Mapbox Search API

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Mapbox Search Box API: POI/address suggest, retrieve, forward and category search. Buying direct: Free tier then per-1,000 request pricing. Listed Sep 29, 2026.

Capabilities: 0
From: n/a
Calls, 30 days: 0
Ranked first: 0 of 0

Overview

Researched from the vendor's own pages; every fact links to its source and the day we checked it.

Local & Places

Mapbox Search Box API at https://api.mapbox.com/search/searchbox/v1 with /suggest + /retrieve (interactive sessions), /forward (one-off search) and /category search for POIs. Access-token auth. Default rate limit 10 requests per second; each call in a session counts against it.

Company

Legal name: Not confirmed
Headquarters: Not confirmed
Founded: Not confirmed
Employees: Not confirmed
Ownership: Not confirmed
Kind: Data provider
Website: Not confirmed

API

Verified

Access: Self-serve API
Style: REST
Auth: API key (query)
Base URL: https://api.mapbox.com/search/searchbox/v1
Features: Bulk —Async —Webhooks —MCP —Sandbox —
SDKs: JavaScriptiOSAndroid
Rate limit: 10 requests per second (Search Box API default)
Docs: Reference

Pricing

Model: pay as you go
List prices: Contact sales
Currency: USD
Free tier: Free usage tier per product
Checked: Sep 29, 2026

Compliance

SOC 2: Not confirmed
GDPR: Not confirmed
CCPA: Not confirmed
DPA: Not confirmed
Resale / storage: Unknown until a written agreement says otherwise

Relationships

Integrations: Not confirmed
Alternatives: None named by the vendor

Sources (2)

Mapbox pricingchecked Sep 29, 2026
Mapbox Search Box APIchecked Sep 29, 2026

Placement in the Grid

Where this vendor sits on the GridRouter Grid in each category it serves. No vendor pays for placement.

Placement in the GridRouter Grid by category
Category	Placement	Execute	Coverage	Calls	Report
Local & Places	Not yet rated	–	–	0	View Grid

API

The vendor's OpenAPI document as stored in the catalog, its operations, and the rate limits it publishes.

Reconstructed · medium confidenceOpenAPI 3.1.0 · 4 operations · checked Sep 29, 2026 Spec (YAML)

Rebuilt from the vendor's public docs, only what the pages show. Each operation links the page it came from; response shapes the docs don't spell out are left empty rather than guessed.

Operations in the mapbox spec
Method	Path	Summary	Params	Source
GET	/suggest	Suggest	0	Docs
GET	/retrieve/{id}	Retrieve	1	Docs
GET	/forward	Forward	0	Docs
GET	/category/{canonical_category_id}	Category search	1	Docs

Rate limits

Published rate limits for mapbox
Limit	Scope	Plan	Endpoint	Burst / concurrency
10 / second	account	All	All	— / —

GridRouter never paces above these and backs off on 429, honoring Retry-After. Source, checked Sep 29, 2026

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