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 API contracts indexed 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 11 more developer resources.

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23.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 100/100 alive open core · MIT Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

1 published contract

Geocoding Reverse Geocoding Geospatial Open Source Elasticsearch OpenStreetMap Addresses Places Autocomplete

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 23.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 9.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Open Source Surface 4.0 / 10

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 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 25 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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)

6 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 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points
Contract Quality scores 47.8 — up to +13.1 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
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 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 4

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

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

Pelias API pricing

Not yet checked against Pelias's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Self-Hosted (Open Source)	—
Geocode Earth Lite (Hosted)	—
Geocode Earth Basic (Hosted)	—
Geocode Earth Advanced (Hosted)	—
Geocode Earth Custom (Hosted)	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

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

Service Levels 1

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

Pelias

SLA

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 — jsonschema 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 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Status

Status

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

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: open-core
  license: MIT
  license_evidence:
    repo: pelias/pelias
    spdx: MIT
    stars: 3592
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-license
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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
- Open-Source
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: Plans
  url: plans/plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/finops.yml
- 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

Pelias API — frequently asked questions

Does Pelias have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Pelias, including Pelias Autocomplete API, Pelias Forward Geocoding API and Pelias Place Lookup API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Pelias API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Pelias, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Pelias API cost?

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

Is the Pelias API ready for AI agents?

Pelias has a Kin Score of 23.8 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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