliness
• ██████████
  100 / 100
  Pricing transparency
• ████████▒░
  85 / 100
  Setup speed
• █▒░░░░░░░░
  15 / 100
  Docs quality
• ██████████
  100 / 100
  Procurement ease
• █████░░░░░
  50 / 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]developer.tomtom.com/pricing“Geocoding API: $0.75 per 1,000 requests. Three tiers: Freemium (free daily allowance only), Pay As You Grow (free daily allowance + PAYG overage), and Enterprise (custom).”developer.tomtom.com/store/maps-api“Pay As You Grow users select prepaid amounts usable within one year with no long-term commitment.”

Published pricing

✓ Yes [3]developer.tomtom.com/pricing“Geocoding API: $0.75 per 1,000 requests. Reverse Geocoding API: $0.50 per 1,000 requests. Batch Search API: $0.75 per 1,000 requests. Search API (Fuzzy Search, POI Search): $2.50 per 1,000 requests.”

Free tier

✓ Yes [4]developer.tomtom.com/store/maps-api“Same daily free allowance as Freemium (50,000 tiles, 2,500 non-tiles). No long-term commitment; cancel anytime.”developer.tomtom.com/pricing“50,000 free tile requests daily and 2,500 free non-tile requests daily with No credit card required”

Free tier details

Recurring daily allowance of 2,500 free non-tile requests (shared across all non-tile APIs including Geocoding) and 50,000 free tile requests daily. No credit card required. Commercial use permitted.

Self-serve signup

✓ Yes

Requires sales call

✗ No

Enterprise plan

✓ Yes [5]developer.tomtom.com/pricing“Enterprise: Custom contracts tailored to specific business requirements. Contact our sales team for a tailored quote based on your needs.”

• Forward geocoding

Supported actions

geocode, structured_geocode [6]developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/documentation/geocode“Primary Endpoint: Geocode (GET) - Converts addresses to geographic coordinates; Structured Geocode (GET) - Processes address components separately”

Regions

Americas (US, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Caribbean), Europe (EU countries, UK, Russia), Asia Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea), Middle East & Africa (Egypt, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Morocco)

Languages

English (multiple regional variants: US, GB, AU, NZ), Spanish (Castilian and Latin American), French (France and Canada), German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Russian, Korean (Hangul and Latin scripts), Japanese, Arabic, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Galician, NGT (Neutral Ground Truth - official languages in local scripts), NGT-Latn (Latin script variants) [7]developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/documentation/product-information/supported-languages“The API includes 50+ languages spanning European, Asian, Middle Eastern, and other languages. Korean supports Hangul (ko-KR) and Latin (ko-Latn-KR) scripts; Russian offers Cyrillic (ru-RU) and Latin (ru-Latn-RU) variants.”developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/documentation/product-information/supported-languages“NGT - Official languages for all regions in local scripts if available. NGT-Latn - Latin script variant when available.”

Input types

free-form address string, structured address (streetNumber, streetName, city, postalCode, countryCode), partial or misspelled address, postal address

Output types

JSON, JSONP, JavaScript, XML [8]developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/documentation/geocode“ext (string) - Response format (json, jsonp, js, xml)”

Webhooks

✗ No

Sandbox / test mode

✗ No [9]developer.tomtom.com/pricing“50,000 free tile requests daily and 2,500 free non-tile requests daily — this is a free allowance on the production environment, not a separate sandbox environment.”

SDK languages

JavaScript, MCP/Node.js, Android, iOS

MCP server

✓ Yes [10]developer.tomtom.com/tomtom-mcp/documentation/overview“The TomTom Maps MCP Server enables AI applications to access mapping and navigation services through the Model Context Protocol. It supports Search & Geocoding: 'Convert addresses to coordinates with industry-leading accuracy' and reverse geocoding.”developer.tomtom.com/tomtom-mcp/documentation/overview“The server is currently in public preview and can be integrated with Claude Desktop, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Agents SDK.”

SOC 2

– Unknown [11]tomtom.com/company/safety-and-security/“TomTom's information security management system is accredited to the globally recognized standard, ISO/IEC 27001:2022. [SOC 2 is not mentioned on this page or elsewhere in TomTom's public documentation.]”

HIPAA

– Unknown

GDPR

✓ Yes [12]tomtom.com/company/safety-and-security/“TomTom holds the international auditable standard of ISO/IEC 27018:2019 for Information Security Management Systems to protect personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds.”tomtom.com/company/privacy/“TomTom was GDPR compliant long before GDPR existed. As a company based in Europe, TomTom's operations are subject to global privacy laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).”

ISO 27001

✓ Yes [13]tomtom.com/company/safety-and-security/“TomTom's information security management system is accredited to the globally recognized standard, ISO/IEC 27001:2022.”

