🆚 Leaflet vs. Mapbox GL JS
- 📈 Leaflet is five times more popular than Mapbox GL JS.
- 🌎 Leaflet is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany.
- 🌍 Mapbox GL JS is more popular in Qatar, the Faroe Islands, and the Maldives.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Leaflet
Mapbox GL JSType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Leaflet is an open-source 
JavaScript library for creating mobile-friendly interactive maps on websites and web applications.
It supports tile and vector layers, markers, popups, GeoJSON, touch gestures, animated zooming and panning, custom controls, and hundreds of plugins.
Mapbox GL JS is a JavaScript library for building web maps powered by vector tiles and 
WebGL.
Headquarters
Kyiv, Ukraine
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free version ✔️ Up to 50,000 map loads
50,001 - 100,000 monthly map loads $5 per 1,000
100,001 - 200,000 monthly map loads $4 per 1,000
200,001+ monthly map loads $3 per 1,000
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #54
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #145
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Leaflet JavaScript library is 5 times more popular than Mapbox GL JS.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Leaflet is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany, while Mapbox GL JS is more popular in Qatar, the Faroe Islands, and the Maldives.
United States
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Spain
Poland
Netherlands
Japan
Czech Republic
Awards
- ⬆️ 31st most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in Latvia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 41st most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 44th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 97th most popular in Belgium in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 102nd most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 104th most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 110th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 125th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Leaflet is more popular than Mapbox GL JS in all market segments.
Business
Travel
Marketing/Merchandising
Real Estate
Public Information
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Blogs/Wiki
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Three.js🗃️ 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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.