CARTO
6.1#29 in gis softwareWebAPISelf-hosted
VisitCARTO vs Maptitude
What both publish
| Fact | CARTO | Maptitude |
|---|---|---|
| Developer tools | CARTO provides framework-agnostic APIs and native deck.gl support for application development without ETL, backend APIs, or data replication. | The included GISDK provides more than 850 GIS functions callable from Windows applications written in .NET languages, R, and Python. |
| Founded | 2012 | 1983 |
| Headquarters | New York, United States | Newton, Massachusetts, USA |
| Integrations | CARTO connects to Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, Databricks, and Oracle data warehouses. | The desktop product supports two-way data sync with Excel, Access, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and ODBC, and supports more than 70 geospatial formats. |
| Support | CARTO offers support options ranging from onboarding to ongoing platform guidance, plus professional services for spatial data science, app development, GIS, and cloud architecture. | Pricing information states complimentary phone and email support is provided for 60 days after purchase, with possible extensions at Caliper's discretion. |
CARTO plans
- Custom—
- Enterprise—
- Pay As You Go—
- Strategic—
Maptitude plans
- Maptitude Desktop No Subscription$1,095, paid once
- Maptitude Desktop Subscription$795 a year
- Maptitude Online$795 a year
- Desktop Subscription$795 a year
- Maptitude Remote Desktop Subscription$1,095 a year
- Enterprise Subscription$1,095 a year
Pick CARTO if…
CARTO may suit organizations and developers building geospatial workflows, applications, maps, or AI agents around cloud data warehouses. Its self-hosted option also supports organizations deploying on cloud, regional, sovereign, or on-premises infrastructure.
Pick Maptitude if…
It suits business users mapping territories, routes, facilities, and other location-based plans. Caliper lists applications across healthcare, banking, transportation, retail, and other industries.