Host your map tiles, manage geodata, design custom map styles, and deploy production-ready maps that integrate into any mapping environment.
Map style spotlight
Copy ready-to-use map styles compatible with Mapbox GL, MapLibre, Leaflet, OpenLayers, and other, with 100k monthly map style loads included in free plan.
Classic templates compatible with Mapbox and MapLibre. Tweak the look to match your brand, no heavy lifting required.
Upload MBTiles, PMTiles, and GeoJSON. Get instant, endpoints for Mapbox, MapLibre, Leaflet, QGIS, and more – at a fraction of the price of other providers.
Security
Enable token-based authentication, domain restrictions. Your maps are protected with industry-standard security best practices.
Analytics
Track total requests and get clear insights about your map usage over time — with built-in caching and transparent metrics, so you spend less time on DevOps and more time on map shipping.
See how Mappinest compares to Mapbox and MapLibre on pricing and features
| Feature | Our API | Mapbox | MapTiler |
|---|---|---|---|
| Map Style API (Style Loads) | First 100k Free Thereafter: $1.20/1k | First 50k Free Thereafter: $5/1k | First 5K Free Thereafter: $1.31/1k |
| Tiles API (PBF Requests) | First 300k Free Thereafter: $0.40/1k | First 200k Free Thereafter: $0.20/1k | First 100k Free Thereafter: $0.61/1k. |
| Data Hosting (Storage) | 1 GB Free Thereafter: $1.50/GB | Billed per tileset hosting days | 100 MB Free Thereafter: $2.73/GB |
Mappinest is a developer-first platform for shipping production-ready web GIS: we deliver custom map solutions, and we also provide the APIs and hosting to serve tiles, styles, and map assets reliably.
No. Mappinest hosts your tiles, map styles and other data with budget-friendly pricing. You keep using Mapbox GL JS, MapLibre, Leaflet, or OpenLayers as the renderer.
You can consume tiles and styles directly over plain URLs with an API key, no mandatory SDKs and no vendor lock-in. If you want even lower overhead and fewer requests, you can optionally install the Mappinest SDK for better caching, but it’s never required.
Mappinest provides standard, URL-based endpoints secured with an API key, including XYZ vector tiles (PBF), XYZ raster tiles (PNG/JPEG/WebP), TileJSON, Style JSON, and WMTS. User-uploaded MBTiles and PMTiles can be served as vector or raster depending on source metadata. All endpoints work with existing map renderers and GIS tools without a custom SDK.
For user-uploaded data, the platform currently supports MBTiles and PMTiles in both vector and raster variants. GeoJSON, Shapefile, and GeoTIFF ingestion is planned next, including server-side tiling and optimization.
Yes. Tiles are served via CDN with caching, access tokens, and usage analytics. The stack is already running in production and used in real client projects.
Yes. Your data stays fully portable and remains in the same formats you uploaded, with no proprietary wrappers or transformations. You can take it and host it anywhere else at any time. Any edited basemap styles can be exported as JSON in the standard Open Map Tiles (OMT) specification format. You’re free to move and self-host at any point.
Developers, startups, and GIS teams who want to move fast on application development and map design, without spending time on tile infrastructure, server tuning, or CDN configuration. You get predictable pricing and control, while avoiding the complexity of self-hosting tiles and configuring styles, fonts, or glyphs for custom basemaps.
