# HERE Location Services vs OpenCage Geocoding API (slim)

> OpenCage Geocoding scores 69.2 (B) to HERE Location Services's 58 (C) for geocoding. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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OpenCage Geocoding API scores 69.2 (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 and security & auth. Both do geocoding.

- HERE Location Services: C 58, rank #591 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.min.md
- OpenCage Geocoding API: B 69.2, rank #193 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opencage.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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 77; Security & auth, 65 against 47.
- OpenCage Geocoding API, good for Bulk or repeated geocoding where results go into a database, and for EU data residency. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 57; Agent ergonomics, 86 against 74; Payments & pricing, 35 against 10; Maintenance & community, 66 against 60; Transparency & trust, 84 against 63. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where HERE Location Services loses 3 points for them.

| Category | HERE Location Services | OpenCage Geocoding API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 86 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 66 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 84 |

| Fact (where they differ) | HERE Location Services | OpenCage Geocoding API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | HERE Technologies | OpenCage |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1` | `https://api.opencagedata.com/geocode/v1/json` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the HERE Platform Terms | MIT (MCP server) |
| Tools exposed | 13 | 3 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.OpenCageData/opencage-geocoding-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-09 | 2026-06-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-09-18 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-29 | no date given |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 19 stars, 5.5k npm/wk, 138k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |