Radar
Location-based marketing software
Location intelligence software
GIS software
Geofencing software
Location platform software
Business intelligence software
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What is Radar
Radar is a location platform that provides APIs and SDKs for adding location features to mobile and web applications. It supports use cases such as geofencing, trip tracking, location-based notifications, and location verification for operational workflows and customer engagement. The product is typically used by product, engineering, and data teams that need to collect, process, and act on location events without building a full location stack in-house. It emphasizes developer tooling, event-based location triggers, and integrations for downstream analytics and messaging.
Developer-first APIs and SDKs
Radar provides SDKs and APIs designed to be embedded into applications to capture location signals and trigger events. This approach fits teams that want to implement geofencing and location workflows programmatically rather than through a purely campaign-oriented UI. It also supports common implementation patterns such as server-side webhooks and event routing to other systems.
Real-time geofencing workflows
The platform supports creating geofences and generating enter/exit and dwell-style events that can drive operational or customer-facing actions. This is useful for scenarios like store visit detection, curbside pickup flows, field service arrival, and compliance-related location checks. Compared with tools focused mainly on media activation, Radar is oriented toward first-party app/location event handling.
Location data enrichment options
Radar includes capabilities commonly needed in location stacks, such as reverse geocoding and place/context enrichment to make raw coordinates more usable. These features help standardize location data for analytics and downstream systems. It can reduce the need to stitch together multiple point solutions for core location utilities.
Not a full GIS suite
Radar focuses on application location services and event triggers rather than advanced GIS analysis and cartographic tooling. Organizations needing complex spatial analytics, desktop GIS workflows, or extensive map authoring may require additional GIS products. As a result, it may not replace dedicated GIS platforms for specialist geospatial teams.
BI depends on integrations
While Radar generates location events and can support analytics use cases, full business intelligence reporting typically relies on exporting data to external warehouses or BI tools. Teams may need to build dashboards and attribution-style analysis outside the product. This can increase implementation effort for stakeholders expecting out-of-the-box BI.
Implementation and privacy overhead
Deploying location SDKs requires mobile engineering work, ongoing tuning (battery/accuracy tradeoffs), and careful QA across devices and OS versions. Location data collection also introduces privacy, consent, and retention requirements that vary by region and industry. These factors can lengthen time-to-value compared with purely server-side marketing tools.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (usage-based; billing by monthly API calls or monthly tracked users - MTU). Free tier/trial: Free tier: up to 100,000 API requests per month (applies to Maps/Geocoding/Search APIs). 14-day free trial of Enterprise feature set is offered (enterprise features/trial require signup/request). Example costs (published on Radar official site):
- Geocoding (forward/reverse/IP): $0.50 per 1,000 requests.
- Address autocomplete: $0.50 per 1,000 requests.
- Address validation: $2.00 per 1,000 requests.
- Places search: $2.00 per 1,000 requests.
- Distance API (distance/duration): $0.50 per 1,000 requests.
- Static & dynamic map loads: $0.50 per 1,000 map loads.
- Routes / routing APIs: $5.00 per 1,000 requests. Discount options: Volume discounts and lower rates for higher MTU / API-call commitments; custom/enterprise pricing available via sales (contact sales / get a quote).
Seller details
Radar Labs, Inc.
New York, NY, USA
2016
Private
https://radar.com
https://x.com/radarlabs
https://www.linkedin.com/company/radarlabs/
