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Apple's web mapping free tier is huge:

  Apple
  250K map views / *day*

  Mapbox
  50K map views / month

  Google ($200 credit buys you)
  28k dynamic map views / month
Once it comes out of beta, I'm guessing their pricing will be pretty aggressive too.


And for OpenStreetMap, the cost might be negligible depending on how often you want updates and how large an area you want to cover: for a small area, you can generate tiles once a year or so and just have static hosting serve them up.

According to another comment in this thread who hosts a tile server him/herself on DigitalOcean, that costs about $40. Doesn't seem terrible even for a startup, either.


Doesn't Apple's map require a developer account which costs money? I haven't used them, but I seem to remember you have to pay to develop using Apple products.


>Doesn't Apple's map require a developer account which costs money?

$100 seems like a bargain compared to those other options.




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