Cesium VS mapbox-gl-js

Compare Cesium vs mapbox-gl-js and see what are their differences.

Cesium

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

mapbox-gl-js

Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL (by mapbox)
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Cesium mapbox-gl-js
10 13
11,821 10,697
1.8% 0.7%
9.8 9.8
2 days ago 2 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

mapbox-gl-js

Posts with mentions or reviews of mapbox-gl-js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cesium and mapbox-gl-js you can also consider the following projects:

Leaflet - 🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦

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

mapbox.js - Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin

cesium - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas: [Moved to: https://github.com/CesiumGS/cesium]

OpenLayers3 - OpenLayers

h3 - Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system

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

ffprobe-wasm - A Web-based FFProbe. Powered by FFmpeg, Vue and Web Assembly!

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

martin - Blazing fast and lightweight PostGIS, MBtiles and PMtiles tile server, tile generation, and mbtiles tooling.

gmaps - the easiest way to use Google Maps

tangram - WebGL map rendering engine for creative cartography