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Free allowance: Temporary Geocoding API: up to 100,000 requests a month free, then USD 0.75 per 1,000; the same account gets 50,000 GL JS map loads, 200,000 Vector Tiles API requests, 200,000 Static Tiles API requests, 750,000 Raster Tiles API requests, 50,000 Static Images API requests and 100,000 Tilequery...
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: retention-clampedStorable results are Permanent Geocoding at USD 5.00 per 1,000 from the first request up to 500,000 a month
Evidence: documented53 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	Temporary Geocoding API: up to 100,000 requests a month free, then USD 0.75 per 1,000; the same account gets 50,000 GL JS map loads, 200,000 Vector Tiles API requests, 200,000 Static Tiles API requests, 750,000 Raster Tiles API requests, 50,000 Static Images API requests and 100,000 Tilequery API requests a month free; Permanent Geocoding (storable results) has no free amount and costs USD 5.00 per 1,000 from the first request unit requests; metered on request-count; these free tiers apply once a payment method is on file; an account without one is on demo access, with lower monthly caps (10,000 Temporary Geocoding requests, a batch counting one per query) and no Raster Tiles API or Permanent Geocoding. The free tier resets on the first day of each monthly billing period.
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate 1000 Geocoding API requests per minute by default, counted per access token; HTTP 429 above it source volume-quota 100,000 Temporary Geocoding API requests a month free, then USD 0.75 per 1,000 up to 500,000 source retention-clamped (binding) Storable results are Permanent Geocoding at USD 5.00 per 1,000 from the first request up to 500,000 a month source unverified: the rate limit of a demo-access token is not published, since the sign-up guide and the demo-access guide say only that it is lower than the standard rate limit, and a keyed response may show it in the X-Rate-Limit-Limit header; which of the two documented batch ceilings the v6 batch endpoint enforces also needs a keyed batch request
Binding	retention-clamped the free 100,000 a month cannot be kept, so any use that stores coordinates meets the paid Permanent Geocoding price at the first request, before the monthly quota or the 1000 per minute rate
Identity	card the free tiers apply after a payment method is added: a card, a US bank account or a stablecoin wallet; Permanent Geocoding needs a valid credit card on file. Signup without a payment method (Start without a credit card) gives demo access only, with lower usage caps and rate limits, confirmed by an emailed link valid 24 hours
Egress	not applicable: a query API metered in requests, not bytes
Per-object cap	a forward query is at most 20 words and 256 characters; a batch request to the v6 batch endpoint holds up to 1000 queries, each billed as one request, for Temporary and Permanent geocoding alike; the error list of the same page still gives a ceiling of 50 queries per batch request, the message that the v5 Geocoding API page carries for its mapbox.places-permanent batch endpoint
Interface	rest Geocoding API v6 at api.mapbox.com/search/geocode/v6 (forward, reverse and a batch endpoint), with an access_token on every request; a request without a token gets HTTP 401 NO_TOKEN endpoint: https://api.mapbox.com/search/geocode/v6/forward
Tooling	any HTTP client with an access token; Mapbox GL JS and the Mapbox web and mobile SDKs for maps and search
Composes with	Bulk path: none; the batch endpoint bills every query as one request, and no geocoding data download is published
Reliability	a failed invoice charge puts the account at risk of deactivation and service interruption; the default per-token rate limit can be adjusted per account by Mapbox
Notes	This record prices the account with a payment method on file. A card-free signup gets demo access, whose usage caps are lower and whose first reached cap stops all Mapbox APIs until a payment method is added. Bulk path: no bulk path.
