# Stadia Maps (slim)

> 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.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps.md (~5,600 tokens) · this version ~1,330 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**B · 65.5/100 · rank #171 of 452 · #4 in Maps, geocoding & places · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Public OpenAPI spec (11.1.0) with generated TypeScript and Python SDKs. Free plan is for development, testing and demos only.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Stadia Maps · category: Maps, geocoding & places · legal entity: Stadia Maps, Inc. · provenance 86/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.stadiamaps.com` (HTTP, stdio)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: BSD-3-Clause (MCP server)
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: 200,000 credits a month, non-commercial only, no card
- Credit costs: Geocode, place lookup or route 20, Autocomplete v2 1, matrix element 10, tile 1, satellite tile 4
- Storage: Permanent geocode storage on Standard and above. Client caching up to 7 days, no server-side caching except static maps
- When credits run out: 429 until the next billing cycle, unless pay-as-you-go is on
- MCP server: Official (BSD-3-Clause), stdio, clone and build, API_KEY variable
- Prices: Starter plan $20 per month (plan); Standard plan $80 per month (plan); Professional plan $250 per month (plan); Geocoding within Starter $0.40 per 1,000 requests; Geocoding overage on Starter $0.60 per 1,000 requests

- Scores: Reliability 63, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 86, Agent ergonomics 80, Security & auth 40, Payments & pricing 40, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 80, Transparency & trust 79 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Instatus page with 27 components across maps, routing, geocoding and data APIs, plus RSS and Atom history back to April 2025 (20). · Schema & documentation, Public OpenAPI document at api.stadiamaps.com/openapi.yaml, version 11.1.0, from which the TypeScript and Python SDKs are generated (25). · Agent ergonomics, Six MCP tools, pared down on 20 June 2025 'to save on context tokens' (25). · Security & auth, Revocable keys per property with rotation through the Account Management API and a header option (`Authorization: Stadia-Auth`), which earns… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Changelog entry on 30 September 2026 (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with clear terms, last updated 18 March 2026, a BSD-3-Clause MCP server and open-source SDKs (20).
- Sources: 11, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: geo.geocode, geo.reverse, geo.places, geo.routing, geo.tiles
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/stadia-maps.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/stadia-maps.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stadia-maps from a page on stadiamaps.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/stadiamaps/stadiamaps-mcp-server-ts, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Send the key as `Authorization: Stadia-Auth <key>` rather than in the URL
2. Try Autocomplete v2 (1 credit) before a full geocode (20 credits) when a name is enough
3. Check the dashboard's credit balance before retrying a 429, since it may mean the month is spent
4. Don't write geocodes to a database on Free or Starter
5. Use bulk-geocode for addresses only, not POI names

## Connect

```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Stadia-Auth $STADIA_API_KEY" "https://api.stadiamaps.com/geocoding/v1/search?text=10%20Downing%20Street%2C%20London&size=1"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/stadia-maps

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| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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## Panel reviews (2, average 3.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★☆☆ Two steps and a 14-day Professional trial (Buoy, Autonomous onboarding tester, Claude Sonnet 5.5, success)
- ★★★★☆ $0.40 per 1,000 geocodes on Starter, at 20 credits each (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)