A Stadia Maps alternative with one price per request

Stadia Maps sells map tiles, geocoding, routing, and other location APIs on open data, paid in monthly plans of credits: a map tile costs 1 credit, and a geocode or a route costs 20. Mapricot charges one price for every request, $0.10 per 1,000 after 250,000 free every 30 days, and its map tiles are free.

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Equivalent APIs

Each Mapricot API next to the Stadia Maps 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
Stadia Maps

Forward geocoding

Mapricot GET /v1/search
Stadia Maps Forward Geocoding

Reverse geocoding

Mapricot GET /v1/reverse
Stadia Maps Reverse Geocoding

Autocomplete

Mapricot GET /v1/autocomplete
Stadia Maps Autocomplete Search

Nearby places by category

Mapricot GET /v1/nearby
Stadia Maps Not listed

Place lookup by ID

Mapricot GET /v1/places/{id}
Stadia Maps Place Lookup

Driving, cycling, and walking routes

Mapricot POST /v1/route
Stadia Maps Standard Routing

IP geolocation

Mapricot GET /v1/ip/{ip}
Stadia Maps Not listed

Vector map tiles

Mapricot Free, no API key, for MapLibre
Stadia Maps Standard Vector Basemaps

Stadia Maps products, from its documentation, checked October 22, 2026.

When to choose each

Where Mapricot is stronger

  • One price for every request. On Stadia a geocode or a route costs 20 credits and a tile 1, so the bill depends on the mix.
  • Free requests you can use commercially. Stadia's free plan is non-commercial.
  • 250,000 free requests every 30 days, where Stadia's free 200,000 credits cover 10,000 geocodes.
  • Map tiles that are free at any volume, plus nearby places by category and IP geolocation.

Where Stadia Maps is stronger

  • Satellite imagery, static maps, and more map styles.
  • Matrices, isochrones, map matching, optimized routes, and traffic-aware routing.
  • Time zone and elevation APIs.

Stadia Maps pricing

Stadia Maps sells monthly plans of credits shared by every API: Starter at $20 a month for 1 million credits, Standard at $80 for 7.5 million, and Professional at $250 for 25 million. Past a plan's credits, each 1,000 more cost 3¢ on Starter, down to 1.5¢ on Professional. The free plan gives 200,000 credits a month, for non-commercial use, with no extra usage.

What you pay for
Stadia Maps

Map display

1 credit a vector or raster tile: $0.02 per 1,000 tiles on Starter

Geocoding

20 credits a request: $0.40 per 1,000 on Starter, $0.60 per 1,000 past its credits

Places and autocomplete

Autocomplete v2: 1 credit a request. Place lookup: 20 credits

Routing

20 credits a route, and 10 credits for each element of a matrix

The per-1,000 figures are for the Starter plan: $20 for 1 million credits, then 3¢ per 1,000 credits. Source: Stadia Maps 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.

Differences to plan for

  • Requests: Stadia's search takes the query as text and the key as api_key in the URL, or in a Stadia-Auth header. Mapricot's takes the query as q and the key in an Authorization: Bearer header.
  • Map tiles: Mapricot's styles need no key and aren't counted. Stadia's tiles count against your credits, at 1 credit a tile.
  • Routes: Mapricot returns the distance, travel time, and a line for the route, and the distance and time of each leg, through up to 20 stops. It doesn't return turn-by-turn instructions or matrices, and it doesn't use live traffic.
  • Polylines: Mapricot's route line is a polyline with six decimal places, so decode with precision 6.

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