CostMaps
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Global country & city data · one API

Every country’s data,
comparable by design.

Country reference data across 9 domains — economic, healthcare, education, climate and more — from WHO, World Bank, BIS, Open-Meteo and AQICN, plus photo-verified supermarket prices from a monthly pipeline.

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251Countries indexed
9Data modules
📷Photo-verified prices
1Unified schema
9 modules · 1 schema

Every country, the same shape of data.

All nine modules share a consistent country key, ISO codes, and provenance — so you can join, compare, and benchmark without writing glue.

Cost of living

Grocery prices read from photographed store shelves — not crowdsourced guesses. Every photo-verified price carries its capture date. Rolling out across 10 markets via a monthly photo pipeline.

Germany index90.0

Economic

GDP, inflation, central bank rates and FX — sourced from World Bank and BIS.

Japan inflation2.8%

Real estate

Price per m², rent yields and country-level deltas from BIS real estate indices.

UK gross yield4.6%

Jobs & salaries

Gross/net salaries by role and country, with a built-in tax calculator.

SWE · Berlin · net$58,420

Healthcare

Life expectancy, beds, expenditure and WHO indicators by country.

France · life exp.82.7 yrs

Education

PISA, tertiary attainment, public spend per pupil — comparable across OECD & beyond.

South Korea · PISA520

Safety

Crime indices, homicide rates and personal safety scores from official agencies.

Japan · safety idx.87.1

Transportation

Public transit cost, average commute, vehicle ownership and fuel pricing.

Berlin · monthly pass$54

Climate

Temperature ranges, precipitation and AQICN air-quality history per city.

Tokyo · AQI yr avg38
How it works

From key to comparison in under a minute.

No SDK needed. Plain REST, predictable JSON, ISO-3 country keys. Rate limits and pagination stated upfront.

1Sign up

Get an API key

Create a free account — no card required — and copy your key from the dashboard.

2Query

Hit a country endpoint

One key per country. Every module is a path segment. JSON is stable across releases.

cURL
curl https://api.costmaps.com/v1/countries/DE/cost-of-living \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer cm_live_..."
3Compare

Compare or export

Pin up to 5 countries in the dashboard, or export to CSV / JSON / Excel from any view.

Side-by-side

Germany vs Japan, on the same axis.

Pinning two countries surfaces gaps you'd lose in a spreadsheet. Best value per row is highlighted — never both, never neither.

Germany

DEU · EUR · Berlin
Cost of living idx
90.0
▲ 99.2% vs JP
Rent · 1-br city
$1,240/mo
▼ 21.0% vs JP
Net salary · SWE
$58,420/yr
▲ 14.8% vs JP
Life expectancy
81.0 yrs
▼ 3.4 yrs vs JP

Japan

JPN · JPY · Tokyo
Cost of living idx
45.19
▼ lower
Rent · 1-br city
$1,570/mo
▲ higher
Net salary · SWE
$50,890/yr
▼ lower
Life expectancy
84.4 yrs
▲ higher
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Built for

Four audiences, one comparable surface.

Developers

Wire country data into fintech, HR-tech and travel products without writing your own ETL.

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Researchers

Pull harmonized indicators across markets with citations to upstream sources you can defend.

DEU + JPN + GBR · CSV

Businesses

Run market entry and comp benchmarking with the same inputs your finance team already trusts.

Comp band · 12 markets

Relocation planners

Quality-of-life comparisons that go past 'vibes' — affordability, healthcare and climate, side by side.

Lisbon vs Barcelona
Where the numbers come from

Five upstream sources. Citations on every record.

We aggregate, normalize and version data from established statistical bodies. Each API response carries a source field and a retrieved_at timestamp.

WHO GHO
Healthcare
v2025.Q4
World Bank
Economic, Education
2025
BIS
Real estate, FX
2025.Q3
Open-Meteo
Climate
Daily
AQICN
Climate · AQ
Hourly
Adding next
Crime · transit · tax
2026
Plans

Start free. Upgrade when your daily limit forces you to.

All plans include the full data catalogue. Higher tiers raise daily request limits and unlock exports.

Free
$0/mo
For prototyping and one-off comparisons.
  • 100 requests / day
  • All 9 modules, read-only
  • Pin up to 3 countries
  • Community support
Start free
ProPro
$29/mo
For solo devs and analysts shipping comparable data.
  • 1,000 requests / day
  • Compare up to 5 countries
  • CSV / JSON / Excel export
  • Email support
BusinessBusiness
$99/mo
For teams running ongoing market analysis.
  • 10,000 requests / day
  • Up to 5 team seats
  • Scheduled exports
  • Priority email support

Need higher limits, SSO or invoicing? See Enterprise →

FAQ

Six things people ask before signing up.

WHO GHO, World Bank, BIS, Open-Meteo and AQICN. Every record in the API carries a source field and a retrieved_at timestamp so you can cite or audit it.
Climate and air-quality refresh daily. Economic and real-estate refresh on the upstream cadence (typically quarterly). Healthcare follows the WHO GHO release schedule.
No. The Free tier gives you 100 requests/day and access to every module. You only add a card when you upgrade to Pro or higher.
Pro and above can export any comparison view to CSV, JSON or Excel. Business adds scheduled exports to S3 or a webhook.
Free: 100/day. Pro: 1,000/day. Business: 10,000/day. Enterprise: 100,000/day. We surface remaining quota in headers (X-CostMaps-Remaining) on every response.
Enterprise customers can request monthly Parquet dumps under a separate data licensing agreement. Self-hosting is not offered today.
Get started

Start with the free tier. Compare three countries by lunch.

No card. One key. All nine modules from day one — and a 1,000/day Pro upgrade waiting when you hit the ceiling.

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