Mapbox Alternatives

Discussions focus on alternatives to Mapbox for map tiles, vector tiles, basemaps, and OSM rendering, including options like Maplibre, PMTiles, Tegola, MapTiler, and self-hosting solutions.

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devKnight Dec 2, 2022 View on HN

what about alternatives like mapbox? It seems to have its users

dhritzkiv Feb 3, 2014 View on HN

Something like https://www.mapbox.com may help

barkerja Oct 7, 2024 View on HN

Are you using anything like Mapbox?

durkie Dec 12, 2019 View on HN

How about something like Tegola? https://tegola.io/

maelito Sep 8, 2025 View on HN

Why not Maplibre ? I'm curious.

outside2344 May 2, 2018 View on HN

I'm using Mapbox - much nicer and much cheaper - check them out.

0x006A Jul 11, 2021 View on HN

What are the pros and cons compared to openmaptiles?

zitscher Jul 6, 2024 View on HN

Not at this moment. The whole thing is build on top of Mapbox though. Give them a try!

geezerjay Apr 29, 2019 View on HN

This reads like a thinly veilled advertisement for mapbox's map tiles services.

stevage Oct 25, 2021 View on HN

Looks great! Potentially a game changer for projects that need a basemap for a smallish area (like one country), get a fair bit of traffic, but don't have budget for ongoing tile subscriptions to Mapbox or MapTiler.