- Free allowance
- Personal plan, free: 50,000 API requests for the Elevation API and 50,000 tile requests for each of Basemap, Map Maker, Terrain Tiles and USGS Topo Maps, with 8¢ charged per additional 1,000 requests; the pricing page states no period for the Personal column (the paid columns are per month), and...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota50,000 API requests (Elevation) and 50,000 tile requests for each tile service on the Personal plan, 8¢ per additional 1,000; the period is not stated on the pricing page
- Evidence
- reported14 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-17checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-11-17
| Free tier | Personal plan, free: 50,000 API requests for the Elevation API and 50,000 tile requests for each of Basemap, Map Maker, Terrain Tiles and USGS Topo Maps, with 8¢ charged per additional 1,000 requests; the pricing page states no period for the Personal column (the paid columns are per month), and a third-party listing reads the quotas as monthly unit requests; metered on request-count; the Standard plan is $25.00 a month for 100,000 API requests; whether the Personal plan can be billed for the overage, and so whether a card is asked, is unverified; the service is tiles and elevation, not a geocoder |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 50,000 API requests (Elevation) and 50,000 tile requests for each tile service on the Personal plan, 8¢ per additional 1,000; the period is not stated on the pricing page source
- per-object-cap up to 100 latitude and longitude pairs in one elevation query source
- request-rate unverified: no rate limit was found on the pricing page, the service pages or the docs source
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| Binding | volume-quota the 50,000-request allowance is the only published limit |
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| Identity | email an account at clockworkmicro.com/register with a full name, email, password, company and country, plus the services of interest, the intended use case and the industry; the form has no card field |
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| Egress | not applicable: requests, not bytes, are the metered unit |
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| Per-object cap | the Elevation API takes a single latitude and longitude pair or an array of up to 100 pairs in one query, for locations in the United States |
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| Retention | unverified: no storage or caching rule for results or tiles was found |
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| Interface | rest HTTPS microservices authorised with an x-api-key header or an OAuth 2 client-credentials access token exchanged from API credentials; tile endpoints addressed by z, x and y for basemap, terrain and USGS topo layers, and an Elevation API; the docs are at docs.clockworkmicro.com |
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| Tooling | any HTTP client; a no-code Map Maker tool on the site |
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| Composes with | 50,000 elevation lookups or tile requests per service on a free personal account whose form has no card field, with overage priced at 8¢ per 1,000: a US elevation API and a basemap for web maps, not a geocoder; the vendor does not state the free period |
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| Reliability | unverified: no rate limit, uptime statement or terms page was found, and the free period is stated only by third-party listings |
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| Notes | Free requests: 50,000 API requests and 50,000 tile requests per service on Personal, period not stated by the vendor. Rate limit: unverified. Bulk path: an elevation query of up to 100 pairs. |
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| Evidence note | reported the pricing page, the register form, the service pages and the docs were quoted on 2026-11-02; the pricing page states no period for the Personal column, and the monthly reading comes from a third-party listing. The terms page and the account dashboard were not reachable, so the rate limit and the storage rule are unverified. |
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