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      "name": "Stadia Maps",
      "vendor": "Stadia Maps",
      "vendorUrl": "https://stadiamaps.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "maps",
      "summary": "Geocoding, reverse geocoding, autocomplete and place details, routing, matrix, isochrones, static maps and hosted vector, raster and satellite tiles, sold in credits on plans from $20 a month.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/stadia-maps.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/stadiamaps/stadiamaps-mcp-server-ts",
      "license": "BSD-3-Clause (MCP server)",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.stadiamaps.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@stadiamaps/api"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "stadiamaps"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "API key as the api_key query parameter or in an `Authorization: Stadia-Auth \u003ckey\u003e` header. Browser apps can use domain-based auth with no key, checked against the Origin and Referer headers. The MCP server reads API_KEY.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free 200,000 credits a month for development, testing and demos only, no commercial use. Starter $20 a month (1 million credits), Standard $80 (7.5 million), Professional $250 (25 million), with overage at $0.03, $0.02 and $0.015 per 1,000 credits. A forward, reverse or structured geocode, a place lookup, an Autocomplete v1 search or a route is 20 credits, Autocomplete v2 is 1, a matrix element 10, a map tile 1 and a satellite tile 4, so Starter covers 50,000 geocodes. New accounts get a 14-day Professional trial with no card (https://stadiamaps.com/pricing/). When credits run out you get 429 until the next cycle unless pay-as-you-go is on (https://stadiamaps.com/faqs/).",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / mo",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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        "npmWeekly": 6058,
        "pypiWeekly": 192,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.stadiamaps.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.stadiamaps.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.stadiamaps.com/openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "geo.geocode",
        "geo.reverse",
        "geo.places",
        "geo.routing",
        "geo.tiles"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "official",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "open-data"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 65.5,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 171,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 63,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 79
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Public OpenAPI spec (11.1.0) with generated TypeScript and Python SDKs. Free plan is for development, testing and demos only.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI spec (11.1.0) with generated TypeScript and Python SDKs",
          "Published credit costs, with 50,000 geocodes for $20 a month on Starter",
          "Header auth keeps the key out of URLs, and keys rotate through an API",
          "Server logs kept about 7 to 14 days, and a DPA",
          "14 dated changelog entries between June and September 2026"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Free plan is for development, testing and demos only",
          "The same 429 signals a burst or a spent month of credits, with no Retry-After",
          "No SLA, no security.txt and no disclosure policy found",
          "MCP server has no release, no CI and no commits since 29 July 2025",
          "The terms forbid benchmarking against competitors without written permission"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send the key as `Authorization: Stadia-Auth \u003ckey\u003e` rather than in the URL",
          "Try Autocomplete v2 (1 credit) before a full geocode (20 credits) when a name is enough",
          "Check the dashboard's credit balance before retrying a 429, since it may mean the month is spent",
          "Don't write geocodes to a database on Free or Starter",
          "Use bulk-geocode for addresses only, not POI names"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
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        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 63,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 72
        },
        "provenanceScore": 86
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Stadia-Auth $STADIA_API_KEY\" \"https://api.stadiamaps.com/geocoding/v1/search?text=10%20Downing%20Street%2C%20London\u0026size=1\""
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/geo.geocode",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/stadia-maps"
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      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Starter plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "1 million credits, about 50,000 geocodes"
        },
        {
          "item": "Standard plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 80,
          "note": "7.5 million credits, permanent geocode storage"
        },
        {
          "item": "Professional plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 250,
          "note": "25 million credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Geocoding within Starter",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.4,
          "note": "20 credits each, $20 for 1 million credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Geocoding overage on Starter",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.6,
          "note": "20 credits each at $0.03 per 1,000 credits"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Stadia Maps, Inc.",
        "domain": "stadiamaps.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2016-11-30",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://stadiamaps.com/terms-of-service/",
        "privacy": "https://stadiamaps.com/privacy/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.stadiamaps.com",
        "changelog": "https://stadiamaps.com/changelog/",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The terms name Stadia Maps, Inc., a Delaware corporation with an address in East Lansing, Michigan, under Delaware law. Last updated 18 March 2026.",
          "Pages showing Traffic Products must carry \"© Stadia Maps © TomTom\".",
          "stadiamaps.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404."
