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I just compared pricing for different providers and here are my results:

Usage: 10000 requests / day

Google Maps: (3600000 - (28000free * 12)) / 1000 * 7 = 22848 $ per year

Yandex Maps: 360000 rubles or 5600$ per year, but much cheaper for higher volumes than 10000/day

Mapbox: (3600000 - (50000free * 12)) / 1000 * 0.5 + (fix 500 * 12) = 7500 $ per year

Bing Maps: No pricing on website, need to contact support

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I've been researching alternatives and Mapfit offers 100,000 API requests a day for free. I haven't read the documentation but looks very promising.

Well a truly bizarre thing happened, the Mapfit staff just altered the text on their pricing box from 100,000/day to 2,500/day (Google cache confirms). Doesn't look very professional.

They’ve probably been getting hammered with signups. It sucks they pulled such an underhand move but it’s obvious why they did it.

Have you checked out TomTom and Here too?

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