Hivemapper

Hivemapper (Bee Maps) is a decentralized mapping network that turns a planetary-scale fleet of purpose-built "Bee" dashcams into fresh, structured, queryable street-level data. Contributors passively collect imagery while driving and earn HONEY tokens on Solana; the data is processed through on-device and cloud ML pipelines and delivered to developers as REST APIs. The Bee Maps Developer API offers a Street-Level Imagery API, a Map Features API (ML-detected signs, hydrants, lane lines and more), an AI Event Videos API (harsh braking, swerving, violations with synchronized sensor data), and Burst on-demand mapping, plus Edge AI for deploying custom ML workloads to cameras. Enterprise customers include HERE Technologies, Lyft, Mapbox, and Volkswagen. Billing is consumption-based (API credits plus per-view metering).

Hivemapper publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Account API, AI Events API, Bursts API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Company, Logistics, Mapping, Geospatial, and Imagery.

The Hivemapper catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Hivemapper’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, support, and 19 more developer resources.

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54.6/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 25/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Company Logistics Mapping Geospatial Imagery Location Street View Mobility Machine Learning Web3

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 54.6/100 · strong

Contract Quality 8.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 15

Access Clarity 12.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 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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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
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 45.6 — up to +13.6 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Overture Maps Foundation (members + data contributors)	distribution	9.6 (thin)	-	-

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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 6

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

Hivemapper Account API

Devices, calibration, and query history.

Hivemapper AI Events API

AI-detected driving event videos with synchronized sensor data.

Hivemapper Bursts API

On-demand incentivized mapping requests.

Hivemapper Imagery API

Street-level dashcam imagery queries.

Hivemapper Map Features API

ML-detected road objects and features.

Hivemapper Devices API

Camera calibration data

Open Collections 5

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

Bee Maps (Hivemapper) Developer Account API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bee Maps (Hivemapper) Developer Account AI Events API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bee Maps (Hivemapper) Developer Account Bursts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bee Maps (Hivemapper) Developer Account Imagery API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bee Maps (Hivemapper) Developer Account Map Features API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Hivemapper MCP Server

Bee Maps exposes an MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint on the Developer API that accepts JSON-RPC messages. Authentication is via the apiKey parameter (the same API key used for the R...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Pull road features and AI driving events

AGENT SKILL

Query street-level imagery for an area

AGENT SKILL

Hivemapper API pricing

Prices published by Hivemapper, read 2026-10-07 from beemaps.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Street Level Imagery	$0.005/ image
AI Event Videos	$6/ video
Road Detections	$3/ 1K detections
Burst (on-demand mapping)	$1/ location
Bee Edge AI — Own Devices	$15/ device/ mo Includes: includes 1GB
Bee Edge AI — Network Devices	$0.02/ km Includes: includes 5MB/km

Plan details, limits and sources →

Billed by: image · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Hivemapper Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

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

Hivemapper

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Hivemapper Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Hivemapper API Rules

65 rules · 57 errors 2 warnings 6 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Hivemapper Beemaps Overlay

3 actions · update · hivemapper-beemaps-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Hivemapper Authentication

http/apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Hivemapper Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

