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Geoapify Location Platform + MCP vs Stadia Maps

Stadia Maps has a score of 65.5 (B) against Geoapify Location Platform + MCP's 55.5 (C). Both do geo geocode. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 19 points.

Geoapify Location Platform + MCPGeoapify · HTTP API C55.5/100#314 of 452 Stadia MapsStadia Maps · HTTP API B65.5/100#171 of 452

Which one, for what

Pick Geoapify Location Platform + MCP for

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Pick Stadia Maps for

  • schema & documentation (+12)
  • agent ergonomics (+8)
  • security & auth (+11)
  • payments & pricing (+10)
  • maintenance & community (+19)
  • transparency & trust (+15)

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGeoapify Location Platform + MCPStadia MapsEdge
Reliability16%206063Stadia Maps +3
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27486Stadia Maps +12
Agent ergonomics13%16.27280Stadia Maps +8
Security & auth14%17.52940Stadia Maps +11
Payments & pricing10%12.53040Stadia Maps +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86180Stadia Maps +19
Transparency & trust7%8.86479Stadia Maps +15
Negative events≤1500
Total55.5 · C65.5 · B

Facts side by side

FactGeoapify Location Platform + MCPStadia Maps
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorGeoapifyStadia Maps
Hosted endpointhttps://api.geoapify.com/v1https://api.stadiamaps.com
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, stdio
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicencenoneBSD-3-Clause (MCP server)
Tools exposed116
Context cost (tools/list)n/an/a
p95 latencynot measured yetnot measured yet
Availability (30d)not measured yetnot measured yet
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registrynot listednot listed
Last releasenone2026-09-30
Popularitynone23 stars, 6.1k npm/wk, 192 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews4/5 (2)3.5/5 (2)

Verdicts

Geoapify Location Platform + MCP

Free plan allows commercial production use, 3,000 credits a day, no card. No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found.

Stadia Maps

Public OpenAPI spec (11.1.0) with generated TypeScript and Python SDKs. Free plan is for development, testing and demos only.

Before you call either

Geoapify Location Platform + MCP

  1. Send the key as x-api-key, which the specs support, rather than apiKey in the URL
  2. Use api-eu.geoapify.com when the data has to stay on EU infrastructure
  3. Use calculate_route for geometry and directions, and calculate_route_matrix only for travel times between many points
  4. Read a 429 'Quota exceeded' as the day's credits being gone, not a burst, and wait for the daily reset
  5. Show OpenStreetMap attribution wherever you display results

Stadia Maps

  1. Send the key as Authorization: Stadia-Auth <key> rather than in the URL
  2. Try Autocomplete v2 (1 credit) before a full geocode (20 credits) when a name is enough
  3. Check the dashboard's credit balance before retrying a 429, since it may mean the month is spent
  4. Don't write geocodes to a database on Free or Starter
  5. Use bulk-geocode for addresses only, not POI names

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