Evidence note	documented the pricing page, the Geocoding API page, the API overview, the signup guide and the billing FAQ were quoted on 2026-10-30, and a request without a token was answered HTTP 401 NO_TOKEN; no account was opened, so no geocode was made. A keyed geocode would move it to measured.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 53

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	part of the text of Free tier, above
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	the free 100,000 a month is counted in single search queries for places, addresses or POIs
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	Permanent Geocoding is the product for storing results and for batch geocoding
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	Permanent Geocoding has no free row: USD 5.00 per 1,000 from 1 to 500,000 a month, USD 4.00 above
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	50,000 GL JS map loads a month free, each with unlimited vector and raster tile requests
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	200,000 Vector Tiles API requests a month free
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	200,000 Static Tiles API requests a month free
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	750,000 Raster Tiles API requests a month free
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	50,000 Static Images API requests a month free
2026-10-30	www.mapbox.com/pricing	part of the text of Free tier, above
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	not published
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	Permanent Geocoding needs a credit card on file or an enterprise contract
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	the default Geocoding rate limit is 1000 requests per minute
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/api/overview/	Mapbox rate limits are counted per access token
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	the batch endpoint takes up to 1000 queries in one request
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	the error list on the same page gives 50 queries as the batch ceiling
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	each query in a batch is billed as one request
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	a forward query is at most 20 words and 256 characters
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	the free tiers come with a payment method; a card-free signup gets trial limits
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	accepted payment methods are cards, US bank accounts and stablecoins
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	Raster Tiles API and Permanent Geocoding open only once a payment method is added
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	the signup confirmation link is emailed and valid 24 hours
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/faq/how-does-pay-as-you-go-billing-	the free tier resets monthly, and a failed charge risks deactivation
2026-10-30	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/faq/how-does-pay-as-you-go-billing-	the monthly free tier resets on the first day of the billing period
2026-10-30	probe: `https://api.mapbox.com/search/geocode/v6/forward?q=Zurich#body`	the v6 forward endpoint answers and refuses a request with no access token
2026-10-31	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	the free tiers this record prices come with a payment method on file, so identity card and qualifies-with-caveat hold
2026-10-31	www.mapbox.com/pricing	Temporary Geocoding is free up to 100,000 requests a month, then USD 0.75 per 1,000
2026-10-31	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	not published
2026-10-31	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	a forward query is at most 20 words and 256 characters
2026-10-31	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	without a payment method, Temporary Geocoding is capped at 10,000 requests a month, a batch counting one per query
2026-10-31	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	a card-free signup exists and gets trial usage limits, not the free tiers this record prices
2026-10-31	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/demo-access/	on demo access, reaching any usage cap cuts off every Mapbox API until a payment method is added
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	the v6 batch endpoint is documented at up to 1000 queries in one request
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	the error list of the v6 page still gives 50 queries as the batch ceiling
2026-11-02	www.mapbox.com/blog/geocoding-v6	the v6 announcement gives 1000 queries per batch request for Temporary and Permanent geocoding alike
2026-11-02	www.mapbox.com/blog/geocoding-v6	v6 raised the number of queries a single batch request may hold
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding-v5/	the v5 Geocoding API error list carries the same 50-query batch message
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding-v5/	in v5 the batch query type belongs to the mapbox.places-permanent endpoint, whose error list holds the 50-query message
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	the sign-up guide says the demo-access rate limits are lower and gives no number
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/demo-access/	the demo-access guide names rate limits on the demo token and gives no number
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/overview/	the X-Rate-Limit-Limit response header carries the limit that applies to the token
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	without a payment method Temporary Geocoding is capped at 10,000 requests a month, a batch counting one per query
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	the Raster Tiles API and Permanent Geocoding are closed to an account with no payment method
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/signup/	the free tiers this record prices come with a payment method on file
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	the default Geocoding API rate limit is 1000 requests per minute
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/overview/	Mapbox rate limits are counted per access token
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	not published
2026-11-02	www.mapbox.com/pricing	Permanent Geocoding has no free row: USD 5.00 per 1,000 from the first request up to 500,000 a month
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	a forward query is at most 20 words and 256 characters
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	Permanent Geocoding needs a credit card on file or an enterprise contract
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/	a request above the Geocoding rate limit is answered HTTP 429
2026-11-02	docs.mapbox.com/accounts/faq/how-does-pay-as-you-go-billing-	the monthly free tier resets on the first day of the account's billing period
2026-11-02	www.mapbox.com/pricing	Temporary Geocoding is free up to 100,000 requests a month, then USD 0.75 per 1,000

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