MapTiler Cloud
by MapTiler AG HTTP API in Maps, geocoding & places
MapTiler AG · maptiler.com since 2008 · status page · who's behind it
MapTiler Cloud is a hosted maps platform from MapTiler AG in Switzerland. Its read-only REST APIs serve map styles, vector and raster tiles, static maps, forward and reverse geocoding, IP geolocation, elevation, coordinate transforms and weather data.
Best for Map tiles, static maps and worldwide geocoding with storable results for apps that also show a map, with EU data residency.
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Assessment. MapTiler Cloud has an OpenAPI 3.1 reference, llms.txt with Markdown pages, an agent skill and ISO 27001 certification, and allows geocoding results to be stored. The key always travels in the query string, there's no routing API, no documented rate limit or 429 handling, and the free plan excludes commercial use.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Transport
- HTTP
- Auth
- API key
- Pricing
- Freemium · $0.15 / 1k req
- x402
- No
- Licence
- not stated
- Capabilities
- geo.geocode geo.reverse geo.places geo.tiles data.weather
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- Packages
npm@maptiler/clientnpm@maptiler/sdk- llms.txt
- published
- Last release
- npm / week
- 115k
From our research 10 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface listed
- The public REST APIs at api.maptiler.com, read from docs.maptiler.com (API reference, OpenAPI spec, llms.txt, guides and updates), the pricing, terms, Cloud terms, privacy and security pages, status.maptiler.com and the maptiler GitHub repositories on 6 November 2026. No account was made and no key was used
- Public APIs
- Maps, Static maps, Tiles, Data (your datasets as GeoJSON), Images, Geocoding (forward, reverse, by ID and batch of up to 50 queries), Geolocation by IP, Coordinates, Elevation, Weather and fonts and sprites. All read-only
- Service API
- Upload, Tileset, API keys and Analytics APIs for managing the account, with a service token
- No routing
- No directions or route matrix endpoint in the API reference
- Plans
- Free (100,000 requests, 5,000 sessions, 1,000 search sessions a month, non-commercial), Flex $30 a month (500,000 requests, 25,000 sessions, 3,000 search sessions), Custom with soft limits and a 99.9% SLA
- Rate limits
- Monthly quotas per plan. No per-second limit or 429 behaviour found in the reviewed documentation. A spending limit on Flex and Custom stops the API when reached
- Storage terms
- Map content can't be cached server-side. Geocoding results may be bulk downloaded and used outside the service with attribution
- Hosting
- Customer data stored and processed mainly in Switzerland and the EEA on OVHcloud and Google Firebase, with an EU-only endpoint at api.maptiler.eu
- SDKs
- @maptiler/client 3.1.0 and @maptiler/sdk 4.2.0 (both 2 October 2026, BSD 3-Clause), plus native mobile SDKs. No official Python client found
- Legal entity
- MapTiler AG, Unterägeri, Switzerland, under Swiss law with courts in Zug
Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- OpenAPI 3.1.0 spec, llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown version of every docs page
- Geocoding results may be bulk downloaded and used outside the service with attribution
- Keys can be restricted by origin and User-Agent, and service tokens can sign requests instead
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, security.txt and a vulnerability disclosure policy
- EU-only endpoint at api.maptiler.eu and hosting mainly in Switzerland and the EEA
Weaknesses
- The API key is always sent as a query parameter
- No routing, directions or matrix API
- No per-second rate limit, 429 behaviour or retry guidance found in the documentation
- The free plan is for testing and non-commercial use only, and pauses at its monthly limit
- Official clients are JavaScript and TypeScript only
Before you call it notes for agents
- Restrict the key to an origin or User-Agent, or sign requests with a service token from a backend, since the key appears in every URL
- Use the batch geocoding path (up to 50 semicolon-separated queries) rather than one call per address
- Use api.maptiler.eu when the user's requests must stay in the EU
- Read docs pages as Markdown by appending .md, starting from https://docs.maptiler.com/llms.txt
- Don't cache map tiles server-side; the Cloud terms forbid it, though geocoding results may be stored with attribution
Who's behind it provenance 96/100
- Legal entity namedMapTiler AG20/20
- Domain agemaptiler.com, registered 2008-08-08 (18 years)15/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainmaptiler.com15/15
- Terms of serviceread, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects8.3/10
- Privacy policyread, states 4 of the 8 things a reader expects7/10
- Status pagestatus.maptiler.com10/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtvalid10/10
- People named1 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
- Support routehelp pages, a community5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service gives no date, states 5 of 7, 1 to know
TL;DR Gives no date. States 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and we didn't find how changes are announced. To know before relying on it, arbitration or a class action waiver.
