# MapTiler, free, GET /geocoding/{query}.json: Local business search API

> Place, address, and POI search - with autocomplete - easily added to your maps. Enrich your data with a Batch GeoCoding API, turn addresses into pins on the map, or change coordinates into an address using reverse geocoding.

MapTiler's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Category, Coordinates.
We haven't run a Local business search API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 89 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.04 per 1,000 places or less.
[Stadia Maps's $250 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/250-monthly-professional-get-geocoding-v2-autocomplete/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.001. Stadia Maps charges for each page of results. We count 10 places on each page to get the $0.001 price.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/free-get-geocoding-query-json
- Get it: https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.maptiler.com/geocoding/{query}.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.maptiler.com/cloud/api/geocoding/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#tag/geocoding/GET/geocoding/{query}.json
- Sold by: MapTiler (https://www.maptiler.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Address: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search by coordinates (reverse) · Search by feature ID · Batch geocoding API · Maps API · Static maps API · Tiles API · Data API · Geolocation API · Coordinates API · Elevation API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Place, address, and POI search - with autocomplete - easily added to your maps. Enrich your data with a Batch GeoCoding API, turn addresses into pins on the map, or change coordinates into an address using reverse geocoding.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Only bulk downloading allowed is for the Geocoding API service. The attribution of the database created has to be clearly marked either as part of the database or in a separate file attached to the database. [...] Results of the search services, such as Geolocation API, Geocoding API and Routing API, are allowed for usage outside of the Service. [...] Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, Customer shall not trace, derive or extract, map content, data and/or information from the Service. The Customer shall not use the Service to develop, test, validate, and/or improve any other service or dataset that is a substitute to the Service, including any component thereof. [...] Customers shall not facilitate or permit any third party to use Customers’ account to: Access or disclose MapTiler map content. Deploy the Service for the benefit of third parties other than users of Customer's Licensed Application. Deploy the Service in a way that makes any of it accessible to the public. Try to avoid or change licensing conditions MapTiler implements. [...] Usage of the Free Plan is limited to non-commercial use and research & development for commercial products applications.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 100,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: bbox, proximity, language, country, limit, types, excludeTypes, fuzzyMatch, autocomplete, worldview
- Method: GET
- Path: /geocoding/{query}.json

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a MapTiler Cloud account, for non-commercial use and research & development for commercial products

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, address, country code, latitude, longitude, categories, place ID, attribution, bounding box, OSM type, OSM ID

## MapTiler's plans (3)

- [MapTiler, free, GET /geocoding/{query}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/free-get-geocoding-query-json/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [MapTiler, $30 monthly, Flex, GET /geocoding/{query}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/30-monthly-flex-get-geocoding-query-json/llms.txt): $0.006 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [MapTiler, contact us, Custom, GET /geocoding/{query}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/contact-us-custom-get-geocoding-query-json/llms.txt): 38% complete

## MapTiler's calls (2)

- `GET /geocoding/{queries}.json`: [MapTiler, free, GET /geocoding/{queries}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/free-get-geocoding-queries-json/llms.txt)
- `GET /geocoding/{query}.json`: [MapTiler, free, GET /geocoding/{query}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/free-get-geocoding-query-json/llms.txt)

## MapTiler's APIs (1)

- [MapTiler: Local business search API pricing, 3 plans, GET /geocoding/{query}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/free-get-geocoding-query-json/llms.txt)

## MapTiler: Local business search API alternatives

- [LocationIQ, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0027 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Amazon Location Service, pay as you go, On-demand, POST /v2/search-text, SearchText](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-text-searchtext/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Geoapify, $179 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/179-monthly/llms.txt): $0.006 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Geocode Earth, $500 monthly, Advanced, GET /v1/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/500-monthly-advanced-get-v1-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.0063 per 1,000, 25% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.maptiler.com/cloud/api/geocoding.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.maptiler.com/cloud/api/geocoding/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.maptiler.com/guides/account/sessions-vs-requests.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.maptiler.com/guides/developer/location-services/geocoding-search/parameters.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.maptiler.com/guides/developer/location-services/geocoding-search/place-types-values.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.maptiler.com/updates/geocoding/geocoding-latest.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.maptiler.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.maptiler.com/terms/cloud?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing