Other founder of Geocodio here -- thanks for your feedback! You bring up a lot of good points.
Building off of what's above, Geocodio is intended to be accessible to developers who don't have $10k to drop on geocodes. We found that this is a big need in the community (and for ourselves for our other projects). All of the other non-major-mapping geocoding services we found, including CSV upload instead of API, were more expensive than $0.001/each (oftentimes much more -- $0.25+)
Also, we don't have limitations to how you use the data. No requirements that you use a specific brand of map with it, no attribution requirements, etc.
We priced it at this point, with a free tier, so that people can give it a try first. No, our data isn't quite as good as Google's -- we get about 90% of addresses within 1 mile, and most within a tenth of a mile -- and we want people to be able to play around with the service and get to know it before they have to give credit card info.
With that said, we definitely plan to continue improving the product and add international support.
PS. We are HUGE fans of Mapbox, so we're pretty excited that you listed that as a potential use case :)
Building off of what's above, Geocodio is intended to be accessible to developers who don't have $10k to drop on geocodes. We found that this is a big need in the community (and for ourselves for our other projects). All of the other non-major-mapping geocoding services we found, including CSV upload instead of API, were more expensive than $0.001/each (oftentimes much more -- $0.25+)
Also, we don't have limitations to how you use the data. No requirements that you use a specific brand of map with it, no attribution requirements, etc.
We priced it at this point, with a free tier, so that people can give it a try first. No, our data isn't quite as good as Google's -- we get about 90% of addresses within 1 mile, and most within a tenth of a mile -- and we want people to be able to play around with the service and get to know it before they have to give credit card info.
With that said, we definitely plan to continue improving the product and add international support.
PS. We are HUGE fans of Mapbox, so we're pretty excited that you listed that as a potential use case :)