Cesium VS Leaflet

Compare Cesium vs Leaflet and see what are their differences.

Cesium

An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas: (by CesiumGS)

Leaflet

🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦 (by Leaflet)
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Cesium Leaflet
10 219
11,821 39,879
1.8% 0.8%
9.8 8.9
2 days ago 10 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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Cesium

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cesium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-27.

Leaflet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Leaflet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cesium and Leaflet you can also consider the following projects:

mapbox.js - Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin

maplibre-gl-js - MapLibre GL JS - Interactive vector tile maps in WebGL2

OpenLayers3 - OpenLayers

terriajs - A library for building rich, web-based geospatial data platforms.

folium - Python Data. Leaflet.js Maps.

maplibre-native - MapLibre Native - Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.

gmaps - the easiest way to use Google Maps

polymaps - Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.

leaflet-geoman - 🍂🗺️ The most powerful leaflet plugin for drawing and editing geometry layers