Comparison
Geoapify bundles geocoding, routing, map tiles, and places into one credit-metered platform. Open Places API does one of those things, on different data, with pricing you can compute without a spreadsheet.
| Need | Open Places API | Geoapify |
|---|---|---|
| Place search near a point | Yes: the entire product. One GET, JSON back. | Yes, via the Places API among other endpoints. |
| Geocoding & autocomplete | No, by design. Pair with any geocoder. | Yes. |
| Routing, isolines, map tiles | No. | Yes. |
| Base data | Overture Places, monthly refresh, published schema. | Primarily OpenStreetMap and other open sources. |
| Your own place records | Account-owned layers: corrections, suppressions, private records. | Not a first-class API concept. |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly plans, hard caps, no overages. | Daily credit allowances across all APIs; see current pricing. |
If your product needs three or four geo capabilities (geocode an address, route to it, draw it on a map, list what's nearby), one vendor with one credit pool is operationally simpler than four specialists. Geoapify's free daily allowance is also genuinely generous for prototyping across that whole surface.
If place search is the need, buying a toolkit means modeling credit math for one feature. Our plans are three numbers: 10,000 free, 100,000 for $19, a million for $99, with a hard stop at the cap. Add the layers system when the open base needs your corrections or your private records, which is the part no shared dataset gives you.
Geoapify is a toolkit: geocoding, routing, isolines, map tiles, and places, billed in daily credits across all of them. Open Places API is one endpoint: proximity place search over Overture data, on flat monthly plans with hard caps and account-owned layers.
No. Geoapify's places data builds primarily on OpenStreetMap; Open Places API serves the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset, refreshed monthly. Both are open data with different collection models and coverage characteristics, so test against your real queries.
Different shapes: Geoapify meters credits per day across its whole toolkit with a free daily allowance; Open Places API is $0 for 10,000 searches a month, $19 for 100,000, $99 for 1 million, with a hard stop instead of overage billing. For pure place-search volume, flat plans are easier to model; for mixed geo workloads, compare against current Geoapify pricing.
When you need several geo capabilities at once (geocoding plus routing plus maps) from one vendor. Open Places API deliberately does not offer those.
Open Places API