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      "slug": "amazon-location",
      "name": "Amazon Location Service",
      "vendor": "Amazon Web Services",
      "vendorUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/location/",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "maps",
      "summary": "Amazon Location Service is AWS's API for geocoding, place search, routing and map tiles, with geofences and device tracking. Agents call regional REST endpoints with an API key or IAM credentials, or through the AWS SDKs and CLI.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-location.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/aws-geospatial/amazon-location-agent-context",
      "license": "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",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@aws-sdk/client-geo-places"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@aws-sdk/client-geo-routes"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@aws-sdk/client-geo-maps"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "boto3"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Access needs an AWS account. Maps, Places and Routes accept an Amazon Location API key in the `key` query parameter, created in the console, the CLI or the `CreateKey` call, limited to named actions and resources, with optional expiry and referrer or mobile app restrictions. Every API also accepts AWS Signature Version 4 with IAM credentials or a role, and Amazon Cognito identity pools for unauthenticated clients. Geofences, trackers and the Jobs API refuse API keys. API keys can't be used over AWS PrivateLink (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/using-apikeys.html).",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Geocoding, reverse geocoding and place search cost $0.50 per 1,000 requests (core), $1.50 with advanced fields and $4.00 when results are stored, in US East (N. Virginia). Routes cost $0.50 per 1,000 for car, truck or pedestrian, map tiles $0.04 per 1,000. No sandbox or contract is needed, but an AWS account is. The pricing page lists monthly allowances for the first three months (20,000 core Places requests, 10,000 routes, 500,000 tiles) and up to $200 of credits for customers who joined after 15 July 2025. Volume discounts above $5,000 a month are by quote (https://aws.amazon.com/location/pricing/, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.50 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer guide's llms.txt, the service models or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 426988,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/what-is.html",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "geo.geocode",
        "geo.reverse",
        "geo.places",
        "geo.routing",
        "geo.tiles"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "enterprise",
        "llms-txt",
        "card-required",
        "sla",
        "status-page",
        "batch"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-08-17",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 74.1,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 68,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 2,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 88,
          "maintenance": 60,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 95,
          "schema": 87,
          "security": 73,
          "transparency": 70
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "high",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Places, Routes and Maps calls work over plain HTTPS with an API key limited to named actions, and every one of the 17 operations is read-only with typed inputs. Access starts with an AWS account a person opens, the key travels in the URL query string, and stored results cost eight times the single-use rate.",
        "bestFor": "Operators already on AWS who want geocoding, places and routing inside IAM, CloudTrail and one bill, with HERE data and GrabMaps for Southeast Asia.",
        "strengths": [
          "API keys are limited to named actions and resources, can expire, and can be restricted by referrer or mobile app identifier",
          "All 17 Places, Routes and Maps operations are marked read-only in the public Smithy models, with enums and numeric ranges on inputs",
          "Default rates are published per operation (100 a second for each Places call, 20 for `CalculateRoutes`) and can be doubled by self-service",
          "An SLA of 99.9 per cent monthly uptime per region, with credits of 10, 25 and 100 per cent",
          "llms.txt, a Markdown twin of every guide page and an Apache-2.0 agent context package (v1.2.0, 11 September 2026)"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The API key is sent as the `key` query parameter, the only documented way to present it",
          "Storing or caching results is barred unless `IntendedUse` is `Storage`, billed at $4.00 per 1,000 against $0.50 for single use",
          "An AWS account opened by a person in a browser is needed before any call, and no keyless or machine-payment route exists",
          "The developer guide gives no backoff or `Retry-After` guidance for `ThrottlingException` (429)",
          "The guide's document history holds one entry, dated 31 October 2024, so API changes have to be read from the SDK models"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call the v2 endpoints (`places.geo.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com/v2/geocode`, `routes.geo`, `maps.geo`). They need no resource creation, unlike the v1 place index and route calculator calls",
          "Set `IntendedUse` to `Storage` before saving or caching any Places result. The default `SingleUse` results may not be stored under section 82.4 of the AWS Service Terms",
          "Read `PricingBucket` in each response. Requesting `Contact`, `Access`, `TimeZone` or `Phonemes` in `AdditionalFeatures` moves a Places call from $0.50 to $1.50 per 1,000",
          "Keep the API key out of logs and shared URLs, since it travels as `?key=`. Use SigV4 with an IAM role for server-side work, and for the Jobs API, which refuses API keys",
          "Back off on HTTP 429 `ThrottlingException`. The burst allowance is 80 per cent of the per-second rate within any part of a second"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "high",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 74.1
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 88,
          "maintenance": 60,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 95,
