🆚 Mapbox GL JS vs. OpenLayers
- 📈 Mapbox GL JS is twice as popular as OpenLayers.
- 🌎 Mapbox GL JS is more popular in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 OpenLayers is more popular in Germany, Brazil, and Poland.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Mapbox GL JSType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Mapbox GL JS is a 
JavaScript library for building web maps powered by vector tiles and 
WebGL.
OpenLayers is an open-source, feature-packed library for creating interactive maps on the web.
Pricing
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
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #143
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #187
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Mapbox GL JS JavaScript library is 2 times more popular than OpenLayers.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Mapbox GL JS is more popular in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, while OpenLayers is more popular in Germany, Brazil, and Poland.
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Switzerland
Brazil
Awards
- ⬆️ 87th most popular in Belgium in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 97th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 99th most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 109th most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 120th most popular in Australia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 83rd most popular in Bulgaria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 98th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 108th most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 133rd most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 146th most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Mapbox GL JS is more popular among sites focused on business, travel, and marketing and merchandising, while OpenLayers is more commonly used on public information and government and military sites.
Business
Travel
Marketing/Merchandising
Real Estate
Public Information
Education/Reference
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Online Shopping
Restaurants
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.