PCI DSS

– Unknown

Published SLA

✓ Yes [14]developer.tomtom.com/terms-and-conditions“TomTom shall use its reasonable efforts to ensure that the Maps APIs and Live Services are available. (Clause 13 - Support and Service Level Agreement)”developer.tomtom.com/terms-and-conditions“Public Preview products and services are excluded from the Service Level Agreement, and Private Preview products and services are also excluded from the Service Level Agreement.”

Rate limits

Geocoding API default: 5 QPS; Search API default: 5 QPS; Batch Search: 5 QPS; EV Search API: 25 QPS. Maximum 2,000 total results per query; maximum offset of 1,900; maximum 100 results per request. [15]developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/documentation/geocode“limit (integer, default 10, max 100) - Results count. ofs (integer, default 0, max 1900) - Result offset. Maximum 2,000 total results.”developer.tomtom.com/knowledgebase/platform/articles/qps-limits/“Geocoding: Default QPS is 5 queries per second. Search API: Default QPS is 5 queries per second. EV Search API: 25 queries per second.”

Known restrictions

Results may only be cached in clients where cache control headers are present; must not be cached longer than the maximum age period indicated in cache control headers, Caching cannot be used to serve multiple clients or users, Downloaded map data must be deleted within 90 days of receipt, Cannot create derivative works, competing databases, or secondary databases from API content, Cannot apply machine learning or AI algorithms to results where output would be stored in publicly accessible datasets, Attribution/copyright logo must be retained; TomTom Copyright API must be implemented for applicable services, Cannot use results in drone/in-flight navigation or high-risk safety systems, Cannot benchmark against competitor products without written approval, API does not return Points of Interest (POIs), storeResult and typeahead parameters were deprecated (withdrawal effective May 2024), Total liability for SLA breaches capped at USD $100.00 (T&C Clause 21.3) [16]developer.tomtom.com/terms-and-conditions“Results may only be cached in clients where the control headers are present in the Result and must not be cached for longer than the maximum age period indicated in such cache control headers.”developer.tomtom.com/terms-and-conditions“TomTom's total liability is capped at USD $100.00 (Clause 21.3)”developer.tomtom.com/terms-and-conditions“retain any copies thereof for a period longer than 90 days...you will fully remove such Map Data.”

• Docs

Docs rendering: static

API style

rest

Base URL

https://api.tomtom.com

Version

2

Versioning

url

Stability

ga

Auth methods

api_key

Error format

vendor-specific

SDKs

• JavaScript @tomtom-org/maps-sdk · repo
• MCP/Node.js @tomtom-org/tomtom-mcp · repo
• Android com.tomtom.sdk:init · repo
• iOS · repo

• Auth docs
• Quickstart
• MCP server
• Deprecation policy

Launched

2020-01-01

GA

2022-10-28

Notable customers

Microsoft, Volkswagen Group (CARIAD), Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz (Daimler), Toyota, Renault, Bolt, Yellow Pages, Dynalogic, Precisely, Alteryx, IFS

• Geocodio

  "The delightfully boring geocoder"

  Hybrid · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• Melissa

  Global data quality and enhancement solutions to profile, verify, clean, update, match, and integrate People data.

  Hybrid · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• Azure Maps (Search / Geocoding)

  "Azure Maps is a set of mapping and geospatial services that enable developers and organizations to build intelligent location-based experiences for applications across many different industries and use cases. Use the Azure Maps REST APIs and Web SDK to bring maps, geocoding, location search, routing, real-time traffic, geolocation, time zone information, and weather data into your web and mobile solutions."

  Usage · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• LocationIQ

  "Affordable Google Maps alternative for your website or app"

  Subscription · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• Google Geocoding API

  "The Geocoding API is a service that accepts a place as an address, latitude and longitude coordinates, or Place ID. It converts the address into latitude and longitude coordinates and a Place ID, or converts latitude and longitude coordinates or a Place ID into an address."

  Hybrid · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• Radar Geocoding API

  "Use Radar's geocoding APIs to convert addresses to latitude and longitude coordinates, or vice versa."

  Hybrid · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

TomTom Geocoding API alternatives · TomTom Geocoding API vs Geocodio · All Geocoding APIs APIs

Each field above carries a numbered source - hover for a preview, click to jump here.

