Self-hosting MapMap, next to Mapbox Atlas.
Both products put a mapping stack inside your own network. They differ on what the entry licence covers, on what you are allowed to keep, and on whether you can find out the price without a sales call. MapMap self-host licences start at £12,000 per year and are published; Atlas pricing is quoted on request.
How to read this page
The right-hand column quotes or paraphrases published documentation, terms or pricing from Mapbox Atlas, and every row links to the page it came from so you can check it yourself. Where we could not source a claim from Mapbox's own documentation, product terms or pricing page, the row is not on this page rather than worded more vaguely. Terms change, and quotes name the edition they were read in. If you find a row that has gone stale, tell us and we will correct it.What runs on your own infrastructure
One Docker Compose stack: the gateway, the routing engine with the ADR dangerous goods costing, an optional first-party geocoder and an optional MCP server for agents.
The same build that runs at api.mapmap.ai, brought up on your hardware from one distro checkout. There is no separate self-hosted product to fall behind the hosted one.
Atlas is Mapbox's containerised set of services for self-hosting Mapbox APIs and data on a private cloud or on-premises network, covering maps, search and navigation.
Atlas 3.0.0 documentation. The available APIs are listed as Vector Tiles, Raster Tiles, Styles, Static Images, Static Tiles, Tilequery, Geocoding and Navigation, restricted to calls that take a public access token.
What the entry licence covers
One self-host agreement covers the platform, the SDKs and the signed territory data subscription. Tiers differ by territory coverage, included users and vehicles, support response and whether truck and ADR costing is enabled.
The full tier table is on the pricing page and in machine-readable form at /pricing.json, which is the source this page reads its figure from.
Atlas Standard grants the right to use the global basemaps, the Maps APIs and Studio. Any further Atlas functionality may be licensed and used only if it is specifically listed on the applicable active order.
Mapbox Product Terms (2026-07), clause 3.16. Clause 3.8 adds that Atlas Basic covers only the global basemaps and the Maps APIs, excludes Studio, and takes no add-ons at all; clause 2.1 requires each Atlas licence to be purchased under an active order as a separate line item.
Published price
Self-host licences are published, from £12,000 per year.
The figure above is read from /pricing.json at build time rather than typed here, so this page cannot drift from the price surface. Tiers are annual, quoted as from anchors, and scoped on the call.
Mapbox does not publish an Atlas price. Its pricing page states that pricing depends on the services and data you need and the scale of an implementation, and directs you to contact sales.
Quoted: “Reach out to Mapbox to begin a pricing conversation.”
Caching and storing the map content you host
The territory package on your disk is the map. There is nothing to cache, no term governing how long you may keep it, and a deployment whose subscription lapses keeps serving the data it already holds.
You stop receiving territory updates, platform updates and support. Nothing bricks in the field, and no licence server has to be reachable for the stack to answer.
Except as expressly permitted by the Product Terms or the active order, an Atlas customer shall not cache or store Atlas map content, and shall not modify the software's default rate limits.
Mapbox Product Terms (2026-07), clause 2.1.1.
Air-gapped operation and key custody
Air-gapped installs run from signed territory packages mirrored inside your network with rsync. You generate the ed25519 signing pair and hold the private half, and devices pin your verifying key rather than ours.
No MapMap-held key can publish maps to your fleet, and no vendor callback is part of the trust model.
Atlas is documented as running behind your firewall and on air-gapped networks, with an Atlas installation defined as a single instance of the software and its associated services.
Atlas 3.0.0 documentation: “Mapbox behind your firewall, even on air gapped networks.” Listed here because it is a genuine point of parity, not a difference.
Scope a deployment, not a price discovery exercise.
The tiers are published, so the call is about your territories, your fleet and your procurement constraints rather than about what it costs. Self-host licences start at £12,000 per year.
Other comparisons: the full list.