# Radar vs Stadia Maps (slim)

> Stadia Maps scores 65.2 (B) to Radar's 53.3 (D) 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 Radar's 53.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Radar leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do geocoding.

- Radar: D 53.3, rank #713 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/radar.min.md
- Stadia Maps: B 65.2, rank #325 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps.min.md
- 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 63; Security & auth, 56 against 40.
- Stadia Maps, good for Cost-sensitive geocoding, routing and tiles on OpenStreetMap data, with traffic-influenced routing since April 2026. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 86 against 50; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 65; Payments & pricing, 40 against 10; Transparency & trust, 76 against 55. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Radar | Stadia Maps |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 50 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 40 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Radar | Stadia Maps |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Radar Labs | Stadia Maps |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.radar.io/v1` | `https://api.stadiamaps.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Price for geocoding | not published | $0.40 per 1,000 requests |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Radar's Terms of Use. The web SDK in radarlabs/radar-sdk-js is Apache-2.0 | BSD-3-Clause (MCP server) |
| Tools exposed | none | 6 |
| Last release | 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-05-24 | 2026-03-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-05-13 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 23 stars, 6.1k npm/wk, 192 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |