# HERE Location Services vs Mapbox APIs + MCP (slim)

> Mapbox scores 75 (BB) to HERE Location Services's 58 (C) for geocoding. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Mapbox APIs + MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against HERE Location Services's 58 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do geocoding.

- HERE Location Services: C 58, rank #591 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.min.md
- Mapbox APIs + MCP: BB 75, rank #57 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mapbox.min.md
- 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.
- Mapbox APIs + MCP, good for An agent that needs search, routing, isochrones, map matching and route optimisation from one vendor with a hosted, OAuth-protected MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 82 against 57; Agent ergonomics, 88 against 74; Security & auth, 71 against 65; Payments & pricing, 30 against 10; Maintenance & community, 80 against 60; Transparency & trust, 84 against 63. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where HERE Location Services loses 3 points for them.

| Category | HERE Location Services | Mapbox APIs + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 88 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 84 |

| Fact (where they differ) | HERE Location Services | Mapbox APIs + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | HERE Technologies | Mapbox |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1` | `https://api.mapbox.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Price for geocoding | not published | $0.75 per 1,000 requests |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the HERE Platform Terms | MIT (MCP server) |
| Tools exposed | 13 | 29 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.mapbox/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-09-09 | 2026-07-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-09-18 | 2024-03-31 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-29 | 2026-02-11 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 353 stars, 2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.6/5 (8) |