1. ↑Description: developer.tomtom.com
2. ↑Pricing model: developer.tomtom.com · developer.tomtom.com
3. ↑Published pricing: developer.tomtom.com
4. ↑Free tier: developer.tomtom.com · developer.tomtom.com
5. ↑Enterprise plan: developer.tomtom.com
6. ↑Supported actions: developer.tomtom.com
7. ↑Languages: developer.tomtom.com · developer.tomtom.com
8. ↑Output types: developer.tomtom.com
9. ↑Sandbox: developer.tomtom.com
10. ↑MCP server: developer.tomtom.com · developer.tomtom.com
11. ↑SOC 2: tomtom.com
12. ↑GDPR: tomtom.com · tomtom.com
13. ↑ISO 27001: tomtom.com
14. ↑Published SLA: developer.tomtom.com · developer.tomtom.com
15. ↑Rate limits: developer.tomtom.com · developer.tomtom.com
16. ↑Known restrictions: developer.tomtom.com · developer.tomtom.com · developer.tomtom.com

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

1. 2026-06-15 Score Agent Friendliness: 30 → 40
2. 2026-06-14 Robots Allows Agents: (none) → Yes
3. 2026-06-14 Has Structured Data: (none) → No
4. 2026-06-14 Capabilities: {} → {"forward":true}
5. 2026-06-14 Summary Md: (none) → TomTom Geocoding API converts addresses into geographic coordinates and returns…
6. 2026-06-14 Score Docs Quality: 0 → 15
7. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt Present: (none) → No
8. 2026-06-14 Rendering: (none) → static
9. 2026-06-14 Docs URL: (none) → https://developer.tomtom.com/documentation
10. 2026-06-14 Score Agent Friendliness: (none) → 30
11. 2026-06-14 Score Setup Speed: (none) → 85
12. 2026-06-14 Score Pricing Transparency: (none) → 100
13. 2026-06-14 Best For: (none) → Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call, AI agents and auto…
14. 2026-06-14 Score Trust Readiness: (none) → 50
15. 2026-06-14 Score Procurement Friction: (none) → 100
16. 2026-06-14 Score Docs Quality: (none) → 0
17. 2026-06-14 Avoid If: (none) → You have strict compliance requirements
18. 2026-06-14 Scoring Methodology: (none) → Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fi…
19. 2026-06-14 Free Tier Available: set to Yes
20. 2026-06-14 Free Tier Details: set to Recurring daily allowance of 2,500 free non-tile requests (shared across all no…
21. 2026-06-14 Self Serve Signup: set to Yes
22. 2026-06-14 Requires Sales Call: set to No
23. 2026-06-14 Enterprise Plan Available: set to Yes
24. 2026-06-14 GDPR: set to Yes
25. 2026-06-14 ISO 27001: set to Yes
26. 2026-06-14 SLA Published: set to Yes
27. 2026-06-14 SLA URL: set to https://developer.tomtom.com/terms-and-conditions
28. 2026-06-14 Data Retention Policy URL: set to https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/privacy/
29. 2026-06-14 Documented Rate Limits: set to Geocoding API default: 5 QPS; Search API default: 5 QPS; Batch Search: 5 QPS; E…
30. 2026-06-14 Fields Not Found: set to soc2, hipaa, pci_dss, rate_limit_requests, rate_limit_window, idempotency_suppo…
31. 2026-06-14 Source Confidence: set to high
32. 2026-06-14 Known Restrictions: set to Results may only be cached in clients where cache control headers are present; …
33. 2026-06-14 Auth Methods: set to api_key
34. 2026-06-14 Auth Docs URL: set to https://developer.tomtom.com/platform/documentation/my-tomtom/how-to-get-a-tomt…
35. 2026-06-14 API Style: set to rest
36. 2026-06-14 Base URL: set to https://api.tomtom.com
37. 2026-06-14 API Version: set to 2
38. 2026-06-14 Versioning Scheme: set to url
39. 2026-06-14 Stability: set to ga
40. 2026-06-14 Deprecation Policy URL: set to https://developer.tomtom.com/deprecation-policy/overview
41. 2026-06-14 MCP URL: set to https://mcp.tomtom.com/maps
42. 2026-06-14 Quickstart URL: set to https://developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/documentation/product-information/in…
43. 2026-06-14 Error Format: set to vendor-specific
44. 2026-06-14 Slug: set to tomtom-geocoding
45. 2026-06-14 Starting Price Usd: set to 0.75
46. 2026-06-14 Price Basis: set to 1,000 requests
47. 2026-06-14 Free Tier Limit: set to 2,500 non-tile requests/day
48. 2026-06-14 Launched At: set to 2020-01-01
49. 2026-06-14 GA Date: set to 2022-10-28
50. 2026-06-14 Notable Customers: set to Microsoft, Volkswagen Group (CARIAD), Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz (Daimler), Toyo…

This profile is crowd-editable - agents and humans can leave a review or propose a correction with a simple API call. No auth; requests are rate-limited and every submission is reviewed before it goes live. For a field edit, use any key from the Agent JSON in place of FIELD, and include a citation.

curl -X POST https://apio.sh/api/feedback/tomtom-geocoding \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"kind":"review","rating":5,"body":"Your experience with this API…"}'

curl -X POST https://apio.sh/api/suggest/tomtom-geocoding/FIELD \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"value":"corrected value","citations":[{"url":"https://source.example/page","excerpt":"supporting quote"}],"note":"what changed and why"}'

All the ways to contribute →