Geocode Earth

Geocode Earth is a hosted geocoding and address autocomplete API built by the team that maintains Pelias, the open-source geocoder. It provides forward (search), autocomplete, reverse, and structured geocoding plus place lookup over fully open data (OpenStreetMap, OpenAddresses, Who's on First, and Geonames), with results that can be stored without restrictive licensing.

Geocode Earth publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Forward API, Place API, and Reverse API. Tagged areas include Geocoding, Address Autocomplete, Reverse Geocoding, Mapping, and Pelias.

The Geocode Earth catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Geocode Earth’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, and 9 more developer resources.

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1 published contract

Geocoding Address Autocomplete Reverse Geocoding MappingPeliasOpen Data

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 30.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.5 / 17

Access Clarity 1.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 32.1 — up to +13.6 composite points
Contract Quality scores 52.7 — up to +11.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Geospatial and Maps (OGC standards)	undeclared	-	-	-
Overture Maps Foundation (members + data contributors)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Geocode Earth Forward API

The Forward API from Geocode Earth — 3 operation(s) for forward.

Geocode Earth Place API

The Place API from Geocode Earth — 1 operation(s) for place.

Geocode Earth Reverse API

The Reverse API from Geocode Earth — 1 operation(s) for reverse.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Geocode Earth Forward API

OPEN COLLECTION

Geocode Earth Forward Place API

OPEN COLLECTION

Geocode Earth Forward Reverse API

OPEN COLLECTION

Geocode Earth API

OPEN COLLECTION

Geocode Earth API pricing

Not yet checked against Geocode Earth's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-21 from geocode.earth/pricing/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Free Trial trial	—
Lite subscription	—
Basic subscription	—
Advanced subscription	—
Custom enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Requests Per Second (Lite / Basic): up to 10 per second requests
Requests Per Second (Advanced): up to 20 per second requests
Monthly Request Allowance: see plan (150K / 400K / 2M / custom) requests

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Geocode Earth's documentation. All 4 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Geocode Earth Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Geocode Earth Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Geocode Earth

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Geocode Earth Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Geocode Earth API Rules

63 rules · 61 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Geocode Earth Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Geocode Earth Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Geocode Earth Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: geocode-earth
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/geocode-earth/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Geocode Earth
kind: company
description: Geocode Earth is a hosted geocoding and address autocomplete API built by the team that maintains Pelias, the
  open-source geocoder. It provides forward (search), autocomplete, reverse, and structured geocoding plus place lookup over
  fully open data (OpenStreetMap, OpenAddresses, Who's on First, and Geonames), with results that can be stored without restrictive
  licensing.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: open
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/geocode-earth.png
tags:
- Geocoding
- Address Autocomplete
- Reverse Geocoding
- Mapping
- Pelias
- Open Data
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: geocode-earth:geocode-earth-forward-api
  name: Geocode Earth Forward API
  description: The Forward API from Geocode Earth — 3 operation(s) for forward.
  humanURL: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/search/
  baseURL: https://api.geocode.earth/v1
  tags:
  - Forward
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/geocode-earth-forward-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/search/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/geocode-earth.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/geocode-earth.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/autocomplete/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/reverse/reverse/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/structured/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/
- aid: geocode-earth:geocode-earth-place-api
  name: Geocode Earth Place API
  description: The Place API from Geocode Earth — 1 operation(s) for place.
  humanURL: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/search/
  baseURL: https://api.geocode.earth/v1
  tags:
  - Place
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/geocode-earth-place-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/search/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/geocode-earth.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/geocode-earth.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/autocomplete/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/reverse/reverse/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/structured/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/
- aid: geocode-earth:geocode-earth-reverse-api
  name: Geocode Earth Reverse API
  description: The Reverse API from Geocode Earth — 1 operation(s) for reverse.
  humanURL: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/search/
  baseURL: https://api.geocode.earth/v1
  tags:
  - Reverse
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/geocode-earth-reverse-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/search/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/geocode-earth.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/geocode-earth.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/autocomplete/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/reverse/reverse/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/structured/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geocode.earth/docs/
common:
- url: https://geocode.earth/blog/
  type: Blog
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/geocode-earth-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/geocode-earth-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/geocode-earth-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pelias
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geocode-earth
- type: Website
  url: https://geocode.earth/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://geocode.earth/docs/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/geocode-earth-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/geocode-earth-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/geocode-earth-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://geocode.earth/feed.xml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Geocode Earth API — frequently asked questions

Does Geocode Earth have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Geocode Earth, including Geocode Earth Forward API, Geocode Earth Place API and Geocode Earth Reverse API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Geocode Earth API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Geocode Earth, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Geocode Earth API?

Geocode Earth uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Geocode Earth Authentication.

How much does the Geocode Earth API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Geocode Earth, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Geocode Earth API ready for AI agents?

Geocode Earth has a Kin Score of 30.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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