PMTiles

Fast decoder for PMTiles map tile archives in browsers.

3D and graphics npm BSD-3-Clause

Website GitHub npm

Used in agent projects

0.1% of 4,818 JS/TS repos built with AI coding agents

Gid Score

42 /100

#2390 of 3,794 tools, #36 in 3d and graphics · ranking

In the catalog because

Public numbers

downloads and GitHub stars, added Oct 20, 2026; too rare in our project count to rank by use

Downloads

776K

npm, last 7 days, pmtiles

GitHub stars

3,090

200 forks · last push Sep 16, 2026

How PMTiles is used

PMTiles joined the catalog on its public numbers (775,646 downloads a week on npm and 3,090 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 6 public GitHub projects of our scan, 4 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is MapLibre GL (24 projects). Projects that use it most often also use MapLibre GL (83.3%), AWS SDK for JavaScript (S3) (66.7%), Playwright (JavaScript) (66.7%).

PMTiles popularity over time

Top tools by Gid Score

PMTiles: downloads per weeknpm, pmtiles 775,646

Gid Score 42: downloads 62, use in agent projects 10, GitHub stars 30, downloads trend 68 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.

Often used with PMTiles

MapLibre GL	83.3% of PMTiles projects · 215.6× more than average
AWS SDK for JavaScript (S3)	66.7% of PMTiles projects · 21.1× more than average
Playwright (JavaScript)	66.7% of PMTiles projects · 3.9× more than average
jsdom	50.0% of PMTiles projects · 5.1× more than average
@node-rs/argon2	33.3% of PMTiles projects · 206.9× more than average
Turf	33.3% of PMTiles projects · 229.9× more than average
Better Auth	33.3% of PMTiles projects · 20.1× more than average
DOMPurify	33.3% of PMTiles projects · 22.7× more than average

How PMTiles is funded

Most funded tools

GitHub Sponsors

@protomaps	73 current sponsors

GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.

Ways to fund PMTiles

GitHub Sponsors

As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.

Install

Package	`npm install pmtiles`
Main stacks	TypeScript / JavaScript (6)
Example projects	jerelvelarde/world-monitor-copilotkit, FixMyBerlin/trassenscout

Alternatives to PMTiles

All 3d and graphics

Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside PMTiles are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".

Tool	Gid Score	Used in agent projects	Downloads / wk	GitHub stars	License
MapLibre GL npm Open-source WebGL interactive maps library with BSD license and community support.	59	24 (0.5%)	3.8M	11.9K	BSD-3-Clause

More in 3D and graphics: Three.js Leaflet React Three Fiber React Leaflet @napi-rs/canvas Mapbox GL Resvg-JS OGL

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