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Delhivery Maps Alternative

The Delhivery Maps alternative, global coverage and public pricing

Compare maps.guru vs Delhivery Maps: India logistics data vs global coverage, transparent flat pricing vs enterprise-only contracts, and self-serve APIs vs sales-gated onboarding.

Delhivery Maps has no public pricing in 2026: access is via enterprise agreements (contact maps@delhivery.com), the free tier is academic and research only, and coverage is India only. maps.guru pricing is public and self-serve: free forever with 50,000 tile requests and 10,000 geocoding requests per month, and Pro at ₹3,999/month ($49) for 1,000,000 tiles plus 200,000 geocoding requests with coverage in 195 countries.

Pricing comparison

MetricDelhivery Mapsmaps.guru
Public pricingNone: enterprise contracts, custom per-usage rates via salesPro $49/mo or ₹3,999/mo: public, no sales call
Free tierAcademic / research only + live Playground for testingNo commercial free tier50,000 tiles + 10,000 geocoding: publicly documented
Global coverageIndia only, built on Indian delivery telemetryGlobal: 195 countries, Cloudflare edge
OnboardingEnterprise integration, contact maps@delhivery.comSelf-serve: sign up, get an API key, no sales call
Vehicle-aware routingLive: two-wheeler, auto, truck, traffic + turn restrictionsComing soon. Check roadmap.
Map tiles rendererProprietary Map Tiles API, no MapLibre commitment publishedVector tiles: MapLibre GL JS native, retina support
Overage billingCustom per Enterprise Agreement (usage / concurrency based)None: hard quota enforced

Honest tradeoffs

When Delhivery Maps wins

  • India logistics-grade address data from 4B+ real deliveries across 18,800+ pin codes
  • Naksha LLM: fine-tuned models that decode informal, landmark-based Indian addresses
  • Vehicle-aware routing tuned to Indian roads for two-wheeler, auto, and truck
  • Address Standardisation API: corrects typos, fills missing pin codes / localities
  • Proven at national scale, 1B+ GPS pings/day, 3M+ daily deliveries, 28 states + 8 UTs
  • Delhivery Maps MCP server exposes geocoding + routing as native AI-agent tools

When maps.guru wins

  • Public transparent pricing, $49/mo or ₹3,999/mo, no Enterprise Agreement
  • Global coverage, maps.guru works in all 195 countries; Delhivery Maps is India-only
  • Self-serve onboarding, sign up and get a key vs contacting the sales team
  • Commercial free tier for prototyping vs academic/research-only free access
  • MapLibre-native open-source renderer and open vector-tile standards, no lock-in
  • Predictable billing, hard quota, no overage vs custom usage-based enterprise rates

Documented gotchas

No public pricing, enterprise contracts only

Delhivery Maps does not publish per-call or per-month rates. Their terms state pricing "may be based on custom plans, usage, concurrency, API call volumes, service scope, technical configuration, support requirements or other commercial parameters agreed between Delhivery and the Customer under the applicable Enterprise Agreement." Cost modeling requires a sales conversation.

Source: Delhivery Maps Terms & Conditions

India-only, no coverage outside India

Delhivery Maps is engineered for commercial shipping in India, built on Delhivery's Indian delivery telemetry and address data. Applications serving users outside India cannot rely on it. If your user base is international or you plan to expand globally, you need a separate provider for non-India geographies.

Source: Delhivery launches AI-native mapping suite "Delhivery Maps"

Free access is academic/research only, not commercial

The Delhivery Maps site offers a live Playground for testing and a "generous free tier for academic and research purposes." There is no documented commercial free tier, any production/commercial usage requires an enterprise commercial plan arranged through sales.

Source: Delhivery Maps Product Page

Frequently asked questions

Should I use Delhivery Maps or maps.guru for an India logistics app?

If your app is India-only and needs logistics-grade address parsing (informal, landmark-based addresses) and vehicle-aware routing tuned to Indian roads, Delhivery Maps' Naksha LLM and delivery-derived data are a strong fit, provided you can go through enterprise onboarding. If you need global coverage, transparent public pricing, or self-serve API keys without a sales call, maps.guru serves both India and international users at ₹3,999/mo Pro.

Does Delhivery Maps publish its API pricing?

No. Delhivery Maps pricing is enterprise-only, set per custom plan based on usage, concurrency, and call volume under an Enterprise Agreement (per their Terms). You must contact maps@delhivery.com for a quote. maps.guru publishes flat pricing so you can estimate costs before integrating.

Can I use both Delhivery Maps for India and maps.guru globally?

Yes, this is a valid architecture. Use Delhivery Maps for India-specific logistics geocoding and routing where its delivery-derived data excels, and maps.guru for global tile serving, geocoding, and users outside India. For teams that want a single provider with global coverage and predictable pricing, maps.guru simplifies the stack.

Does maps.guru have vehicle-aware routing like Delhivery Maps?

Not yet, routing is on the maps.guru roadmap. Delhivery Maps has live vehicle-aware routing (two-wheeler, auto, truck) tuned to Indian roads. If commercial routing is a hard requirement today, Delhivery Maps or Ola Maps have live routing APIs; maps.guru currently covers vector tiles and geocoding with routing coming soon.

Mapping terms in this Delhivery Maps comparison, defined

The vocabulary behind tiles, geocoding, and API pricing, in plain language.

What is Vector tile?

A vector tile is a compressed binary chunk of map geometry (roads, buildings, labels) that the browser styles and renders at runtime, instead of downloading a pre-drawn image. Vector tiles let one dataset power unlimited visual styles and stay sharp at every zoom level.

What is Basemap?

A basemap is the background map layer (roads, water, landuse, place labels) that your own data is drawn on top of. maps.guru serves basemaps as MapLibre-compatible vector tiles.

What is Map style?

A map style is a JSON document that tells a renderer which colours, fonts, widths, and zoom rules to apply to each layer of a vector tile. maps.guru styles follow the MapLibre Style Specification, so they work in any MapLibre or Mapbox GL JS compatible renderer.

What is Geocoding?

Geocoding is the process of converting a text address or place name into latitude and longitude coordinates. Reverse geocoding does the opposite: it converts coordinates into the nearest human-readable address.

What is PMTiles?

PMTiles is a single-file archive format for map tiles that supports HTTP range requests, so a tile server can read one tile out of a multi-gigabyte archive without unpacking it. maps.guru stores its tile archives as PMTiles on Cloudflare R2.

What is MapLibre GL JS?

MapLibre GL JS is an open-source WebGL map renderer, forked from Mapbox GL JS v1 after that project moved to a proprietary licence. It is the reference renderer for maps.guru styles and carries no per-render licence fee.

What is Tile request?

A tile request is one HTTP fetch of a single map tile. A typical desktop map view loads roughly 10 to 20 tiles, and panning or zooming loads more, which is why tile quotas are counted in tens of thousands rather than page views.

What is Static map?

A static map is a server-rendered PNG or JPEG image of a map at a fixed centre, zoom, and size. Static maps are used where an interactive map cannot run: email, PDF exports, Open Graph share cards, and AI chat replies.

Sources

  1. Delhivery Maps — Delhivery
  2. Delhivery Maps Product Page — Delhivery
  3. Delhivery Maps Terms & Conditions — Delhivery
  4. Delhivery launches AI-native mapping suite "Delhivery Maps" — The Times of India

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