LocationIQ wasn't meant to compete with paid offerings. It was merely a way for the team at Unwired Labs to give back to the OSM community. We think the good folks at OSM deserves a great free tier.
If geocoding needs are enterprise-grade / you are OK with spending a bit, you should look at Mapzen, OpenCage, and now, Geocodio.
Excellent pricing on this. But i just ran my house on it and it was off by 10 houses while proclaiming perfect accuracy. The Google answer was exact. The other party was off by 1 house. Is this because of the underlying data from OSM?
Hi Tim. Mathias from geocod.io here. Can you please drop us a line at hello AT geocod.io would love to look into what happened there.
We're using Tiger/Line and Rooftop-level (through OpenAddresses) datasets under the hood. We do not use OSM as it's generally not optimized for geocoding.
It's a little odd to mention Tiger/Line and optimized for geocoding in the same sentence. Tiger/Line is specifically obscured to protect the anonymity of individuals that live in low density areas. It's de-optimized for geocoding before it is published for public access. It seems pretty likely that's the issue above.
Of course OSM is not a great source of addresses either, as it simply doesn't have data for so many regions.
* Good free and premium paid service
* They've gone a bit above and beyond to provide examples/demos in all languages in their docs. Super easy for users
* Can process bulk/batch request super fast in parallel on your behalf
* Have a super cool front-end CSV upload tool built in React so non-programmers can geocode data in seconds
* Forward/reverse geocoding
* Also give Census data, congressional districts, state legislative districts, and even school districts
Full disclosure: I know the husband and wife founder. Very nice people
[1]: https://geocod.io