# Kartpunkt or Google's Geocoding API

> Google's Geocoding API covers the world; Kartpunkt covers Sweden from Lantmäteriet's register. Price, and the terms for storing and mapping results, as checked.
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> https://kartpunkt.se/en/compare/google-geocoding

Google's Geocoding API covers the world. Kartpunkt covers only Sweden, from Lantmäteriet's official address register, with roads from Trafikverket's NVDB. This page compares price and the terms for storing and showing results, as we read them. It is not legal advice.

## Side by side

|  | Google Geocoding API | Kartpunkt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Coverage | The world | Sweden |
| Source | Google's own data | Lantmäteriet's address register; roads from Trafikverket's NVDB |
| Price | USD 5.00 per 1,000 requests, the first 10,000 a month free, lower at volume | Bas SEK 490 a month for 25,000 live calls, Pro SEK 1,990 a month for 200,000, excl. VAT |
| Storing results | The address may be kept for the end user's own use, per end user, not shared across users; coordinates at most 30 days | May be stored for the matter the lookup concerns and shared between your users and systems, with the attribution |
| Showing results on a map | In the EEA, no Geocoding content other than coordinates and place IDs on any map | On any map, with the attribution |
| Places and businesses | Yes | No: street addresses only |
| Roads | Not in the Geocoding API | Speed limit, road owner and surface; road distances and routes |
| Hosting | Google, a US company | Hetzner in Helsinki, in the EU |

## When Google fits better

- You need addresses outside Sweden, or the names of places and businesses.
- You already build on Google Maps Platform and show results on a Google map.

## When Kartpunkt fits

- You need the official Swedish address from Lantmäteriet's register, with a stable id and a way to check whether it changed.
- You need roads, road distances or routes from NVDB.
- You want the API that receives drivers' positions or your customers' addresses to run only in the EU.

## Sources

- Google, [Google Maps Platform pricing](https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing): Geocoding and its free monthly calls. Checked 2026-09-24.
- Google, [Google Maps Platform Service Specific Terms](https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-terms) (version of 2026-06-10, section 6.3 on caching, and the EEA terms' section 6.1 on maps). Read 2026-09-23.

Unverified: this is our reading of Google's terms, which no lawyer has reviewed. We have not measured Google's accuracy for Swedish addresses and make no claim about it.