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Data Enrichment · Reviewed 26 Oct 2026

Geocodio

Geocoding and data enrichment API for US, Canada, Mexico, UK.

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61.1KEstimated total trafficModeled monthly visits4.2KRanking keywordsPublic search sample93/100Technical health15 pages checked0Referring domainsLive backlink summary

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Geocodio is a geocoding and data enrichment service that converts street addresses into coordinates and vice versa, with additional data appends like Census geographies and timezones S17. It is used by developers, data analysts, marketers, researchers, and journalists who need reliable location data without specialized GIS expertise S1. The service offers a simple API, batch processing, and distance calculations, with a focus on stability and long-term support S1 S17.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Geocodio is a geocoding and data enrichment API for North America and the UK S49.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of converting addresses to coordinates and enriching address data with additional geographic information S17.
  • Intended users: Developers, data analysts, marketers, researchers, and journalists who need geocoding without being GIS specialists S1.
  • Product scope: It is a single API service, not a platform, offering forward and reverse geocoding, batch and list processing, and distance calculations S17.
  • Positioning: The vendor positions it as a reliable, "delightfully boring" building block that "just works" S49 S1.
  • Claimed distinction: It claims to be a stable, long-term service with no breaking changes and support for the first API version S1.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
DevelopersIntegrate geocoding and distance calculations into applications via API S17.
Data analystsEnrich datasets with Census geographies, timezones, and other appends for analysis S17 S49.
NonprofitsStandardize and geocode donor addresses for import into CRM systems like Salesforce S49.
Real estate platformsUse geocoding and distance calculations to power property search and mapping features S49.
Sales analystsGeocode customer addresses for territory planning and site selection S49 S119.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Forward geocodingConverts street addresses into latitude/longitude coordinates for the US, Canada, Mexico, and UK S17.
Reverse geocodingConverts coordinates back into street addresses S17.
Data enrichmentAppends Census geographies, electoral districts, timezones, school districts, and more to geocoded results S17 S49.
Batch and list processingSupports individual, batch, and CSV list geocoding for large volumes S17.
Distance calculationsCalculates driving time, driving distance, and straight-line distance between addresses or coordinates, including matrix operations S17.
API key managementAllows multiple API keys per account for project separation and usage tracking S17.
10

Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
RESTful APIAPIProvides forward and reverse geocoding, batch, and list processing for US, Canada, Mexico, UK S17.
Distance APIAPICalculates driving time, distance, and straight-line distance, including matrix operations S17.
Official client librariesSDKProvides officially maintained libraries for various platforms to simplify API integration S17.
OpenAPI specAPIOffers machine-readable API description in JSON and YAML formats S17.
Markdown docs for LLMsAI interfacePublishes plain-markdown documentation and files for AI agents and coding assistants S17.
CSV uploadData portabilityAllows uploading spreadsheets for batch geocoding and downloading usage data S17 S49.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Pay as you go$1 per 1,000 lookups, billed monthly in arrears S119First 2,500 lookups per day free S1191,000 lookups per minute S119
Subscription tier 1$325 per month, or $3,250 per year S119350,000 credits per month, all data appends, credits roll over S119Not established
Subscription tier 2$600 per month, or $6,000 per year S119650,000 credits per month S119Not established
Subscription tier 3$775 per month, or $7,750 per year S119850,000 credits per month S119Not established
Unlimited$1,350 per month, or $15,390 per year S119About 5M lookups per day per instance, dedicated instance S119Extra instances $1,000 per month S119
EnterpriseContact sales S138500,000 credits per year, SOC 2 Type II audited, dedicated instances S138No metered charges per lookup or per user S138

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
scribd.com214how many zip codes in united states
academickids.com111how many zip codes in united states
unitedstateszipcodes.org112how many zip codes in united states
linkedin.com112geocodio
news.ycombinator.com113geocodio
studiomapos.com114how many zip codes in united states
webcatalog.io114geocodio
capterra.com115geocodio
readysignal.com116how many zip codes in united states
youtube.com116geocodio

