🆚 Carto vs. Thunderforest
Carto is five times more popular than Thunderforest.
Carto is more popular in all countries.
Thunderforest is particularly popular in France.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Online mapping service
Online mapping service
About
Carto is a cloud-based location intelligence platform offering GIS, web mapping, data visualization, and spatial analytics.
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
New York, United States
New Malden, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free version ❌
Custom
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 Carto map service is 5 times more popular than Thunderforest.
Total websites
Market share
Maps
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Carto is more popular than Thunderforest in all countries.
France
United States
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Sweden
Czechia
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Maps category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Maps category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Spain in the Maps category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Maps category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Netherlands in the Maps category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Carto is more popular than Thunderforest in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Public Information
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Government/Military
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

