🆚 Azure Maps vs. Thunderforest
- 📈 Thunderforest is noticeably more popular than Azure Maps.
- 🌍 Thunderforest is more popular in France, Germany, and Luxembourg.
- 🌎 Azure Maps is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Online mapping service
Online mapping service
About
Azure Maps is a suite of geospatial mapping services that allows developers and enterprises to use up-to-date mapping data to provide geographic context to web and mobile applications.
Thunderforest is a global activity map provider that maintains a library of map styles based on OpenStreetMap data, as well as creating custom maps.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
New Malden, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free version ✔️5K Map Tiles + 5K Location Insights per month
Map Tiles$4.50/1,000
Location Insights$4.50/1,000
Free version ✔️Hobby Project, 150K tile requests per month
Solo Developer
(1.5M tile requests)$125/month
(1.5M tile requests)$125/month
Small Business
(15M tile requests)$255/month
(15M tile requests)$255/month
Large Business
(150M tile requests)$525/month
(150M tile requests)$525/month
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Thunderforest map service is 1.8 times more popular than Azure Maps.
Total websites
Market share
Maps
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Thunderforest is more popular in France, Germany, and Luxembourg, while Azure Maps is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
United States
France
United Kingdom
Germany
Luxembourg
Italy
Ireland
Czech Republic
Spain
Greece
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Maps category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in France in the Maps category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Maps category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Thunderforest is more popular among sites focused on public information, travel, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO, while Azure Maps is more commonly used on health, business, and marketing and merchandising sites.
Health
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Public Information
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Blogs/Wiki
Sports
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

