Maplibre Martin by maplibre
Blazing fast and lightweight PostGIS, MBtiles and PMtiles tile server, tile generation, and mbtiles tooling.
About Maplibre Martin
From the project's README at github.com/maplibre/martin. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
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Martin is a tile server and a set of tools able to generate vector tiles on the fly from large databases, and serve tiles from and files. Martin optimizes for speed and heavy traffic, and is written in Rust. Features
Health score breakdown
6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.
Adoption signals
Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.
| Signal | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 3.6k | github.com/maplibre/martin |
| GitHub forks | 356 | github.com/maplibre/martin |
| Docker Hub pulls | 660k | hub.docker.com / maplibre |
| CRATES downloads (last month) | 661 | martin |
Release & maintenance
Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.
| Project age | 8.6 years | since Sep 2017 |
| Last commit | 2 days ago | May 5, 2026 |
| Releases shipped | 104 | last: 7 days ago |
| Security policy | SECURITY.md | declared by maintainers |
| Funding links | 2 | declared by maintainers |
Self-hosting cost across providers
Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.
| Provider | Plan | Specs | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hetzner | CAX11 | 2c · 4GB · 40GB | $4.13 USD | Deploy → |
| vultr | VC2 | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5 USD | Deploy → |
| linode | Nanode 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5.12 USD | Deploy → |
| digitalocean | Basic Regular 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $6 USD | Deploy → |
What people say on Hacker News
- Show HN: Toposonico, a music recommender you can navigate
- Show HN: A navigable map and recommender for 17M music entities
- Show HN: Free browser-based vector tile inspector – paste any MVT/PBF URL
- Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
- Google shuts down Project Mariner
Ready to self-host Maplibre Martin?
Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.
Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.
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