- Free allowance
- Creating the Stadia Maps account needs no credit card
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaunder 200,000 tiles a month free; plans from $20/month above that or
- Evidence
- documented23 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | Creating the Stadia Maps account needs no credit card unit requests; metered on request-count; the 200,000-tile figure is from the Stamen page's text of 2023 and the allowance is the Stadia Maps Free plan's, whose current credit terms sit on the Stadia Maps pricing page; the keyless maps.stamen.com tile service ended when its redirects stopped on October 31, 2023 |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) under 200,000 tiles a month free; plans from $20/month above that or source
- request-rate unverified: the Stamen pages state no rate limit; the Stadia Maps plan governs it source
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| Binding | volume-quota no rate limit is stated on the Stamen pages, so the 200,000-tile monthly figure is the first limit met |
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| Identity | email a Stadia Maps account, which the migration guide says needs no credit card to create; the legacy S3 archive needs an AWS account that pays the request and bandwidth charges |
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| Egress | the legacy S3 buckets are requester-pays: AWS charges the downloader for requests and bandwidth and does not charge Stamen |
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| Per-object cap | in the legacy archive each tile is one object at s3://{bucket}{prefix}/{z}/{x}/{y}.{extension}; the archive is an outdated snapshot that does not cover the whole globe at every zoom level |
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| Interface | rest, s3 HTTPS XYZ tile URLs at tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_toner/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png (stamen_terrain and stamen_watercolor too, the latter a .jpg) with domain authentication or an api_key parameter; the original tiles are in requester-pays S3 buckets tile.stamen.com and long-term.cache.maps.stamen.com |
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| Tooling | Leaflet, MapLibre, OpenLayers and any XYZ tile client; the AWS CLI or an SDK with requester-pays enabled for the legacy buckets |
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| Composes with | the Stamen styles spend the same Stadia Maps account and free tile allowance as any other Stadia Maps tile; the original keyless maps.stamen.com service ended on October 31, 2023, so a new project signs up with Stadia Maps or reads the legacy archive from requester-pays S3 buckets |
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| Reliability | the keyless maps.stamen.com tile service ended on October 31, 2023 and its redirects no longer work; the legacy archive is outdated and incomplete, provided to be accessed and used at the user's own risk |
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| Notes | Free requests: under 200,000 tiles a month, through a Stadia Maps account. Rate limit: not stated on the Stamen pages. Bulk path: the legacy tile archive in requester-pays S3 buckets, billed to the downloader by AWS. |
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| Evidence note | documented the Stamen home page and its Stadia Maps partnership page, the Stadia Maps Stamen page and the migration guide were quoted on 2026-11-02; the 200,000-tile figure is dated 2023 and may differ from the current Stadia Maps credit terms. No account was opened and no legacy tile was downloaded. |
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