Requires arbitration or waives class actions
The Parties commit to using arbitration only as a last resort, and to make the best effort to resolve all disputes directly between the two parties, including escalation to manager level if required.
Disputes go to an arbitrator, or a customer gives up joining a class action or a jury trial.
Gives the date it was last updated
Not found in the text.
Without a date nobody can tell which version they agreed to.
Names the governing law or courts Disputes go to the courts of Zug
All disputes arising out of or in connection with these General Terms and any Special Terms, including disputes on the conclusion, binding effect, amendment and termination of any contract between MapTiler and Customers, shall be exclusively resolved by the competent court of Zug (Canton of Zug / Switzerland).
Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.
States a limit on its liability Capped at the fees paid in the 3 months before the claim or USD 1000
Our total liability in any matter arising out of or related to your use of Services, these General Terms or any Special Terms is limited to USD 1000 or the aggregate amount that you paid for all Services during the three-month period preceding the event giving rise to the liability, whichever is larger.
Says the most the vendor would owe if the service causes a loss.
Says how the agreement or account can be ended
If the owed amount is past due, MapTiler may suspend access to the Services until all outstanding fees are paid.
Says when the vendor can cut off access and what notice it gives.
Says how changes to the terms are announced
Not found in the text.
Says whether a customer hears about a change before it binds them.
Lists what users may not do
If you don’t agree to the Terms, you may not use the Services.
The acceptable-use rules an agent acting for a user has to stay inside.
Refers to a service level or uptime commitment
Customer support for the purchased Service is provided under one of the following service level agreements ("SLA"):
Says whether availability is promised and where the promise is written.
The document · read 2026-11-06 · 4,541 words
Privacy policy gives no date, states 4 of 8
TL;DR Gives no date. States 4 of the 8 things a reader expects, and we didn't find who else gets the data, a privacy contact or where data goes. The rules found no clause to flag.
Gives the date it was last updated
Not found in the text.
Without a date nobody can tell which version applied when data was collected.
Says what personal data is collected
Overall, we process the following categories of personal data:
The basic statement a privacy policy exists to make.
Says how long data is kept Names a period of 10 years
We can keep your personal data up to 10 years from cancellation of your user account, or in case of a dispute, until the dispute is settled.
Says when data sent to the service is deleted.
Says who else receives the data
Not found in the text.
Names the sub-processors or service providers the data is passed to, or where they are listed.
Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising
Based on your consent, we use analytical and statistical (performance) cookies to generate statistics and reports on the use of the website and to save your preferences, and advertising (targeting) cookies to display targeted advertising on other websites and to transmit it to advertising operators.
A plain statement either way.
Says what rights people have over their data
We will also inform you about persons with access to your personal data, about your rights and how you can exercise them.
Access, correction, deletion and objection, and how to use them.
Gives a privacy contact
Not found in the text.
An address or officer to send a request to.
Says where data is transferred or stored
Not found in the text.
The countries data goes to and the safeguard used.
The document · read 2026-11-06 · 3,457 words
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
The general terms name MapTiler AG, Zugerstrasse 22, 6314 Unterägeri, Switzerland, under Swiss law with courts in Zug.
security.txt at www.maptiler.com/.well-known/security.txt names sysadmin@maptiler.com, a PGP key and a signature, and has no Expires field.
status.maptiler.com is a StatusCake public report whose data loads from app.statuscake.com. That host's robots.txt answered with a redirect, so it wasn't fetched and no uptime or incident history was read.
