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      "slug": "azure-maps",
      "name": "Azure Maps",
      "vendor": "Microsoft Azure",
      "vendorUrl": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-maps",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "maps",
      "summary": "Microsoft Azure's mapping service. Its REST APIs at `atlas.microsoft.com` cover geocoding, reverse geocoding, place search, routing with traffic, map tiles, time zones and weather, with access by subscription key, SAS token or Microsoft Entra ID.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-maps",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-maps.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-maps.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/azure-maps.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Microsoft's Product Terms. The Azure SDK client libraries are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://atlas.microsoft.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "azure-maps-search"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "azure-maps-route"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@azure-rest/maps-search"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@azure-rest/maps-route"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person creates an Azure subscription and an Azure Maps account in the portal, which issues a primary and a secondary subscription key. The key goes in the `subscription-key` header or as a URL parameter and reaches every REST API on the account. Microsoft Entra ID tokens (scope `https://atlas.microsoft.com/.default`, with the `x-ms-client-id` header) are authorised by Azure roles such as Azure Maps Data Reader or a custom role for one service. SAS tokens (`Authorization: jwt-sas`) last 24 hours at most and carry a rate cap and allowed regions. `disableLocalAuth` turns keys and SAS tokens off.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "$4.50 per 1,000 transactions on every Gen2 meter, after a free monthly amount of 5,000 transactions for Search, Geolocation, Timezone and base map tiles and 1,000 for Routing, Traffic, Weather, imagery tiles and static images (https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices, read 8 October 2026). Fifteen tiles count as one transaction, four route matrix cells as one, and ten autocomplete requests as one. The pricing page says discounts start at 100,000 transactions a month through sales. An Azure account needs a card for identity checks, so there is no card-free start. Gen1 pricing retired on 15 September 2026.",
      "priceSummary": "$4.50 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Azure Maps docs, the OpenAPI documents or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 9084,
        "pypiWeekly": 24564,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/",
      "openapi": "https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/main/specification/maps/data-plane/Search/stable/2026-01-01/search.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "geo.geocode",
        "geo.reverse",
        "geo.places",
        "geo.routing",
        "geo.tiles",
        "weather.current",
        "weather.forecast"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "card-required",
        "openapi",
        "oauth",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "dotnet",
        "java",
        "enterprise",
        "sla",
        "eu"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 67.9,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 196,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 5,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 67,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 81,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 74
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Azure Maps publishes OpenAPI documents for every service, per-service rate limits, a 99.9 per cent SLA and written rules on storing results, and Entra ID roles can limit a caller to one service. Place search exists only in Search 1.0, which the newer version has superseded, and the REST client libraries are all beta.",
        "bestFor": "Teams already on Azure that want geocoding and routing under Entra ID roles and one flat price.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI documents for Search, Route, Render, Traffic, Weather, Timezone and Geolocation in `Azure/azure-rest-api-specs`, with examples on every operation",
          "Three credential types. Entra ID with built-in and custom roles, SAS tokens with a 24-hour limit, a rate cap and allowed regions, and two rotatable keys",
          "Default rate limits published per service, 500 requests a second for search, 250 for reverse geocoding and 50 for routing",
          "The product terms state storage rules in writing. Geocodes may be kept while the Azure account is active, other results for six months at most",
          "Responses with 5xx, 401, 403, 408 and 429 are not billed, and the October 2026 SLA commits to 99.9 per cent"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Place and category search exist only in Search 1.0. Search 2026-01-01, which supersedes it, has geocoding, autocomplete, reverse geocoding and polygons",
          "Every REST client library is a beta. `azure-maps-search` on PyPI was last released on 12 December 2024",
          "The authentication guide tells callers to put the subscription key in the URL, and the key reaches every REST API on the account",
          "An Azure account needs a card and a browser signup before the free monthly transactions apply",
          "No Retry-After header or backoff guidance for 429 was found in the reviewed documentation, and no API changelog page"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send the key in the `subscription-key` header, or use `Authorization: Bearer` with `x-ms-client-id`. The key also works as a URL parameter, which leaks into logs.",
          "Call `GET /geocode?api-version=2026-01-01` for addresses. It can return 200 with no results, so check `confidence`, `matchCodes` and the entity type before use.",
          "Use Search 1.0 (`/search/poi/json`, `/search/nearby/json`, `/search/fuzzy/json`) for places. The 2026-01-01 version has no place search.",
          "Use `eu.atlas.microsoft.com` or `us.atlas.microsoft.com` to keep request data in that geography.",
          "Don't store route or tile results beyond six months, and never for serving several users. The product terms allow keeping geocodes while the account is active."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 67.9
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 67,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 81,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 69
        },
        "provenanceScore": 78
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install azure-maps-search   # or: npm i @azure-rest/maps-search",
        "http": "curl \"https://atlas.microsoft.com/geocode?api-version=2026-01-01\u0026query=15127%20NE%2024th%20Street%2C%20Redmond%2C%20WA\" \\\n  -H \"subscription-key: $AZURE_MAPS_KEY\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/geo.geocode",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/azure-maps"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "azure-foundry-fine-tuning",
        "azure-ai-content-safety",
        "azure-speech-to-text",
        "azure-text-to-speech",
        "microsoft-agent-framework",
        "microsoft-execution-containers",
        "microsoft-entra-agent-id",
        "azure-key-vault",
        "azure-devops-mcp",
        "microsoft-learn-mcp",
        "playwright-mcp",
        "azure-mcp",
        "azure-translator",
        "microsoft-graph-calendar",
        "microsoft-teams",
        "dynamics-365-sales",
        "power-automate",
        "microsoft-advertising-api",
        "microsoft-excel-graph",
        "outlook-mail-graph"
      ],
      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Search (geocoding, reverse geocoding, places)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 4.5,
          "note": "5,000 free a month. Ten autocomplete requests count as one"
        },
        {
          "item": "Routing",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 4.5,
          "note": "1,000 free a month. Four matrix cells count as one"
        },
        {
          "item": "Base map tiles",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 4.5,
          "note": "5,000 free a month. One transaction is 15 tiles"
        },
        {
