# HERE Location Services vs Stadia Maps (slim)

> Stadia Maps scores 65.2 (B) to HERE Location Services's 58 (C) for geocoding. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Stadia Maps scores 65.2 (B) on agent readiness against HERE Location Services's 58 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. HERE Location Services leads on security & auth. Both do geocoding.

- HERE Location Services: C 58, rank #591 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.min.md
- Stadia Maps: B 65.2, rank #325 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps.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 Security & auth, 65 against 40.
- Stadia Maps, good for Cost-sensitive geocoding, routing and tiles on OpenStreetMap data, with traffic-influenced routing since April 2026. Ahead on Reliability, 63 against 57; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 74; Payments & pricing, 40 against 10; Maintenance & community, 80 against 60; Transparency & trust, 76 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 | Stadia Maps |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 40 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | HERE Location Services | Stadia Maps |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | HERE Technologies | Stadia Maps |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1` | `https://api.stadiamaps.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Price for geocoding | not published | $0.40 per 1,000 requests |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the HERE Platform Terms | BSD-3-Clause (MCP server) |
| Tools exposed | 13 | 6 |
| Last release | 2026-09-09 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-09-18 | 2026-03-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-29 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 23 stars, 6.1k npm/wk, 192 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |