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kepler.gl alternatives
3 tools to consider instead of kepler.gl, shown against it.
| kepler.gl | CARTO | Mapbox | PostGIS | |||||||||
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| Vendor | Originally Uber; open-source community project | CARTO | Mapbox, Inc. | PostGIS Project | ||||||||
| Pricing model | Open source + paid options | Usage-based | Usage-based | Open source + paid options | ||||||||
| Free tier | — | No | Yes | — | ||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud, Self-hosted | Cloud, Self-hosted | Cloud | Self-hosted, Cloud | ||||||||
| Open source | Yes (MIT) | No | No | Yes (GPL-2.0) | ||||||||
| Best for | Analysts exploring large geospatial or trip datasets visually without writing GIS code. | Analytics teams wanting to run spatial analysis on data that already lives in a cloud warehouse. | Developers embedding custom-styled maps and navigation directly into web or mobile products. | Teams that want spatial analysis expressed as SQL directly inside their existing PostgreSQL database. | ||||||||
| Pricing | Free, open-source and run standalone in the browser or self-hosted; no vendor pricing. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | A metered Pay-As-You-Go plan bills monthly usage with no commitment; Enterprise, Strategic and Custom tiers require an annual quote. Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted. | Pay-as-you-go per API (maps, geocoding, navigation, tiles), each with its own free monthly allowance and volume discounts; support plans are priced separately.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Free and open source; costs come only from hosting PostgreSQL itself or from managed-database vendors. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | ||||||||
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