{
  "data": {
    "a": {
      "slug": "locationiq",
      "name": "LocationIQ",
      "vendor": "LocationIQ (Unwired Labs)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://locationiq.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "maps",
      "summary": "Forward and reverse geocoding, autocomplete, nearby places, directions, matrix and map tiles, from US and EU endpoints.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/locationiq",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/locationiq.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/locationiq.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/locationiq.json",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://us1.locationiq.com/v1",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Access token passed as the key query parameter. Same API on us1.locationiq.com and eu1.locationiq.com.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free 5,000 requests a day at 2 a second, no card, with a prominent link back required. Maps Lite $45 a month (10,000 a day, maps only), Developer $100 (25,000 a day, all APIs), Startup $200 (60,000 a day), Growth Plus $500 (7.5 million a month), Business Plus $950 (30 million a month), Enterprise custom. Paid plans need a card (https://locationiq.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$100 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.locationiq.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.locationiq.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.locationiq.com/openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "geo.geocode",
        "geo.reverse",
        "geo.places",
        "geo.routing",
        "geo.tiles"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "llms-txt",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "eu",
        "closed-source"
      ],
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 60.6,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 243,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 5,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 74,
          "maintenance": 3,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 83,
          "schema": 78,
          "security": 55,
          "transparency": 65
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "5,000 free requests a day with no card, commercial use allowed with a link back. No changelog, release notes or blog.",
        "strengths": [
          "5,000 free requests a day with no card, commercial use allowed with a link back",
          "Public OpenAPI 3.0 spec and an llms.txt with Markdown pages",
          "Scoped tokens with referrer or IP restrictions and per-token rate limits",
          "No incidents posted between 2 April and 1 October 2026, with history back to 2018",
          "Error messages that separate per-second, per-minute and per-day limits"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No changelog, release notes or blog",
          "Official SDKs untouched since 2020",
          "No MCP server",
          "Key only in the query string",
          "Free plan must delete cached results after 48 hours and gets a single token"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use eu1.locationiq.com for European users or data",
          "Add format=json and limit=1 to keep responses small",
          "On 429 Rate Limited Second wait a second, on Rate Limited Day stop until the next day",
          "Call /balance before a large batch to see what's left of the day's quota",
          "Redact the key parameter before logging request URLs"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 60.6
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 74,
          "maintenance": 3,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 83,
          "schema": 78,
          "security": 55,
          "transparency": 40
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://eu1.locationiq.com/v1/search?key=$LOCATIONIQ_API_KEY\u0026q=10%20Downing%20Street%2C%20London\u0026format=json\u0026limit=1\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/geo.geocode",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/locationiq"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Developer plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 100,
          "note": "25,000 requests a day, 20 a second, all APIs"
        },
        {
          "item": "Startup plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 200,
          "note": "60,000 requests a day, 22 a second"
        },
        {
          "item": "Growth Plus plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 500,
          "note": "7.5 million requests a month, 30 a second"
        },
        {
          "item": "Business Plus plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 950,
          "note": "30 million requests a month, 40 a second"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Unwired Labs (India) Pvt Ltd",
        "domain": "locationiq.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2005-09-20",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://locationiq.com/tos",
        "privacy": "https://locationiq.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.locationiq.com",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-01",
        "notes": [
          "The terms were last updated 31 March 2026.",
          "security.txt lists hello@locationiq.com and expires 2028-01-01.",
          "LocationIQ's own privacy policy is at locationiq.com/privacy, last updated 22 May 2020. The parent's page at unwiredlabs.com/privacy embeds a Google Doc our reader couldn't see.",
          "The status page's RSS feed holds 74 incidents from March 2018 to 2 April 2026.",
          "We found no changelog or blog."
