# Amazon Location Service vs HERE Location Services (slim)

> Amazon Location Service scores 74.1 (BB) to HERE Location Services's 58 (C) for geocoding. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Amazon Location Service scores 74.1 (BB) on agent readiness against HERE Location Services's 58 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do geocoding.

- Amazon Location Service: BB 74.1, rank #77 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.min.md
- HERE Location Services: C 58, rank #591 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.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 57; Agent ergonomics, 88 against 74; Security & auth, 73 against 65; Payments & pricing, 20 against 10; Transparency & trust, 70 against 63. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No incidents deducted, where HERE Location Services loses 3 points for them.
- HERE Location Services, good for Fleet and logistics work that needs truck routing, large matrices, isolines, traffic and transit from one vendor with an SLA.

| Category | Amazon Location Service | HERE Location Services |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 95 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 88 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 73 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Location Service | HERE Location Services |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | HERE Technologies |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for geocoding | $0.50 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| 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 HERE Platform Terms |
| Tools exposed | none | 13 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-17 | 2026-09-09 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2023-09-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2024-08-29 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 427k npm/wk | none |