# Amazon Location Service vs ArcGIS Location Platform (slim)

> Amazon Location Service scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against ArcGIS Location Platform's 65.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ArcGIS Location Platform leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do geo geocode. Category scores, facts, verdicts…

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Amazon Location Service scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against ArcGIS Location Platform's 65.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ArcGIS Location Platform leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do geo geocode.

- Amazon Location Service: BB 74.1, rank #68 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.min.md
- ArcGIS Location Platform: B 65.4, rank #259 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcgis.min.md
- Amazon Location Service, good for Operators already on AWS who want geocoding, places and routing inside IAM, CloudTrail and one bill, with HERE data and GrabMaps for Southeast Asia. Ahead on Reliability, 95 against 65; Schema & documentation, 87 against 61; Agent ergonomics, 88 against 78; Security & auth, 73 against 64. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- ArcGIS Location Platform, good for Organisations already on Esri software, and work that needs demographic enrichment, service areas or fleet routing beside geocoding. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 83 against 60.

| Category | Amazon Location Service | ArcGIS Location Platform |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 95 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 61 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 88 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 73 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Location Service | ArcGIS Location Platform |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Esri |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://geocode-api.arcgis.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and AWS Service Terms. The AWS SDK clients and the agent context package on GitHub are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the ArcGIS Location Platform Agreement. The ArcGIS REST JS client library is Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 8 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-17 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-07-31 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 427k npm/wk | 392 stars, 65k npm/wk, 33k PyPI/wk |