About My Geocode
We build and run a geocoding API. That is the whole company.
Why it exists
Most of us had the same experience before starting this: a side project needed to turn addresses into coordinates, the big providers wanted a billing account and a key before the first request, and the small ones had free tiers that vanished or came with rules about attribution and non-commercial use. Pricing pages had tiers, credits, SKUs and sessions. Working out what a month would cost meant a spreadsheet.
So the rules here are short. 2,500 requests a day are free for everyone, with no key and no account, and that is not a promotion. Try it, build against it, and if you need more, sign up with an email address and nothing else. Above the free allowance it is one price per request in prepaid credits or one flat fee a month, paid by card or in crypto. Every endpoint costs the same. Results are yours to keep.
Three things we care about
Saying how good a result is
A geocoder that silently returns a city centre when it could not find the house causes bugs that show up months later as a delivery to the wrong place. Every result we return carries a precision value, and the coverage page says what we can and cannot do in each country before you build on it.
Not making you rewrite anything
Switching providers usually means new response formats and a week of parsing changes. Our drop-in hosts answer in the formats of Google, Bing, HERE, Mapbox and others, so moving is a hostname change. That includes the JavaScript map libraries.
Staying small
We do not do routing, fleet tracking or analytics dashboards. Eight lookups, done properly, with documentation that fits in an afternoon.
Where the data comes from
National address and cadastral registers where governments publish them, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, postal authorities, the regional internet registries and public routing tables for IP data, the IANA time zone database, and public elevation models. We cross-check sources against each other and keep our own corrections. Nothing here is scraped from other geocoding services.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections to the data, or a country where you know the coverage is wrong: write to us. Corrections from users are how a lot of the house-level data got better.