TravelTime API

Best for: Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call; AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt); Teams needing broad API coverage out of the box

Avoid if: You need transparent pricing up front; You have strict compliance requirements

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  35 / 100
  Agent friendliness
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  15 / 100
  Pricing transparency
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  85 / 100
  Setup speed
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  45 / 100
  Docs quality
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  40 / 100
  Procurement ease
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  35 / 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

Subscription [2]docs.traveltime.com/api/overview/faqs“We never offer transactional pricing models. Our licences always offer unlimited usage of the API for a fixed annual cost.”traveltime.com/pricing-model“Generate as many travel times as you need for a fixed price, with our anti-usage based pricing model.”

Published pricing

✗ No [3]traveltime.com/pricing“Chat to our team about how fixed pricing can set your business free”help.traveltime.com/en/articles/9685030-licence-options“To find out more about pricing and licence options, please contact [email protected]”

Free tier

✓ Yes [4]docs.traveltime.com/api/overview/usage-limits“The two week free trial is limited to a maximum of 60 hits per minute. After the two week free trial, a limit of 5 hits per minute applies.”traveltime.com/terms-of-service“Non-Paid Service: Complimentary access with restricted usage limits. TravelTime may withdraw offering anytime without notice.”

Free tier details

2-week free trial at 60 hits/min (evaluation/internal use only, not for commercial or end-user deployment). After trial, a persistent Non-Paid Service plan remains available at 5 hits/min with medium-only level-of-detail for isochrones. Paid plans offer unlimited usage for a fixed annual fee. [5]docs.traveltime.com/api/overview/usage-limits“The two week free trial is limited to a maximum of 60 hits per minute, where a hit is defined as 1 isochrone, or 1 route, or 1 matrix search. After the two week free trial, a limit of 5 hits per minute applies.”docs.traveltime.com/api/overview/usage-limits“Trial: Medium (0) level of detail maximum; Unlimited: Medium (0); Free Restricted: Medium (0); Custom: Highest (2)”

Self-serve signup

✓ Yes [6]traveltime.com/get-started“Sign-up for a 2-week free trial of the TravelTime API. Built for developers.”

Requires sales call

✓ Yes [7]help.traveltime.com/en/articles/9685030-licence-options“To find out more about pricing and licence options, please contact [email protected]”traveltime.com/pricing“Chat to our team about how fixed pricing can set your business free”

Enterprise plan

✓ Yes

• Distance matrix
• Isochrones
• Traffic-aware
• Transit / multimodal

Supported actions

time-filter (travel time matrix), time-filter/fast (fast travel time matrix), time-filter/postcodes, time-filter/postcode-districts, time-filter/postcode-sectors, time-map (isochrone), time-map/fast (fast isochrone), routes (directions with turn-by-turn), h3 (H3 grid catchment), h3/fast, geohash, geohash/fast, geocoding/search, geocoding/reverse, distance-map, map-info, supported-locations, map-tiles (raster display tiles)

Regions

235 countries and territories globally for driving, walking, and cycling, Public transit coverage: full (95%+ stops) in 80+ countries including UK, USA, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan; partial in 90+ more, Advanced traffic modeling in 31 countries including USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and most Western European nations; simpler congestion model elsewhere, Fast endpoints (time-filter/fast, time-map/fast) available in 38 countries primarily developed nations, Frozen traffic environments for 6 countries: UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Travel modes: driving, walking, cycling, public transport (including bus, coach, train, driving+train, cycling+public_transport combinations)

Languages

English (turn-by-turn instruction language not explicitly documented; geocoding results support BCP47 language tags via Accept-Language header)

Input types

origin/destination coordinates (latitude/longitude), departure time or arrival time (ISO 8601), transportation mode, maximum journey time in seconds (up to 14400), location IDs (up to 2000 per request), address or postcode strings (geocoding), bounding box for geocoding, level of detail for isochrone shape, range / departure time window, protocol buffers for matrix requests

Output types

travel time in seconds, distance in meters (driving/walking/cycling), distance breakdown by mode, UK public transport fares, route geometry / polyline, turn-by-turn navigation steps, isochrone polygon, GeoJSON, KML, WKT (Well-Known Text), bounding boxes, H3 grid cells, Geohash cells, geocoding results as GeoJSON FeatureCollection with confidence score, unreachable locations array, protocol buffers (matrix), raster map tiles (OSM Bright and Positron styles)

Webhooks

✗ No [8]docs.traveltime.com/api/overview/faqs“All of our endpoints are synchronous, but the majority of our SDKs offer asynchronous functionality.”