          "schema": 87,
          "security": 73,
          "transparency": 52
        },
        "provenanceScore": 88
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install boto3   # or: npm i @aws-sdk/client-geo-places",
        "http": "curl --request POST \\\n  --url 'https://places.geo.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/v2/geocode?key=Your_Key' \\\n  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  --data '{\"QueryText\": \"510 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "/plugin install amazon-location-service@claude-plugins-official"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/geo.geocode",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/amazon-location"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "amazon-bedrock-guardrails",
        "amazon-transcribe",
        "amazon-polly",
        "aws-secrets-manager",
        "aws-mcp-servers",
        "amazon-ses",
        "amazon-translate",
        "amazon-ads-api"
      ],
      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Geocode, reverse geocode, place search (core)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.5,
          "note": "US East. `SingleUse` results, not for storage"
        },
        {
          "item": "Geocode, reverse geocode, place search (advanced)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.5,
          "note": "With contacts, opening hours, access points or time zone"
        },
        {
          "item": "Geocode, reverse geocode, place search (stored)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 4,
          "note": "`IntendedUse` set to `Storage`"
        },
        {
          "item": "Autocomplete and Suggest (label)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.2
        },
        {
          "item": "Routes calculated (core)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.5,
          "note": "Car, truck or pedestrian. A matrix bills origins times destinations"
        },
        {
          "item": "Routes with toll cost (premium)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 4
        },
        {
          "item": "Dynamic map tiles",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.04
        },
        {
          "item": "Static map images",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.5
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.",
        "domain": "amazon.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/",
        "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status",
        "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/doc-history.html",
        "securityTxt": "expired",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The AWS Service Terms (last updated 1 October 2026) govern the service, with Amazon Location Service at section 82. The AWS Customer Agreement sits above them.",
          "The AWS Privacy Notice (last updated 18 May 2026) names Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210.",
          "The endpoints are on amazonaws.com and api.aws, both AWS domains.",
          "aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt carries Expires 2026-09-24T16:25:03Z, which had passed on the day of the check. It points to a HackerOne disclosure programme.",
          "RDAP for amazon.com gives a registration date of 1994-11-01.",
          "The document history page has one entry, dated 31 October 2024. API changes are otherwise visible in AWS What's New posts and the SDK service models."
        ],
        "score": 88
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.json",
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        "probe": {
          "target": "https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:03.434350122Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 239,
          "authRequired": false,
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          "p95ms24h": 307,
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      }
    },
    "answer": "Amazon Location Service scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP's 68.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.",
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      "slug": "google-maps-platform",
      "name": "Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP",
      "vendor": "Google",
      "vendorUrl": "https://mapsplatform.google.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "maps",
      "summary": "Geocoding, Places API (New) for text, nearby and detail search, Routes for routes and matrices, Address Validation, static maps and map tiles.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-maps-platform",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-maps-platform.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-maps-platform.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-maps-platform.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/googlemaps/google-maps-services-python",
      "license": "Apache-2.0 (client libraries)",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://maps.googleapis.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@googlemaps/google-maps-services-js"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "googlemaps"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "An API key per Cloud project. The classic web services (Geocoding, Static Maps) take it as the key query parameter, Places API (New), Routes and Grounding Lite take it in the X-Goog-Api-Key header. Grounding Lite also accepts OAuth 2.0 with the maps-platform.mapstools scope.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Billed per 1,000 events with a free monthly cap on each SKU, 10,000 for Essentials, 5,000 for Pro and 1,000 for Enterprise SKUs. First-tier prices are Geocoding $5, Place Details Essentials $5, Pro $17 and Enterprise $20, Text Search Pro $32 and Enterprise $35, Nearby Search Pro $32, Autocomplete Requests $2.83, Address Validation Pro $17, Compute Routes and Route Matrix $5, $10 or $15 by tier, Static Maps $2, Dynamic Maps $7 and 2D Map Tiles $0.60. Text Search Essentials (IDs Only) is free with no cap. The Maps Grounding Lite SKU is $7 per 1,000 after 10,000 free, stepping down to $2.80 above 5 million (https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$5 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 5,
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        "githubStars": 5000,
        "npmWeekly": 1193020,
        "pypiWeekly": 747555,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation",