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/locationiq.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "locationiq",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://us1.locationiq.com/v1",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T22:35:26.097321424Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 403,
          "lastMs": 210,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 231,
          "p95ms24h": 342,
          "samples24h": 272,
          "samples30d": 884,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 109
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 256,
              "ok": 256
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.locationiq.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:13.355600913Z"
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://locationiq.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2028-01-01T00:00:00Z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:37.071056485Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.locationiq.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:57.180551219Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "locationiq.com",
          "registered": "2005-09-20",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/locationiq.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:09.085884687Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://locationiq.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:40.456577184Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "8ef406b8d494"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://locationiq.com/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:42.570074696Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "f99922f73f1e"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://locationiq.com/tos",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:44.50940215Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "13f087788a40"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T22:35:26.097321424Z"
      }
    },
    "b": {
      "slug": "tomtom",
      "name": "TomTom Maps APIs + MCP",
      "vendor": "TomTom",
      "vendorUrl": "https://developer.tomtom.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "maps",
      "summary": "Search, Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding, Routing, Matrix Routing, Reachable Range, EV routing and live traffic, plus map tiles.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomtom",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomtom.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomtom.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tomtom.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/tomtom-international/tomtom-mcp",
      "license": "Apache-2.0 (MCP server)",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.tomtom.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@tomtom-org/tomtom-mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "One API key, passed as the key query parameter on REST calls. The hosted MCP takes it in a tomtom-api-key header and defaults to the Orbis backend. The local server defaults to the older TomTom Maps backend unless MAPS=tomtom-orbis-maps is set. Unreleased changes merged on 30 September 2026 drop the older backend, the tomtom-maps-backend header and the MAPS variable.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free monthly allowance with no card. 2,500 Search, 20,000 Geocoding, 20,000 Routing, 2,500 Matrix Routing, 200,000 vector and 200,000 raster tiles and 20,000 non-tile map requests. Past that it's pay as you grow in euros at volume tiers, worked out by an estimator on the pricing page. The per-request rates sit behind per-API detail links we couldn't read, so no rate is quoted here (https://docs.tomtom.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 15,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 55,
        "npmWeekly": 996,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.tomtom.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.tomtom.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "geo.geocode",
        "geo.reverse",
        "geo.places",
        "geo.routing",
        "geo.tiles"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "official",
        "typescript",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "enterprise",
        "eu",
        "closed-source"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-23",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 55.1,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 318,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 78,
          "maintenance": 86,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 30,
          "schema": 71,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "low",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "No-card free allowance of 20,000 geocodes, 20,000 reverse geocodes and 20,000 routes a month. Terms, rate limits and deprecation policy render client-side, so storage rules and notice periods are unverified.",
        "strengths": [
          "No-card free allowance of 20,000 geocodes, 20,000 reverse geocodes and 20,000 routes a month",
          "Live traffic, EV routing and search, reachable range and search along a route as MCP tools",
          "All 18 MCP tools annotated read-only, idempotent and non-destructive",
          "Five MCP releases between 14 July and 23 September 2026, with Veracode scanning and end-to-end tests in CI",
          "HackerOne disclosure programme with a 3 business day first response"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Terms, rate limits and deprecation policy render client-side, so storage rules and notice periods are unverified",
          "Status page keeps only five days of history",
          "Paid prices only through a euro estimator",
          "Hosted MCP in public preview and missing from the MCP registry",
          "Only 2,500 free Search and Matrix calls a month"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use tomtom-geocode (20,000 free) rather than tomtom-fuzzy-search (2,500 free) when you have a full address",
          "Don't send tomtom-maps-backend in new configs, since the next release stops reading it and Orbis is already the hosted default",
          "Read a 403 'missing permissions' as the key lacking Orbis or EV products, and enable them in the developer portal",
          "Pass show_ui false when the client can't render MCP Apps, or you'll get a JSON summary instead of a map",
          "Redact the key parameter before logging REST URLs"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "low",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 55.1
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 78,
          "maintenance": 86,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 30,
          "schema": 71,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 41
        },
        "provenanceScore": 80
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.tomtom.com/search/2/geocode/10%20Downing%20Street%2C%20London.json?limit=1\u0026key=$TOMTOM_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tomtom https://mcp.tomtom.com/maps --header \"tomtom-api-key: $TOMTOM_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "tomtom": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "@tomtom-org/tomtom-mcp@latest"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "TOMTOM_API_KEY": "${TOMTOM_API_KEY}"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/geo.geocode",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/tomtom"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "TomTom International BV",
        "domain": "tomtom.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1996-02-23",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://docs.tomtom.com/legal/terms-and-conditions",
        "privacy": "https://www.tomtom.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://tomtom.service-now.com/status",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-02",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy names TomTom International BV and was last edited 1 August 2024. Subprocessors and storage locations are on https://www.tomtom.com/en-gb/privacy/more-information/.",
          "The terms page renders client-side and returned no readable text to our fetcher on 30 September, 1 October or 2 October, and developer.tomtom.com/legal redirects to it, so storage and caching rules are unverified.",
          "www.tomtom.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. Vulnerabilities go to TomTom's HackerOne programme, per the security policy in the tomtom-international GitHub organisation.",
          "The status page shows current status per API and only the last five days of history.",
          "A deprecation policy page is linked from docs.tomtom.com/llms.txt but renders client-side, and its .md twin returns 404."
        ],
        "score": 80
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomtom.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "tomtom",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.tomtom.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T22:35:32.604607975Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 200,
          "lastMs": 118,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 157,
          "p95ms24h": 355,
          "samples24h": 272,
          "samples30d": 884,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 109
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 256,
              "ok": 256
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://tomtom.service-now.com/status",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:31.726753893Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "tomtom-international/tomtom-mcp",
            "version": "v1.6.10",
            "released": "2026-09-23",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:42:10.302294149Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@tomtom-org/tomtom-mcp",
            "version": "1.6.10",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:42:09.439404752Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 55,
        "npmWeekly": 685,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://tomtom.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:41.501098817Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.tomtom.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:18.118999761Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "tomtom.com",
          "registered": "1996-02-23",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/tomtom.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:44.956685546Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.tomtom.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:44:11.600272734Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "9f426a4be50f"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.tomtom.com/privacy/",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:29.87969507Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e5bdc55dca1e"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://docs.tomtom.com/legal/terms-and-conditions",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:44:09.558268623Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "68f5b7cd1e5c"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T22:35:32.604607975Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "LocationIQ has a score of 60.6 (C) against TomTom Maps APIs + MCP's 55.1 (C). Both do geo geocode. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 83 points."
