🆚 Mapbox GL JS vs. OpenLayers
- 📈 Mapbox GL JS is noticeably more popular than OpenLayers.
- 🌎 Mapbox GL JS is more popular in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 OpenLayers is more popular in Germany, Italy, and Brazil.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ 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 #145
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #179
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Mapbox GL JS JavaScript library is 1.7 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, Italy, and Brazil.
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Switzerland
Canada
Awards
- ⬆️ 102nd most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 102nd most popular in Belgium in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 102nd most popular in Norway in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 106th most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 109th most popular in Portugal in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 77th most popular in Bulgaria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 110th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 114th most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 132nd most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 135th 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
Sports
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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jQuery🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.