Plain-English breakdowns of vendor pricing, India-first alternatives, and MapLibre migration playbooks. Numbers come straight from primary sources — every post links out to vendor docs and pricing pages.
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Ola Maps, Mappls, LocationIQ, and maps.guru — honest comparison of the four best Google Maps alternatives for startups shipping from India. Free tiers, pricing, data residency, and the gotchas each one hides.
The March 2025 restructure killed the $200 credit. Per-SKU free tiers, three SKU categories, and Nov 2025 subscription plans — plain-English breakdown with worked cost examples at 100k, 500k, and 1M map loads.
BSD-licensed renderer, no API key required, open style spec. Concrete before/after code for Map, Marker, InfoWindow, and geocoding — plus the gotchas that bit us in production.
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