      "capabilities": [
        "geo.geocode",
        "geo.reverse",
        "geo.places",
        "geo.routing",
        "geo.tiles"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "official",
        "oauth",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "card-required",
        "enterprise",
        "closed-source"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-08-06",
      "graded": true,
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        "graded": true,
        "score": 68.2,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 189,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 50,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 85,
          "schema": 77,
          "security": 67,
          "transparency": 72
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Maps Grounding Lite is GA, hosted, and takes an X-Goog-Api-Key header or OAuth with the maps-platform.mapstools scope. A Cloud billing account with a payment method is required before the free caps apply.",
        "bestFor": "Best when the answer has to match what the user sees in Google Maps, for place details, opening hours and reviews.",
        "strengths": [
          "Maps Grounding Lite is GA, hosted, and takes an X-Goog-Api-Key header or OAuth with the maps-platform.mapstools scope",
          "A 99.9 per cent monthly SLA with credits up to 50 per cent",
          "Field masks size responses and pick the SKU, and Text Search Essentials (IDs Only) is free with no cap",
          "Keys can be limited to named APIs and server IPs, and OAuth works for server traffic",
          "A 12-month deprecation policy with a dated deprecations page"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "A Cloud billing account with a payment method is required before the free caps apply",
          "Coordinates may be cached for 30 days at most and only shown on a Google map",
          "No llms.txt at developers.google.com/maps",
          "Classic Geocoding and Static Maps take the key in the URL",
          "Places and Grounding Lite return reviews and AI summaries with no prompt-injection guidance"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send X-Goog-FieldMask on every Places (New) and Routes call, since a missing mask is an error and the fields you ask for set the SKU",
          "Resolve a name with Text Search and an IDs-only field mask (free), then fetch details for the one place you need",
          "Store place IDs, refetch details, and drop cached coordinates after 30 days",
          "Retry UNKNOWN_ERROR and OVER_QUERY_LIMIT with exponential backoff, and don't retry INVALID_REQUEST",
          "Put Google Maps attribution directly after any answer grounded in Grounding Lite results"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 68.2
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 85,
          "maintenance": 50,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 85,
          "schema": 77,
          "security": 67,
          "transparency": 65
        },
        "provenanceScore": 78
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=10%20Downing%20Street%2C%20London\u0026key=$GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http google-maps https://mapstools.googleapis.com/mcp --header \"X-Goog-Api-Key: $GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "google-maps": {
              "headers": {
                "X-Goog-Api-Key": "${GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY}"
              },
              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://mapstools.googleapis.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/geo.geocode",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/google-maps-platform"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "gemini-api",
        "gemini-embedding",
        "vertex-ai-tuning",
        "google-model-armor",
        "google-imagen",
        "google-veo",
        "google-lyria",
        "google-speech-to-text",
        "google-adk",
        "google-secret-manager",
        "google-weather-api",
        "chrome-devtools-mcp",
        "google-cloud-translation",
        "google-calendar-api",
        "google-drive-api",
        "gemini-cli",
        "google-ads-api",
        "google-forms",
        "google-sheets-api",
        "gmail-api"
      ],
      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Geocoding",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "10,000 free a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Place Details Essentials",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "10,000 free a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Place Details Pro",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 17,
          "note": "5,000 free a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Text Search Pro",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 32,
          "note": "5,000 free a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Autocomplete Requests",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 2.83,
          "note": "10,000 free a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Compute Routes Essentials",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "Pro $10, Enterprise $15"
        },
        {
          "item": "Maps Grounding Lite",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 7,
          "note": "10,000 free a month, $2.80 above 5 million"
        },
        {
          "item": "2D Map Tiles",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.6,
          "note": "100,000 free a month"
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      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Google LLC or a regional Google entity, by billing country",
        "domain": "google.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": false,
        "terms": "https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms",
        "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.google.com/maps-platform/",
        "changelog": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The terms name the contracting party through Google's entity table, and Section 21 lists regional entities for Australia, India, Indonesia and Mexico among others.",
          "The API and MCP endpoints sit on googleapis.com, Google's API domain, not google.com.",
          "google.com/.well-known/security.txt lists security@google.com and expires 2030-04-01.",
          "The Maps Platform terms were last modified 26 August 2026 and the service terms 10 June 2026."
