Pelias

Pelias is a modular, open-source geocoding search engine built on Elasticsearch that converts addresses and place names into geographic coordinates (forward geocoding) and geographic coordinates into places and addresses (reverse geocoding). Powered entirely by open data from OpenStreetMap, OpenAddresses, Who's on First, and Geonames, it is freely available under the MIT license and can be self-hosted or accessed via hosted services.

Pelias publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Autocomplete API, Forward Geocoding API, Place Lookup API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, Geospatial, Open-Source, and Elasticsearch.

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

Pelias’ developer surface includes documentation, status page, support, and 8 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

31.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

Geocoding Reverse Geocoding Geospatial Open-Source Elasticsearch OpenStreetMap Addresses Places Autocomplete

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 31.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.9 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 1.2 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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APIs 4

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

Pelias Autocomplete API

Real-time type-ahead geocoding for user input

Pelias Forward Geocoding API

Convert text or addresses into geographic coordinates

Pelias Place Lookup API

Retrieve details for a known place by ID

Pelias Reverse Geocoding API

Convert geographic coordinates into places and addresses

Open Collections 5

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Pelias Geocoding Autocomplete API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pelias Geocoding Autocomplete Forward Geocoding API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pelias Geocoding Autocomplete Place Lookup API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pelias Geocoding Autocomplete Reverse Geocoding API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Pelias API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Pelias Geocoding Response

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Autocomplete

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Reverse

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Search

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Structured

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

Pelias Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Pelias Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Status

Status

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

HostedService

HostedService

Source (apis.yml)

name: Pelias
description: Pelias is a modular, open-source geocoding search engine built on Elasticsearch that converts addresses and place
  names into geographic coordinates (forward geocoding) and geographic coordinates into places and addresses (reverse geocoding).
  Powered entirely by open data from OpenStreetMap, OpenAddresses, Who's on First, and Geonames, it is freely available under
  the MIT license and can be self-hosted or accessed via hosted services.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-unlicensed
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://pelias.io/images/pelias-logo.png
tags:
- Geocoding
- Reverse Geocoding
- Geospatial
- Open-Source
- Elasticsearch
- OpenStreetMap
- Addresses
- Places
- Autocomplete
tags_raw:
- geocoding
- reverse geocoding
- geospatial
- open source
- elasticsearch
- openstreetmap
- addresses
- places
- autocomplete
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: pelias:pelias-autocomplete-api
  name: Pelias Autocomplete API
  description: Real-time type-ahead geocoding for user input
  humanURL: https://github.com/pelias/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.geocode.earth/v1
  tags:
  - Autocomplete
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pelias-autocomplete-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/pelias/documentation
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/pelias
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/pelias/pelias
  - type: Docker
    url: https://github.com/pelias/docker
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: pelias:pelias-forward-geocoding-api
  name: Pelias Forward Geocoding API
  description: Convert text or addresses into geographic coordinates
  humanURL: https://github.com/pelias/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.geocode.earth/v1
  tags:
  - Forward Geocoding
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pelias-forward-geocoding-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/pelias/documentation
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/pelias
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/pelias/pelias
  - type: Docker
    url: https://github.com/pelias/docker
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: pelias:pelias-place-lookup-api
  name: Pelias Place Lookup API
  description: Retrieve details for a known place by ID
  humanURL: https://github.com/pelias/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.geocode.earth/v1
  tags:
  - Place Lookup
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pelias-place-lookup-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/pelias/documentation
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/pelias
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/pelias/pelias
  - type: Docker
    url: https://github.com/pelias/docker
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: pelias:pelias-reverse-geocoding-api
  name: Pelias Reverse Geocoding API
  description: Convert geographic coordinates into places and addresses
  humanURL: https://github.com/pelias/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.geocode.earth/v1
  tags:
  - Reverse Geocoding
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pelias-reverse-geocoding-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/pelias/documentation
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/pelias
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/pelias/pelias
  - type: Docker
    url: https://github.com/pelias/docker
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pelias/main/finops/finops.yml
common:
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/pelias/pelias/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/pelias/pelias/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pelias-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pelias-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://pelias.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/pelias/documentation
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pelias
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/pelias/pelias/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: HostedService
  url: https://geocode.earth
- type: Status
  url: https://github.com/pelias/pelias/issues
- type: Support
  url: https://gitter.im/pelias/pelias
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  X-twitter: apievangelist
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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