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Easy integration. Rapid updates. Accurate results. Made by developers for developers.
The Mapbox Search Box API is getting even smarter with broader global coverage, enhanced localization, and new features for faster, more relevant results. More than ever, Search Box provides a production-ready toolkit for developers to add and optimize how users find addresses and points-of-interest (POI) within applications, components of the user experience that are especially important for navigation, mobility, and retail or delivery apps.
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The Mapbox Search Box API makes it simple for developers to add place and address search across automotive, micromobility, delivery, retail, travel, and recreation. Made by developers for developers. Conveniently packaged into a single API, Search Box provides an up-to-date global address and POI dataset, autocomplete with category and brand filters, and offline search support. Since its general availability last year, Search Box data quality and features have expanded to further enhance the search experience for both developers and end users.
Search Box is backed by over 375 million addresses and 330 million points of interest (POIs). Mapbox continuously evaluates the quality of POI data using the 3 C’s Framework: Completeness, or whether the data include the full universe of expected POIs within a given geography; Correctness, how accurately the data reflect reality; and Currency means freshness - how recently records were updated. Places change often: cities expand, streets get renamed, and businesses open or permanently close.
In 2025, Mapbox expanded address and POI coverage to 53 new countries, making Search Box more international than ever. POI attribute accuracy improved by over 20% compared to ground truth, measured by both the completeness of core attributes and the correctness of attribute values. And additional new internal processes powered by machine learning and large language models (LLMs) now help to keep Mapbox Search data continuously in sync with the current landscape.
Category search streamlines the location search experience by anticipating what users are likely looking for and delivering results that feel immediate and useful. Category search can be used for reverse search when the user is seeking a type of location but not necessarily a specific one. For example, returning a list of POIs near to a user’s current location in a particular category, such as restaurants, gas stations, or ATMs. Developers can also limit reverse lookups to a specific category or exclude certain categories, making results more relevant to user needs.
Developers can set up predefined category searches to give users shortcuts for common queries, or enable autocomplete to suggest the most relevant categories based on what users type. Explore the category search parameters in the Search Box Playground.
Mobile applications built with Mapbox Search SDK can now support address and POI search even when without a network connection. Offline search access is crucial for devices and apps that are frequently used in low-connectivity or offline environments, such as those for IoT tracking, mountain biking, hiking, off-roading, fleet management, and logistics platforms. Offline search ensures users stay on track anywhere.
Watch the BUILD with Mapbox 2025 session recording How to Take Mapbox Search Offline to see a live demonstration of integrating offline search into an application.
Location search should feel natural in every region, including returning results in a user’s local language. Mapbox has expanded translation coverage for POI names across 33 countries and 26 languages, ensuring a more accurate and familiar search experience.
In addition, 52 countries and 33 languages now have improved translation of POI categories, including local vernacular terms that reflect how people actually search. The result is that finding places feels faster, more intuitive, and better aligned with regional context.
The expanded localization is available both online and offline with the Mapbox Search SDK.
Mapbox Search Box is designed with one core principle: make it easier for developers and innovators to build great location experiences. From fast setup to powerful customization, every part of the API and SDK reflects real developer feedback and requests.
The world’s largest travel guidance platform, Tripadvisor, ingests billions of user-submitted reviews and photos from a global community of travelers. Tripadvisor uses the Mapbox Search Box API to make it easy for users and business owners to add reviews for places anywhere in the world, even if it is not near their current location. Because the Search Box API supports global search, a traveler can easily add a review for a restaurant they visited in Paris after returning home to Chicago. The global dataset in the Search Box API instantly returns structured, precise data, making submissions faster, more accurate, and easier to add regardless of current location.
“We wanted to make it effortless for anyone to add a new business to Tripadvisor. Mapbox Search Box and Geocoding helped us do just that – simplifying the process and ensuring we get accurate location data into our system quickly and easily.” — Jeremy Frisch, Product Lead, Places & Maps, Tripadvisor
Picnic is a European online supermarket with a promise of a 20-minute delivery window. Thanks to the Mapbox Search Box API and Geocoding API, Picnic customers can confidently input delivery locations, whether an apartment name, business name, or street address. Drivers receive the most precise location possible, especially vital in dense urban areas, where navigating to the wrong side of the street could cause delays.
“Mapbox Search Box API just works – it’s fast, accurate, and covers everything from house numbers to business names. It helps our drivers get to the right location and enables scaling our service across new cities without extra configuration.”— Arjan Braemer, Distribution Analyst Team Lead, Picnic
Mapbox Geocoding API specializes in address searches, while the Search Box API offers a broader scope. In addition to addresses, the Search Box API provides results for POIs, categories, and brands, along with features like Search Along a Route. In applications where customers are searching for POIs like restaurants, gas stations, and landmarks, Search Box API is the ideal solution. However, many developers build with both APIs to take full advantage of complementary strengths and deliver the best search experience. Watch the BUILD with Mapbox 2025 session Mapbox Search Box vs. Geocoding to learn from leaders on the Mapbox Search team about the key features, use cases, and differentiators of the two APIs.
The Mapbox Search team is constantly evolving the Search Box API based on developer feedback to meaningfully improve both end users’ search experiences and the developer experience of building with the API. Up next on the roadmap:
To learn more about the Mapbox Search Box API, explore the interactive developer playground. To speak with the Mapbox team about how Search Box can enhance your application, send us a message.
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