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

Page typeEvidenceSource
customersSearching… forhttps://www.geocod.io/customers
customersNo results found.https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersTry a different search term or check your spelling.https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersLoad more Loading…https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersShowing all results.https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersMeet API v2.0 with UK support 🇬🇧 Try it outhttps://www.geocod.io/customers
customersOur customers say the same thing:https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersGeocodio just works.https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersFor over a decade, more than 150,000 businesses, nonprofits, newsrooms, healthcare organizations, logistics providers, academics, and more have Geocodio every day.https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersThe data underneath things you already use.https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersA bank's compliance dashboard. A newsroom's investigative map. A 911 dispatch system. A hospital's EHR. A vacation rental management company managing millions of properties.https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersGeocodio is in there.https://www.geocod.io/customers
customersFinancial Serviceshttps://www.geocod.io/customers
customersLearn more about Financial Serviceshttps://www.geocod.io/customers
customersLearn more about Real Estatehttps://www.geocod.io/customers
customersFleet & Asset Trackinghttps://www.geocod.io/customers
customersLearn more about Fleet & Asset Trackinghttps://www.geocod.io/customers
customersPolitics & Advocacyhttps://www.geocod.io/customers
customersLearn more about Politics & Advocacyhttps://www.geocod.io/customers
customersLearn more about Healthcarehttps://www.geocod.io/customers

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

13

AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 2.0%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
integrations[AI agents](#ai-agents)https://www.geocod.io/docs/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

14

Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gapReview the sampled queries where scribd.com appears.2 first-page appearances across how many zip codes in united states

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

No citation-grounded independent review links were found.

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
TestimonialFeaturedCustomerstestimonial — "I prefer the Geocodio service over others because of its intuitive interface, clear ... (10 Geocodio Customer Reviews & References / FeaturedCustomers)
TestimonialSteve Adamstestimonial — > "I prefer Geocodio because it is powerful and easy to use with a simple billing structure." - Steve Adams, Information Technology Management > "Geocodio has remarkable up-time, accurate spatial data, (Geocodio - The delightfully boring geocoder / Geocodio)

Independent mentions

  • Geocodio (http://geocod.io) is adding 5-10 new users a day... — Geocodio (http://geocod.io) is adding 5-10 new users a day and monthly revenue has gone from $1,000 in just over six months. It's a self-serve product (geocoding US addresses via API or CSV upload), though there is a fair amount of support and continuing development. ... Great question! There are a couple reasons people use Geocodio over or in addition to the major providers, like Google: * Google's free tier is 2,500 a day. But if you need more than that, you have to sign a yearly con
  • Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding / Hacker News — mjwhansen on Jan 21, 2014 / parent / next – Other founder of Geocodio here -- thanks for your feedback! You bring up a lot of good points. Building off of what's above, Geocodio is intended to be accessible to developers who don't have $10k to drop on geocodes. We found that this is a big need in the community (and for ourselves for our other projects). All of the other non-major-mapping geocoding services we found, including CSV upload instead of API, were more expensive than $0.001/each (oft
  • Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse / Hacker News — Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse / Hacker News Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse (geocod.io) 106 points by thecodemonkey on Feb 24, 2025 / hide / past / favorite / 46 comments
  • How Michele Hansen built Geocodio to First customer in 1 month / Startup Founder Stories — , and the first month did exactly what they hoped. In a founder interview, Michele recalled roughly $30 in first-month revenue, enough to cover two ... That was not venture-scale traction, but it proved strangers would pay for a boring infrastructure tool
  • 🇺🇸 Bootstrapping a “Commodity” SaaS Without VC: Geocodio - United States / 3L3C — January 2014 as a side project, got a big spike from Hacker News, and still made only $ ... -line growth at one point—without outbound sales as their primary engine. The point isn’t the numbers. It’s what they did to earn them

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

16

Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownership> "The Geocod.io API has been a core part of the SimplyRETS infrastructure for years and our team couldn't be happier. Geocodio has remarkable up-time, accurate spatial data, and a transparent, developer-friendly API thasource
Contact and supportThese libraries are officially written and maintained by Geocodio. Have an issue? Please email us at support@geocod.io.source
Legal and privacyRead privacy policy about Privacysource
Security and complianceAll data encrypted in transit. Enterprise data encrypted at rest, stays in the US, and is SOC 2 Type II audited annually. On-premises available.source
Uptime and status page99.99% uptime. Billions of lookups processed. Backwards-compatible since version one. Something else might break. It won't be Geocodio.source

