Mapbox

RATING:

4.5

(37)

About Mapbox

Mapbox is the live location platform preferred by over 4 million developers and powers the location intelligence of platforms, apps, and brands around the world. Mapbox provides global map data, real-time traffic, geocoding and address search, and routing and directions for navigation. Highly performant, customizable, reliable, and scalable, Mapbox location services are trusted by leaders in industries spanning automotive, logistics, business intelligence, retail, travel, data visualization, consumer apps, weather, IoT, geospatial analysis, and beyond. Mapbox provides precise location data and flexible developer tools that equip any business to add geospatial features to their applications and enhance operations with location intelligence. Designed for businesses ...

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Mapbox Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Mapbox

1 - 5 of 37 Reviews

User Profile

Paul

Verified reviewer

Think Tanks, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2023

Excellent non-profit support, ideal for quick map app development

Mapbox is my go-to source for building knowledge-driven map products usable by a broad and non-technical audience. The Community team ensures I have adequate support and resources to build them.

PROS

Community support from Mapbox is excellent. They care about good causes, non-profit work, and their official Community team makes a good faith effort to support them.Mapbox has what is probably the most functional and effective web basemap editor in Studio.Its documentation for app building is phenomenal, and its team makes strong efforts to keep it up to date, understandable, and usable for even non-developers. The API makes building single page applications, simple interactive dashboards and data visualizations a breeze. I wouldn't develop with any other tool.

CONS

Graceful degradation for smaller viewports needs more energy and development. End users demand some degree of functionality on their mobile devices - API provides options, but making maps work at even a base level can be very challenging.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review! It is great to have you part of the Mapbox community.

Replied April 2023

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Raphael

Verified reviewer

Farming, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

MapBox Delivers Cost-Effective Mapping Solutions, but Lacks in Support

PROS

MapBox is an exceptional mapping platform that has impressed me with its outstanding features and affordable pricing structure. Compared to its competitors, MapBox stands out with its highly competitive pricing, especially when using the SDKs. As a user of the Flutter SDK, I found the implementation process to be incredibly easy, which is a big advantage for developers.What I love most about MapBox is the user-friendly interface, which is perfect for product managers or anyone who needs to monitor the platform. The dashboard is simple, intuitive, and provides a wealth of data and insights that can be used to optimize mapping projects. With MapBox, I can easily monitor key metrics and make data-driven decisions to improve my project's performance.

CONS

The negative point of Mapbox is that if you have to use the Static Tiles API for example, the costs are quite prohibitive compared to the competitors, so this would be the only point of attention regarding the price.The big problem with Mapbox is the support, even if you are a big customer and you have a big monthly expense the support is very precarious and slow. It literally takes weeks or months to get the first response to your ticket. They don't make it clear that Support is "not included" and that to get faster service you need to purchase an extra support plan.The cheapest support plan costs 50 usd and this only guarantees you that the first response will be within 3 days. If you want some decent level of support you already need to move to a plan that costs 10% of your monthly spending and the minimum is 500 usd.Even so, the SLA is from 1 to 3 days, that is, you could be paying 500 usd to have a response only in 3 days, that doesn't seem reasonable to me.

Reason for choosing Mapbox

Best price and ease of implementation in Flutter

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review - we look forward to working with and learning from the growing the community of Flutter developers building with Mapbox.

Replied March 2023

Chris

Utilities, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed January 2023

Worst map program I've ever used !!!

We were forced to use it by CRO Software. They swapped from Google Maps (which works 1000 times better) to Mapbox

PROS

Nothing at all....its the worst map program I have ever used.

CONS

Its slow loading. Missing most road numbers. Half the terrain doesn't show up.

Reasons for switching to Mapbox

Wasn't by choice, the CRO Software we use switched without asking anyone.

Vendor Response

Thank you for raising your concerns. It sounds like your software vendor might be having some implementation challenges in their switch to Mapbox. We will reach out to them to see if we can address these concerns.

Replied February 2023

Niv

Program Development, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Definately dominating the market - the best option for any tool that requires map features

I was looking for a solution to display routes, and maps with customized "borders" and data.My first option was Google maps, since in my mind they were the 'biggest' but when I found out about mapbox and their capabilities I realized I found the best solution.The price is fair compared to the competitors and they offer a free-tier so you can start implementing features and only start paying once you grow your usage.

PROS

It has a great documentation, easy to set up, a lot of examples are available and the UI is really good.

CONS

In some features there where missing options, customizations and in one time I had to contact the support to ask to implement a small option, but they eventually did it.

Reason for choosing Mapbox

For the same reasons listed above in the "Why did you make the switch?"

Reasons for switching to Mapbox

Few things made me make the switch from Google maps:1. The price - mapbox offers a free tier, so I only pay for high usage and not for small amount of usage.2. The UI - I love mapbox UI better3. The documentation & examples - Mapbox offers a great documentation with examples to get an easy start

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review, Niv! Very glad to hear about your positive experience - it's an honor to support developers like you.

Replied March 2023

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Tom

Verified reviewer

Internet, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2022

Mapbox is a super powerful mapping solution, but may be too much for the average user

Overall, Mapbox is an amazing software that can complete basically any job needed. That said, for the average user just looking to do basic things, it can be hard to use.

PROS

Mapbox is fully customizable to a level I have never experienced before. Mapbox allows for custom maps that can include as much or as little as needed. For example, components that can be added include administrative boundaries, buildings, land and water, natural features, place labels, point of interests labels, road network, transit, and much more. Additionally, color pallets can be added for further customization. This full customization is truly amazing.

CONS

Mapbox can be rather complex to use for someone just starting out. There is a rather steep learning curve. The software is so powerful and complex that it can make things hard.

Reason for choosing Mapbox

Mapbox customization

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review! So glad to hear you've been trying out the map customization options.

Replied March 2023