A Geoapify alternative with one price per request

Geoapify offers map tiles, geocoding, places, routing, IP geolocation, and analytics APIs, paid in credits by the day. Mapricot charges one price per request: $0.10 per 1,000 after 250,000 free every 30 days, with free map tiles.

Equivalent APIs

Each Mapricot API next to the Geoapify product that does the same job. Mapricot's API isn't compatible with any other provider's, so switching means changing requests and response handling.

What you need
Mapricot
Geoapify

Forward geocoding

Mapricot GET /v1/search
Geoapify Geocoding API

Reverse geocoding

Mapricot GET /v1/reverse
Geoapify Reverse Geocoding API

Autocomplete

Geoapify Address Autocomplete API

Nearby places by category

Mapricot GET /v1/nearby
Geoapify Places API

Place lookup by ID

Geoapify Place Details API

Driving, cycling, and walking routes

Mapricot POST /v1/route
Geoapify Routing API

IP geolocation

Mapricot GET /v1/ip/{ip}
Geoapify IP Geolocation API

Vector map tiles

Geoapify Map Tiles API

Geoapify products, from its documentation, checked October 22, 2026.

When to choose each

Where Mapricot is stronger

  • Every request costs the same, so there are no credit multipliers for longer routes or larger result lists.
  • Pay as you go from $0, with no monthly plan. Geoapify's first paid plan is $59 a month.
  • 250,000 free requests every 30 days, against 3,000 credits a day.
  • Free map tiles with no key.

Where Geoapify is stronger

  • Isolines, route matrices, map matching, and the Route Planner API.
  • Boundaries, postcodes, and elevation data.
  • Batch geocoding and static map images.

Geoapify pricing

Geoapify's free plan gives 3,000 credits a day, and allows commercial use with attribution. Paid plans start at $59 a month for 10,000 credits a day. Simple requests cost one credit, and longer routes or bigger result lists cost more.

What you pay for
Geoapify

Map display

0.25 credits a tile

Geocoding

1 credit a request: ≈$0.20 per 1,000 on a full paid plan

Places and autocomplete

1 credit for up to 20 places, plus 1 for each 20 more

Routing

1 credit for each pair of waypoints, plus 1 for each 500 km (311 miles) past the first

IP geolocation

1 credit a request

The ≈$0.20 is the $59 API 10 plan used in full: 300,000 credits over 30 days. Source: Geoapify pricing, last checked October 22, 2026. Mapricot charges $0.10 per 1,000 requests after 250,000 free every 30 days, shared by every API, and its map tiles are free with no key.

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