Cost calculator

Compare the monthly cost of serving map tiles and geocoding from the edge (R2 and Workers), from one Hetzner server, from AWS and from hosted vendors. Every price links to the vendor page it came from. Search on R2 alone (the .glx file) was measured too slow for new queries, so the edge search row is a Worker result cache in front of one Hetzner server.

Map sessions / monthTiles per sessionAverage tile size (KB)CDN cache hit rate (%)Storage (GB)

Hetzner serversUser city (latency)

Include free tiers and plan allowances

Edge

Cloudflare: R2 + Workers

PMTiles on R2; a Worker reads tile ranges. The Protomaps cost model.

Monthly cost $11.45

Latency ≤ 50 ms to the nearest Cloudflare location for 95% of users (source). R2 reads that miss the cache add the trip to the bucket region.

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Workers Paid plan1 month$5.00
Workers requests10,000,000 requests$3.00
R2 reads (cache misses)5,000,000 reads$1.80
R2 storage110 GB$1.65

Self-host

Hetzner AX102 + tileserver-rs

Dedicated server in Germany or Finland. Traffic is unmetered at 1 Gbit/s.

Monthly cost $304.00

+ $149.00 one-time setup

Latency 157 ms to Germany (ping), 175 ms to Finland (ping), round trip, before any query time.

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AX102-1 server1 servers$302.10
Primary IPv41 addresses$1.90

AWS edge

AWS: S3 + Lambda + CloudFront

PMTiles on S3; Lambda reads tile ranges. Lambda at 512 MB for 200 ms, as Protomaps assumes.

Monthly cost $107.20

Latency Not measured.

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CloudFront HTTPS requests10,000,000 requests$10.00
CloudFront data out1,000 GB$85.00
Lambda requests5,000,000 requests$1.00
Lambda duration500,000 GB-seconds$6.67
S3 GET requests5,000,000 requests$2.00
S3 storage110 GB$2.53

Vector tiles10,000,000 tiles$790.00