Openrouteservice Plans Pricing
OpenRouteService offers a tiered access model ranging from a free public API plan for developers and small projects, a standard paid plan for production applications, a collaborative plan for humanitarian and academic use, and an unlimited self-hosted option for organizations needing full control and no quotas.
Openrouteservice Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for OpenRouteService on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 4 plans, with named plans including Free Plan, Standard Plan, Collaborative Plan, Self-Hosted Plan.
Tagged areas include Routing, Geospatial, Directions, Isochrones, and Matrix.
Plans
Free access to the OpenRouteService public API for developers, hobbyists, and small projects. Includes more than 8,000 API requests per day and 20,000 tile requests per day. API key required via account registration at account.heigit.org.
Production-grade access to OpenRouteService with higher daily quotas and per-minute rate limits suitable for commercial applications and services. Requires a paid subscription via HeiGIT account.
Elevated access plan for humanitarian organizations, academic institutions, governmental bodies, and not-for-profit entities. Eligible organizations can request an upgrade through the HeiGIT account dashboard. Includes higher quotas and a larger Export V2 bounding box limit of 50 km2.
Unlimited access by running your own OpenRouteService instance on your own infrastructure via Docker, JAR, or WAR deployment. All services are available without quota restrictions, including technical endpoints like Health and Status that are not available on the public API. The software is open source under the LGPL-3.0 license.
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
Tools for plans
4 MCP tools reach this
find_plansBrowse and filter every plan in the catalog.apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans/openrouteservice-plans-pricing"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.