  },
  "kind": "anchor.page",
  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-tomtom",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-tomtom.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-tomtom.md",
    "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-tomtom.min.md"
  },
  "markdown": "LocationIQ has a score of 60.6 (C) against TomTom Maps APIs + MCP's 55.1 (C). Both do geo geocode. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 83 points.\n\n- LocationIQ: grade C, 60.6/100, rank #243 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/locationiq.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/locationiq.json\n- TomTom Maps APIs + MCP: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #318 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomtom.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tomtom.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick LocationIQ for reliability (+53), schema \u0026 documentation (+7), payments \u0026 pricing (+5).\n\nPick TomTom Maps APIs + MCP for maintenance \u0026 community (+83).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | LocationIQ | TomTom Maps APIs + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 83 | 30 | LocationIQ +53 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 71 | LocationIQ +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 78 | TomTom Maps APIs + MCP +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 51 | LocationIQ +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 25 | LocationIQ +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 86 | TomTom Maps APIs + MCP +83 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 61 | LocationIQ +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.6 · C** | **55.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | LocationIQ | TomTom Maps APIs + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | LocationIQ (Unwired Labs) | TomTom |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://us1.locationiq.com/v1` | `https://api.tomtom.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 (MCP server) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 15 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-23 |\n| Popularity | none | 55 stars, 996 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**LocationIQ.** 5,000 free requests a day with no card, commercial use allowed with a link back. No changelog, release notes or blog.\n\n**TomTom Maps APIs + MCP.** No-card free allowance of 20,000 geocodes, 20,000 reverse geocodes and 20,000 routes a month. Terms, rate limits and deprecation policy render client-side, so storage rules and notice periods are unverified.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### LocationIQ\n\n1. Use eu1.locationiq.com for European users or data\n2. Add format=json and limit=1 to keep responses small\n3. On 429 Rate Limited Second wait a second, on Rate Limited Day stop until the next day\n4. Call /balance before a large batch to see what's left of the day's quota\n5. Redact the key parameter before logging request URLs\n\n### TomTom Maps APIs + MCP\n\n1. Use tomtom-geocode (20,000 free) rather than tomtom-fuzzy-search (2,500 free) when you have a full address\n2. Don't send tomtom-maps-backend in new configs, since the next release stops reading it and Orbis is already the hosted default\n3. Read a 403 'missing permissions' as the key lacking Orbis or EV products, and enable them in the developer portal\n4. Pass show_ui false when the client can't render MCP Apps, or you'll get a JSON summary instead of a map\n5. Redact the key parameter before logging REST URLs\n\n## Other comparisons with LocationIQ or TomTom Maps APIs + MCP\n\n- [Geoapify Location Platform + MCP vs LocationIQ](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/geoapify-vs-locationiq.md)\n- [Geoapify Location Platform + MCP vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/geoapify-vs-tomtom.md)\n- [Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP vs LocationIQ](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-maps-platform-vs-locationiq.md)\n- [Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-maps-platform-vs-tomtom.md)\n- [LocationIQ vs Mapbox APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-mapbox.md)\n- [LocationIQ vs OpenCage Geocoding API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-opencage.md)\n- [LocationIQ vs Stadia Maps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-stadia-maps.md)\n- [Mapbox APIs + MCP vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mapbox-vs-tomtom.md)\n- [OpenCage Geocoding API vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencage-vs-tomtom.md)\n- [Stadia Maps vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/stadia-maps-vs-tomtom.md)\n",
  "meta": {
    "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)",
    "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/",
    "generatedAt": "2026-10-04",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
    "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/",
    "methodology": "0.3",
    "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json",
    "preview": false,
    "run": "2026-10-01",
    "runLabel": "October 2026 research run"
  },
  "page": {
    "breadcrumbs": [
      {
        "name": "Home",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Compare",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/"
      },
      {
        "name": "LocationIQ vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP",
        "url": ""
      }
    ],
    "description": "LocationIQ has a score of 60.6 (C) against TomTom Maps APIs + MCP's 55.1 (C). Both do geo geocode. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 83 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.",
    "facts": [
      "LocationIQ C 60.6",
      "TomTom Maps APIs + MCP C 55.1",
      "scores"
    ],
    "h1": "LocationIQ vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP",
    "image": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/og/compare-locationiq-vs-tomtom.png",
    "path": "/compare/locationiq-vs-tomtom",
    "published": "2026-10-01",
    "section": "tools",
    "title": "LocationIQ vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP for AI agents, C 60.6 vs C 55.1",
    "toc": null,
    "updated": "2026-10-04",
    "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-tomtom"
  },
  "tokens": {
    "markdown": 1400,
    "slim": 330
  },
  "version": 1
}
