Geokeo is a geocoding API for forward and reverse address lookups, with a free tier of 2,500 daily requests and paid plans from $30/month.
Geokeo is a geocoding API that converts street addresses into geographic coordinates (forward geocoding) and coordinates back into human-readable addresses (reverse geocoding). It pulls location data from open sources including OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, and Natural Earth, giving it global address coverage rather than being limited to a single country or region.
The service is aimed at developers who need to add address lookup, mapping, or location-based features to an application without building and maintaining their own geocoding database. It exposes a REST API and provides usage examples in several common languages and frameworks.
Geokeo's core features are its forward and reverse geocoding endpoints, which are available on every plan including the free tier. The company also highlights spell correction and error checking on submitted addresses, which helps return usable results even when an input address is incomplete or misspelled.
On the infrastructure side, Geokeo runs servers across multiple regions to reduce latency for API calls, and advertises response times under 100 milliseconds along with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Access can be restricted by IP address or HTTP referrer, which is useful for locking down an API key to specific servers or domains.
Geokeo offers a free plan with 2,500 requests per day and no credit card requirement, making it accessible for testing and small projects. Paid plans scale by daily request volume: Lite ($30/month, 10,000 requests/day), Starter ($60/month, 25,000 requests/day), Pro ($120/month, 60,000 requests/day), Medium ($240/month, 150,000 requests/day), Heavy ($360/month, 300,000 requests/day), and Xlarge ($750/month, 1,000,000 requests/day).
Every tier, free or paid, includes the same feature set: forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, IP and HTTP restrictions, and email support. Geokeo describes its current pricing as a promotional, early-stage rate and states that customers who sign up during this period will keep those rates going forward, though this is a marketing claim rather than a contractual guarantee documented elsewhere on the site.
Yes. Geokeo offers a free tier of 2,500 API requests per day that does not require a credit card to sign up.
Geokeo sources its geocoding data from OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, and Natural Earth for global address coverage.
Forward geocoding converts a text address into coordinates, while reverse geocoding converts coordinates back into a readable address. Both are available on every Geokeo plan.
Geokeo uses tiered monthly pricing based on daily request volume, ranging from a free 2,500-requests-per-day plan up to a $750/month plan for 1,000,000 requests per day.
Yes, Geokeo provides a demo portal on its site that lets users test the API without registering or obtaining a key first.
Yes, all Geokeo plans include IP and HTTP referrer restrictions so an API key can be locked to specific servers or domains.