Algolytics

In our new report, we ranked 10 standardization and geocoding services on 2,500 real courier addresses, and the global names came in behind local ones.

The score weighs three things at once: standardization (is the address usable for matching records), geocoding (location accuracy), and trust (how often service's own top-ranked result is actually wrong).

What are the main conclusions?
◾ One service scores above http://0.9: Data Quality, at http://0.94. Built for the Polish registers, it leads on all three indexes at once, so most records can be auto-processed without manual checks.
◾ Esri (http://0.64) and Google (http://0.62) geocode very well but are weaker elsewhere: Esri on standardization and trust, Google on trust, mostly on rural addresses.
◾ HERE (http://0.55), TomTom (http://0.51), and Azure (http://0.51) geocode acceptably, but even their best-rated results can be off by a few hundred meters, so it's worth adding a few safeguards before you rely on their label.
◾ Emapa, Precisely, and Mapbox score lowest.

Download the full report and the cost-simulation Excel - link in the first comment.