# Azure Maps vs HERE Location Services (slim)

> Azure Maps scores 67.9 (B) to HERE Location Services's 58 (C) for geocoding. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Azure Maps scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against HERE Location Services's 58 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do geocoding.

- Azure Maps: B 67.9, rank #236 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-maps.min.md
- HERE Location Services: C 58, rank #591 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.min.md
- Azure Maps, good for Teams already on Azure that want geocoding and routing under Entra ID roles and one flat price. Ahead on Reliability, 81 against 57; Payments & pricing, 20 against 10; Maintenance & community, 67 against 60; Transparency & trust, 74 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.

| Category | Azure Maps | HERE Location Services |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 81 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 67 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Azure Maps | HERE Location Services |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Microsoft Azure | HERE Technologies |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://atlas.microsoft.com` | `https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Price for geocoding | $4.50 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Microsoft's Product Terms. The Azure SDK client libraries are MIT | Proprietary service under the HERE Platform Terms |
| Tools exposed | none | 13 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-09 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2023-09-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2024-08-29 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 9.1k npm/wk, 25k PyPI/wk | none |