Sandbox / test mode

✗ No [9]docs.traveltime.com/api/start/auth“In order to authenticate with Travel Time JSON API, you will have to supply the Application Id and Api Key given to you via the headers X-Application-Id and X-Api-Key.”

SDK languages

Python, Node.js / TypeScript, Java, Ruby, R [10]docs.traveltime.com/api/start/sdk“NodeJS: https://github.com/traveltime-dev/traveltime-sdk-nodejs, Java: https://github.com/traveltime-dev/traveltime-sdk-java, Python: https://github.com/traveltime-dev/traveltime-python-sdk, Ruby: https://github.com/traveltime-dev/traveltime-sdk-ruby, R: https://github.com/traveltime-dev/traveltime-sdk-r”

MCP server

✗ No [11]docs.traveltime.com/api/start/sdk“NodeJS, Java, Python, Ruby, R — each SDK includes documentation and is available as open-source code on GitHub”

SOC 2

– Unknown

HIPAA

– Unknown

GDPR

✓ Yes [12]help.traveltime.com/en/articles/10411555-is-the-service-gdpr-compliant“We are fully GDPR compliant. The request is processed in memory and nothing is written to disk except for performance monitoring purposes.”traveltime.com/privacy-policy“This policy complies with the Data Protection Act 2018 (Act) accordingly incorporating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).”

ISO 27001

– Unknown

PCI DSS

– Unknown

Published SLA

✓ Yes [13]traveltime.com/terms-of-service“TravelTime shall use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain monthly uptime of 99%, unless otherwise specified in your service agreement.”traveltime.com/reliability“99.99%+ API uptime across endpoints”

Rate limits

Free trial (2 weeks): 60 hits/min; Non-Paid (post-trial free): 5 hits/min; Paid plans: maximum 1,000 hits/min across all endpoints (per Fair Usage Policy in Terms of Service). A 'hit' = 1 isochrone, 1 route, or 1 matrix search. [14]docs.traveltime.com/api/overview/usage-limits“The two week free trial is limited to a maximum of 60 hits per minute, where a hit is defined as 1 isochrone, or 1 route, or 1 matrix search. After the two week free trial, a limit of 5 hits per minute applies.”traveltime.com/terms-of-service“Paid tier: Maximum 1,000 hits per minute across all endpoints”

Known restrictions

Free trial is for internal/evaluation use only - not for end-user or commercial deployment, Non-Paid (post-trial) plan rate-limited to 5 hits/min and restricted to medium level-of-detail for isochrones, Cached data must be refreshed at least every 60 days; all cached data must be deleted upon agreement termination, Attribution (TravelTime branding) required wherever Service Data is displayed, Matrix: maximum 2,000 location IDs per request; maximum 10 searches per request, Isochrone: maximum 10 searches per request; free/trial tier limited to medium level-of-detail, Routes endpoint: departure_searches.arrival_location_ids limited to maximum 2 values per search, Maximum journey time: 4 hours standard for matrix and isochrone (14,400 seconds); 12 hours for routes; 3 hours for fast matrix; 2 hours for protobuf matrix, Fast endpoints available in only 38 countries, Distance output limited to driving, walking, and cycling modes (not public transit), Map tiles not available with free API key - must contact TravelTime for access, Paid plan pricing requires contacting sales - no published price card

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

Docs rendering: static · llms.txt present

API style

rest

Base URL

https://api.traveltimeapp.com/v4

Version

v4

Versioning

url

Stability

ga

Auth methods

api_key

Idempotency keys

✗ No

Error format

vendor-specific

Rate limit

60 / minute

SDKs

• Python traveltimepy · repo
• Node.js / TypeScript traveltime-api · repo
• Java com.traveltime:traveltime-sdk-java · repo
• Ruby travel_time · repo
• R traveltimeR · repo

• Auth docs
• Quickstart

Launched

2009-01-01

Notable customers

Rightmove, Zoopla, Realtor, CoStar Group, CBRE, JLL, Stepstone Group, Allegis Group, BT Group, Manpower Group, Barratt Developments, NHS

