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Free allowance
200,000 credits a month for development and evaluation, with standard basemaps and basic APIs only; Autocomplete Search (v2) costs 1 credit a request and Standard Routing 20 credits a request; the docs plan grids mark Reverse Geocoding and Bulk Geocoding unavailable on Free, and mark Forward...
Verdict
caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost
free tier
Identity
emailno card, no phone
Binding limit
volume-quota200,000 credits a month on the Free plan, hard-limited with HTTP 429 when used up
Evidence
documented47 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 tier200,000 credits a month for development and evaluation, with standard basemaps and basic APIs only; Autocomplete Search (v2) costs 1 credit a request and Standard Routing 20 credits a request; the docs plan grids mark Reverse Geocoding and Bulk Geocoding unavailable on Free, and mark Forward Geocoding unavailable on Free on the v1 search page while the v2 launch announcement says forward geocoding is available on all plans, including Free; a hard limit with HTTP 429 when the month's credits run out
unit credits; metered on request-count; every new account first gets a 14-day Professional trial with the same 200,000-credit limit and stays on Free after it; Starter, USD 20 a month, gives 1,000,000 credits with basic and standard geocoding APIs
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • volume-quota (binding) 200,000 credits a month on the Free plan, hard-limited with HTTP 429 when used up source
  • request-rate no fixed requests-per-second limit for registered API keys; rate limits for abusive or disruptive use and for keyless local development source
  • retention-clamped geocoding results only stored temporarily on Free; permanent storage needs Standard, Professional or Enterprise source
  • per-object-cap Bulk Geocoding up to 5,000 queries a request, on Standard, Professional and Enterprise only source
Bindingvolume-quota registered keys have no fixed request rate, so the monthly 200,000-credit pool is the first limit met
Identityemail an account at client.stadiamaps.com with an email and a password (first and last name fields optional) behind an hCaptcha check; no credit card for the trial or the Free plan
Egressnot applicable: a query API metered in credits, not bytes
Per-object capBulk Geocoding takes up to 5,000 queries a request, on Standard, Professional and Enterprise plans only; a standard route takes up to 50 locations
Retentiontemporary storage in the normal course of work is allowed on Free; permanently storing geocoding results needs an active Standard, Professional or Enterprise subscription
Interfacerest HTTPS to api.stadiamaps.com (for example /geocoding/v2/autocomplete and /route/v1) with the key in an api_key query parameter or an Authorization: Stadia-Auth header
endpoint: https://api.stadiamaps.com/geocoding/v2/autocomplete
Toolingany HTTP client; official SDKs and an OpenAPI specification at api.stadiamaps.com/openapi.yaml
Composes with200,000 credits a month, spent at 1 credit an autocomplete lookup or 20 credits a standard route; results are kept only temporarily on Free, and Bulk Geocoding needs a paid Standard plan, so the Free plan has no bulk path
Reliabilitywhen the month's credits are used up every API answers HTTP 429 until the next calendar month; proxying or bulk downloading and caching bring escalating de-prioritization and then a rate limit
NotesPermanent storage of geocoding results needs Standard or above. Bulk path: none on Free; Bulk Geocoding (5,000 queries a request) is on Standard, Professional and Enterprise. On Free, autocomplete and standard routing answer and reverse geocoding does not; whether forward geocoding answers is unverified: behind a sign-up, since the v2 announcement says it is on all plans and the docs plan grid of the v1 search endpoint marks it unavailable on Free.
Evidence notedocumented the pricing page, the limits docs, the FAQ, the storage article, the terms, the geocoding, routing and autocomplete docs, the routing product page and the raw sign-up form were quoted on 2026-10-31; a keyless search answered HTTP 401. No account was opened, so no keyed request was made; one would move it to measured.