WellKnown

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

CLI

Packages

SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Discord

Discord

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hivemapper
name: Hivemapper
description: Hivemapper (Bee Maps) is a decentralized mapping network that turns a planetary-scale fleet of purpose-built
  "Bee" dashcams into fresh, structured, queryable street-level data. Contributors passively collect imagery while driving
  and earn HONEY tokens on Solana; the data is processed through on-device and cloud ML pipelines and delivered to developers
  as REST APIs. The Bee Maps Developer API offers a Street-Level Imagery API, a Map Features API (ML-detected signs, hydrants,
  lane lines and more), an AI Event Videos API (harsh braking, swerving, violations with synchronized sensor data), and Burst
  on-demand mapping, plus Edge AI for deploying custom ML workloads to cameras. Enterprise customers include HERE Technologies,
  Lyft, Mapbox, and Volkswagen. Billing is consumption-based (API credits plus per-view metering).
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: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://hivemapper.com/favicon.ico
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hivemapper/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- homebrew
- multicoin-capital
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Logistics
- Mapping
- Geospatial
- Imagery
- Location
- Street View
- Mobility
- Machine Learning
- Web3
tags_raw:
- Company
- Logistics
- Mapping
- Geospatial
- Imagery
- Location
- Street View
- Mobility
- Machine Learning
- Web3
- Machine-Learning
apis:
- aid: hivemapper:hivemapper-account-api
  name: Hivemapper Account API
  description: Devices, calibration, and query history.
  humanURL: https://docs.beemaps.com/api-reference
  baseURL: https://beemaps.com/api/developer
  tags:
  - Account
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hivemapper-account-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hivemapper-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hivemapper-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hivemapper-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hivemapper-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hivemapper-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/hivemapper-lifecycle.yml
- aid: hivemapper:hivemapper-ai-events-api
  name: Hivemapper AI Events API
  description: AI-detected driving event videos with synchronized sensor data.
  humanURL: https://docs.beemaps.com/api-reference
  baseURL: https://beemaps.com/api/developer
  tags:
  - AI Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hivemapper-ai-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hivemapper-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hivemapper-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hivemapper-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hivemapper-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hivemapper-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/hivemapper-lifecycle.yml
- aid: hivemapper:hivemapper-bursts-api
  name: Hivemapper Bursts API
  description: On-demand incentivized mapping requests.
  humanURL: https://docs.beemaps.com/api-reference
  baseURL: https://beemaps.com/api/developer
  tags:
  - Bursts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hivemapper-bursts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hivemapper-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hivemapper-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hivemapper-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hivemapper-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hivemapper-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/hivemapper-lifecycle.yml
- aid: hivemapper:hivemapper-imagery-api
  name: Hivemapper Imagery API
  description: Street-level dashcam imagery queries.
  humanURL: https://docs.beemaps.com/api-reference
  baseURL: https://beemaps.com/api/developer
  tags:
  - Imagery
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hivemapper-imagery-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hivemapper-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hivemapper-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hivemapper-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hivemapper-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hivemapper-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/hivemapper-lifecycle.yml
- aid: hivemapper:hivemapper-map-features-api
  name: Hivemapper Map Features API
  description: ML-detected road objects and features.
  humanURL: https://docs.beemaps.com/api-reference
  baseURL: https://beemaps.com/api/developer
  tags:
  - Map Features
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hivemapper-map-features-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hivemapper-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hivemapper-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hivemapper-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hivemapper-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hivemapper-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/hivemapper-lifecycle.yml
- aid: hivemapper:hivemapper-devices-api
  name: Hivemapper Devices API
  description: Camera calibration data
  humanURL: https://docs.beemaps.com/api-reference
  baseURL: https://beemaps.com/api/developer
  tags:
  - Devices
  tags_raw:
  - devices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hivemapper-devices-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hivemapper-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/hivemapper-beemaps-overlay.yaml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hivemapper-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hivemapper.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://beemaps.com/developers
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.beemaps.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.beemaps.com/api-reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.beemaps.com/platform/road-intelligence-api
- type: Pricing
  url: https://beemaps.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://beemaps.com/login
- type: Blog
  url: https://beemaps.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://beemaps.com/contact
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://hivemapper.com/tos
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hivemapper.com/privacy/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Hivemapper
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/hivemapper-sandbox.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/hivemapper-cli.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/hivemapper-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hivemapper-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/hivemapper-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/hivemapper-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/hivemapper-well-known.yml
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/TryBeeMaps
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bee-maps
- type: Discord
  url: https://discord.com/invite/FRWMKyy5v2
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Hivemapper API — frequently asked questions

Does Hivemapper have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Hivemapper, including Hivemapper Account API, Hivemapper AI Events API and Hivemapper Bursts API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Hivemapper API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Hivemapper, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Hivemapper API?

Hivemapper uses bearer-token authentication (http/apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Hivemapper Authentication.

How much does the Hivemapper API cost?

Hivemapper publishes its prices; its Street Level Imagery plan is $0.005/ image as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 6 pricing plans for Hivemapper, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Hivemapper have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Hivemapper: Bee Maps exposes an MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint on the Developer API that accepts JSON-RPC messages. Authentication is via the apiKey parameter (the same API key used for the REST Developer API).

Is the Hivemapper API ready for AI agents?

Hivemapper has a Kin Score of 54.6 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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