# ArcGIS Location Platform vs HERE Location Services (slim)

> ArcGIS Location Platform scores 65.4 (B) to HERE Location Services's 58 (C) for geocoding. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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ArcGIS Location Platform scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against HERE Location Services's 58 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. HERE Location Services leads on schema & documentation. Both do geocoding.

- ArcGIS Location Platform: B 65.4, rank #320 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcgis.min.md
- HERE Location Services: C 58, rank #591 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.min.md
- 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 Reliability, 65 against 57; Payments & pricing, 40 against 10; Maintenance & community, 83 against 60; Transparency & trust, 72 against 63. Also 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 61.

| Category | ArcGIS Location Platform | HERE Location Services |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 61 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ArcGIS Location Platform | HERE Location Services |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Esri | HERE Technologies |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://geocode-api.arcgis.com` | `https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1` |
| Price for geocoding | $0.50 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the ArcGIS Location Platform Agreement. The ArcGIS REST JS client library is Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the HERE Platform Terms |
| Tools exposed | 8 | 13 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-09 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2023-09-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-31 | 2024-08-29 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 392 stars, 65k npm/wk, 33k PyPI/wk | none |