RDAP gives maptiler.com a registration date of 8 August 2008.
No clause on automated access to the website was found in the general terms. robots.txt on www.maptiler.com and docs.maptiler.com allows all agents apart from a few paths.
Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Petr PridalCEO
Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. MapTiler's company page, read on 6 November 2026, names Petr Pridal as CEO and says he began assembling the MapTiler team after a decade of freelance, research and open-source work, and OVHcloud's startup profile says MapTiler was founded by a team of geospatial engineers and entrepreneurs led by Petr Pridal, so he is marked as founder. No other people are named there, and no personal accounts are linked. Headquarters are in Zug, Switzerland, with part of the development team in Brno, Czechia. Startupticker's report on MapTiler AG says the company is bootstrapped with multi-million revenue, and CzechCrunch (10 January 2020) says the project runs entirely without investors, is long profitable and that both companies behind it, OctoGEO and Klokan Technologies, are owned by Petr Přidal. No investor is named on the company, terms or security pages or in a web search on 6 November 2026, so investors, total raised and valuation are left out; competition prizes and grants such as ESA BIC aren't investments. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Sources (7)
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 15:59 UTC
- Vendor status page unknown, no machine-readable status found · 12 hours ago
- github
maptiler/maptiler-client-jsv3.1.0, released 2026-10-02 - npm
@maptiler/client3.1.0 - npm
@maptiler/sdk4.2.1 - GitHub stars 25
- npm downloads a week 115k
- security.txt valid · 1 hour ago
- llms.txt answers · 2 hours ago
Pages we watch
| Page | Kind | Last checked | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| docs.maptiler.com/updates | changelog | 3 hours ago · 200 | no change seen |
| www.maptiler.com/privacy-policy | privacy | 3 hours ago · 200 | no change seen |
| www.maptiler.com/terms | terms | 3 hours ago · 200 | no change seen |
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/maptiler.json
Notable
- OpenAPI 3.1.0 reference with 32 paths for the public APIs, and every docs page served as Markdown by appending .md source
- Official agent skill for coding assistants, MIT, first commit 26 February 2026 and last 21 October 2026 source
- EU-only API endpoint api.maptiler.eu added in August 2026, and default API keys converted to restrictable keys the same month source
- The Cloud terms allow bulk download only for the Geocoding API, with attribution, and allow search results to be used outside the service source
- Geocoding index 2.15.25 scheduled for production on 11 November 2026, adding 522,485 map objects from OpenStreetMap source
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified ISMS covering development and cloud operations, per the security page source
Reviews by the Anchor panel
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026 | 16%20 | 8.6 | |
| Hosted lines. status.maptiler.com is a StatusCake public uptime report rather than a component incident page (15). Its data loads from app.statuscake.com, whose robots.txt answered with a redirect, so we didn't fetch it and read no history. That's our limit, not a finding, and the rubric gives 5 (5). Monthly request and session quotas are published per plan, but no per-second limit (5). No 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance found in the API reference, the OpenAPI spec or llms-full.txt (0). The pricing page lists a 99.9% SLA on the Custom plan, while the Cloud terms call availability best effort and point to a custom SLA (8). The public APIs are GA (10). 15+5+5+0+8+10 = 43. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 12.8 | |
| OpenAPI 3.1.0 document with 32 paths for the public APIs (25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every page (10). Each API page says what it's for and when to use the SDK instead (session billing), with little on when not to call it (13). Parameters are typed with defaults, such as limit (default 5 forward, 1 reverse) and a types enum, but bbox and proximity are strings (11). Examples on every endpoint, and the spec documents 400, 403, 404 and 414, without an error reference page (10). A dated platform updates page and a geocoding index changelog, but no version in the API path and the spec is version '1.0' (10). 25+10+13+11+10+10 = 79. | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 11.4 | |
| API reading. limit, types, bbox, proximity, country, language and fuzzyMatch size geocoding results, and the batch endpoint takes up to 50 queries (20). Country, bbox and type filters, no pagination (geocoding rarely needs it) (16). Errors are documented as 400 and 403 with no recovery guidance (10). Every public API reads and is safe to retry (12). Few required parameters, but official clients are JavaScript and TypeScript only, plus native mobile SDKs (12). 20+16+10+12+12 = 70. | |||