        ],
        "score": 86
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps.json",
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        "slug": "stadia-maps",
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          "target": "https://api.stadiamaps.com",
          "method": "get",
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
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              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 38,
              "ok": 38
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          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.stadiamaps.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:29.876509141Z"
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            "name": "@stadiamaps/api",
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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          "url": "https://stadiamaps.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:49.354792712Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.stadiamaps.com/llms.txt",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:15.966617081Z"
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          "domain": "stadiamaps.com",
          "registered": "2016-11-30",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/stadiamaps.com",
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            "url": "https://stadiamaps.com/pricing/",
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            "url": "https://stadiamaps.com/privacy/privacy-policy/",
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          {
            "url": "https://stadiamaps.com/terms-of-service/",
            "kind": "terms",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:12.02067172Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:33.384047933Z"
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    },
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      "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
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        ],
        "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": "2026-10-05T03:17:34.033057519Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 200,
          "lastMs": 179,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 157,
          "p95ms24h": 358,
          "samples24h": 273,
          "samples30d": 938,
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              "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": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 38,
              "ok": 38
            }
          ]
        },
        "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": "2026-10-05T03:17:34.033057519Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "Stadia Maps has a score of 65.5 (B) against TomTom Maps APIs + MCP's 55.1 (C). Both do geo geocode. The largest gap is reliability, 33 points."
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  "links": {
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    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/stadia-maps-vs-tomtom",
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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 Stadia Maps for reliability (+33), schema \u0026 documentation (+15), payments \u0026 pricing (+15), transparency \u0026 trust (+18).\n\nPick TomTom Maps APIs + MCP for security \u0026 auth (+11), maintenance \u0026 community (+6).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Stadia Maps | TomTom Maps APIs + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 30 | Stadia Maps +33 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 71 | Stadia Maps +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 78 | Stadia Maps +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 51 | TomTom Maps APIs + MCP +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 25 | Stadia Maps +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 86 | TomTom Maps APIs + MCP +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 61 | Stadia Maps +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **65.5 · B** | **55.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Stadia Maps | TomTom Maps APIs + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Stadia Maps | TomTom |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.stadiamaps.com` | `https://api.tomtom.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | BSD-3-Clause (MCP server) | Apache-2.0 (MCP server) |\n| Tools exposed | 6 | 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 | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-23 |\n| Popularity | 23 stars, 6.1k npm/wk, 192 PyPI/wk | 55 stars, 996 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Stadia Maps.** Public OpenAPI spec (11.1.0) with generated TypeScript and Python SDKs. Free plan is for development, testing and demos only.\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### Stadia Maps\n\n1. Send the key as `Authorization: Stadia-Auth \u003ckey\u003e` rather than in the URL\n2. Try Autocomplete v2 (1 credit) before a full geocode (20 credits) when a name is enough\n3. Check the dashboard's credit balance before retrying a 429, since it may mean the month is spent\n4. Don't write geocodes to a database on Free or Starter\n5. Use bulk-geocode for addresses only, not POI names\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 Stadia Maps or TomTom Maps APIs + MCP\n\n- [Geoapify Location Platform + MCP vs Stadia Maps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/geoapify-vs-stadia-maps.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 Stadia Maps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-maps-platform-vs-stadia-maps.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 Stadia Maps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-stadia-maps.md)\n- [LocationIQ vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-tomtom.md)\n- [Mapbox APIs + MCP vs Stadia Maps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mapbox-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 Stadia Maps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencage-vs-stadia-maps.md)\n- [OpenCage Geocoding API vs TomTom Maps APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencage-vs-tomtom.md)\n",
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