Replace Mapbox geocodingfor city search

Find cities by name or by position, and store every result at no extra price.

30,000 requests a month free, with commercial use. No card needed.

Service	City suggestions	Reverse lookup	Free plan
Onde Growth	$29	$29	30,000 a month
Mapbox permanent geocoding	about $4,500	about $4,500	None

Public prices on 2026-11-03.

What the price table leaves out

Free results you may keep

You may store every result of the Onde Free plan. Mapbox gives free geocoding requests only for temporary results, which you may not cache.
IDs that stay the same

An Onde city ID stays the same in every later dataset, and a retired ID returns its replacement when one exists.
Private search text

We do not store the search text or the positions that you send. You can tell your users the same.

Keep Mapbox for maps and addresses

Mapbox draws maps and finds street addresses. Onde finds cities and districts only, and your app can show them on any map. Keep Mapbox where you need an address, and move the city search to Onde.

Try the live API

City

curl "https://api.onde.earth/v1/cities/autocomplete?q=kyoto" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ONDE_KEY"

const url = 'https://api.onde.earth/v1/cities/autocomplete'
const query = new URLSearchParams({ q: 'kyoto', key: 'onde_pk_...' })
const response = await fetch(`${url}?${query}`)
const { data } = await response.json()

const url = 'https://api.onde.earth/v1/cities/autocomplete'
const query = new URLSearchParams({ q: 'kyoto' })
const response = await fetch(`${url}?${query}`, {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.ONDE_KEY}` }
})
const { data } = await response.json()

import os
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.onde.earth/v1/cities/autocomplete",
    params={"q": "kyoto"},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['ONDE_KEY']}"},
)
data = response.json()["data"]

Response Example

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "city_39sy1dm2dj",
      "name": "Kyoto",
      "localName": "京都市",
      "type": "city",
      "parentCityId": null,
      "country": {
        "code": "JP",
        "name": "Japan"
      },
      "region": {
        "id": "region_yjwfrtj0fe",
        "isoCode": "JP-26",
        "name": "Kyoto"
      },
      "coordinates": {
        "latitude": 35.02107,
        "longitude": 135.75385
      },
      "population": 1463723,
      "timeZone": "Asia/Tokyo",
      "isCapital": false,
      "disputed": false,
      "match": "exact"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "dataset": "2026-11-17"
  }
}

curl "https://api.onde.earth/v1/cities/reverse?latitude=35.02&longitude=135.75" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ONDE_KEY"

const url = 'https://api.onde.earth/v1/cities/reverse'
const query = new URLSearchParams({ latitude: '35.02', longitude: '135.75', key: 'onde_pk_...' })
const response = await fetch(`${url}?${query}`)
const { data } = await response.json()

const url = 'https://api.onde.earth/v1/cities/reverse'
const query = new URLSearchParams({ latitude: '35.02', longitude: '135.75' })
const response = await fetch(`${url}?${query}`, {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.ONDE_KEY}` }
})
const { data } = await response.json()

import os
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.onde.earth/v1/cities/reverse",
    params={"latitude": "35.02", "longitude": "135.75"},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['ONDE_KEY']}"},
)
data = response.json()["data"]

Response Example

{
  "data": {
    "id": "city_39sy1dm2dj",
    "name": "Kyoto",
    "localName": "京都市",
    "type": "city",
    "parentCityId": null,
    "country": {
      "code": "JP",
      "name": "Japan"
    },
    "region": {
      "id": "region_yjwfrtj0fe",
      "isoCode": "JP-26",
      "name": "Kyoto"
    },
    "coordinates": {
      "latitude": 35.02107,
      "longitude": 135.75385
    },
    "population": 1463723,
    "timeZone": "Asia/Tokyo",
    "isCapital": false,
    "disputed": false,
    "distanceKm": 0.37023042894617736
  },
  "meta": {
    "dataset": "2026-11-17"
  }
}

How we compare

The Mapbox row uses permanent geocoding, because you may store Onde results.
The prices are from the public pricing page on 2026-11-03.
On 2026-11-04, temporary geocoding cost about $600 at 1 million requests a month, but Mapbox does not permit a cache of temporary results.

Sources

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