| Security & authchecked 6 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 11.2 | |
| Revocable keys that can be limited to origins and a User-Agent substring and managed by the API keys API, and service tokens that sign requests so the token itself never travels, which earns 27. Less 10 because the key is 'always passed as a query parameter' (17). The public APIs are read-only, and account changes need a separate service token (16). Geocoding returns OpenStreetMap names and addresses, community-edited text, with no prompt-injection guidance (7). An Analytics API and account usage statistics (8). security.txt, a vulnerability disclosure policy and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification per the security page. No bug bounty found (16). 17+16+7+8+16 = 64. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 5.0 | |
| No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-1,000 prices for requests ($0.15) and sessions ($2.50) public without login (20). Free plan with no card, though only for testing and non-commercial use (20). Signup is a browser flow (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 6.1 | |
| @maptiler/client 3.1.0 and @maptiler/sdk 4.2.0 on 2 October 2026, 35 days before this check, with the agent skill updated on 21 October (20). Platform updates entries for August (EU endpoint, key security) and September 2026 (terrain blending) plus the two October releases (20). A Discord community and support answered on a best-effort basis within two business days, per the Cloud terms. We didn't read GitHub issues (10). Official JavaScript client and SDK current, no Python client (12). The SDK repository runs unit and end-to-end tests in CI; we didn't check results (8). 20+20+10+12+8 = 70. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 64, provenance 96checked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 7.0 | |
| Editorial half only. Closed service with general and Cloud-specific terms under Swiss law, and SDKs under BSD 3-Clause and the skill under MIT (20). The privacy policy covers account and payment data and says legal-claim data is kept up to 10 years, but says nothing about how long API request logs are kept (15). A dated deprecation page for v3 maps and migration guides, with no written notice period (12). Hosting with OVHcloud and Google Firebase, data mainly in Switzerland and the EEA, and an EU-only endpoint. Google Analytics, Firebase and FastSpring named in the privacy policy (17). 20+15+12+17 = 64. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 62.1 · B | ||
Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.
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Graded 62.1 B methodology v0.7
Fix list 14 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on MapTiler Cloud. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- unchecked: uptime and incident history on status.maptiler.com, whose data host app.statuscake.com answered robots.txt with a redirect
- unchecked: GitHub stars and issue reply times, because the GitHub API was rate-limited for us on 6 November 2026
- firstReleased is left unset, since no first-hand launch date for MapTiler Cloud was found on the pages read
- The privacy policy doesn't say how long API request logs or IP addresses are kept
Sources 14
- API overview docs.maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- OpenAPI spec docs.maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- llms.txt docs.maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- geocoding API reference docs.maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- authentication guide docs.maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- platform updates docs.maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- pricing maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- general terms maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Cloud terms maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- privacy policy maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- security page maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- security.txt maptiler.com · seen 2026-11-06
- agent skill github.com · seen 2026-11-06
- JavaScript client tags github.com · seen 2026-11-06
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Freemium $0.15 / 1k req Free plan with 100,000 API requests, 5,000 sessions and 1,000 search sessions a month, no card, for testing and non-commercial use; service pauses at the limit. Flex is $30 a month with 500,000 requests, then $0.15 per 1,000 requests and $2.50 per 1,000 search sessions. Custom contracts carry a 99.9% SLA.
Prices
| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| API requests over the Flex allowance | $0.15 | per 1,000 requests | Flex includes 500,000 a month |
| Search sessions over the Flex allowance | $2.50 | per 1,000 requests | Priced per 1,000 search sessions through MapTiler SDK JS |
| Flex plan | $30 | per month (plan) | Extra usage billed monthly |
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