The short answer
HERE is billed per 1k req / transactions. It has a free tier: 30k req/mo (Base Plan, card required). The paid plans we list start at $1 per 1,000 transactions (Pay-as-you-grow).
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Freemium / Base | $0/mo | Includes 250,000 platform transactions per month; ~5 requests/second rate limit. Replaced the discontinued Limited Plan (after Aug 31, 2025). |
| Pay-as-you-grow | $1 per 1,000 transactions | Overage pricing applied beyond the 250,000 free monthly transactions; no hard daily caps, monthly quota model. |
| Pro | $449/mo | Includes up to 1 million platform transactions per month plus support and service guarantees. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom pricing with auto-scaling for peak loads; caching/permanent-storage licenses reported to start around $10,000/year for data storage rights. |
How HERE bills you
The pricing model is per 1k req / transactions. Automotive-grade location data with native iOS/Android/Flutter SDKs and cheap geocoding (~$1/1k); self-serve Base Plan but enterprise-leaning. Best suited to: automotive & enterprise location data.
What to watch for on the bill
- Pricing model is complex and hard to forecast at scale, usage is product- and tier-specific
- Standard plans prohibit permanent storage/caching of geocoding results without a costly enterprise license
- Data freshness/coverage weaker in rapidly changing or emerging-market urban areas than in Western Europe/North America
The pricing page we read
Source: https://www.here.com/get-started/pricing. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.
Compare HERE with alternatives
Other maps & geocoding apis: Google Maps Platform, Mapbox, TomTom, Radar, Foursquare Places.
Looking at quality rather than price? See the HERE score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: HERE pricing.