🆚 MapQuest vs. Thunderforest
- 📈 MapQuest is twice as popular as Thunderforest.
- 🌎 MapQuest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
- 🌍 Thunderforest is more popular in France, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Online mapping service
Online mapping service
About
MapQuest is an American free online web mapping service.
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
Los Angeles, California, United States
New Malden, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free version ✔️
API
Basic
(30K transactions)$119/month
(30K transactions)$119/month
Plus
(75K transactions)$249/month
(75K transactions)$249/month
Business
(200K transactions)$499/month
(200K transactions)$499/month
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 MapQuest service is 2.4 times more popular than Thunderforest.
Total websites
Market share
Maps
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
MapQuest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while Thunderforest is more popular in France, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
United States
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
Czech Republic
Italy
Spain
Greece
Luxembourg
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Maps category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Canada 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.
MapQuest is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, business, and health, while Thunderforest is more commonly used on public information, entertainment, and travel sites.
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Health
Education/Reference
Public Information
Blogs/Wiki
Real Estate
Online Shopping
Internet Services
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.