Every trust signal above is backed by a collected page or a registration record.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
introduction – Geocodio API ReferenceAPI referenceCovers authentication, endpoints and payloads, rate limits and errors, code examples. (source)Not dated
Sales Taxes / GeocodioGuideGeocodio is required to collect sales taxes in various states and provinces across the US and Canada. (source)Not dated
Per-Seat Billing / GeocodioGuideGeocodio teams – per-seat billing overview (source)Not dated
Geocodio - The delightfully boring geocoder / GeocodioProduct updateProduct update is publicly available. (source)Not dated
About Geocodio / GeocodioSupportPublic contact and support channel. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Offered as a cloud API and as a self-hosted Docker image for Enterprise S17 S138.S17 S138
Platforms and appsWeb-based API accessible via HTTP; no native mobile or desktop apps mentioned S17.S17
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)RESTful API with official client libraries and OpenAPI spec S17.S17
Data ownership and exportEnterprise customers can keep addresses and coordinates on their own infrastructure S138.S138
Performance and reliability claimsClaims remarkable up-time and stability, with customers reporting it as a reliable part of their stack S49 S1.S49 S1
Release activityAPI v2.0 with UK support is available S1.S1
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
First archived2014-01-23 — web archive
TLS certificateAmazon, valid, expires 2027-02-02
Security headersHSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Headers not servedCSP
Server headercloudflare
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversns-1584.awsdns-06.co.uk, ns-160.awsdns-20.com

Not measurable: rdap: no RDAP server published for .io; rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

20

Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 93/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 19
  • Notices: 6

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningPage should have one primary H19https://www.geocod.io/
warningPage should have one primary H19https://www.geocod.io/
warningTitle length should be reviewed81https://www.geocod.io/api
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.geocod.io/api
warningPage should have one primary H120https://www.geocod.io/docs/
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.geocod.io/docs/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed180https://www.geocod.io/geocode-spreadsheets
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.geocod.io/geocode-spreadsheets
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed323https://www.geocod.io/guides/index
warningPage should have one primary H13https://www.geocod.io/guides/index
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed233https://www.geocod.io/upload
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.geocod.io/pricing
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.geocod.io/pricing
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.geocod.io/enterprise-pricing
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.geocod.io/enterprise-pricing
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.geocod.io/find-my-plan
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.geocod.io/fleet-management
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.geocod.io/real-estate
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.geocod.io/financial-services
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.geocod.io/political-and-civic-data
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.geocod.io/healthcare
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.geocod.io/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.geocod.io/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.geocod.io/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.geocod.io/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Geocodio - The delightfully boring geocoder \Geocodio94692564 ms
200Geocodio - The delightfully boring geocoder \Geocodio94692152 ms
200Geocodio API - Fast, Accurate Geocoding API for North America & the UK \Geocodio22684897 ms
200Geocodio API Reference2059823507 mshttps://www.geocod.io/docs/
200Geocode and Map Spreadsheets \Geocodio22649248 ms
200What you can do with Geocodio \Geocodio31925160 ms
200Geocode a Spreadsheet \Geocodio1331218 ms
200Geocodio Pricing \Geocodio23165183 ms
200Geocodio Enterprise Pricing \Geocodio22764157 ms
200Find My Plan \Geocodio1510124 ms
200Fleet & Asset Tracking \Geocodio21157321 ms
200Real Estate \Geocodio21820141 ms
200Financial Services \Geocodio22107131 ms
200Politics & Advocacy \Geocodio22324154 ms
200Healthcare \Geocodio23183342 ms

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

21

Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct29.3%
search53.9%
search organic53.8%
search paid0.1%
social5.0%
social organic4.9%
social paid0.0%
referrals8.1%
paid referrals0.1%
mail1.6%
gen ai2.0%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

22

Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention specific competitors by name, except in a pricing comparison that includes Google, Mapbox, and HERE S119. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed uptime statistics, specific customer counts beyond a marketing claim, and limited information on support channels. Open questions include the exact terms of the Enterprise Unlimited plan and the availability of UK data in trials S138.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from geocod.io, including the homepage, about page, pricing pages, API documentation, and a pricing comparison. The evidence catalog includes static and rendered pages, with external proof search used for verification. Limitations include potential outdated pricing or features not captured in the snapshot, and the absence of third-party review sites.

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