🆚 Thunderforest vs. Waze
- 📈 Waze is four times more popular than Thunderforest.
- 🌎 Waze is more popular in Israel, the United States, and Brazil.
- 🌍 Thunderforest is more popular in France, Germany, and Italy.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Online mapping service
Online mapping service
About
Thunderforest is a global activity map provider that maintains a library of map styles based on OpenStreetMap data, as well as creating custom maps.
Waze is a free GPS navigation service currently owned by Google.
Headquarters
New Malden, United Kingdom
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
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
Free ✔️
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Waze map service is 4 times more popular than Thunderforest.
Total websites
Market share
Maps
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Waze is more popular in Israel, the United States, and Brazil, while Thunderforest is more popular in France, Germany, and Italy.
Israel
United States
Brazil
France
Malaysia
Germany
Chile
Latvia
Iran
Italy
Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in France in the Maps category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Maps category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Israel in the Maps category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Malaysia in the Maps category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Chile in the Maps category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Maps category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Waze is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, business, and sports, while Thunderforest is more commonly used on public information, blogs and wiki, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Sports
Travel
Education/Reference
Public Information
Online Shopping
Health
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
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.

