HERE Location Services
Enterprise-grade maps, geocoding, routing, and places with a true no-card freemium of 250,000 transactions/month.
HERE Technologies offers a full location platform: geocoding and reverse geocoding, autosuggest/search (places), routing and matrix routing, map tiles, and more, backed by HERE's own commercial map data (not just OSM). Its Freemium plan is notably generous and requires no payment information up front: 250,000 transactions per month free. The Geocoding & Search API v7 returns rich structured results including title, address fields, position, and result types. It is a strong choice when you want commercial-grade coverage and a large free allowance for an automation or skill that does meaningful volume.
Free tier
Freemium: 250,000 transactions/month, no payment info required (HERE only asks for payment if you exceed it). Overage about $1 per 1,000 transactions until you upgrade. Freemium also includes 5,000 SDK MAU/month.Rate limits
Freemium plan is additionally throttled (roughly a few requests/second) on top of the 250,000/month cap; exact QPS is plan- and product-dependent.Auth
API keyBase URL
https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1What you'd build with it
- High-volume geocoding in an automation that exceeds OSM fair-use limits
- Commercial-grade place/POI discovery (discover endpoint) for a local-search skill
- Address autosuggest in a checkout or onboarding form
- Reverse-geocode fleet/GPS coordinates with strong global address coverage
Key endpoints
- GET
/v1/geocodeForward geocoding: address/place text to coordinates and structured result. - GET
/v1/revgeocodeReverse geocoding: position (lat,lng) to nearest address (on revgeocode.search.hereapi.com). - GET
/v1/discoverFree-text place/POI search around a location (on discover.search.hereapi.com). - GET
/v1/autosuggestSearch-as-you-type suggestions for places and addresses (on autosuggest.search.hereapi.com).
Members get the runnable recipe
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