        ],
        "score": 78
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-maps-platform.json",
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              "date": "2026-10-04",
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        "vendorStatus": {
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          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-maps-platform.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-maps-platform.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon Location Service (BB)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 95 against 85\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 77\n- Security \u0026 auth, 73 against 67\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 60 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for geo geocode, $0.50 against $5 per 1,000 requests\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: The API key is sent as the `key` query parameter, the only documented way to present it\n\n### Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Best when the answer has to match what the user sees in Google Maps, for place details, opening hours and reviews.\n\nWatch for: A Cloud billing account with a payment method is required before the free caps apply\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Location Service | Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 95 | 85 | Amazon Location Service +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 77 | Amazon Location Service +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 85 | Amazon Location Service +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 73 | 67 | Amazon Location Service +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 50 | Amazon Location Service +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 72 | Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **74.1 · BB** | **68.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Location Service | Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://maps.googleapis.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for geo geocode | $0.50 per 1,000 requests | $5 per 1,000 requests |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 | Apache-2.0 (client libraries) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 5 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-08-17 | 2026-08-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-08-26 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 427k npm/wk | 5k stars, 1.2M npm/wk, 748k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Location Service.** Places, Routes and Maps calls work over plain HTTPS with an API key limited to named actions, and every one of the 17 operations is read-only with typed inputs. Access starts with an AWS account a person opens, the key travels in the URL query string, and stored results cost eight times the single-use rate.\n\n**Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP.** Maps Grounding Lite is GA, hosted, and takes an X-Goog-Api-Key header or OAuth with the maps-platform.mapstools scope. A Cloud billing account with a payment method is required before the free caps apply.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Location Service\n\n1. Call the v2 endpoints (`places.geo.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com/v2/geocode`, `routes.geo`, `maps.geo`). They need no resource creation, unlike the v1 place index and route calculator calls\n2. Set `IntendedUse` to `Storage` before saving or caching any Places result. The default `SingleUse` results may not be stored under section 82.4 of the AWS Service Terms\n3. Read `PricingBucket` in each response. Requesting `Contact`, `Access`, `TimeZone` or `Phonemes` in `AdditionalFeatures` moves a Places call from $0.50 to $1.50 per 1,000\n4. Keep the API key out of logs and shared URLs, since it travels as `?key=`. Use SigV4 with an IAM role for server-side work, and for the Jobs API, which refuses API keys\n5. Back off on HTTP 429 `ThrottlingException`. The burst allowance is 80 per cent of the per-second rate within any part of a second\n\n### Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP\n\n1. Send X-Goog-FieldMask on every Places (New) and Routes call, since a missing mask is an error and the fields you ask for set the SKU\n2. Resolve a name with Text Search and an IDs-only field mask (free), then fetch details for the one place you need\n3. Store place IDs, refetch details, and drop cached coordinates after 30 days\n4. Retry UNKNOWN_ERROR and OVER_QUERY_LIMIT with exponential backoff, and don't retry INVALID_REQUEST\n5. Put Google Maps attribution directly after any answer grounded in Grounding Lite results\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Location Service or Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP?\n\nAmazon Location Service scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP's 68.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Which is cheaper for geo geocode, Amazon Location Service or Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP?\n\nAmazon Location Service, at $0.50 per 1,000 requests against $5 per 1,000 requests for Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Amazon Location Service and Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP need an API key?\n\nAmazon Location Service needs an API key. 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