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1. ↑Description: traveltime.com
2. ↑Pricing model: docs.traveltime.com · traveltime.com
3. ↑Published pricing: traveltime.com · help.traveltime.com
4. ↑Free tier: docs.traveltime.com · traveltime.com
5. ↑Free tier details: docs.traveltime.com · docs.traveltime.com
6. ↑Self-serve signup: traveltime.com
7. ↑Requires sales call: help.traveltime.com · traveltime.com
8. ↑Webhooks: docs.traveltime.com
9. ↑Sandbox: docs.traveltime.com
10. ↑SDK languages: docs.traveltime.com
11. ↑MCP server: docs.traveltime.com
12. ↑GDPR: help.traveltime.com · traveltime.com
13. ↑Published SLA: traveltime.com · traveltime.com
14. ↑Rate limits: docs.traveltime.com · traveltime.com

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

1. 2026-06-15 Best For: Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call, Teams needing broa… → Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call, AI agents and auto…
2. 2026-06-15 Score Docs Quality: 15 → 45
3. 2026-06-15 Score Agent Friendliness: 10 → 35
4. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt URL: (none) → https://docs.traveltime.com/llms.txt
5. 2026-06-14 API Reference URL: (none) → https://docs.traveltime.com/api/reference/travel-time-distance-matrix
6. 2026-06-14 Robots Allows Agents: (none) → Yes
7. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt Present: No → Yes
8. 2026-06-14 Has Structured Data: (none) → No
9. 2026-06-14 Capabilities: {} → {"traffic":true,"transit":true,"isochrones":true,"distance_matrix":true}
10. 2026-06-14 Summary Md: (none) → TravelTime API is a REST-based travel time and location intelligence service, e…
11. 2026-06-14 Avoid If: (none) → You need transparent pricing up front, You have strict compliance requirements
12. 2026-06-14 Score Agent Friendliness: (none) → 10
13. 2026-06-14 Score Pricing Transparency: (none) → 15
14. 2026-06-14 Score Setup Speed: (none) → 85
15. 2026-06-14 Score Docs Quality: (none) → 15
16. 2026-06-14 Score Procurement Friction: (none) → 40
17. 2026-06-14 Score Trust Readiness: (none) → 35
18. 2026-06-14 Best For: (none) → Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call, Teams needing broa…
19. 2026-06-14 Scoring Methodology: (none) → Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fi…
20. 2026-06-14 Docs URL: (none) → https://docs.traveltime.com
21. 2026-06-14 Status Page URL: (none) → https://status.traveltime.com
22. 2026-06-14 Rendering: (none) → static
23. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt Present: (none) → No
24. 2026-06-14 GDPR: set to Yes
25. 2026-06-14 SLA Published: set to Yes
26. 2026-06-14 SLA URL: set to https://traveltime.com/terms-of-service
27. 2026-06-14 Data Retention Policy URL: set to https://traveltime.com/privacy-policy
28. 2026-06-14 Documented Rate Limits: set to Free trial (2 weeks): 60 hits/min; Non-Paid (post-trial free): 5 hits/min; Paid…
29. 2026-06-14 Rate Limit Requests: set to 60
30. 2026-06-14 Rate Limit Window: set to minute
31. 2026-06-14 Known Restrictions: set to Free trial is for internal/evaluation use only - not for end-user or commercial…
32. 2026-06-14 Auth Methods: set to api_key
33. 2026-06-14 Auth Docs URL: set to https://docs.traveltime.com/api/start/auth
34. 2026-06-14 API Style: set to rest
35. 2026-06-14 Base URL: set to https://api.traveltimeapp.com/v4
36. 2026-06-14 API Version: set to v4
37. 2026-06-14 Versioning Scheme: set to url
38. 2026-06-14 Stability: set to ga
39. 2026-06-14 Quickstart URL: set to https://docs.traveltime.com/api/start/travel-time-distance-matrix
40. 2026-06-14 Idempotency Supported: set to No
41. 2026-06-14 Error Format: set to vendor-specific
42. 2026-06-14 Requires Verification: set to Yes
43. 2026-06-14 Free Tier Limit: set to 2-week trial; 60 hits/minute during trial, 5 hits/minute after trial on free pl…
44. 2026-06-14 Launched At: set to 2009-01-01
45. 2026-06-14 Slug: set to traveltime
46. 2026-06-14 Fields Not Found: set to soc2, hipaa, iso_27001, pci_dss, minimum_commitment, supported_languages (turn-…
47. 2026-06-14 Source Confidence: set to high
48. 2026-06-14 Extractor: set to claude-subagent:sonnet
49. 2026-06-14 Last Verified At: set to 2026-06-14T00:00:00.000Z
50. 2026-06-14 Status: set to published

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