HERE
- Free allowance
- Base plan, with a payment method on file: 30,000 Geocode and Reverse Geocode transactions a month and 30,000 car, bicycle or pedestrian routing transactions a month free, 5,000 Discover/Search and 5,000 Autosuggest a month free; 1 transaction for every request; no daily transaction limits
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota30,000 Geocode and Reverse Geocode transactions a month free, then USD 0.88 per 1,000
- Evidence
- documented29 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | Base plan, with a payment method on file: 30,000 Geocode and Reverse Geocode transactions a month and 30,000 car, bicycle or pedestrian routing transactions a month free, 5,000 Discover/Search and 5,000 Autosuggest a month free; 1 transaction for every request; no daily transaction limits unit requests; metered on request-count; above the free amount geocoding is USD 0.88 per 1,000 up to 5,000,000 a month; the no-card Limited plan closed to new customers in March 2025 and was retired on August 31, 2025, and was held to 5 requests a second for Geocode & Reverse Geocode and 10 for Routing Car, Bicycle, Pedestrian |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota past 30,000 geocodes a month the plan bills each 1,000 rather than refusing, so the free monthly amount is the first limit met |
| Identity | card the Base plan requires entering a payment method during onboarding; nothing is charged below the free monthly amounts. The no-card Limited plan is retired |
| Egress | not applicable: a query API metered in transactions, not bytes |
| Per-object cap | no batch geocoding on the Base plan: HERE Batch API v7 (up to 1 Million records a job) is not included in the Base plan |
| Retention | longer storage needs a Permanent Storage Plan, and Permanent Geocoding is not included in the Base plan (30 days) |
| Interface | rest HTTPS to geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1/geocode and the other HERE REST APIs with an API key of an app ID; a keyless geocode answered HTTP 401 'No credentials found'; rate limits exist on every endpoint but their sizes are not published; the rate limit rules enforced for an account can be fetched with the IAM rate limit rules API or the platform CLI, which need an account |
| Tooling | any HTTP client; HERE Maps API for JavaScript and the HERE Explore SDK |
| Composes with | 30,000 geocodes and 30,000 car, bicycle or pedestrian routes a month behind a card on file, results kept at most 30 days; overage is billed per transaction rather than refused, and the Batch API is outside the Base plan, so the bulk path is single requests |
| Reliability | usage above the free amounts is billed to the payment method, with no daily transaction limit; one app ID serves one application only |
| Notes | Permanent storage is a separate plan not in the Base plan. Bulk path: none on the Base plan; HERE Batch API v7 is excluded from it. |
| Evidence note | documented the pricing page and its calculator data, the Base plan restrictions, the April and July 2025 release notes, the sign-up page, the Permanent Geocoding knowledge-base article and the Geocoding and Search limits and Batch API docs were quoted on 2026-10-31; a keyless geocode answered HTTP 401. No account was opened; the rate limit sizes are behind a sign-up. |
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| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-31 | pricing-calculator.here.com/api/contentfulData?widget=Pricin | Geocode and Reverse Geocode: 0 to 30,000 a month free, then USD 0.88 per 1,000 |
| 2026-10-31 | pricing-calculator.here.com/api/contentfulData?widget=Pricin | car, bicycle and pedestrian routing: 0 to 30,000 a month free |
| 2026-10-31 | pricing-calculator.here.com/api/contentfulData?widget=Pricin | Autosuggest: 0 to 5,000 a month free |
| 2026-10-31 | pricing-calculator.here.com/api/contentfulData?widget=Pricin | Discover/Search: 0 to 5,000 a month free |
| 2026-10-31 | pricing-calculator.here.com/api/contentfulData?widget=Pricin | one transaction is one request |
| 2026-10-31 | pricing-calculator.here.com/api/contentfulData?widget=Pricin | Permanent Geocoding is not in the Base plan |
| 2026-10-31 | www.here.com/get-started/pricing | the Base plan has no daily transaction limit |
| 2026-10-31 | www.here.com/get-started/pricing | each API has a free tier |
| 2026-10-31 | www.here.com/get-started/pricing/base-plan-restrictions | one app ID per application |
| 2026-10-31 | knowledge.here.com/csm_kb?id=public_kb_csm_details&number=KB | not published |
| 2026-10-31 | knowledge.here.com/csm_kb?id=public_kb_csm_details&number=KB | longer storage needs a Permanent Storage Plan |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.here.com/geocoding-and-search/docs/limits-and-performan | rate limits exist but are not published |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.here.com/geocoding-and-search/docs/limits-and-performan | a batch job takes up to 1 Million records |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.here.com/geocoding-and-search/docs/readme | the Batch API is not in the Base plan |
| 2026-10-31 | www.here.com/learn/blog/april-2025-platform-release-notes | sign-up needs a payment method |
| 2026-10-31 | www.here.com/learn/blog/april-2025-platform-release-notes | the free monthly transactions start once a payment method is given |
| 2026-10-31 | www.here.com/learn/blog/april-2025-platform-release-notes | the no-card Limited plan closed to new customers |
| 2026-10-31 | www.here.com/learn/blog/july-2025-platform-release-notes | the Limited plan was retired on August 31, 2025 |
| 2026-10-31 | www.here.com/learn/blog/how-to-get-started-with-here-platfor | a card is required and is charged only above the free tier |
| 2026-10-31 | platform.here.com/portal/sign-up?step=verify-id | a new account starts on the Base plan |
| 2026-10-31 | probe: https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1/geocode?q=Zurich | the geocode endpoint answers HTTP 401 to a keyless request |
| 2026-10-31 | probe: https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1/geocode?q=Zurich#body | the geocode endpoint refuses a request with no key |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.here.com/identity-and-access-management/docs/how-to-fin | the HERE platform serves the enforced rate limit rules through IAM rate limit APIs and the CLI |
| 2026-11-02 | www.here.com/get-started/pricing/rps-limits-excluded-use-cas | the published RPS table applies to Limited Plan customers who give no payment information: 5 for Geocode & Reverse Geocode, 10 for Routing Car, Bicycle, Pedestrian |
| 2026-11-02 | pricing-calculator.here.com/api/contentfulData?widget=Pricin | Geocode and Reverse Geocode: 0 to 30,000 a month free, then USD 0.88 per 1,000 |
| 2026-11-02 | www.here.com/learn/blog/april-2025-platform-release-notes | sign-up needs a payment method |
| 2026-11-02 | knowledge.here.com/csm_kb?id=public_kb_csm_details&number=KB | not published |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.here.com/geocoding-and-search/docs/readme | the Batch API is not in the Base plan |
| 2026-11-02 | probe: https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1/geocode?q=Zurich#body | the geocode endpoint refuses a request with no key |
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| bulk path | none on the Base plan; HERE Batch API v7 (up to 1 Million records a job) is excluded |
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