          "item": "Traffic",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 4.5,
          "note": "1,000 free a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Weather",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 4.5,
          "note": "1,000 free a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Static map images",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 4.5,
          "note": "1,000 free a month"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Microsoft Corporation",
        "domain": "microsoft.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1991-05-02",
        "domainNote": "The API answers at atlas.microsoft.com, with eu.atlas.microsoft.com and us.atlas.microsoft.com for a chosen geography. Docs are on learn.microsoft.com.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftAzure/MCA",
        "privacy": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement",
        "statusPage": "https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "expired",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The Product Terms page for Microsoft Azure carries the Azure Maps service-specific terms (navigation, database, caching and storage, attribution, print and broadcast rules) and points to the Data Protection Addendum and the SLA. Our reader saw no effective date on the page.",
          "The privacy statement (last updated September 2026) names Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052, and Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited in Dublin. It lists Microsoft Azure among the enterprise online services and says the customer's agreement controls where the two conflict.",
          "No changelog for the REST APIs was found in the Azure Maps docs. The release notes there cover the Web SDK map control, drawing tools and spatial module only, and the docs link to the general Azure updates page.",
          "https://www.microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt shows Expires 2026-09-23T16:00:00.000Z. It points to the MSRC researcher portal, the bounty policy and the coordinated disclosure policy.",
          "RDAP for microsoft.com gives a registration date of 1991-05-02.",
          "The Azure status page is shared by all Azure services and its history lists only broad incidents."
        ],
        "score": 78
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-maps.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "azure-maps",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://atlas.microsoft.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:04.826843978Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 200,
          "lastMs": 552,
          "authRequired": false,
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          "p95ms24h": 825,
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        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:04.826843978Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP and Azure Maps score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 68.2 (B) and 67.9 (B). Azure Maps leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.",
    "b": {
      "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,
      "popularity": {
        "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"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-08-06",
      "graded": true,
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        "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
        },
        "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": [
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        "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"
        }
      ],
      "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": "2026-10-02",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
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              "ok": 272
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              "date": "2026-10-08",
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.cloud.google.com/maps-platform",
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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### Azure Maps (B)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Azure that want geocoding and routing under Entra ID roles and one flat price.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 77\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 67 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for geo geocode, $4.50 against $5 per 1,000 requests\n\nWatch for: Place and category search exist only in Search 1.0. Search 2026-01-01, which supersedes it, has geocoding, autocomplete, reverse geocoding and polygons\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\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 73\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 | Azure Maps | Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 85 | Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP +4 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 77 | Azure Maps +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 85 | Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 67 | Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP +1 |\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) | 67 | 50 | Azure Maps +17 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 72 | Azure Maps +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.9 · B** | **68.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure Maps | Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft Azure | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://atlas.microsoft.com` | `https://maps.googleapis.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| Price for geo geocode | $4.50 per 1,000 requests | $5 per 1,000 requests |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Microsoft's Product Terms. The Azure SDK client libraries are MIT | Apache-2.0 (client libraries) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 5 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-08-06 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-08-26 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 9.1k npm/wk, 25k PyPI/wk | 5k stars, 1.2M npm/wk, 748k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Azure Maps.** Azure Maps publishes OpenAPI documents for every service, per-service rate limits, a 99.9 per cent SLA and written rules on storing results, and Entra ID roles can limit a caller to one service. Place search exists only in Search 1.0, which the newer version has superseded, and the REST client libraries are all beta.\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### Azure Maps\n\n1. Send the key in the `subscription-key` header, or use `Authorization: Bearer` with `x-ms-client-id`. The key also works as a URL parameter, which leaks into logs.\n2. Call `GET /geocode?api-version=2026-01-01` for addresses. It can return 200 with no results, so check `confidence`, `matchCodes` and the entity type before use.\n3. Use Search 1.0 (`/search/poi/json`, `/search/nearby/json`, `/search/fuzzy/json`) for places. The 2026-01-01 version has no place search.\n4. Use `eu.atlas.microsoft.com` or `us.atlas.microsoft.com` to keep request data in that geography.\n5. Don't store route or tile results beyond six months, and never for serving several users. The product terms allow keeping geocodes while the account is active.\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, Azure Maps or Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP?\n\nGoogle Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP and Azure Maps score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 68.2 (B) and 67.9 (B). Azure Maps leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Which is cheaper for geo geocode, Azure Maps or Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP?\n\nAzure Maps, at $4.50 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 Azure Maps and Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Azure Maps and Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Azure Maps has a hosted endpoint at https://atlas.microsoft.com and Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP at https://maps.googleapis.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-maps-vs-google-maps-platform.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-maps-vs-google-maps-platform.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"azure-maps\", \"b\": \"google-maps-platform\"}`. 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