Licensing and cost for Anytime maptiles
Entitlement
Popcast Anytime Maptiles is gated by the feature key popcast.anytime.segment_occ_tiles. In the console it appears as Popcast Segment Occupancy (Anytime) Polygon Maptiles on your organization's entitlements page.
- Manual grant only. This feature is deny-by-default: an explicit grant from Motionworks is required; self-serve orgs cannot turn it on themselves. Contact sales for an explicit grant.
- One entitlement, all tilesets. A single entitlement covers every published Anytime tileset (currently twelve: All Persons plus eleven audience segments) with no per-segment scoping. Listing any one published slug in a grant implies access to all of them.
- Without the entitlement, grant minting returns
403 FEATURE_NOT_LICENSED.
Cost model
| Operation | Credits |
|---|---|
Discovery (GET /v2/popcast/tiles/anytime/tilesets) |
0 (public, free) |
| Grant CRUD and TileJSON (control plane) | 0 |
Tile bytes (GET .../anytime/{layer}/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt) |
1 credit per 1000 tiles served |
At the metered credit price of $0.05 per credit, tile delivery works out to $0.05 per 1000 tiles. Tile fetches accrue in-transaction against your billing account (op id popcast_anytime_tiles_fetch, meter divisor 1000), so credit-pack wallets are billed the same way as metered-rail accounts.
A quick cost sanity model: a map session that pulls 60 tiles per view, serving 50,000 map views a month, fetches about 3,000,000 tiles, or 3,000 credits, or about $150.
Console visibility
Your organization admin can see the entitlement state and mint/revoke grants from the developer dashboard in the console. Grants minted through the API also appear there under the tile grants surface for Popcast; grant usage reporting (usage_30d) is a placeholder today and lands in a follow-up.
Related reading
- Discovering Anytime tilesets - what the catalog tells you before you spend anything
- Minting an Anytime tile grant - the free control-plane operations