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 1
  • volume-quota 200000 credits / month
Evidence 47
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/the Free plan gives 200,000 credits a month
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/the Free plan has basic APIs only
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/not published
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/every new account starts with a 14-day trial
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/after the trial the account stays on the Free plan
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/the Starter plan gives 1,000,000 credits a month
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/the Starter plan is USD 20 a month
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/standard geocoding APIs start at the Starter plan
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/limitsthe free tier covers development and evaluation
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/limitsused-up credits bring a hard limit with HTTP 429 until the next calendar month
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/limitsan API outside the plan answers 403
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/limitsrate limits apply to abusive or disruptive use
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/limitsproxying or bulk downloading and caching bring de-prioritization and then a rate limit
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/limitsa bulk geocoding request takes up to 5,000 queries
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/limitsa standard route takes up to 50 locations
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/faqsregistered keys have no fixed request rate; the monthly credits bind
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/learn/geocoding-data-storagetemporary storage of results is allowed on Free
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/terms-of-servicepart of the text of Notes, above
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/geocoding-search-autocomplete/bulk-geocothe bulk geocoding endpoint is not on the Free plan
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/geocoding-search-autocomplete/search/forward geocoding is marked unavailable on the first plan of the grid, Free
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/geocoding-search-autocomplete/reverse-sereverse geocoding is marked unavailable on the first plan of the grid, Free
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/geocoding-search-autocomplete/autocompleautocomplete search is available on the first plan of the grid, Free
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/geocoding-search-autocomplete/autocomplethe autocomplete endpoint
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/routing/standard-routing/standard routing is available on the first plan of the grid, Free
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/routing/standard-routing/the standard routing endpoint
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/part of the text of Free tier, above
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/pricing/Forward Geocoding costs 20 credits a request
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/products/routing-navigationa standard route costs 20 credits
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/products/routing-navigationthe Free plan is 200,000 credits a month
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/authentication/the key goes in an api_key query parameter
2026-10-31docs.stadiamaps.com/authentication/the key can go in an Authorization header with the Stadia-Auth prefix
2026-10-31stadiamaps.com/faqsan OpenAPI specification is published
2026-10-31client.stadiamaps.com/signup/the sign-up form requires an email
2026-10-31client.stadiamaps.com/signup/the sign-up form requires a password
2026-10-31client.stadiamaps.com/signup/first name is a sign-up field not marked required
2026-10-31client.stadiamaps.com/signup/the sign-up form is behind hCaptcha
2026-10-31client.stadiamaps.com/signup/the Free plan needs no credit card
2026-10-31probe: https://api.stadiamaps.com/geocoding/v1/search?text=Zurichthe search endpoint answers HTTP 401 to a keyless request
2026-10-31probe: https://api.stadiamaps.com/geocoding/v1/search?text=Zurich#bodythe search endpoint refuses a request with no key
2026-11-02stadiamaps.com/blog/introducing-stadia-maps-geocoding-searchthe Geocoding & Search v2 announcement (updated July 2, 2026) says Forward Geocoding is available on all plans, including Free
2026-11-02stadiamaps.com/blog/introducing-stadia-maps-geocoding-searchthe v2 announcement says Forward Geocoding is available on all plans, including Free
2026-11-02stadiamaps.com/changelog/the changelog entry of 2025-04-08 says forward geocoding became available on all plans
2026-11-02docs.stadiamaps.com/authentication/Forward Geocoding is among the endpoints a development server on localhost can call without a key
2026-11-02stadiamaps.com/pricing/the Free plan is measured in credits, 200,000 a month
2026-11-02client.stadiamaps.com/signup/the sign-up form requires an email
2026-11-02stadiamaps.com/learn/geocoding-data-storagetemporary storage of results is allowed on Free
2026-11-02probe: https://api.stadiamaps.com/geocoding/v1/search?text=Zurich#bodya keyless search request is refused with a no-valid-authentication message
More fields 2
bulk pathnone on Free; Bulk Geocoding up to 5,000 queries a request on Standard and above
free plan apisAutocomplete Search and Standard Routing are on Free; Reverse Geocoding and Bulk Geocoding are not; Forward Geocoding is on all plans per the v2 announcement and marked unavailable on Free in the v1 search docs