# HERE Location Services vs Radar (slim)

> HERE Location Services scores 58 (C) to Radar's 53.3 (D) for geocoding. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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HERE Location Services scores 58 (C) on agent readiness against Radar's 53.3 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Radar leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do geocoding.

- HERE Location Services: C 58, rank #591 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.min.md
- Radar: D 53.3, rank #713 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/radar.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 50; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65; Security & auth, 65 against 56; Transparency & trust, 63 against 55.
- Radar, good for A company that already has a Radar contract, or wants geofencing and trip tracking with geocoding and routing on one key. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 57; Maintenance & community, 77 against 60.

| Category | HERE Location Services | Radar |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 50 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 55 |

| Fact (where they differ) | HERE Location Services | Radar |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | HERE Technologies | Radar Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1` | `https://api.radar.io/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the HERE Platform Terms | Proprietary service under Radar's Terms of Use. The web SDK in radarlabs/radar-sdk-js is Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 13 | none |
| Last release | 2026-09-09 | 2026-09-14 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-09-18 | 2023-05-24 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-29 | 2025-05-13 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |